William A. Rudner, Rochelle Butowsky, SIGNS USED IN THE DEAF GAY COMMUNITY, Sign Language Studi, No. 30 (Sprg 1981), pp. 36-48
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
On his new show This Close, the gay, af wrer and actor is pavg a new path. * gay deaf people *
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.
WH 'THIS CLOSE,' JOSH FELDMAN PUTS DEAF, GAY LIV IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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. 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.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR SECTN
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.
HOW TO SIGN ‘GAY’ OR ‘QUEER’? AMERIN SIGN LANGUAGE ERS DON’T AGREE.
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.