Amy Walter has been openly gay and married to lbian Kathryn Hamm for over 20 years.
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WAS WALT WHMAN 'GAY'? NEW TEXTBOOK L SPARK LGBTQ HISTORY BATE
What Is the Grass thor Mark Doty and Pulzer Prize wner Jericho Brown discs the gay poet's legacy. * is walter gay *
He lived om 1819 to 1892, a time when “gay” meant ltle more than “happy. A study of poet Walt Whman, seen this undated fileAs California looks to implement the untry’s first LGBTQ-clive curriculum, state tn officials and textbook publishers are grapplg wh how to refer to figur like Whman, who were believed to have been gay, bisexual or transgenr but never me out: Should we label them as such?
9, 1977 fileHMH materials intify Harvey Milk, one of the untry’s first openly gay elected official, as gay, bee Milk publicly labeled himself as such. ”Nurse Florence NightgalePA / PA Wire via APAcrdg to scholars, the term “homosexual” did not enter mon age until the early 20th century, while “gay” beme popular the 1930s and ’40s, and “lbian” emerged the 1970s.
WAS WALT WHMAN 'GAY'?
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