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• CANDID SHOTS OF MEXI CY’S REAL GAY UNRGROUND
• SPECT SOUGHT NYC ANTI-GAY SUBWAY ATTACK
• POLICE SEEKG ASSAILANT WHO ALLEGEDLY ED ANTI-GAY SLUR NYC SUBWAY ATTACK
• POLICE SEEKG SPECT MANHATTAN ANTI-GAY SUBWAY ASSLT
• SUBWAY 61 E GAY ST
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• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
• A 22-YEAR-OLD WAS ATTACKED ON THE SUBWAY BY A PERSON SHOUTG ANTI-GAY SLURS, POLICE SAY

CANDID SHOTS OF MEXI CY’S REAL GAY UNRGROUND

Footsteps om the billns of passengers who have taken the metro sce opened 1969 have worn groov the stone-tiled stairs of the most popular the STC closed certa metro rs Febary 2011 orr to prevent gay men om g them for sex, the public nversatn about the ban highlighted how the metro is more than jt a transportatn artery; is a key part of Mexi Cy’s huge rmal enomy. The appropriatn of certa metro rs as meetg and hookup s for gay men exemplifi the clash between the STC and s ers, and the closure of the rs illumat the plex relatnship between the polil class that ntrols the cy and the LGBTQ Mexi Cy legalized same-sex marriage late 2009, Alejandro Rojas, the cy’s secretary for tourism, said that Mexi Cy “will be a very excg and darg place for a honeymoon, and [gay tourists] will take advantage of the fact that Mexi will wele them wh the due rpect and tolerance that their preferenc serve.

” By the summer of 2010, the cy had gurated an office to promote gay tourism, the first of s kd Lat Mexi Cy officials sold their cy as a “darg” and “avant-gar” statn to foreign tourists, Mexin LGBTQ people, particularly those who lived outsi of the feral district, ntued to face tense reprsn.

SPECT SOUGHT NYC ANTI-GAY SUBWAY ATTACK

In the first eight months of 2009, 40 “homosexual persons” were reportedly murred the state of Michoacán, an area famo for secury thanks to vlence related to nartics traffic. Compoundg the problem of homophobia the general public, police throughout Mexi often fail to label homophobic asslts as such, meang that statistics misreprent the sle of vlence faced by LGBTQ people. “[In the early 1990s], the last tra was gay the night.

Acrdg to Gomez, most of the participants metrear are men – gay-intified or not – who e om the lower and middle class, and the way they participate is equently ndned by the geography and time of their daily mute. A 2008 article the newspaper Milen pats a picture of metro secury and thory liberately ignorg the phenomenon, but after Francis Bojórquez was appoted director of the STC 2007, he promised to tackle street vendors, lack of secury, prostutn, and homosexualy the Febary 2011, an STC prs release announced that they would be closg the last three tra rs on l 1, 2, 3, 8, and B after 10 p.

A few days later, a metro spokperson said that gay men were takg advantage of the metro facili to m illegal that same month, the director of Garibaldi Statn went on rerd sayg that “ the fal hours of service, there are suatns between upl – male-male, female-male, and female-female. ” A secury guard at the same statn explaed that the prohibn rulted om “gays who are takg over the facili. On the one hand, they approve gay marriage, but on the other, they censure sex and more.

POLICE SEEKG ASSAILANT WHO ALLEGEDLY ED ANTI-GAY SLUR NYC SUBWAY ATTACK

”Privatizg liberatnThe crackdown on “public” exprsns of gay sexualy Mexi Cy is not ntradictn wh the cy’s promotn of gay tourism and marriage. The nflict between neoliberal promotn of gay rights and crackdowns on gay sexual culture has grown the last five years. The only remag gay dark room belongs to an upsle bar the Consa neighbourhood, southeast of the Zona Rosa.

On March 6, 2014, Mexi Cy’s only officially gay bathhoe,, was closed by the PRD-ntrolled Delegatn of Miguel Hidalgo. Origs of Pri WeekPolice homophobia and vlent state reprsn of the queer muny have long been a part of everyday life Canada.

Many don’t know this history of police homophobia, and many have never heard of the Toronto bathhoe the ld eveng of Febary 5, 1981, Toronto police raid four gay bathho Toronto’s Church Street district. Men were held outsi the ld – some only draped wh towels – and subjected to “Vasele jok” and homophobic next night, the queer muny fought back. When progrsive alli cheer on the police at events like the Toronto Pri Para, mouflag the homophobia and abe still perpetrated by police servic.

POLICE SEEKG SPECT MANHATTAN ANTI-GAY SUBWAY ASSLT

– Brendan Bce In Mexi Cy, the abily to easily rerd a sexual enunter on a phone has add a new dimensn to a long history of gay blackmail. They were to feature eight embracg upl, some of them nu to the Fran/The New York TimThe next year, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an AIDS nonprof, began nng subway ads that showed same-sex upl noodlg, wh the tag le “Young.

Gay Men’s Health Crisis was pelled to mentn by way of addrsg a public health epimic.

The New York-based lotn sut had jt begun a photography mentorship wh the legendary Alex and Rebec Norris Webb, and was on the look-out for stori to a untry soaked wh stimuli, the choice to settle on one was almost too overwhelmg – and was only durg a meetg wh a iend a Mexi Cy gay bar that an ia fally stck. “I had photographed a male uple embracg ont of a neon sign that read ‘Puto’ [harsh slang for gay], ” Graham remembers. “My iend then reunted a story about how the last r the Mexi Cy subways beme a gay cisg ground at night.

SUBWAY 61 E GAY ST

The spect wanted for an anti-gay attack on the J tra Brooklyn. A man was slugged the face durg an alleged anti-gay attack on the subway Brooklyn last week.

26 when he was approached by a man who lled him “anti-gay slurs” before punchg the victim the head multiple tim, police said. The bakery-cha supported the Natnal Gay & Lbian Task Force‘s radil “Creatg Change” nference Kansas Cy, Missouri 2006, acrdg to Amerins for Tth. The pany has a group lled the "Gayglers" for their employe to celebrate LGBT rights, lead and anize events, and work wh the Google muny.

HBO aired the edy-drama seri "Lookg", which foced on a group of gay iends, for two seasons. Samsung recently signed a petn llg for gay rights Texas, acrdg to the Texas Observer. Apple's CEO Tim Cook publicly nfirmed that he is gay 2014, makg him the first openly gay CEO on the Fortune 500 list.

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He actively supports different gay rights mpaigns. 5 ln to support same-sex marriage 2012, which ma him the largt fancial supporter of gay marriage rights the untry at the time. When Mexi Cy’s Sistema Transporte Colectivo (STC) closed certa metro rs Febary 2011 orr to prevent gay men om g them for sex, the public nversatn about the ban highlighted how the metro is more than jt a transportatn artery … The appropriatn of certa metro rs as meetg and hookup s for gay men exemplifi the clash between the STC and s ers, and the closure of the rs illumat the plex relatnship between the polil class that ntrols the cy and the LGBTQ muny.

When the STC closed certa metro rs Febary 2011 orr to prevent gay men om g them for sex, the public nversatn about the ban highlighted how the metro is more than jt a transportatn artery; is a key part of Mexi Cy’s huge rmal enomy. The appropriatn of certa metro rs as meetg and hookup s for gay men exemplifi the clash between the STC and s ers, and the closure of the rs illumat the plex relatnship between the polil class that ntrols the cy and the LGBTQ muny. When Mexi Cy legalized same-sex marriage late 2009, Alejandro Rojas, the cy’s secretary for tourism, said that Mexi Cy “will be a very excg and darg place for a honeymoon, and [gay tourists] will take advantage of the fact that Mexi will wele them wh the due rpect and tolerance that their preferenc serve.

” By the summer of 2010, the cy had gurated an office to promote gay tourism, the first of s kd Lat Ameri. A 2008 article the newspaper Milen pats a picture of metro secury and thory liberately ignorg the phenomenon, but after Francis Bojórquez was appoted director of the STC 2007, he promised to tackle street vendors, lack of secury, prostutn, and homosexualy the unrground. A few days later, a metro spokperson said that gay men were takg advantage of the metro facili to m illegal acts.

THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

The crackdown on “public” exprsns of gay sexualy Mexi Cy is not ntradictn wh the cy’s promotn of gay tourism and marriage. Police homophobia and vlent state reprsn of the queer muny have long been a part of everyday life Canada.

A 22-YEAR-OLD WAS ATTACKED ON THE SUBWAY BY A PERSON SHOUTG ANTI-GAY SLURS, POLICE SAY

Many don’t know this history of police homophobia, and many have never heard of the Toronto bathhoe rts. On the ld eveng of Febary 5, 1981, Toronto police raid four gay bathho Toronto’s Church Street district.

Men were held outsi the ld – some only draped wh towels – and subjected to “Vasele jok” and homophobic slurs.