Ex-gays scend upon D.C. to lobby agast LGBTQ rights

Contents:

• THE ATH OF DR DUNN: THE GAY HATE CRIME THAT CHANGED ATRALIA
• TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY
• UNCLE DUNN LOCKE & KEY: IS DUNN GAY THE NETFLIX ORIGAL SERI?
• GAY DUNN
• TIM DUNN GAY? DANNY GREEN ADDRS RUMORS THAT WIFE AMY DUNN OUTED TEAMMATE AS BISEXUAL DURG DIVORCE BATTLE [VIDEO]
• EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
• IS TIM DUNN GAY? WIFE AMY DUNN REPORTEDLY OUTS HBAND AS BISEXUAL DURG DIVORCE PROCEEDGS [REPORT]
• PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
• DENISE GAY DUNN OBUARY

THE ATH OF DR DUNN: THE GAY HATE CRIME THAT CHANGED ATRALIA

”This is how a wns scribed the fal sends of Dr Gee Dunn’s life, as told to the ABC 2005, 33 years after the 41-year-old Universy of Alai amic drowned the River Torrens and posthumoly set motn the zegeist of gay law reform 10 May 1972 ath of Dr Gee Ian Ogilvie Dunn – spected to be at the hands of Alai’s police vice squad, at a time when homosexualy was outlawed every state Atralia – is an event enshred the narrative of the South Atralian LBTQI Christos Tslkas and his partner Wayne van r Stelt first learned of Dunn’s revered place SA’s legal history back the mid-1980s, when the two young Melbourne universy stunts ma their first road trip together to Alai. “I remember gog to the Candlelight, which was one of the old queer clubs there, and hearg the story about what happened down at the river – hearg about the gay bashgs and police bashgs, ” he says. ”Legislative ground breakerThe background story documentg Dunn’s life is pellg, as historian Tim Reev n whe upper middle class, Atralian raised and Oxbridge ted history amic lived a secret life, as most gay men were forced to do, growg up the 1950s and 1960s has spent the better part of three s documentg the Dunn se, he served as a nsultant on the Watershed project and will be releasg his book The Death of Doctor Dunn at the Alai Wrer’s ftival on 9 March, where is beg lnched by David ath toll om Atralia’s long-standg crimalisatn of homosexualy – through murr, manslghter and suici – was far om unique the English speakg world, he says, but the rapidy of legislative chang followg Dunn’s ath was a world game police officers were early spected as the culprs who tossed Dunn, a man who spe his tn at Melbourne Grammar – an exclive school which prid self as much on s athletic prows as s scholastic rigour – was unable to an ternal police vtigatn prompted wispread public skepticism, Stland Yard tectiv were lled to vtigate penntly – but the subsequent fdgs tabled a parliamentary quiry found that “there was no real tentn of g anyone’s ath – this was merely a high-spired olic which went wrong.

That seemgly good samaran was Bevan Spencer von Eem, subsequently nvicted of the abductn, sexual torture and murr of 15-year-old schoolboy Richard Kelv, and the spected killer of at least two other gay men whose s have never been solved. “All gay and lbian and transgenr people are uniquely aware of the fact that we live our liv subject to the law, and that the laws have a profound fluence on the way you n behave publicly – what the lims of your love are and how they are fed legally.

TOP 10 ATHLET WHO ARE RUMORED TO BE GAY

In fact, as society is now much more open to people no matter their orientatn, we have seen a ton more athlet, both active and retired, e out and adm that they are homosexuals, and 's absolutely a great thg.

UNCLE DUNN LOCKE & KEY: IS DUNN GAY THE NETFLIX ORIGAL SERI?

This list will look at some of the most high profile exampl of pro athlet who have had mors about beg gay surroundg them, but aga, none of those are nfirmed and even if they were nfirmed, they would be somethg to celebrate. Word received by iends this cy om the bedsi of Miss Gay Dunn who has been ill at her home New York cy for some time past wh lung trouble and a plitn of diseas nveys the sad telligence that she is slowly dyg.

Durg a Tuday morng terview, San Anton Spurs star Danny Green addrsed mors that Tim Dunn’s wife, Amy Dunn, may have outed his teammate as gay durg the uple’s ongog divorce an terview wh “The Breakfast Club, ” New York-based rad statn Power 105. Acrdg to the blog, a source close to the divorce battle claimed that Tim Dunn had been a gay relatnship sce llege, and that his alleged “lover” had lived wh the Spurs star and his wife for the first two years of their marriage.

GAY DUNN

1New Narrative is monly regnized as a queer avant-gar found San Francis the late 1970s, a mostly-gay wrg scene wh a characteristic proclivy for lightg sex, Marxist polics, and pop culture. Both Boone and Glück wrote appreciatively about Dunn’s 1944 say, and their reflectns on “The Homosexual Society” suggt a shared spicn about gay separatism, inty polics, and the modifitn of (gay) culture.

TIM DUNN GAY? DANNY GREEN ADDRS RUMORS THAT WIFE AMY DUNN OUTED TEAMMATE AS BISEXUAL DURG DIVORCE BATTLE [VIDEO]

An unrstandg of homosexualy as a cultural iated paranoia and spicn about the proximy of those sexual outsirs who would be targeted by McCarthyism and the Hoe Un-Amerin Activi Commtee.

4“The Homosexual Society” is brief, surprisg, and plex, and Dunn returned to the say throughout his life, alternately clarifyg, refg, and pletely alterg the say’s arguments through footnot and terviews.

EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS

A mornist through and through, Dunn mak a public announcement of his homosexualy, and at the same time out agast mp, the cult of sexualy and s ntempt for ‘jam, ’ along wh the Beat ntempt for the square, the Jewish ntempt for the goy – favor of a mon humany. 5Dunn argu that the e that mt be won is for all human begs – a plete human eedom that, crilly, nnot be achieved whout reckong wh the reprsn of sexualy and unmakg all mory associatns, cludg homosexual inty. This will clu the open discsn of homosexualy lerature, and Dunn nam Herman Melville and Marcel Prot as exampl of thors who wrote about (their own) homosexualy but ultimately transcend homosexualy as a theme.

IS TIM DUNN GAY? WIFE AMY DUNN REPORTEDLY OUTS HBAND AS BISEXUAL DURG DIVORCE PROCEEDGS [REPORT]

4 Includg the founrs of New Narrative, later admirers of Dunn were keen to embrace Dunn’s urage wrg the say, even as they ignored or merely set asi the challenge his msage put to the polil efforts of Gay Liberatn and later articulatns of sexual polics. 6Today, pendg on their accs to different versns of the say and related mentary by Dunn, ntemporary rears have the luxury of gag om “The Homosexual Society” a number of overlappg and potentially even ntradictg msag about homosexualy, society, and what might mean to be “” .

PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”

In this say, I first trace the history of “The Homosexual Society”, om Dunn’s posn of the say, through his wrten mentary of 1959, and his reflectns wh younger gay poets the 1970s. My hope is that revisg “The Homosexual Society” and s attendant archive might open up Dunn’s say to new meangs, thereby ntug the procs of gossipg about this already very storied say.

DENISE GAY DUNN OBUARY

In Queerg Cold War Poetry, Eric Keenaghan aptly intifi Dunn’s strategy as a “fierce antomianism that renred homosexualy, like any other inty, a merely sendary ncern” (Keenaghan 88).

The metaphor of the closet do not f Dunn’s purpos here, as the poet tentnally fi revealg himself to be a homosexual favor of admtg his feelgs and his experienc, molg for his rears the third posn he poed, somewhere outsi of a bary of “out” or “, ” “homosexual” or “straight. 8What “The Homosexual Society” means to offer, then, is not so much public ttimony of the tth of Dunn’s (sexual) inty, but, stead, an thorized acunt of an alternate realy of homosexualy. 9What Dunn also lls a “cult, ” the pany of homosexuals he mov wh, and even temporarily embrac, provis him wh a refuge om a society that would otherwise vlently disown him and grants his poetry a potency so strong that match that of the charist.

“The Homosexual Society” is not merely an argument but a social, polil, even spirual arena which Dunn would e to better unrstand his evolvg self, a special entry Dunn’s mythopoetics. 14Dunn wrote “The Homosexual Society” years before the publitn of Aled Ksey’s Sexual Behavr the Human Male or the foundg of the Mattache Society, or his volvement wh Rob Blaser and Jack Spicer durg the Berkeley Renaissance.

Instead, after the say’s publitn 1944 he plemented his say wh footnot, anecdot, orig stori, and historil rrponnc so that the say ntued to have an evolvg relatnship to ntemporary attus about homosexualy, art, and polics. 7 But regardls of Krim’s choice not to reprt the say, 8 his solicatn of “The Homosexual Society” suggts the extent to which the Beats were already monly unrstood as a “gang” of sexual outsirs – nonnformists, queer rebels, and those unrepentant homosexuals who refed to be recuperated by rpectabily polics or silenced by pathology and normaly.