Queer fans mourn Llie Jordan, a symbol of a 'lost generatn' of gay men

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• 1 AD AFTER PEOPLE H BY TCK ACCINT AT SOUTH FLORIDA GAY PRI MARCH: POLICE
• 'HORRIFIC ACT': 3 AD, 1 JURED AFTER CHIGO H-AND-N OUTSI GAY BAR, POLICE SAY
• WILTON MANORS PRI PARA MOTORIST NOT TERRORIST, PART OF GAY MEN'S CHOS
• QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
• 3 MEN KILLED H-AND-N OUTSI POPULAR BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR
• MARRIED GAY COUPLE KILLED AUTO ACCINT
• SPECT ARRTED FATAL H-AND-RUN OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR
• H-AND-N THAT KILLED THREE ONT OF BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR "APPEARS TENTNAL," POLICE SAY
• GAY CRASHG

1 AD AFTER PEOPLE H BY TCK ACCINT AT SOUTH FLORIDA GAY PRI MARCH: POLICE

The driver of a pickup tck that stck two men, killg one, at a Pri para Florida was nnected to the Fort Lrdale Gay Men's Chos, and so were the victims, the group's print said tck was to be part of the chos' entry the Stonewall Pri Para Wilton Manors, the anizatn said. The driver and the pestrians are all members of the Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos, the release said. The print of the Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos, Jt Knight, said a statement that the group’s “thoughts and prayers are wh those affected by the tragic accint that occurred when the Stonewall Pri Para was jt gettg started.

The chos is ma up of about 25 people and is the longt-tablished gay men’s chos the state of Florida. Pri Center at Equaly Park CEO Robert Boo also read a prepared statement on behalf of the Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos. “The Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos is eply sadned by the tragic ath and juri that occurred as a rult of the unfortunate accint at the Stonewall Pri Para.

'HORRIFIC ACT': 3 AD, 1 JURED AFTER CHIGO H-AND-N OUTSI GAY BAR, POLICE SAY

Wilton Manors is a Fort Lrdale suburb that bills self as havg a “strong gay prence, ” acrdg to the cy’s webse, embracg s “reputatn as a statn for the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny. A member of a men’s chos group untentnally slammed to fellow chorists at the start of a Pri para south Florida, killg one member of the group and serly jurg another, the group’s director said on statement clarified ial speculatn that was a hate crime directed at the gay Wilton Manors vice-mayor, Pl Rolli, and the Fort Lrdale mayor, Dean Trantalis, said the early vtigatn shows was an accint. “The early vtigatn now dit looks like was a tragic accint, but nobody’s sayg fally what is, ” Rolli told the Associated Prs a phone driver and the victims were a part of the Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos fay, a small 25-member group of mostly olr men.

Trantalis, who is Fort Lrdale’s first openly gay mayor, ially told reporters the act was liberate, addg to the nfn on Saturday night.

June 19 (Rters) - The driver of a pickup tck that h two pestrians at the start of a gay pri para Fort Lrdale, Florida, was a 77-year-old participant the event, police said on driver, who has not been intified by lol thori, is operatg fully wh vtigators, showed no signs of impairment and has not been charged, Fort Lrdale police said a wrten victims, both adult mal and members of the Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos, were shed to Broward Health Medil Center, where one of the victims was pronounced ad.

WILTON MANORS PRI PARA MOTORIST NOT TERRORIST, PART OF GAY MEN'S CHOS

The send victim was listed a ser driver is also a member of the Gay Men's Chos. Officials said the other man was expected to driver and the two victims are all members of Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos, acrdg to vtigators. Three people were killed and another was jured a h-and-n crash Chigo outsi a famo gay bar early Sunday, police said.

QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN

Chigo Chief of Detectiv Brendan Deenihan said a news nference Monday that an argument started si the Jefey Pub, a gay bar on Chigo's South Si, that spilled out to the street around 5:00 a. M., four men were stck by a sedan near the longtime Black gay nightclub Jeffery Pub, acrdg to the Chigo Police Department, Chigo's Fox statn, WFLD, men were pronounced ad at the Universy of Chigo Medil Center; a fourth was serly jured and remas hospalized. Officials believe that an cint which a man was killed and another serly jured after a driver h spectators at a Pri para South Florida on Saturday eveng was an driver of the pickup tck that h the crowd durg the Wilton Manors Stonewall Pri Para was reportedly part of the Fort Lrdale Gay Men's Chos fay and was not purposely targetg the LGBTQ muny.

The LGBTQ muny is reelg om the news of beloved gay in Llie Jordan’s ath. Jordan — an effemate Southern gay actor who for s occupied his own special rner of queer culture — died Monday morng a r crash Hollywood.

” Jordan’s character eventually out as gay on the show, which self broke major barriers for s time s reprentatn of gay men, though mostly whe and cisgenr, on work televisn.

3 MEN KILLED H-AND-N OUTSI POPULAR BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR

” For many, Jordan was a symbol of the joy of unqutnably visible queerns — of reclaimg and rejoicg long-held stereotyp about the feme affects of gay men. We apologize, this vio has was a teenager as the gay rights movement started to pick up steam.

In the late ’60s and early ’70s, amid the Stonewall uprisg and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s removal of homosexualy om s official list of mental disorrs, he was g to terms wh his inty as Amerins’ ias about sexualy were also startg to change. Gay men like Jordan, born om 1946 to 1964 and classified as baby boomers, were h the harst at the peak of the crisis, om the late ’80s and throughout the ’90s. 6 ln gay men ag 25 to 44 had died.

”The AIDS epimic, and the Reagan admistratn’s failed rponse to , played a role the rise to promence of already well-tablished LGBTQ enclav, which some referred to as “gayborhoods, ” larger urban areas the ’80s and ’90s. Socializatn among gay men and gay-centric works, particularly gay neighborhoods, has myriad polil and social benefs. His challeng wh substance abe, he admted, were directly related to his experience as a gay man those tim.

MARRIED GAY COUPLE KILLED AUTO ACCINT

“I felt was a lot easier to be gay when I was load, ” he died more than 20 years sober, a fact that giv Vic Vela fort.

SPECT ARRTED FATAL H-AND-RUN OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR

Vela, a gay man and the host of an award-wng Colorado Public Rad show about addictn, “Back From Broken, ” said that although has never been easy for anyone to e out, was particularly difficult the latter s of the last century.

H-AND-N THAT KILLED THREE ONT OF BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR "APPEARS TENTNAL," POLICE SAY

“For a lot of gay men om a certa generatn, that was really hard to do whout alhol, ” he said. Avoidg anti-LGBTQ discrimatn and homophobia remas pecially hard for queer people who, like Jordan, are ls straight-prentg, which n give people centiv to supprs aspects of their inty.

GAY CRASHG

“I open my mouth, and 50 yards of purple chiffon e out, ” Jordan said another appearance on “The Ellen DeGener Show” September 2021, promptg a roomful of the terview, Jordan spoke about havg to play a straight man a meo on DeGener’ s, which broke new ground Amerin culture when DeGener’ character famoly me out as gay 1997.