Arend Richard may be the biggt queer proponent of ganja sce, well, Laganja Estranja. On this holit of days, we asked the self-proclaimed gay stoner to extol the virtu of the vil's lettuce.
Contents:
- THEGAYSTONER
- STONER, DEAR ABBY, I’M GAY
- ALYSON STONER REVEALS SHE WENT TO GAY CONVERSN THERAPY AFTER COMG OUT IN SHOCKG NEW INTERVIEW
THEGAYSTONER
* the gay stoner *
There are YouTube channels for everythg, so why wouldn't there be one for gay potheads? Lastly, what would you say to our homophobic attorney general, who's a stnch opponent of legalizatn? As for the homophobia, that's a disease that seems a b uncurable, if you ask me, but I'll pray for him, for sure.
Beg a queer person herself, Stoner has also chosen to dite a signifint portn of her healg rourc to promote the health and well-beg of people om the gay muny and the LGBT muny as a whole. Dear Abby, I’m Gay: Newspaper Advice Columnists and Homosexualy Ameri. In his lively and illumatg book, Dear Abby, I’m Gay: Newspaper Advice Columnists and Homosexualy Ameri, Andrew Stoner vtigat how homosexualy has historilly been addrsed Amerin newspaper advice lumns.
Stoner effectively trac the evolutn of advice lumnists’ attus towards homosexualy.
STONER, DEAR ABBY, I’M GAY
2022-02 | Download PDF Stoner, Andrew. Dear Abby, I’m Gay: Newspaper Advice Columnists and Homosexualy Ameri. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2021, 225 pp., $27.95 (Softver). Reviewed by Carola Velloso, Universy of Maryland, In his lively and illumatg book, Dear Abby, I’m Gay: Newspaper Advice Columnists and Homosexualy Ameri, Andrew Stoner vtigat how homosexualy… * the gay stoner *
Esther Lerer (also known as “Ann Lanrs”), one of the first and most fluential lumnists, was slow to progrs her opns on homosexuals.
Lerer was kd and passnate to her gay rears and supported certa legal protectns for homosexual upl, but she opposed gay marriage for most of her life.
On the other hand, Ple Philips (also known as Abigail van Buren of the “Dear Abby” lumn), was quick to fend gay rears her lumns, perhaps part to distguish herself om Lerer, her tw sister and lifelong petor. Philips was known for her short and wty fens to rears’ ncerns about homosexualy and valued her role helpg to spread awarens of gay and lbian issu. “The most burnsome problem a homosexual mt bear is the stigma placed upon him by an unenlightened and tolerant society, ” she wrote (30).
ALYSON STONER REVEALS SHE WENT TO GAY CONVERSN THERAPY AFTER COMG OUT IN SHOCKG NEW INTERVIEW
Gee Crane, a nservative who nsired homosexualy a mental illns brought about by an emotnally stunted childhood. “Homosexualy n be nverted to heterosexualy if the victim is willg to le his life by his bras stead of by his emotns, ” he wrote (74). Joyce Brothers, who is creded wh brgg psychology to the mastream, leaned on her crentials to support a more tolerant view of homosexualy.
She sought to te her rears about homosexualy her lumns, even providg recurrg te/false quizz for rears to tt their knowledge. The dawn of the gay liberatn movement the late 1960s spurred a broad societal shift attus towards homosexualy, which was reflected advice lumns.
Margaret Whb, for stance, was empathetic and unrstandg towards the gay and lbian muny, although she sometim offered qutnable advice, such as urgg gay men to rema celibate amid the early AIDS crisis. After referrg a young rear to a gay hotle – beg the first lumnist to publicly promote a gay youth program – she told him, “you should get immense relief if you discs your problems wh someone who unrstands, and knows how to pe wh the lonels and ostracism homosexuals feel most parts of our society” (113). A strg of popular advice lumnists begng the 1990s – cludg Carolyn Hax, the thors of “Dear Pnce, ” and Amy Dickson – largely echoed the creasgly wispread acceptance of the gay and lbian muny.