Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn to host first-of-s-kd fly- event Cedar Rapids | The Gazette

Contents:

• GAY PILOTS BRG LOVE OF AVIATN TO HELP KICK OFF PRI MONTH CEDAR RAPIDS
• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN'S PALM SPRGS WTER WARM-UP
• WELE “WTER WARM UP” GAY PILOTS!
• GAY PILOTS CAPE COD CLASSIC
• A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS
• 'I DON'T FEEL PART OF THE MILARY ANYMORE': OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAV AFTER HARASSMENT
• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN TO HOST FIRST-OF-S-KD FLY- EVENT CEDAR RAPIDS
• OUT OF THE CLOSET AND ON TO THE NWAY: GAY PILOTS
• NATNAL GAY PILOT’S ASSOCIATN HOLDS FIRST FLY- EVENT AT EASTERN IOWA AIRPORT
• GAY ROO SPOTLIGHTED ONE-NIGHT-ONLY EVENT
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• NATNAL GAY PILOT’S ASSOCIATN HOLDS FIRST FLY- EVENT AT EASTERN IOWA AIRPORT

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

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

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN'S PALM SPRGS WTER WARM-UP

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.

WELE “WTER WARM UP” GAY PILOTS!

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. The Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn's Palm Sprgs Wter Warm-Up Prented by Uned Airl tak place Febary 9–12, 2023.

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.

GAY PILOTS CAPE COD CLASSIC

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.

A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS

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.

They have been together for 28 years and were officially married October 2013, when gay marriage was legalized Washgton state. More than 67% of visors to Ptown intify as LGBTQ+ and we’re proud to be known as one of the gayt muni the Uned didn’t jt happen by chance. In addn to checkg out fe arts stapl such as the Provcetown Art Associatn and Mm, Provcetown Commons, or our famed Provcetown Gallery Stroll, there is a slew of new, art-based events sprgg up, cludg the ArtProvcetown Ftival, DriftWood, Art Gaysel, and the Washashore Ftival.

'I DON'T FEEL PART OF THE MILARY ANYMORE': OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAV AFTER HARASSMENT

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

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.

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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.

OUT OF THE CLOSET AND ON TO THE NWAY: GAY PILOTS

'I Don't Feel Part Of The Milary Anymore': Openly Gay Pilot Leav After Harassment One of Naval Aviatn's few openly gay pilots is leavg his ary reer behd after only six years, cg harassment as the reason. 'I Don't Feel Part Of The Milary Anymore': Openly Gay Pilot Leav After Harassment. One of Naval Aviatn's few openly gay pilots is leavg his ary reer behd after only six years, cg harassment as the reason.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A after "don't ask, don't tell" end, one of Naval aviatn's few openly gay pilots is on his way out.

KPBS' Steve Walsh has the WALSH, BYLINE: For most of his six years the Navy, Litenant Adam Adamski says he felt supported as an openly gay pilot. And I saw my drs wh draped over and around the TV, and there was hardre gay porn His uniform was wrapped around a TV playg pornography. ADAMSKI: I received numero lls om people that are the closet that squadron, both men and women, and openly gay service members tellg me that they are upset and that they don't thk the climate, pecially for pilots, is a good climate that squadron and that they thk I should report The don't ask, don't tell policy end a ago, allowg LGBT service members to serve openly.

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

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.

GAY ROO SPOTLIGHTED ONE-NIGHT-ONLY EVENT

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.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

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. (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. Many are unaware of the ia that Santos-Dumont was gay.

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

The history of homosexualy and aviatn is not wily rearched or for that matter acknowledged, yet there is a rich history volvg this quiet group the field startg wh one of the first pneers. The aviatn muny is startg to foc on this group of dividuals startg wh the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn (NGPA). Formed twenty years ago, the NGPA’s missn is to enurage gays and lbians to enter to the field of aviatn through tn, outreach programm and social events.

” Unfortunately this rgs te as gays and lbians still fight for social equaly. You don’t have to be gay to be part of the anisatn, but you need to be supportive of the lbian and gay muny.

” The NGPA provis an avenue for formg allianc wh bs and airl wh the aviatn muny while matag a fortable environment for gays and lbians to reach out for support. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - An anizatn chose Cedar Rapids as the se of s first-ever fly- event on Over Iowa, anized by the Natnal Gay Pilot’s Associatn, was held at the Eastern Iowa Airpor this weekend.