Five months before his assassatn 1978, Harvey Milk lled on the print of the Uned Stat to fend the rights of gay and lbian Amerins.
Contents:
- IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
- HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
- WHY ROBERT MUGABE JT SHOUTED "WE ARE NOT GAYS" HIS UN SPEECH
- BYU VALEDICTORIAN COM OUT AS GAY IN GRADUATN SPEECH
- TOLD NOT TO SAY ‘GAY’ GRADUATN SPEECH, HE MA HIS POT ANYWAY
- BYU VALEDICTORIAN OUT AS GAY VIRAL NVOTN SPEECH
IS THERE A “GAY VOICE”?
Michael Schulman on “Do I Sound Gay?,” a documentary by David Thorpe that explor how vol nc are associated wh sexualy. * gay gretton speech *
Acrdg to one letter om 2001 the Los Angel Tim, the source is Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), a wty member of the Algonqu Round Table, who equently ved gay men to fashnable soiré durg the 1920s and 1930s. Daniel Harris’s The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture (1997) matas that Garland (1922–1969) served as a “lostone” for gay culture: “When Judy me onto the stage, we were the loust and most exuberant part of that dience.
Judy Garland was all ours; she belonged to every gay guy and girl the theatre.
HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
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Dee Michel’s Friends of Dorothy: Why Gay Boys and Gay Men Love The Wizard of Oz (2018) expands the spe to expla gay culture’s fascatn wh more than Garland—but the land of Oz self. Mickey Weems the Qualia Encyclopedia of Gay People not that Harvey Milk adopted this same exprsn to mpaign agast a proposed California iative that would have banned gays om workg public schools.
WHY ROBERT MUGABE JT SHOUTED "WE ARE NOT GAYS" HIS UN SPEECH
Matty Easton, a polil science major at the Mormon church-owned Brigham Young Universy, clared to cheers that he is "proud to be a gay son of God." * gay gretton speech *
Weems also pots out that “to drop a hoe on somebody” is gay folk speech for “gettg even wh an offensive person. The character of the Cowardly Ln, portrayed by Bert Lahr a manner that some crics have termed effemate or stereotypilly gay.
The populary of gay nightclubs, such as Oz New Orleans or Emerald Cy Pensala, which reference the film. He sounds gay.
BYU VALEDICTORIAN COM OUT AS GAY IN GRADUATN SPEECH
A Florida high school graduate says he was told not to say "gay" his graduatn speech. So he said "curly hair" stead. * gay gretton speech *
Not long after Thorpe broke up wh his boyiend, he began thkg about the way he speaks, and the way other gay men speak, and why both sudnly bothered him so much.
TOLD NOT TO SAY ‘GAY’ GRADUATN SPEECH, HE MA HIS POT ANYWAY
It is no stretch to say that Jtice Oliver Wenll Holm created the morn First Amendment a hundred years ago his opns Schenck and Abrams. It is equally te that the First Amendment created gay Ameri. For advot of gay legal and social equaly, there has been no more reliable and important nstutnal text. The eedoms guarante protected gay cultural and polil stutns om state regulatn signed to impose a ntrary visn of the good life. Gay anizatns, clubs, bars, policians, journals, newspapers, rad programs, televisn shows, web s—all of the—would have been swept away the absence of a strong and particularly libertarian First Amendment. It shield gay polil efforts when most of the untry thought homosexuals were not jt immoral, but also sick, dangero, and crimal. This say tells the story of the Chigo-based Society of Human Rights, the very first gay polil anizatn the Uned Stat, which was found by Henry Gerber 1924—five years after Schenck, but before the full meang of the dissent was accepted First Amendment doctre. The police quickly shut down the group and arrted s members. Jtice Holm himself never met Gerber. He would have found the ia of a gay rights anizatn prehensible, somethg more ak to the bizarre sex cult Chigo police thought they had disvered rather than the noble experiment Gerber thought he was lnchg. But if ’s te that the bt tt of tth is the power of the thought to get self accepted the petn of the market, the ia of eedom and equaly for LGBT people has attaed the stat of Holmian tth. * gay gretton speech *
”This is how he scrib the moment his documentary “Do I Sound Gay?, ” which opens this weekend at the IFC Center. He terviews gay public figur, cludg David Sedaris, Tim Gunn, Don Lemon, and Gee Takei, who have had to listen to themselv for a livg. He even asks people on the street if they thk he sounds gay.
Gay adolcents, Thorpe pots out, often learn that the “tell” of their sexualy is their voic, even more so than physily—a limp wrist is easier to straighten out than an flectn. The world’s homophobia be ternalized homophobia. Even wh the gay datg muny (and gay porn), hyper-masculy is habually prized, so self-disgt gets easily turned back outward.
BYU VALEDICTORIAN OUT AS GAY VIRAL NVOTN SPEECH
Bryce Dershem said school faculty told him the speech was not his "therapy ssn" and to remove all referenc to beg gay and his victory over mental health issu. * gay gretton speech *
”Of urse, not all gay men have the same voice, or any “gay” voice: is a stereotype, after all. Thorpe talks to a straight iend who sounds “gay” (he grew up on an ashram, surround by women), and a gay iend who sounds “straight” (he has jock brothers).
Did he choose to sound gay or did soundg gay choose him?
” (The gay “lisp” is a b of a misnomer, ually referrg to a sibilant “S. Obvly, the ncln—the film’s, and me—is to dissociate the “gay voice” om shame and reattach to pri, but isn’t so easy. “For many gay men, that’s the last vtige, that’s the last chunk of ternalized homophobia, is this hatred of how they sound, ” Dan Savage tells Thorpe.