LA Comic Con is BACK! After a two-year absence due to COVID, LA Comic Con returns to celebrate s 10-year anniversary as LA’s biggt all-thgs ics, gamg, sci-fi, eSports, and pop culture event. In addn to headlers Shazam’s Zachary Levi, Star Trek’s Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols, The Mandalorian’s Mg-Na Wen, Evil Dead’s Bce Campbell, and the st of Arrow, splayer and stylist Julian “Jetson” Chaix will morate the Gay Geeks and Where To Fd Them panel featurg digal artist and filmmaker Timo Ree, podster and journalist Alexanr Rodriguez (On the Rocks: Where Celebri & Cocktails Mix), publicist and podst Chandler Polg (X-Reads), and drag queen Ember Va to geek out about favore fandoms, the LGBTQIA+ muny, and their reers. The panel menc Saturday, December 4th at 1 pm and is sure to be the perfect mix of geekdom, gay, and sass.
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- TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY
- 20 GAY GREEK GODS
- GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
- GAY GEEKS ARE COMG TO LA COMIC CON
- 'GAY GEEKS': AN ONLE UTOPIA FOR LGBTQ GAMERS, COMIC FANS AND TREKKI
- GAY MOSW · CY GUI
- GAY GEEKS UNE AGAST HOMOPHOBIA VIO GAM
TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY
A 34-year-old Portugue man was arrted by the police while vatng Turkey bee he "looked gay", Portugue media reported. * gay and geek *
A 34-year-old Portugue man was arrted by the police while vatng Turkey bee he "looked gay", Portugue media reported. "They thought I was gog to jo an unthorised LGBTQI+ march nearby bee I looked gay.
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20 GAY GREEK GODS
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G: Gay. Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”? While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.
As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn. ” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.
For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive.
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Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred. Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.
The days, the term homosexual is typilly limed to medil ntexts, if ed at all. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.
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Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri. Trans activist Slyvia Rivera particular advoted for the more forceful slogan “Gay power.
'GAY GEEKS': AN ONLE UTOPIA FOR LGBTQ GAMERS, COMIC FANS AND TREKKI
What started out as a small group of "gay geeks" Seattle has turned to a worldwi muny of 50,000 people. * gay and geek *
The term queer, like the term homosexual, has a b of a troubled history. However, unlike homosexual, has been wily reappropriated by the LGBTQ muny as a label.
Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot, ” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man. In 1990, this effort foced on queer as a llective term for gay and lbian people.
Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny. We have already touched on the terms gay and lbian. homoromantic: a person who is romantilly attracted to people of the same sex or genr.
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A gay cupbearer on Mount Olymp? While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's advancement, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be boasted wh today's world religns.
The LGBT Greek gods and migods prove gay culture is no morn ventn. While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr.
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Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea. Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods. Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World.
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