In the footsteps of queer media lumari of the 60s and 70s, WNYC podst hosts Kathy Tu and Tob Low terview Gay Liberatn Front fou…
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- THE WHE HOE HAS APPOTED S FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND OPENLY GAY PERSON AS PRS SECRETARY. SO WHO IS KARE JEAN-PIERRE?
- BIN APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON AS PRS SECRETARY
- KARE JEAN-PIERRE WILL BEE THE FIRST BLACK AND FIRST OPENLY GAY WHE HOE PRS SECRETARY
- 'AN OUT GAY WOMAN': KARE JEAN-PIERRE HOP TO EMPOWER LGBTQ YOUTH AS WHE HOE PRS SECRETARY
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
THE WHE HOE HAS APPOTED S FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND OPENLY GAY PERSON AS PRS SECRETARY. SO WHO IS KARE JEAN-PIERRE?
* first gay press secretary *
The Gay Liberatn Front was an anizatn regnized for publishg the first gay liberatn newspaper the world, "Come Out! So you probably know that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts 1969, which is nsired one of the cg events of the Gay Rights Movement. Perry Brass and Karla Jay were active members a group lled Gay Liberatn Front, which was a big activism group New York at the time, and also published magaz like Come Out and Rat and many more.
BIN APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON AS PRS SECRETARY
US Print Joe Bin appots 44-year-old Kare Jean-Pierre as the next Whe Hoe prs secretary — the first black woman and openly gay person to serve the role. * first gay press secretary *
Michael Bronski was active Boston and ran somethg lled Gay Sunshe Prs, which published a lot of material the 1970s. So for the sake of this panel I've been volved wh the Gay Prs om 1970, worked on Fag Rag Boston, Gay Communy News, and now I unexpectedly and weirdly teach at Harvard as a Profsor of Activism the Media and Women Genr Studi.
KARE JEAN-PIERRE WILL BEE THE FIRST BLACK AND FIRST OPENLY GAY WHE HOE PRS SECRETARY
It is the first time a black, or openly gay person has held the role. * first gay press secretary *
>> I'm Perry Brass, I was a member of the Gay Liberatn Front for basilly three years, one of the most excg perds of my life. >> I'm Karla Jay, I was also a very early member of the Gay Liberatn Front, a member of Radil Lbians, which did the Lavenr Menace Actn.
'AN OUT GAY WOMAN': KARE JEAN-PIERRE HOP TO EMPOWER LGBTQ YOUTH AS WHE HOE PRS SECRETARY
Last May, Jean-Pierre beme the first openly gay woman, and the send Black woman, to lead a briefg" emprop="scriptn * first gay press secretary *
And I wrote for a number of early newspapers, cludg Rat, Subterranean News, Woman News, and I was the East Coast Corrponnt of The Lbian Ti, and I wrote for dozens of gay and lbian newspapers around this untry and abroad. Rob says, oh, e on and wre, and Rob kd of shoved me ont of a typewrer and I really owe her for that and I vered a lot of lbian and gay stori for papers like that.
And I thk the experience of lbians was really very different bee unlike later gay papers, which we'll talk about, we didn't have the fanc to have our dividual papers.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
The first Black and first openly gay prs secretary was raised an immigrant fay wh “so many secrets.” Now she occupi one of the most sctized jobs Amerin polics. * first gay press secretary *
By the time I was 19 I'd pleted a novel that was blatantly homosexual and I was told that the only way uld be published would be if I changed the genr and have the characters to the oppose sex.
So my first actual publishg was synonymo basilly wh the gay movement, what we now ll the LGBT movement and that was Come Out.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer. * first gay press secretary *
After that some of my wrgs started to appear other gay papers, and I was clud Ian Young's groundbreakg anthology, The Male Me, which was the first anthology of gay poetry, openly gay poetry the English language. So durg this early perd of my life my wrg was very much a part of this I thk wonrful movement towards what we now ll LGBT liberatn, but those days we simply jt lled gay liberatn.