As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
Contents:
- J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- EDGARGAY
- LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’
- EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: SPARKS “THERE’S ELEMENT OF – ARTISTILLY AT LEAST – BEG OUTSIRS MAYBE THAT’S SOMETHG THAT RONAT WH SOME MEMBERS OF THE GAY MUNY”
- GAY POLICE OFFICER FIGHTS FOR FEELG PRI THE FORCE
J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?
* gay edgar *
The cemetery also has a feature that, acrdg to the admistratn, is unique among cemeteri around the world: a “Gay Corner.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Edgar Gay is a chartered fancial analyst workg out of Savannah, Geia wh 21 years of dtry experience. Gay works at First Cy Capal Management Inc. They have spent their plete time as a fancial advisor at First Cy Capal Management Inc. Gay is approved to operate Geia ... * gay edgar *
On March 8 of that year, he sent a letter to his superr officer nfirmg that he was, ed, homosexual. Milary regulatns at the time clearly stated that “homosexualy is not tolerated the Air Force.
One of the great legaci of this fight, and the foundatn of the Gay Corner, is Matlovich’s tombstone. Hoover, the first and longtime director of the FBI, waged an anti-gay war durg the 1950s and ’60s, spyg on spected gay employe of the ernment and referrg to them as “sexual viat. He placed pk triangl on and, stead of emblazong wh his own name, ed the more clive phrase “A Gay Vietnam Veteran.
The footstone that reads “Gay is good” memorializ Frank Kameny, who 1957 was dismissed om his posn as an astronomer the U. Chapter of the Mattache Society, which sent pro-gay lerature and mpaign letters to high-rankg policians—all the way up to Print Lyndon B. Durg the 1970s, Gtgs, who died 2007, mpaigned tirelsly to have homosexualy stck om the list of mental illns.
EDGARGAY
A new film on J. Edgar Hoover is a remr that his persecutn of gay people stroyed thoands of liv and reers. * gay edgar *
The headstone the shape of a prerly balanced, jnty black cube belongs to Ken Drser, a gay graphic signer who worked on Disneyland’s Ma Street Electric Para.
And there is a weddg or two among the funerals— 2011, gay Iraq veteran Stephen Hill married his partner Josh Snyr—legally— ont of Matlovich’s memorial. He was a bigot, a racist and a homophobe — a nspiracy theorist who amassed and abed enormo power, pursued his enemi unscpuloly and trampled on the civil liberti of law-abidg Amerin cizens.
He unrtook a mpaign agast spected gay and lbian people workg for the feral ernment, puttg together more than 360, 000 fil hop of removg “sexual viat” om their jobs.
LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’
Filmgoers never see the s-long romance between the former FBI director, and his number two, Cly Tolson, nsummated, but there's plenty of lovg glanc, hand-holdg and one scene wh an aggrsive, long, ep was the most powerful man Ameri, who died 1972 -- three years after the Stonewall rts marked the morn gay civil rights movement -- homosexual? "In public, Hoover waged a ventta agast homosexuals and kept "nfintial and secret" fil on the sex liv of ngrsmen and prints.
EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: SPARKS “THERE’S ELEMENT OF – ARTISTILLY AT LEAST – BEG OUTSIRS MAYBE THAT’S SOMETHG THAT RONAT WH SOME MEMBERS OF THE GAY MUNY”
Dissociatn -- nyg homosexualy, but displayg sexual behavr -- is "not unmon, " acrdg to Dr. Jack Drcher, a New York Cy psychiatrist who is an expert genr and wh strong attractns to other men n have different gre of acceptance om beg fully closeted to beg openly gay.
GAY POLICE OFFICER FIGHTS FOR FEELG PRI THE FORCE
And even if they are homosexually self-aware, they n embrace or reject publicly.