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Contents:

• KEV SPACEY BREAKS DOWN TEARS DURG TTIMONY ABOUT HOW HE ME OUT AS GAY
• IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• ‘IS SPACE GAY?’
• MEN THE VALLEY: GAY MALE LIFE ON THE SUBURBAN-RAL GE
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THIS PHOENIX SPOT IS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE US — EVEN THOUGH 'S NOT A GAY BAR
• MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

KEV SPACEY BREAKS DOWN TEARS DURG TTIMONY ABOUT HOW HE ME OUT AS GAY

SAN GABRIEL VALLEY GAY AND LESBIAN CENTERServic the LGBT muny the San Gabriel Valley area. BARANGAY LOS ANGELES. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer/Qutng Filipos.

Foc on young gay and bisexual men and transgenr youth of lor, that are disproportnately impacted by HIV/AIDS. IN THE MEANTIME MENServ Ain Amerin gay men the Los Angel area.

GUIDELINES FOR CARE OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PATIENTS (2006). HEALTHY PEOPLE 2010: COMPANION DOCUMENT FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER HEALTH (2001). Breakg the Grip: Treatg Crystal Methamphetame Addictn among Gay & Bisexual Men (2006).

IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

This report provis balanced rmatn about the nsequenc and treatment of methamphetame e among gay men. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Health: Fdgs and Concerns (Columbia Universy – GLMA Whe Paper) (2000). Kev Spacey said he regrets g out as gay a statement nyg a sexual asslt allegatn.

Kev Spacey sobbed on the stand Monday as he ttified about his remorse for g out as gay a statement nyg a sexual abe allegatn agast him. In a statement after the article was published, Spacey said he did not remember the enunter but acknowledged that he was gay. "I have loved and had romantic enunters wh men throughout my life and choose now to live as a gay man, " he wrote at the time.

‘IS SPACE GAY?’

Prr to the BuzzFeed article, Spacey had never publicly nfirmed that he was gay. He said he had been "phed heavily" by lears the gay muny to e out for years and had been planng to do so before Rapp's allegatns were levied "to put the qutn of my sexualy behd me.

MEN THE VALLEY: GAY MALE LIFE ON THE SUBURBAN-RAL GE

""I was no longer ncerned people would label me Kev Spacey, gay actor. Wh mut, he said, he started gettg blowback, cludg om iends who are gay. "I was acced of changg the subject or tryg to flect or nflatg the allegatn wh beg gay, which never was my tentn, " he said.

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen hop to spire others by publicly g out as gay. Katie Sowers was the first female NFL ach to e out as gay. Papi, what is so gay about space?

Signed, Star Gayzer. I too have often asked myself: Fellas, is gay to st your gaze upon the night sky and ntemplate your place the vast universe?

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Yeah, space is gay. Not gay as homosexual, but gay the elemental sense. Sounds gay.

‘Is Space Gay? Sectn snippetsGay men, space, and munySce the 1970s, urban soclogy and urban geography have explored emergg ncentratns of gay men urban areas the Uned Stat and a few other veloped untri.

The foc has been on three issu: gentrifyg gay ghettos cludg their polil and cultural anizatn; gay activism and polil velopment large metropolan areas; and aspects of gay, lbian, and queer inty often wrten a post-stcturalist or broadly postmorn mo.

THIS PHOENIX SPOT IS ONE OF THE BT GAY BARS THE US — EVEN THOUGH 'S NOT A GAY BAR

In terms of the gay and lbian populatn, the town of Northampton (populatn 30, 000) is a major foc. Dubbed Lbianville the natnal media—and on lol T-shirts— the 1990s Northampton received natnalReasons for g to the ValleyInterviews revealed that most of the gay men the terview group were non-nativ who had e to the Valley bee of work or tn, although some had grown up there.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

Several of the men terviewed had chosen to e to the upper Valley bee was a ral area wh qualy of life attribut related to muny sle, culture, and outdoor recreatn, as well as a visible, regnized lbian and to a lser gree gay male populatn (see also Gover, 1993).

For some this move wasThe potluck sceneOther geographil studi both ral and urban areas have poted to the importance of gay male meetg plac, sometim lled “sexual marketplac”, and cludg adult bookstor, bars, baths, and diss (Murray, 1979, p. 12Integratn wh the wir munyGiven the feelgs about life for gay men the Valley, is unsurprisg that there were some ambivalent feelgs among gay men about their tegratn to the wir muny, although generally people felt the level of acceptance was high. As prevly mentned, while the first lbian or gay person to be elected to Northampton's cy uncil was Claire Higgs, elected 1993, the first openly gay person to n for uncil was a man 1982 (Fzgerald, 1983d) rponse to ourRelatns wh lbiansSce the early 1970s women's movement the lbian populatn had been creasg and around Northampton.

However, gay men were active om the early 1980s and were mentned, although not promently, early Daily Hampshire Gazette articl on “homosexualy” Northampton and anti-vlence measur before theClass and the meang of munyAlthough the populatn of liberal and generally tolerant dividuals the upper Valley is nsirable, two cultur -existed the regn. Although the Sprgfield Area had been unable to palize on theFal qutnsIn the upper Valley the 1990s there was a signifint gay culture—gay men who felt that they were at least somewhat visible; tegrated wh the wir muny; and part of a larger lbian, gay, (and potentially) bisexual, transgenred, and queer populatn.