Contents:
- KILLG CASTS A RARE LIGHT ON GAY LIFE SUBURBIA
- GAY DJ JACE M AND SGER JOEY DIAMOND ARE “TEAR’ UP MY HEART”
KILLG CASTS A RARE LIGHT ON GAY LIFE SUBURBIA
At the gay bar, where one would expect outrage at a gay-bashg episo that the police said led to Mr. Marquez at a parkg lot near Pal Joey's last month has thrown an unwele spotlight on gay life the suburbs, a shadowy world between the pri, bravado and activism of Christopher Street Manhattan and the exuberant summer retreats on Fire Island and the advot say gay life on Long Island is often muted by half tths meant to protect double liv.
Many gay men and women here are married and have children, and, like many suburban, moved to Long Island to pe the anxieti of urban bias cints have bee a rallyg cry for gay-rights groups New York Cy, they rema largely a topic of hhed nversatn here and have gone all but unreported to the police, gay-rights advot say. Marquez, a 26-year-old ctoms agent, has roed many gay rints of Long Island. "In terms of solidary, 's the ostrich effect, " said Jam Darragh, a philosophy profsor and journalist Old Wtbury who is gay.
GAY DJ JACE M AND SGER JOEY DIAMOND ARE “TEAR’ UP MY HEART”
Few Reported AttacksThe Nass County police say there were four reported cints of anti-gay bias 1991, the same number 1990, and five 1989. The Suffolk County Police anti-bias un unted ne gay-bashg cints last year, up om four each of the two prev years.