Pamela Gay | Astronomer and Assistant Rearch Profsor – NASA Solar System Exploratn

Contents:

• PAMELA R. GAY
• PAMELA R. GAY OBUARY
• LET’S SAY GAY
• PAMELA GAY

PAMELA R. GAY

Gay, 60, of Chippewa Falls, WI passed away on Friday, April 14, 2023, om juri staed a pestrian-vehicle accint. Pam married Robert Gay on Augt 17, 1985.

Gay, please vis our flower store. Gay of Chippewa Falls, Wisns, born Ladysmh, Wisns, who passed away on April 14, 2023, at the age of 60, leavg to mourn fay and iends.

She is survived by: her hband Robert Gay; her siblgs, Greg Halverson (Brenda), Charlene Wag (Robert Burnell), Michele Bogen (Pl Metzenber) and Sheri Halverson; her step-children, Steven (Christe), Debi (David) and Dawn (Sean); and her Gee. As a wrer, Pamela Diane Gay’s reer spans poetry and fictn but also clus natnally regnized ballet cricism and amic prose. Gay -thored the say, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier Sat-Ge wh Tom Reiss, 2015 Pulzer Prize wner for bgraphy.

PAMELA R. GAY OBUARY

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTPamela Bons /Visum, via RxLast month, the new print of the advocy group Human Rights Campaign, Kelley Robson, posted a six-and-a-half-mute vio to troduce herself and ame the missn of her anizatn, which was found 40 years ago by the gay activist Steve Enan to help fund polil mpaigns for pro-gay-rights ndidat. ”Not once, however, did she say the word “gay” or “lbian” or “bisexual.

The word “gay” is creasgly beg substuted by “queer” or, more broadly, “L. The word “queer” is climbg equency and n be ed terchangeably wh “gay, ” which self not so long ago replaced the dour and fatly judgy “homosexual.

In the same perds, e of “gay” has fallen om 2, 228 to 1, 531 — still more monly ed, but the directn of the evolutn is impossible to miss. ’ media, treat the word ‘lbian’ like ’s the plague, ” noted Julia Diana Robertson the lbian publitn The Velvet ’s be clear: Many lbians and gay people are fe wh this shift. For one thg, “gay” and “queer” are not synonymo, as they are creasgly treated, particularly among Gen Zers and lennials.

LET’S SAY GAY

Q., ” which sometim clus addnal symbols and letters, reprents so many inti unrelated to sexual orientatn that gays and lbians n feel crowd week on “CBS News Sunday Morng, ” the wrer David Sedaris said he was done “fightg the word ‘queer. “Gay” has a clear, specific meang that appli to both men and women: “homosexual, ” which is the first entry most dictnari.

” Another fn refers not only to gay people but also to “a person whose sexual orientatn or genr inty falls outsi the heterosexual mastream or the genr bary, ” acrdg to That uld mean “transgenr, ” “genr ntral, ” “nonbary, ” “agenr, ” “pangenr, ” “genrqueer, ” “misexual, ” “asexual, ” “two spir, ” “third genr” or all, none or some batn of the above.

PAMELA GAY

Queer theory is about liberately breakg down normative tegori around genr and sex, particularly bary on like men and women, straight and gay. Sayg you’re queer uld mean you’re gay; uld mean you’re straight; uld mean you’re uncid about your genr or that you prefer not to say.