‘Pumpg’ Is Dangero New Fad Among Gay Men – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• THE MOST DANGERO GAY MAN AMERI FOUGHT VLENCE WH VLENCE
• TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• ‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
• IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY AMERI. HERE ARE THE STATISTICS THAT PROVE .
• IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY WYOMG
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

THE MOST DANGERO GAY MAN AMERI FOUGHT VLENCE WH VLENCE

Many health re and mental health anizatns foced on the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny also offer substance e treatment or may be able to provi rmatn about lol rourc. Gays San Francis, he believed, were unr siege—both om the gangs and the crooked ps who were supposed to serve and protect all of the cy's, stg a hospal bed, his face and arms mangled, Broshears was enraged and wanted to strike back. He wanted to form his own gang—for days later, Broshears held a prs nference at his muny center the Tenrlo and announced the foundg of the natn's first gay ant patrol.

Broshears later wrote that he was an extremely relig teenager and that his grandmother always wanted him to be a 14, Broshears tght his lol Bible school, and about a year later, he beme the supertennt of the Midway Baptist Missn Church, which still nsirs homosexualy a s.

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Sometime the late 1950s, he graduated om the Lee Bible College Tennsee, and he later studied wh Billy Jam Hargis, one of Ameri's most famo—and anti-gay—Christian evangelists at the time. Broshears drifted between church for several months, until he met a clergy member at the Gli Memorial Methodist Church who enuraged him to start his own street Broshears's neighborhood, the Tenrlo, he enuntered gay naways, trans men and women, and drag queens—many of whom rorted to prostutn to get by. "In the Tenrlo, Broshears wnsed the vlence agast and misery of the gay and trans muny: police lookg to pad their arrt numbers, straight teenagers who thought was fun to beat up drag queens or gay men, or socpathic assailants like the "Doodler, " a serial killer believed to be rponsible for 14 murrs of gay men the mid-'70s.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

"A typil night the Tenrlo would go somethg like this, Rleigh says: Young gay men and drag queens would go out to the bars, kids would e to harass them—throw bottl or smoke bombs or beat them up—and the police wouldn't do anythg. '"Broshears wanted to help those his neighborhood who need most: lol transgenr sex workers, drag queens, transients, impoverished gay men and naways.

"Throughout the 1970s, Broshears threw an annual drag queen ball at the Veterans Admistratn for wound soldiers, brought food and clothg to prisoners, gave advice to prostut and even officiated at the ocsnal gay weddg, though not technilly legal.

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In the early 1970s, San Francis had a huge surge of gay men movg to the area, and though the cy was seen as a tolerant bastn of ee speech and love, not everyone weled the new rints. He equently targeted the wealthier gay rights groups, like the Society for Individual Rights (SIR); he believed they were too fortable workg wh the cy's learship.

The stunt—and others—got some attentn, and he often ed that attentn to cricize not jt his target but what he saw as the lazs of other gay rights groups. "Nothg disgts me more than a faggot on the sile, " he told the Berkeley Barb at the tensn between Broshears and more mastream gay groups creased October 1971, durg the Tavern Guild's annual "Bex Arts Ball, " a fancy society party for the LGBT muny. "Our prott, " he told a reporter, "was agast the Tavern Guild and the Society for Individual Rights for keepg their palistic gay ghetto and for claimg to speak for gay people.

‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN

Wston Leyland, the edor of Gay Sunshe, which reported on news about gay liberatn, lled Broshears "the sgle most harmful person to the gay movement.

Marchers Wtern drs march the Internatnal Lbian/Gay Freedom Day Para San Francis durg Gay Freedom Week, proclaimed by then–San Francis Mayor Dianne Feste and California's Governor Edmund Brown Jr.

IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY AMERI. HERE ARE THE STATISTICS THAT PROVE .

" The crowd pulled him away, and later at least one gay anizatn nmned Broshears's behavr and mand an followg year, Broshears was not allowed to participate the para—but by then, he'd already set his sights next summer, he stood at the lectern, shotgun hand, and announced the formatn of the Lavenr Panthers.

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"Sievert don't remember if the shotgun was load that night, but he do remember how teenagers would drive their rs through the Missn, the Castro and the Tenrlo late at night, shoutg anti-gay slurs and threateng vlence.

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Shortly after Broshears created the group, one newspaper lumnist nducted man-on-the-street terviews the Tenrlo, askg people how they felt about the gay vigilante patrol. Broshears later wrote his self-published magaze, the Gay Csar, that durg the scuffle, one of the gang members shouted, "We need some quick money, so we me up here to roll some of you queers!