Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- GAY PRS, GAY POWER : THE GROWTH OF LGBT MUNY NEWSPAPERS AMERI
- GAY PRS, GAY POWER: GREAT HISTORY
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- GAY PRS, GAY POWER: THE GROWTH OF LGBT COMMUNY NEWSPAPERS AMERI (COLOR) - SOFTVER
GAY PRS, GAY POWER : THE GROWTH OF LGBT MUNY NEWSPAPERS AMERI
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: 26 cm"From prejudice to pri: straight media verage of gays, longtime gay newspapers, gay marketg history, pl terviews and says by proment journalists of the early gay prs era"--CoverInclus biblgraphil referenc and x. This book, Gay Prs, Gay Power, eded by Tracy Baim, vers many of our movement’s publitns om the start the early 1950s to 2012. To put the history ntext, there is a discsn, wh exampl, of the horrible verage the media gave homosexualy until about the late 1960s, when verage explod after Stonewall.
GAY PRS, GAY POWER: GREAT HISTORY
The publitns started wh the movement to ga equal rights for homosexual Amerins, and th this civil rights movement is documented by the very people who were active the effort. They started durg the worst of tim, the McCarthy era when homosexuals and Communists were nsired to be alli and were labeled as threats to the natn’s secury. The first publicly available publitn (1953), ONE, suffered om the same problems all early on did: ltle e, people aaid to have their nam as subscribers to a homosexual publitn, bs aaid to place ads, and few thors or journalists of note willg to let their nam appear the publitn.
There was also a problem few other had: there were homosexual people hidg who tried to keep their sexualy om beg qutned or disvered by loudly prottg the existence of a publitn discsg homosexualy.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Many such people later were arrted for homosexual acts and still refed to support the effort to te the public and change laws.
The edors of ONE, led by Don Slater and attorney Eric Julber, fought a legal battle wh the Post Office to protect s right to publish and mail a magaze subtled “The Homosexual Viewpot” and won only at the U. First they were lled homophile publitns, then homosexual, then gay and, now gay and lbian or lgbt.
Gay Prs, Gay Power clus short bgraphi of some lgbt journalists who helped make the publitns succsful.
GAY PRS, GAY POWER: THE GROWTH OF LGBT COMMUNY NEWSPAPERS AMERI (COLOR) - SOFTVER
Rachel Wexelbm’s review of Gay Prs, Gay Power, published 02/19/13 on the Lambda Lerary webse. An terview wh Tracy Baim by Tony Adams, published 01/03/13 of the South Florida Gay News. Rick Kogan’s article “Tracy Baim: a gay media torchbearer, ” published on 02/28/13 by the Chigo Tribune.