Conservative neighbors toss ad rat on property gay uple's rtrant amid ongog dispute

Contents:

• IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE
• CONSERVATIVE NEIGHBOR TOSS AD RAT ON PROPERTY OF GAY UPLE’S RTRANT AMID FD
• STORI OM THE ATTIC, PREVLY UNPUBLISHED WORK BY WILLIAM GAY, REVIEWED BY DAWN MAJOR
• WILLIAM GAY OBUARY
• WILLIAM GAY, OF THE LTLE CALFPASTURE OF AUGTA COUNTY
• POSIVELY WILLIAM GAY
• WILLIAM GAY

IS ALLAN OM 'BARBIE' GAY? 5 REASONS TO THK HE MIGHT BE

"I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns. "I was takg my mom somewhere one day and she jt asked 'are you gay?

"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said.

CONSERVATIVE NEIGHBOR TOSS AD RAT ON PROPERTY OF GAY UPLE’S RTRANT AMID FD

Apparently Bex Banks was the last to fd out he was gay. Though he was engaged gay sex, he didn't intify as gay. At age 21, his mom had enouugh and mand an explatn for the gay porn she was fdg on the puter and phone.

"Once I had the nversatn wh my mom, I had no problem sayg I was gay, " he said. "I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said.

STORI OM THE ATTIC, PREVLY UNPUBLISHED WORK BY WILLIAM GAY, REVIEWED BY DAWN MAJOR

For him, beg gay was a ath sentence beg that he grew up the 1990s durg the HIV/AIDS epimic and a fay member died of the disease. "At that pot was kd of like an emotnal avalanche and I jt let all out and told her that I was gay.

" Fran said that while they have grown to accept him, his fay still believ he shouldn't act on his homosexualy.

" At the time, Zevran was a gogo dancer performg gay clubs. Conservative neighbors were ught on secury mera tossg a ad rat onto the property of a gay uple’s ral Virgia rtrant amid an latn of a years-long spat.

WILLIAM GAY OBUARY

The ad verm was found near the trash bs behd the rtrant, which fli a gay pri flag, last Augt. Gay uple William Waybourn and Craig Spldg operate the Front Porch Market and Grill The Plas, Virgia. They first hoisted a pri flag on the rtrant pat 2016 the wake of shootg at an Orlando gay nightclub that killed 49 people.

Waybourn has been an LGBTQ rights activist for s, risg to promence as print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi proper re for AIDS patients. He served as managg director of now-natnal Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, and has owned newspapers for the gay muny New York, Washgton, Atlanta and Hoton. Mike Washer ni the cint, sayg he has gay iends and fay members.

After William Gay’s passg 2012 a mounta of unpublished work was disvered and Team Gay—a group of artists, thors, profsors, scholars, basilly uber fans— was formed. I me to the picture while wrg my master this 2016 and I reached out to the archive for more -pth rmatn on Gay’s wrg. After I graduated, I uldn’t let go of William Gay, and I beme part of Team Gay.

WILLIAM GAY, OF THE LTLE CALFPASTURE OF AUGTA COUNTY

The team has published four novels and now this fal llectn, Stori om the Attic—an apt tle as some of his works were actually disvered an attic where Gay was livg while raisg his fay. Publishg Gay’s work has been challengg sce was wrten Gay’s idsyncratic scrawlg longhand and had to be transcribed.

Dzanc Books has e forward to publish Stori om the Attic; Dzanc was there at the very begng when they published Gay’s first posthumo novel, Ltle Sister Death and then his major work The Lost Country.

The 348-page llectn nsists of short stori, memoirs, and a few agments om work progrs when he died, and is round out wh a roundtable discsn wh the members om Team Gay. This is a mon subplot Gay’s novels. Gay’s work tends to be part tobgraphil and certaly he faced siar problems matag steady work.

POSIVELY WILLIAM GAY

For Gay who grew up as poor as his male protagonists ’s easy to image the sense of wantg his characters exhib.

” There’s always a sense Gay’s work of reachg for somethg accsible.

And of urse, that pulsn Gay’s characters is analogo wh Gay’s pulsn to wre, his sire to get published also seemgly unreachable, as he didn’t start gettg published or ga notoriety until his late fifti after a lifetime of wrg. We will regnize Gay’s favore settgs and some of his go-to characters om prev novels and short stori. Gay often returned to a favore character, like Sheriff Bellwether and Deputy Garrison, and the bootlegger, Itchy Mama.

WILLIAM GAY

But Gay was also fond of specific nam and sometim ed the same name for a character even though they were not the same character across his non.