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- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
- COLUMN: THK ‘GAY REPUBLIN’ IS A NTRADICTN? THK AGA
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- ‘BOTTOMS’ REVIEW: EMMA SELIGMAN’S WILD RI OF A HIGH SCHOOL COMEDY IS A GONZO GAY ‘FIGHT CLUB’ MEETS ‘HEATHERS’
- GAY COUPL CAN TEACH STRAIGHT PEOPLE A THG OR TWO ABOUT ARGUG
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
Democratic policians across California nmned a volatile anti-gay prott outsi a suburban Los Angel school board meetg on Tuday, as the school board heard public ment on whether to officially signate June as LGBTQ+ Pri month. The cy uncil Huntgton Beach had prevly voted not to display the Pri flag on cy the state’s Inland Empire regn, a school board Temecula rejected a history curriculum bee of s mentn of the murred civil rights activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California history, who was posthumoly award the printial medal of eedom. ”Lol news acunts and footage of the volatile anti-gay protters Glendale and North Hollywood showed some protters g rhetoric now mon far-right protts across the Uned Stat, suggtg that LGBTQ+ people are pedophil or predators, and argug that any mentn of the existence of gay people or gay fai is appropriate for young children.
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
Many wore intil T-shirts readg “Leave our kids alone, ” and some voked Christian fah as the reason for their opposn to Pri events are faiar l of attack that have often been mobilised by anti-gay activists the past, cludg by Ana Bryant her “Save our Children” mpaign the 1970s, which also foced on “parents’ rights” as a way to ph back agast advanc civil rights for gay as equaly for LGBTQ+ people has bee creasgly popular and accepted the US, wh 71% of rponnts a recent Gallup poll exprsg support for same-sex marriage, many Amerins scribed the renewed attacks as ighteng and disturbg.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
Trans people have been sgled out as the foc of much of the legislatn, and ntue to be the target of many particularly vilent polil attacks, but, as Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, which regulat what tors are allowed to discs public school classrooms, any mentn of genr inty or homosexualy is now g unr attack.
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COLUMN: THK ‘GAY REPUBLIN’ IS A NTRADICTN? THK AGA
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I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
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TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
In the 25 years sce was found, has brought 10 s before the US supreme urt, cludg some of the most nsequential s of the last on ntraceptive and gay is, “an aggrsive, strategic legal group that is about Christian supremacy and hegemony the US and the world, ” said Frerick Clarkson, a senr rearch analyst wh Polil Rearch Associat. In another, the group succsfully argued the arts and crafts pany Hobby Lobby should not be required to pay for birth ntrol clud private surance plans, bee of the owner’s Christian unts the former Tmp-appoted US attorney general Jeff Ssns as an ally, and s founrs are a who’s-who list of opponents of gay rights. Their brief argued, “equal digny do not mean that every sexual orientatn warrants equal rpect” Belize, the group sid wh another anizatn phg to crimalize gay sex.
In India, the executive director appld a supreme urt cisn lg gay sex illegal (that was stck down 2018). ”The ADF was found 1995 by a who’s who of whe, anti-gay, Christian men.
Fellow founr Alan Sears wrote the 2003 book: The Homosexual Agenda: Exposg the Prcipal Threat to Relig Freedom ’s legal work has earned the group glowg reviews om iendly media, such as Fox News, where host Lra Ingraham recently clud Holb on her high-profile ADF’s Connecticut lawsu is, part, an acknowledgement that earlier tactics have a few years ago, Christian legal groups were phg “bathroom bills” across the untry. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.
‘BOTTOMS’ REVIEW: EMMA SELIGMAN’S WILD RI OF A HIGH SCHOOL COMEDY IS A GONZO GAY ‘FIGHT CLUB’ MEETS ‘HEATHERS’
(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.
They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.
GAY COUPL CAN TEACH STRAIGHT PEOPLE A THG OR TWO ABOUT ARGUG
He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.
To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.
“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them.