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Contents:

• GAYNIGGERS OM OUTER SPACE
• GAY SLANG 101
• "OUT LONG ENOUGH TO BE HISTORIC": RACIALIZED GAY SPACE PRE-STONEWALL SAN ANTON
• THE GAY N WORDS OM OUTER SPACE
• SENTENCE EXAMPL FOR GAY SPACE OM SPIRG ENGLISH SOURC
• GAYS SPACE: 6 QUEER SCI-FI BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ

GAYNIGGERS OM OUTER SPACE

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Although Lbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer (LGBTQ+) people have been around for lennia, the evolutn of language means that those wh the muny ntue to fd more clive and accurate terms to bt scribe themselv, as Stonewall’s ever-evolvg glossary of terms prov. ” Beg trans or transgenr is unnnected to sexual orientatn, so a trans person may intify as gay, straight, lbian, or whatever is right for them the same way a cisgenr person would. Homophobia: On a personal level, homophobia is an irratnal fear, aversn, or dislike of homosexuali and people who intify as homosexual; on a social level, homophobia is the graed stctural discrimatn agast homosexualy and those who intify as homosexual that prevents accs to certa rourc or opportuni and hibs dividuals om feelg safe or able to be socially regnized as homosexual.

Combg materials om the Carolyn Weathers Collectn the ONE Natnal Gay and Lbian Archiv and a 2015 terview wh Weathers herself, Amanda Mixon sketch queer experience early 1960s San Anton, Texas. Mixon reviss gay bars, muny formatn, racial dynamics, policg practic, cultural reprentatns, and ary suasn to highlight the ongog need for further exploratn and study of historic gay spac across Texas. I had spent the past few weeks pesg her papers at the ONE Natnal Gay and Lbian Archiv Los Angel mostly on a whim: she was one of the few dividuals the archive who hailed om the US South—Texas specifilly—and as a queer southerner om Texas myself, I wonred what sights her llectn might offer about LGBTQ+ experience our home state.

GAY SLANG 101

Together, the objects of analysis not only reveal the centraly of the gay bar to LGBTQ+ life early 1960s San Anton, but they also provi clu as to how the cy's lonial and ary history affected the formatn of racialized gay space. In other words, although attentive to patron activi, mographics, and police enunters, the bar sketch vtigate how the histori fluenced the creatn of gay space, which racialized subjects had accs to gay space, and how that space was racialized or imbued wh ias about race as a nsequence.

"OUT LONG ENOUGH TO BE HISTORIC": RACIALIZED GAY SPACE PRE-STONEWALL SAN ANTON

2Bis the studi of San Anton ced later the say, some relevant th and dissertatns of tert clu: Kyle Elbrock, "Takg to the Streets: The History of Gay Pri Paras Dallas, Texas, 1972–1986" (master's this, Universy of North Texas, 2015); Carl J.

10See Allan Bébé, Comg Out Unr Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women World War II (New York: Plume, 1991); Gee Chncey, Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994); and John D'E, "Capalism and Gay Inty" The Lbian and Gay Studi Rear, eded by Henry Abelove, Michèle Aa Barale, and David M. Post-WWII suburbanizatn, which ed property pric urban r to plummet, makg easier to purchase real tate and open gay bars and nightclubs, as well as the foundg of homophile civil rights anizatns, such as the Mattache Society (1950–1969) and the Dghters of Bilis (1955–1995), whose rpective publitns, the Mattache Review (1955–1967) and the Ladr (1956–1972), reached rears across the Uned Stat, enabled the growth of gay and lbian neighborhoods, readg publics, and social works.

THE GAY N WORDS OM OUTER SPACE

Products of the 1941 May Act, which gave ary police the thory to surveil and rtrict accs to plac associated wh prostutn and homosexualy, the "off-lims" lists, posed and released by ary officials, nversely rulted givg gay bars more publicy and patronage. " While the ary did not standardize anti-homosexual polici until the creatn of the Department of Defense 1949, each branch prohibed and prosecuted homosexualy through psychologil screengs and forms of ary discharge prr to and throughout WWII.

SENTENCE EXAMPL FOR GAY SPACE OM SPIRG ENGLISH SOURC

15For further specifitn on the procr, see Bébé, Comg Out unr Fire; Chncey, Gay New York; and Margot Canaday's The Straight State: Sexualy and Cizenship Twentieth-Century Ameri (Prceton, NJ: Prceton Universy Prs, 2009).

A native whe Texan and self-intified lbian born 1941, Carolyn Weathers entered the San Anton gay scene her early twenti, at a time of creased scty and persecutn as a nsequence of "antigay laws, the medilizatn of homosexualy, natnwi panics about homosexualy as ntagn, and anti-Communist anizg agast homosexualy. As members of the Los Angel Gay Liberatn Front (GLF-LA), Brenda found the Alholism Center for Women (still existence), and Carolyn was the first out lbian on an Los Angel televisn show, as well as a participant the GLF raid of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's 1970 nventn Los Angel.

" reveal how the cy's lonial and ary history affected the formatn of racialized gay space as well as how Weathers imagatively ed San Anton to historicize and procs her personal experience of the movement for LGBTQ+ rights.

GAYS SPACE: 6 QUEER SCI-FI BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ

Wrg "Cheers" as a bildungsroman—or g-of-age tale whose generic nventns and narrative stcture nsist of tracg a character's psychologil growth om youth to young adulthood—allowed Weathers to pict the gay cultural i she experienced pre-Stonewall San Anton while offerg didactic historil msag about LGBTQ+ muny formatn, substance and alhol abe, polil anizg, wrg, and reprentatn. The msag—nveyed through the polil awakeng of the story's protagonist—ultimately culmate the text's primary theme: while the gay bar should be celebrated as the foundatn of gay socialy— that enabl muny, iendships, and timate relatnships— should also be criqued for s limed abily to psychologilly and physilly sta muny. Wrten om the third-person perspective of an unnamed narrator, the twenty-ne-page narrative mimics the experience of gay bar hoppg, followg the partyg trail of Jane Jon (the protagonist and Weathers's fictnal self) as she mov om The Acme to The Country to Fernando's Hiaway (all actual historil bars).

Although ci such as Chigo, San Francis, and Los Angel were home to the burgeong homophile movement durg this time, which offered alternative, if siarly clanste, spac to those of the bar, scholars have neher disvered anized polil activy associated wh or spired by anizatns like the Dghters of Bilis or the Mattache Society San Anton, nor have dividuals who participated the pre-Stonewall San Anton gay scene reported such activy. 22As of publitn, there are only two other amic studi of pre-Stonewall San Anton: Melissa Gohlke's "Out the Alamo Cy: Revealg San Anton's Gay and Lbian, World War II to the 1990s, " (master's this, Universy of Texas at San Anton, 2012); and Amy Stone's Cornyatn: San Anton's Outrageo Fita Tradn (San Anton: Maverick Books, 2017)—om which her article, "Crowng Kg Anchovy, " nns rmatn.