Pri Month: It’s time to talk about the shockgly high rate of suici among gay and bisexual men. Photos and stori the Still Here project document the plex reasons.
Contents:
- COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
- FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS
- MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
- 1000S WHO DIED ANTI-GAY, ANTI-TRANS ATTACKS (UPDAT)
COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
It's always heartbreakg to fd out that a beloved gay celebry has died of AIDS. AIDS is a disease which effects an dividual's immune system, for which ... * gay died *
Kantrowz was “an early champn of gay rights and an fatigable mpaigner for fairer treatment of gay people by the media, ” the Tim not.
He helped found GLAAD, then known as the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, was a profsor the English partment at the Cy Universy of New York’s College of Staten Island om 1965 to 2006, and while there he created one of the first gay studi urs the natn. He promoted the work of Walt Whman and other gay 1977 he published a memoir, Unr the Rabow: Growg Up Gay, which he chronicled the difficulti he and other gay people faced mid-century Ameri.
Much later, 2009, he was grand marshal of the Staten Island Gay Pri was a ntemporary and iend of many fellow activists, cludg Vo Rso, thor of The Celluloid Closet.
FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS
On Oct. 12, 1998, Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepard died after beg btally beaten. His ath sparked a seismic shift attus toward the gay muny. * gay died *
He appeared Vo, a 2011 documentary about Rso, and several other documentari about the LGBTQ+ muny, cludg Gay Sex the ’70s and After Stonewall. He also was one of the first out gay guts on popular rad and TV talk shows, speakg to Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jsy Raphael, and more. ”“He was thoughtful, charmg, and like any good profsor (he was among the first to teach a urse gay lerature, 1973), a lifelong stunt and teacher, ” former Whe Hoe staffer Jeremy L.
MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
Matthew Shepard was abducted, beaten and killed 20 years ago bee he was gay. * gay died *
” which he lambasted “the tenncy among some gay activists to rpond to AIDS by downplayg their sexualy and emphasizg the need to replite bourgeois heterosexualy, ” the Tim reports. “Male homosexualy was not the mirror image of heterosexualy, he argued, but somethg radilly different, lackg many of the patriarchal equali that he said fed straight life, ” the paper explas. “Far om apologizg for their promiscuy as a failure to mata a lovg relatnship, gay men should ceaselsly lament the practil necsy, now, of such relatns, should rist beg drawn to mimickg the unrelentg warfare between men and women, ” Bersani wrote the his 1995 book Homos, he criqued queer theory, sayg that by seeg gay inty as socially nstcted and performative, proponents of this theory ignored and unrmed the liberatg quali of beg gay.
“He thought that the whole pot of beg a homosexual man is that you dispted the experience of posssn, ownership, fily, nsistency, safety, and you allowed sexualy to be what really is, which is disptive, disorientg, shatterg, lim-vlatg and boundary-breakg, ” she said. She thored the books Irristible Revolutn: Conontg Race, Class and the Assumptns of LGBT Polics (2012), and Virtual Equaly: The Mastreamg of Lbian and Gay Liberatn (1996).
1000S WHO DIED ANTI-GAY, ANTI-TRANS ATTACKS (UPDAT)
After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. * gay died *
Jefey Esffier, a longtime activist, thor of works on gay inty, and creator of public health mpaigns, died May at age e was plitns om a fall, his fay told the paper.
He beme print of the Philalphia chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance, and 1972 he found The Gay Alternative, published by the anizatn. He and his staff at Out/Look anized the OutWre nference for LGBTQ+ wrote numero says on gay inty and the factors that shape . They were llected volum cludg Amerin Homo: Communy and Perversy and Sex, Society, and the Makg of Pornography: The Pornographic Object of Knowledge.
Contact: Dr. Pl Cameron, Fay Rearch Instute, 303-681-3113, 303-886-1947 cell PHILADELPHIA, Apr. 5 /Christian Newswire/ -- Marriage between a man and woman seems to rult longer life for both. Do work that way for gay marriage? "No," says Dr. Pl Cameron of the Fay Rearch Instute, a Colorado-based thk tank. Rearchers Pl and Kirk Cameron reported at the Eastern Psychologil Associatn nventn that married gays and lbians * gay died *
Returng to New York the 1990s, Esffier beme puty director of the Office of Gay and Lbian Health the cy’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 1995. Hunter Reynolds was a prized asset to the LGBTQ+ muny and for HIV activism, as the artist fought homophobia and the AIDS crisis head on durg the 1980s and ’90s.
After llege, his first huge movement the public eye stemmed om a quote he read by artist Mark Kostabi, om an article Vany Fair: “The mm curators, that are for the most part homosexual, have ntrolled the art world the ’80s.
Riverfger Women has been named to The New York Tim’ list of 100 Greatt Gay Novels, while Beyond the Pale won the 1998 Lambda Lerary Award for Lbian Fictn. ”"I'd do an exercise vio bee there are so many gay men wh the perfect abs and they do exercise vios, " Jordan told The Advote 2020 for a digal ver story about how the viral vios started. In 2021, Jordan released his first album, tled Company's Com’, featurg gay in Dolly Parton and out sger-songwrer Brandi Carlile among others, and he went on to make his Grand Ole Opry but as a rult.