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Contents:

• 153 – TOP 5 GAY INS
• WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
• RUF PICKS HIS GAY INS
• GAY INS
• QUEER HERO: 15 SUPERHERO WHO ARE GAY INS
• FAMO GAY PEOPLE

153 – TOP 5 GAY INS

After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year. The announcement is the latt dispute between state and lol officials after the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board voted 3-2 on May 16 to reject the curriculum, wh some board members claimg there was not enough parental volvement the curriculum creatn procs as well as makg ments attackg gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk.

The curriculum – for gras one through five – ntas supplemental rource material for teachers that clus a short bgraphy of Milk, who is believed to be the first openly gay polician elected to public office California 1977. The materials scribe his liftyle and his work for gay rights California until his assassatn 1978. Komrosky said June that his statements about Milk “were not based upon him beg a homosexual, but rather based upon him beg an adult havg a sexual relatnship wh a mor.

For Black History Month, HomoCulture provis an overview of 10 queer Black ins that have changed the trajectory of history for not only Amerins, but the world at large.

WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

Bayard Rt was a lear the social movements for socialism, non-vlence, and gay rights, regard by many as the leadg strategist of the Civil Rights Movement om 1955 to 1968. As a gay man, Rt was attacked by opponents as well as black lears and, as a rult, he stayed mostly behd the scen and stead acted as an fluencer and strategist. In 1982 he was quoted a US Magaze article, statg, “Homosexualy is a way of life that I’ve grown acctomed to.

RUF PICKS HIS GAY INS

It’s not unual to be gay San Francis. He is bt known for the novel Gvanni’s Room, which discs the plex reprentatns of homosexualy and bisexualy. Willi Nja found the Hoe of Nja  1982, actg as a mother to a group of adopted gay and transgenr youth New York Cy.

Hansberry, who never publicly acknowledged she was a lbian, joed lbian rights group Dghters of Bilis and ntributed letters about femism and homophobia to s magaze, The Ladr. So jo Tuong and Queer Ins themselv Hayley Kellett, Kez Vir-Robson, and Aashay Dalvi as we end pri month by celebratg Top 5 Gay Ins! The post 153 – Top 5 Gay Ins appeared first on PodCavern.

GAY INS

Milk was a trailblazg gay polician who was the first to be elected California, and didn’t hi his sexualy the 1970s, while Cher is a gay in who has donated lns to gay-foced anizatns. Even Elton John, who me out as bisexual 1976 (he later intified as gay the 1990s), told Rollg Stone at the time that: “There’s nothg wrong wh gog to bed wh somebody of your own sex, ” a bold move for the time.

“I was the closet and cryg every night to God askg why did you make me gay?

QUEER HERO: 15 SUPERHERO WHO ARE GAY INS

“When I started my journey by g out of the closet at the age of 22, I want to show people that by beg gay is not a weakns, s a strength.

What Mak a ‘Gay In’? ” For the openly gay rapper/sger, Montero — spired by his birth name — is a place where one is ee to be who they are. Ricky Mart — who announced he was a “proud homosexual” 2010 after years of speculatn, cludg an famo terview wh Barbara Walters that Mart recently said still hnts him — ro a wave of succs driven largely by a loyal female fanbase eager to watch him shake is “bon-bon.

Puttg asi the song’s associatn of love wh a “crime” beg juxtaposed wh a lyric like “Greet me wh the ey of a child, ” “Father Figure” se Michael stg himself the role of a proxy parent, an trigug but perhaps predictable velopment given the prevalence of “daddy” culture the gay muny. “Seventeen” is clearly about sex, but ’s also about the kd of self-disvery that gay men of Michael’s generatn were equently prived of their formative years.

FAMO GAY PEOPLE

Sivan, who’s 26, has said he uldn’t relate to Michael growg up, and the unapologetic, joyo portras of queer sire that he and Lil Nas X nvey their mic feel far removed om the srce, thly veiled songs about the gay experience that existed around the time they were born. Michael’s long-awaed third album, 1996’s Olr — the release of which cid wh my own sexual awakeng at the height of the AIDS epimic — rerced the myopic visn of gay life as one of danger, sadns, and misery that my generatn was tght school and by the media.

Many of the gay men who survived the plague have variably suffered a form of PTSD, triggered by the naggg spicn that they unjtly ped ath while their lovers and iends perished. Openly gay sger Adam Lambert has lled g out “an act of fiance, ” and while Michael was given ltle choice the timg and manner of his own, he was far om ntre the mic vio for “Outsi, ” released jt a few months later to promote his first greatt hs album. After g out, Michael stantly beme a gay in, but he was a reluctant one, tormented by the ath of his first love and stgglg to rencile the fact that the massive succs he’d achieved was staed by pretendg to be someone else.

Ultimately, Ges Kyrias Panaytou may not have ever found the gay Shangri-la that Lil Nas X scrib his vio, but “Montero” might not have ever existed whout him. Morrissey is one of Ruf Wawright's gay ins. Photograph: Jim Dyson/GettyThis Sunday's Observer Mic Monthly has a gay theme nng through , really rather like the prt a stick of rock, and featur ntributns om Neil Tennant, Will Young, k.