Natnal Gay Pilot’s Associatn holds first fly- event at Eastern Iowa Airport

Contents:

• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN
• JO OUR WNG TEAM.
• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN
• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN TO HOST FIRST-OF-S-KD FLY- EVENT CEDAR RAPIDS
• GAY PILOTS BRG LOVE OF AVIATN TO HELP KICK OFF PRI MONTH CEDAR RAPIDS
• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN
• NAA’S HENRSON TROPHY HONORS THE NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS
• NAA’S HENRSON TROPHY HONORS THE NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN
• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN SPREADS ADVOCY BEYOND FLIGHT CK
• NATNAL GAY PILOT’S ASSOCIATN HOLDS FIRST FLY- EVENT AT EASTERN IOWA AIRPORT
• GAY PILOTS: FLYG OVER THE RABOW

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN

Now substute the term LGBTQ+ for left-hand, and you have the plight of many gay persons—we e the term gay clively here. This is part the reason behd the creatn of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn. The Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, the worldwi LGBTQ+ aviatn muny, was tablished 1990 primarily as a social anizatn.

June is a by month for the anizatn bee is Pri Month, marked by paras and other celebratns held around the world to regnize the impact that lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals have had on history. It is celebrated June to memorate the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan, New York, which was a turng pot for the Gay Liberatn Movement the Uned Stat. ”Brian Gambo, print, Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn.

He not that NGPA events give LGBTQ+ aviators a chance to relax and be themselv—and sometim that is difficult to do the aviatn workplace where they may enunter bigotry, homophobia, and transphobia.

JO OUR WNG TEAM.

It n manift the form of a worker g the word “gay” as a pejorative adjective or when someone misgenr-intifi someone by g the wrong pronouns or “adnam” them, the practice of g the former name of a transgenr dividual rather than the name they have chosen that better aligns wh their inty.

“For example, you might be on a four–day trip and have to spend hours and hours the ckp wh someone who is homophobic, and you have to judge the suatn and pick your battl. The NGPA has a homophobia and transphobia reportg le where people who have had negative teractns the workplace n share them, perhaps as a warng to others about what to expect at a particular bs. Warfield intified as gay growg up and when she me out to her fay, they said, “We love you, and we want you to be happy.

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN

They have been together for 28 years and were officially married October 2013, when gay marriage was legalized Washgton state. He told the jury was “easy” to lie nvcgly, pecially when is about someone such as Spacey, who he scribed as: “A man who is promiscuo, not publicly out, although everyone the bs knows he’s gay, who wants to be jt a normal guy, or at least some of the time he do – to drk beer and lgh and smoke weed and s the ont and spend time wh younger people who he’s attracted to. NGPA at Oh State is a stunt chapter affiliated unr the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn (NGPA).

The cy of Cedar Rapids and The Eastern Iowa Airport will host the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn’s “Wgs Over Iowa” fly- event June 3-5, a first-of-s kd event that will brg members of the worldwi LGBTQ aviatn muny to Iowa’s send-largt cy, officials announced Wednday at the airport. Stow said the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn event is anticipated to have an enomic impact of approximately $1 ln.

” The Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn has a 32-year history and held s first meetg Provcetown, Mass., 1992. Members gathered mostly shroud secrecy, wearg T-shirts wh airplan or ems to signal they were part of the event sce wasn’t broadly accepted to be openly lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer. ” Comments: (319) 398-8494; Brian Gambo, print of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, speaks Wednday durg a news nference at The Eastern Iowa Airport announcg the "Wgs Over Iowa" fly- event here June 3-5.

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN TO HOST FIRST-OF-S-KD FLY- EVENT CEDAR RAPIDS

(Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell (center) applds after Brian Gambo (left), print of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, spoke Wednday at a news nference announcg the "Wgs Over Iowa" fly- event on June 3-5 Cedar Rapids. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Marty Lenss, director of The Eastern Iowa Airport, speaks Wednday durg a news nference announcg the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn’s “Wgs Over Iowa" fly- event. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Brian Gambo (right), print of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, talks Wednday wh Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell after a news nference announcg the upg "Wgs Over Iowa" fly- event.

CEDAR RAPIDS — For the first time sce was found 1990, the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn is holdg a major event flyover untry.

GAY PILOTS BRG LOVE OF AVIATN TO HELP KICK OFF PRI MONTH CEDAR RAPIDS

On Sunday, the nonprof — which has 4, 100 LGBTQ pilots and aviatn profsnals — won’t be holdg s newt event gay mecs like Provcetown, Mass., or Palm Sprgs, Calif. In the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, visibily has not jt been a mody toted durg June’s Pri month — has saved liv.

” Comments: (319) 398-8340; Stephan Jansen Van Vuuren, a flight stctor and member of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, anchors his aircraft Friday after flyg to The Eastern Iowa Airport. More than 100 members of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn are expected to arrive wh their aircraft for the Wgs Over Iowa event on Sunday. The pilots are two of more than 100 members of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn expected to vis for the Wgs Over Iowa event at the airport on Sunday.

A handful of gay pilots gathered very discreetly to support each other and fight for equaly. It was a time when airle pilots risked losg their jobs or ary pilots dishonorably discharged for beg outed as gay. Over the urse of s over 25 year lifpan, the anizatn has sought to elimate the negative stigma of beg gay wh the aviatn dtry.

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN

For 2022, the NAA will prent the Henrson Trophy to the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn (NGPA), the Worldwi LGBTQ Aviatn Communy, for s efforts to build, promote, and support the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer muny. Gay And Lbian Aviatn Communy. Gay Pilots Informatn.

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NAA’S HENRSON TROPHY HONORS THE NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN

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GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

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GAY MOSW · CY GUI

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A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS

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NAA’S HENRSON TROPHY HONORS THE NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN

There have been s of homophobic people g the apps to lure gay men to meetgs at which they are attacked and robbed. Basil Cathedral - Red SquareGay SceneUnrstandably, Rsia's gay scene is low profile and rather discreet.

Gay public displays of affectn is not very mon, but this smopolan Rsian pal cy may be gayer than you might thk. Although Mosw don't have a dited 'Gay District', the cy's gay nightlife has bee more visible recent years.

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN SPREADS ADVOCY BEYOND FLIGHT CK

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Unable to see anythg of the statn I’d flown so far to reach, I’d s at my hotel-room sk as I worked on my latt book, “Image a Cy: A Pilot’s Journey Across the Urban World, ” a memoir about growg up as a gay kid a small place and a pilot’s love letter to great metropolis, and wonred if might soon read as a memorial to a pla that had permanently, late sprg and wh most panmic rtrictns lifted, Montreal is bloomg.

I’d turn my illumated globe and read out the nam of the ci on ; I’d assemble mol plan and move them down the nway I ma on my drser; I’d draw maps of the imagary cy that distracted and staed me, particularly whenever I stggled wh the realizatn that I was gay.

NATNAL GAY PILOT’S ASSOCIATN HOLDS FIRST FLY- EVENT AT EASTERN IOWA AIRPORT

After we’d checked to a hotel and sat down a rtrant whout anyone givg a send look, I wonred if I’d been too psimistic about the world and a gay kid’s future .

Whatever the tth of Melville’s sexualy — as Andrew Delban not “Melville: His World and Work, ” ’s not easy to separate the tantalizg clu om the rponse of “gay rears who fd themselv drawn to him” — somethg impelled him to set out for the open ocean and the wonrs of distant ci. When the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn (NGPA), then known as the Gay Pilots Associatn was found 1990 their first few meetgs were very discreet events held Key Wt, Florida and Provcetown, Massachetts. “Many of our ial members were the ary, so, the ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy beg elimated [ 2011] I thk ntributed to some of our growth and acceptance … and SCOTUS’s lg about gay marriage last year was huge.

NGPA’s webse featur a homophobia and transphobia cint reportg form. “It’s very tailed and ’s anonymo, and ’s for our membership to report to if somethg happens at work [and] recently we had an FAA Airle Medil Examer (AME) office discrimate agast someone that was gay.

GAY PILOTS: FLYG OVER THE RABOW

NGPA boasts members South Ai, Atralia, Asia, all over the Middle East, membership some plac where people n be imprisoned jt for beg gay, “where there is certaly a lot more discrimatn than we ever have had here the Uned Stat”, not Pettet, and that’s why one of NGPA’s goals movg forward will be to expand their reach around the globe the next few years.