Gay Left Introductn by Jefey Weeks

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A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga?

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GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen out as gay a first for US-based pro leagu * gay left *

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. The journal first appeared the tumn/fall of 1975, though the members of the ial edorial llective had been meetg for a year before this discsg the project, and some of had been gay Marxist discsn and readg groups together for even longer than that.

The first flh of gay liberatn energy had to a certa extent dispersed, but was a perd when gay ias neverthels were spreadg electrilly to a huge variety of areas – wrg, film, art, theatre, televisn, history, the amy, tra unns, tn, even mastream polics - the ntext of an unprecented explosn of the gay and lbian muny. The opportuni seemed endls, spe, possibly bee of, the equent setbacks lbian and gay people enuntered For was also a perd of tense polil polarisatn, as the optimism of the prev harned to a grim rilience unr the impact of high flatn, growg unemployment, ternatnal tensn and a real sense of an end of an era.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

The gay athlete said he is ‘heartbroken’ over the cisn to exclu him om the World Champnships. * gay left *

There was a feelg that this was a time to stand up and be unted, and for many of who had e of age the cultural revolutn of the 1960s and the early 1970s, and had seen our view of the world transformed by the explosive emergence of gay polics, that meant posng ourselv firmly wh the left. Five years later, as the edorial llective announced GL 10 a pse publitn to enable a thk about what we wanted to do next – 10 issu and an eded book (Homosexualy: Power and Polics published 1980) proved an exhstg if exhilaratg journey together – the climate had changed dramatilly, and fact we soon dissolved as a group.

But what now strik me on re-readg the 10 volum for the first time a long time, is how well we ptured the dreams and reali, hop and tratns of gay and lbian liv durg the 1970s, and the extent to which you n see the pag the shape of the dramatic polil and cultural chang that cisively end the long 1960s, and brought about a new polil era. What unified and brought together Gay Left was a double ncern: to enter a dialogue wh the gay movement about socialism; and to nont the socialist and labour movements wh the ias of gay liberatn.

Alongsi more historil articl like ‘Where Engels Feared to Tread’ (GL 1), which traced the evolutn of Marxist attus towards sexualy and genr, were articl on stggl the workplace like ‘Gays and Tra Unns’ GL 1, ‘The Gay Workers’ Movement’ (GL 2), ‘All Worked UP’ (GL 3), ‘Gays at Work’ (GL 6 and 7), and ‘Work Place Polics: Gay Polics’ (GL 10); and piec on the attus of leftist anisatns towards the gay issue, such as ‘A Grim Tale’, about the Internatnal Socialists’ Gay Group (GL 3) or ‘Communists’ Comment’ (GL 4).

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This is a socialist journal eded by gay men. We have a two fold aim producg this magaze. First, we hope to ntribute towards a marxist analysis of homosexual opprsn. Sendly, we want to enurage the gay movement an unrstandg of the lks between the stggle agast sexual opprsn and the stggle for socialism. 1975-1980 * gay left *

Our polil mments provid the spe for Gay Left s five years of existence, but as a group of gay men we were also firmly loted the velopg gay muny and culture, wh all their burgeong ncerns. ‘Gays and Fascism’ GL 5 did refer to racism, and Errol Francis GL 10 specifilly raised the issue, but there was no -pth discsn of race, ethnicy and sexualy, which was of urse to bee a major theme the 1980s, after GL left the scene. Dpe this, what is not explicly addrsed the journal is what has now bee a domatg theme: the diversy of the lbian and gay world, and though the issue of rights was a key if implic ncern, we did not anticipate the rise of the disurse of human rights as ccial to ternatnal LGBT polics.

Gays film formed a ntuo theme followg a ground- breakg article by Richard Dyer GL 2, wh regular reviews (for example, of Fassbr GL 2), and verage of Ron Peck’s attempts to make his film, ‘Nighthawks’ (Ron was then a member of the llective and other members were volved the film makg). Some polici, like genr self-intifitn, even unrme lbian or gay rights, which you might thk was rather an own goal for a movement that claims to speak for …lbians and the heart of all the strange proposals is a nvictn that we n say nothg wh any certaty about blogy. From almost the moment the word ‘homosexual’ was ed 1868 by a young Hungarian, Karoly Maria Kertbeny, the workg assumptn of advot of liberalisatn of laws agast sodomy, perversn (and all the other charmg thgs homosexuals were supposed to get up to) was that homosexualy jt had to be rooted our blogy.

Kertbeny’s age of the word ‘homosexual’ me only a year after Joseph Lister first troduced the notn of antisepsis durg pot is that blogy was not seen by the 19th and early 20th Century pneers of homosexual rights as an enemy but a potential ally. And hey prto, the movement started s forward march to triumph as protectns for homosexuals were wrten to law across the Wtern world quicker than anyone who rted outsi the Stonewall bar uld have imaged. The first flh of gay liberatn energy had to a certa extent dispersed, but was a perd when gay ias neverthels were spreadg electrilly to a huge variety of areas � wrg, film, art, theatre, televisn, history, the amy, tra unns, tn, even mastream polics - the ntext of an unprecented explosn of the gay and lbian muny.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

The succsor of the gay rights movement, the LGBTQ+ lobby, ni basic blogy. This nflict began s ago when gay tellectuals on the far left embraced a bizarre ia. * gay left *

Five years later, as the edorial llective announced GL 10 a pse publitn to enable a thk about what we wanted to do next � 10 issu and an eded book (Homosexualy: Power and Polics published 1980) proved an exhstg if exhilaratg journey together � the climate had changed dramatilly, and fact we soon dissolved as a group.

Alongsi more historil articl like �Where Engels Feared to Tread� (GL 1), which traced the evolutn of Marxist attus towards sexualy and genr, were articl on stggl the workplace like �Gays and Tra Unns� GL 1, �The Gay Workers� Movement� (GL 2), �All Worked UP� (GL 3), �Gays at Work� (GL 6 and 7), and �Work Place Polics: Gay Polics� (GL 10); and piec on the attus of leftist anisatns towards the gay issue, such as �A Grim Tale�, about the Internatnal Socialists� Gay Group (GL 3) or �Communists� Comment� (GL 4).

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

For almost a full century now, the revolutnary prospect of socialism has fuelled openg forays first of the homosexual emancipatn and later of the gay liberatn movements, both Europe and North Ameri. It spired Edward Carpenter and Magn Hirschfeld at the turn of the century; André … * gay left *

�Gays and Fascism� GL 5 did refer to racism, and Errol Francis GL 10 specifilly raised the issue, but there was no -pth discsn of race, ethnicy and sexualy, which was of urse to bee a major theme the 1980s, after GL left the scene. Gays film formed a ntuo theme followg a ground- breakg article by Richard Dyer GL 2, wh regular reviews (for example, of Fassbr GL 2), and verage of Ron Peck�s attempts to make his film, �Nighthawks� (Ron was then a member of the llective and other members were volved the film makg). For almost a full century now, the revolutnary prospect of socialism has fuelled openg forays first of the homosexual emancipatn and later of the gay liberatn movements, both Europe and North Ameri.

It spired Edward Carpenter and Magn Hirschfeld at the turn of the century; André Gi and Richard Lsert the post-World War I years; Harry Hay and Jim Kepner the post-World War II era; and the Brish and Amerin Gay Liberatn Front, the Italian Fuori!, the French FHAR, the German "Rotzschwule, " and the Dutch Red Faggots followg the Stonewall rebelln.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Rearch has shown that the followg are some of the most mon health ncerns faced by gay and bisexual men. * gay left *

While the official socialist parti of Northwtern Europe may have ma only limed ntributns to homosexual emancipatn, they certaly have a better rerd than nservative and Christian parti and even the liberals, who have nsistently, if ntradictorily, unrled the eedom of private life.

Gay leftists who still subscribe to the ials exprsed Marxist and utopian socialist wrgs now fd themselv at monstratns shoulr-to-shoulr wh members of ACT UP and Queer Natn, to say nothg of gay nservativ and gay Christians. The succs achieved by the ntemporary gay movement spe or precisely bee of s diversy support Fouult's argument that "there is no sgle loc of great Refal, no soul of revolt, source of all rebellns, or pure law of the revolutnary. They moved this directn part bee the aln wh leftism so equently led to disappotment, particularly when gays and lbians workg wh socialist parti were lled upon to subordate or abandon their own goals favor of party platforms.

There are a few optns for gay men and bisexual men same-sex relatnships who aspire to have children, cludg surrogacy, where sperm is ed to fertilize a donated egg, which is then rried to term by a surrogate mother. Organizatns like Chile’s Movimiento Integración y Liberación Homosexual (Movilh) and the Jamai Fom for Lbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays have played key rol their untri’ movements toward equaly.

I am a young, gay, left-wg Jew. Yet I am lled an “apartheid-enabler,” a “baby killer” and a “lonial apologist.” * gay left *

Celebri like Anrson Cooper have helped normalize the ia of gay men raisg children, and no longer feels revelatory to see them on televisn, as did when “Morn Fay” premiered mon, Mr.

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Heynen said, but rather a celebratn of the day-to-day liv of gay Jt for the YoungCly Rose, 61, and Ryan, 12Cly Rose, who liv Manhattan, was first photographed for “Dads” three years ago after meetg Mr.

Heynen “a lot of cred” for cludg a father like him — a sgle dad his 60s — sce he said there is often a lack of reprentatn of olr gay people art and media, which tends to foc on young, f men.

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.

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