Josh Feldman Had Never Seen a Gay, Deaf Character on TV, So He Ma One Himself

Contents:

• WAG TO BE HEARD: ON BEG DEAF AND GAY
• WH 'THIS CLOSE,' JOSH FELDMAN PUTS DEAF, GAY LIV IN THE SPOTLIGHT
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR SECTN
• HOW TO SIGN ‘GAY’ OR ‘QUEER’? AMERIN SIGN LANGUAGE ERS DON’T AGREE.

WAG TO BE HEARD: ON BEG DEAF AND GAY

In the early hours of June 28th, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club Greenwich Village of New York Cy.

Wh 6 months, the movement was anized to a full-fledged polil mpaign that aimed to promote rights for gays and lbians. One year later, bisexual activist Brenda Howard, otherwise known as “The Mother of Pri, ” anized the first Gay Pri Week and the Christopher Street Liberatn Day para. Regard is a natnal anisatn of lbians, gay men, bi, trans and queer people (LGBTQ) who self-intify as disabled.

Use keywords such as ‘LGBT’, ‘gay’, ‘lbian’, ‘bi’, ‘trans’ or ‘same-sex uple’ to fd profsnals who specialise supportg LGBT people. Deaf Queer Rource Center rource center for, by and about the Deaf Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Transsexual, Intersex and Qutng muni. Rabow Alliance of the Deaf (RAD) a society for Deaf Gay and Lbian cizens the Uned Stat and Canada.

WH 'THIS CLOSE,' JOSH FELDMAN PUTS DEAF, GAY LIV IN THE SPOTLIGHT

This is surprisg, nsirg what my sister, an terpreter for the af, has told me: “You’d be surprised how many af people are gay. Usg the qutnable Ksey timate that ten percent of the populatn is gay or lbian and the fact that there are 28 ln af or hard of hearg people the US, they nclu that 2. 8 ln of them – or ten percent – are gay or lbian.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR SECTN

Season four of The Janice Dickson Molg Agency featured Mart Rchie, a handsome gay af man who ma the cut to the top 12 and got to live wh the other nttants and Janice herself (don’t the man have enough to al wh whout subjectg him to that? Two years earlier, the murr of Gallt Universy hman Eric Plunkett ma headl and put the af school’s gay muny on high alert. A 1987 article by Jean Phanf, “Consiratns on Deafns and Homosexualy”, me to the ncln “The arth of lerature and rearch data on afns and sexualy only pots to the need for rearch.

As recently as 2007, Alison Beth Klger noted that there was still a lack of rearch this area her dissertatn, The Social Development of an Invisible Mory: The Deaf Gay and Lbian Populatn. Swartz, his report “Perceptns & Attus of Male Homosexuals om Differg Soc-Cultural & Audlogil Backgrounds”, stat that af gay men are very likely to jo anizatns and gay rights groups. Further, af gay men are happier their relatnships and have more posive self-imag than hearg gay men.

HOW TO SIGN ‘GAY’ OR ‘QUEER’? AMERIN SIGN LANGUAGE ERS DON’T AGREE.

Gay af dividuals are also more likely to ntract HIV. Klger nclud that the more fortable an LGBT person is wh his or her inty and feels a nnectn to the muny, the more likely he or she is to have acquired sexual knowledge, although this is more likely among af gay men than af lbians. Of urse, those who are af and gay aren’t the only on facg challeng — anyone who als wh both disabily and sexual orientatn issu mt navigate a different path.

While there is a arth of lerature on beg gay and af, ’s an abundance pared to the amount of lerature available ncerng LGBT dividuals who are bld. Regardls of how much attentn or rearch has been voted to them, those wh disabili who are gay or lbian mt al wh an extra burn of both societal judgment and misnceptns. Recently, I spoke wh “Robert”, a gay man his 30s whose leg was amputated six years ago after an accint.

Josh Feldman wanted to create a seri he’d like to watch as a gay, af man. ) Wh "This Close, " Josh Feldman, who plays the character Michael, aimed to create a seri he’d want to watch as a gay, af man.