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'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
The band’s first album, also lled “Lavenr Country, ” was one of the first untry albums wh outwardly gay them, acrdg to Billboard. The album, origally released 1973, clus songs wh lyrics about queer sire and homophobia.
It wasn’t until my sophomore year of llege—when I took a Queer Studi 101 class and learned the te history of the word—that I felt fortable addg to my inty CV. It wasn’t until the end of the 19th century that the word was first ed to scribe homosexual behavr, acrdg to the Oxford English Dictnary. By the early 1900s, the term's pejorative nnotatn had traveled om Europe to the Uned Stat, where remaed for s as a term ed to ridicule and shame people—pecially men—who were eher known to be, or thought to be, engagg homosexual activy.
At this pot, “the word transned om namg oddns to namg the ‘illns’ of homosexualy, ” says Dr. Queer, a reclamatn In the 1960s, activists spearheadg the gay liberatn movement began to scribe themselv as ‘queer’ orr to take away the term's power to harm by reclaimg , says Dr. An anarchist anizatn, Queer Natn, which Newsweek lled the “the angrit, nervit -your-face gay-rights activist group, ” was born and began to spread the word that the LGBTQ+ muny was tired of beg bashed and wasn’t gog to take anymore.