From gay ghosts and nonbary astronts to stirrg poems and movg memoirs, this was a fantastic year for queer lerature.
Contents:
- GAY MALE PORNOGRAPHIC VIO LLECTN, 1978-1992. COLLECTN NUMBER: 7563
- RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
- PM'S APOLOGY FOR PAST GAY BAN WELED BY SHROPSHIRE VETERAN
- GAY AND LBIAN COLLECTNS & AIDS/HIV COLLECTNS
GAY MALE PORNOGRAPHIC VIO LLECTN, 1978-1992. COLLECTN NUMBER: 7563
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RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
The Gale Archiv of Sexualy and Genr nta a plethora of rourc supportg LGBT history rearch. Click to explore gay and lbian history. * gay collection *
The ver story for the July 1991 issue of BLK addrs the societal discrimatn faced by the Black gay muny sufferg HIV/AIDS and the lack of rourc and tn to battle the panmic.
Whether you want to get hnted by gay ghosts, journey through outer space wh nonbary adventurers, or take a ep dive to the history of the AIDS crisis, there’s a 2022 release for you. — Ruth MadievskyX by Davey DavisDavey Davis’s sophomore novel follows Lee, a leather-dyke sadist livg Brooklyn, a world which the ernment has been steadily portg (“exportg, ” the parlance of the book) any and all people se as “unsirable. Greenland alternat between’s Kip’s first-person voice and sectns of his own novel, an acunt of Mohammed el-Adl, a young Black Egyptian man wh whom noted gay novelist E.
PM'S APOLOGY FOR PAST GAY BAN WELED BY SHROPSHIRE VETERAN
Plard rried by Jeanne Manford the Christopher Street Liberatn Day March, June 1972. Jeanne Manford Papers The Mancripts and Archiv Divisn of the New York Public Library holds over 100 llectns pertag to the history and culture of gay men and lbians, and to the history of the AIDS/HIV epimic. Gay and lbian history and AIDS history are not a sgle * gay collection *
— Jam FactoraEher/Or by Elif BatumanEher/Or by Elif BatumanFive years after her but, The Idt, Elif Batuman returned wh Eher/Or, which follows the first book’s narrator, Sel, through her sophomore year at Harvard. By Megan Fisher, Lren Moss and Josh ParryBBC News19 July 2023Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected.
"The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000.
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Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc. It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. ""Havg our history, experienc and enormo pa acknowledged and apologised for, hearg that the armed servic and ernment that perpetuated stutnal bullyg will now be held acuntable to fally support LBGT+ veterans, is a relief, " she Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life.
"Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy. Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer".
Ms Macdonald said she had been ma to feel "shame" the 40 years Sunak ma the statement Parliament after a report to service personnel's treatment remend they be given a fancial reward and the PM should publicly lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 and Ms Macdonald was one of thoands of veterans thought to be ptn, Ms Macdonald joed at 19 and was a lance rporal the Women's Royal Army CorpsAfter hearg the statement, Ms Macdonald told BBC Rad Shropshire she had "lots of different emotns" and add: "It's such a historic day and 42 years on I never, ever dreamed that this would happen.