"I’m not gay; but I thk the culture of tryg to ‘fd’ some kd of hidn tra or behavr that a closeted person ‘let slip’ is very dangero," the actor wrote.
Contents:
- IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE
- SUMMARY OF J. GAY WILLIAMS’ “THE WRONGFULNS OF EUTHANASIA”
- STONEWALL, AIDS AND GAY LIBERATN: ONE HISTORIAN SHAR HOW THE CULTURAL MOMENTS SHAPED UTAH’S LGBTQ MUNY
- 'ABBOTT ELEMENTARY' STAR TYLER JAM WILLIAMS SAYS HE'S 'NOT GAY' RPONSE TO MORS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY — AND EXPLAS WHY SUCH SPECULATN IS 'VERY DANGERO'
- IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE
- J GAY-WILLIAMS – THE WRONGFULNS OF THANIA
- STONEWALL, AIDS AND GAY LIBERATN: ONE HISTORIAN SHAR HOW THE CULTURAL MOMENTS SHAPED UTAH’S LGBTQ MUNY
IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE
Gay Williams rejects the view that “that if someone (and others) would be better off ad, then mt be all right to kill that person. ” For Gay-Williams thanasia (E) is tentnal or liberate killg, not accintal killg or lettg one die.
Specifilly, Williams, 71, has bee the chronicler of the history of Utah’s LGBTQ+ muny — much of which he has experienced as a young Brigham Young Universy stunt who was kicked out for beg gay, and later durg the AIDS epimic of the ‘80s when he cid to e the box, he rri bs and piec of the history he’s kept. And there’s a dty block, a lifetime achievement award the Utah Pri Center gave him ’s the 2015 certifite, for outstandg ntributn, given to him by the Utah State Historil Society — which, Williams said, was the “first acknowledgment of [the existence] of a gay muny om a state agency.
“I always felt that there’s gog to be a time where Utah’s gog to rewre history and say how much they loved gay people, Black people, people of lor and everythg else, ” Williams said.
SUMMARY OF J. GAY WILLIAMS’ “THE WRONGFULNS OF EUTHANASIA”
“Very few ci n trace the orig of their gay muny, not only the origs, but who the people volved were, ” he of those journal entri have been chronicled Q Salt Lake Magaze and on his blog “This Day Gay Utah History. “I look back now on and was mostly to overe my homosexualy, ” Williams said of his nversn. In high school, he said he remembers beg love wh a boy named John who didn’t love him heartbreak, and the general shame associated wh homosexualy at the time, ma life difficult.
“I was fairly relig and I thought, ‘This is not what God wanted me to be, ’ and everybody I knew that was gay California were Mormons. Homosexualy wasn’t somethg his fay talked about.
Once, he relled, he was upset about tellg a different boy that he was gay. Williams said his mother tried to fort him, whout knowg he was gay, and the nversatn got awkward.
STONEWALL, AIDS AND GAY LIBERATN: ONE HISTORIAN SHAR HOW THE CULTURAL MOMENTS SHAPED UTAH’S LGBTQ MUNY
“I had to fort her by not tellg her that her son was queer, ” he 1973, he started attendg Brigham Young Universy — the Provo llege owned by The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats — but was kicked out 1976, when the school learned he was his time at BYU, rerds show, the universy was performg shock therapy on stunts as a “gay cure” — somethg Latter-day Sat apostle Dall H. Williams’s time at BYU, he said, was a “homophobic wch hunt perd” — and he said he knew of two “purg” of homosexuals om mp.
Williams eventually was kicked out of BYU, whout gettg his teachg 1977, Williams did what many gay men the Latter-day Sat fah had done at the time: He got married to a woman, to “get back to the good grac of the church. … The church at that time was tellg you that marriage was a cure for homosexualy.
… They preached homosexualy was a s next to murr.
'ABBOTT ELEMENTARY' STAR TYLER JAM WILLIAMS SAYS HE'S 'NOT GAY' RPONSE TO MORS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY — AND EXPLAS WHY SUCH SPECULATN IS 'VERY DANGERO'
“I never would have e to Utah and been a Utah gay historian if I hadn’t found the Mormon church, ” Williams said.
The gay muny, stricken by grief, rallied together. “The state wouldn’t do anythg, they wouldn’t allote om the health partment a dime for the gay muny, even for tn.
”Instead, Williams says all me om grassroots anizatns that the lol gay and lbian muny “we were dyg left and right, ” Williams said, he cid to chronicle the epimic. “I had some kd of epiphany sayg the reason I was so unhappy all my life was bee I was rejectg this gift that God gave me, that my homosexualy was not a curse.
IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE
”Stonewall to Salt Lake CyWilliams said gay liberatn me to Salt Lake Cy October 1969, only a few months after the rts at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy, seen generally as the begng of the gay-rights rippl om Stonewall were felt natnally, mostly through llege mp, Williams said. In Salt Lake Cy, there were also people wh progrsive iologi — such as Ralph Place, the founr of the state’s first gay anizatn; Joe Redburn, the rad host who found two of Salt Lake Cy’s inic gay bars, The Sun and The Trapp; and Lda Huntgton, whose bohemian store Mother’s Earth Thgs anchored the funky 9th and 9th bs muny Salt Lake Cy started small, wh ls than a hundred active members 1970, Williams said.
” The psychelic rock band Country Joe and the Fish, which had played at Woodstock jt two months earlier, performed the 1973, Redburn opened The Sun, which Williams lled the first real gay bar Utah. (Ben Williams) The Sun Tavern bar, a former LGBTQ bar Salt Lake Cy, an undated after that, gay stunt unns started poppg up. The mastream news outlets Utah wouldn’t publish anythg about gay liberatn meetgs, Williams said, but the Daily Utah Chronicle, the stunt paper at the Universy of Utah, did wre about them.
”The growth Utah’s LGBTQ+ activism stalled the late 1970s, Williams said, after a seri of vlent murrs of gay men, cludg social activist Anthony Adams, shut the muny down and forced people to go to Utah’s LGBTQ+ muny evolvedWilliams was one of the founrs of the Gay and Lbian Communy Council of Utah, which started 1986.
J GAY-WILLIAMS – THE WRONGFULNS OF THANIA
He also was a equent speaker on KRCL’s “Concerng Gays and Lbians” started by Donna Maldonado (who died September) after Williams beme a schoolteacher, he said, his volvement the muny was on the down low, bee he would have lost his job otherwise.
Williams said he noticed then that the gay muny was much like high school: When the senrs graduate, the new stunts have no clue what went on before them.
STONEWALL, AIDS AND GAY LIBERATN: ONE HISTORIAN SHAR HOW THE CULTURAL MOMENTS SHAPED UTAH’S LGBTQ MUNY
Williams said started as “gays and lbians” until the first Natnal Lbian Conference took place Atlanta 1991, where bisexualy cln was troduced. ”Williams says he still lls the gay muny, even though he’s aware ’s not polilly rrect, “I ll the gay muny, bee to me, gay is still all-enpassg. ”Bee of the time he grew up , Williams said, the issu the trans and gay munti face now are pletely different to “olr gay people” like him.