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Contents:
- THE GAY-FRIENDLIT AIRL THE SKI
- HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
- MARK MORRO DISCS THE STATE OF LGBTQ+ INCLN AVIATN AND HIS LEGACY AS AN OPENLY GAY AIRLE CEO AND INDTRY CHAIRMAN
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- GAY AIRLE POSTERS
THE GAY-FRIENDLIT AIRL THE SKI
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HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
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Amerin AirlAmerin Airl is on our list of gay-iendly fav, as well. The airle was certaly ahead of the pack 2007 wh s Pk Flight, which featured a drag queen stewarss, pk airplane food and a shirtls petn on s way om SFO to the Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras the plane got primped!
MARK MORRO DISCS THE STATE OF LGBTQ+ INCLN AVIATN AND HIS LEGACY AS AN OPENLY GAY AIRLE CEO AND INDTRY CHAIRMAN
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Photo urty of Peapple then 2010, an otherwise amg -flight safety vio featurg the All Blacks gby team had a weirdly homophobic moment (start at 2:55) that sparked enough plats to have the vio pulled. Among the are Athlete Ally, Boston Gay Men's Chos, Empire State Pri Agenda, Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn, New York Cy Anti-Vlence Project, PFLAG NYC, Transgenr Legal Defense & Edutn Fund and pri celebratns at s foc ci Long Beach, CA and San Juan, Puerto Ri. Some mentary on Pedro Almodóvar’s new edy I’m So Exced has noted that rerc gay stereotyp, particularly the characters of s sassy male flight attendants, who are all gay.
When did the gay steward bee such a mon stereotype? Some stewards were hired back after returng om World War II—often out of a sense of loyalty or patrtic duty—but bee they performed what was nsired “women’s work, ” they were thought to be effemate and were therefore spected of beg homosexual, acrdg to the bias of the time.
This perceptn was further rerced when the killg of a gay male flight attendant a “lover’s lane” Miami brought the stereotype to the headl of sensatnal stori the Miami Daily News. In the macho, homophobic years of the 1950s, this provoked a crackdown on the cy’s unrground gay muny, and stori like the were seen as evince that gay people were “perverts.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
” Many airl (some of which traed their stewards Miami) turn quietly did away wh hirg stewards, both gay and straight. Ever sce, men have generally prised about 15 percent of flight attendants, pendg on the airle, and a high percentage of the men returng to the ranks of the flight attendant rps the 1970s were gay.
For gay men, there were many reasons to bee a flight attendant— wasn’t jt the willgns of many to do stereotypilly feme work. As Tiemeyer wr, “the aisl and galleys of airplan, as well as crew hotels and crash pads, served the same role that other gays and lbians found bars: a place where they uld meet others like themselv and even embrace their same-sex sir for the first time. And I’d walk through termals, and I knew if there were gay men, they’d be lookg at me.
GAY AIRLE POSTERS
So how many flight attendants were and are gay? They timated that “between 30 and 50 percent of male flight attendants were gay the 1950s, and between 50 and 90 percent the 1970s. This mercial om CarGus was actually hailed “the gayt mercial of the year” by many.
The 30-send ad shows one gay man shoppg for rs onle as he clar his need to “move on” and get “more space” for his outdoor gear. The Norwegian postal service Posten went viral this Christmas after showg Santa Cls a gay relatnship.
Tled When Harry met Santa, ’ the simply adorable queer love story marks the upg 50th anniversary sce homosexualy was crimalized the untry. His spir then appears, to everyone’s surprise, and he out as gay to all of his livg relativ, standg proudly and hand--hand wh another man – who is now his partner. Gay, lbian, bi, trans, pan, whatever, whoever you intify as, e out to be unted.