Same Street aired s "Fay Day" episo -- which featured two gay dads -- on WarnerMedia's HBO Max and YouTube this Thursday.
Contents:
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- PRI MONTH: ‘SAME STREET’ INTRODUC GAY MALE COUPLE FOR ‘FAY DAY’
- FAY DAY VS GAY PRI
- PRI MONTH: ‘SAME STREET’ INTRODUC GAY MALE COUPLE FOR ‘FAY DAY’
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
* family day vs gay pride *
”In March, some men will cry the need for an Internatnal Women’s Day, celebrated on the is Pri Month, a time to reflect on and celebrate lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer history. There is a level of social and systemic privilege not afford to many members of the LGBTQ muny North Ameri, and certaly many untri around the is herently polilPri has been celebrated every year June sce 1970 after the 1969 Stonewall rts New York, when police raid the Stonewall Canada, Toronto’s Pri was lnched siar fashn after protts epted when police raid four bathho Febary 1981 and arrted hundreds of gay motive has always been — and should rema — polil.
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PRI MONTH: ‘SAME STREET’ INTRODUC GAY MALE COUPLE FOR ‘FAY DAY’
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FAY DAY VS GAY PRI
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They n be a lbian motorcycle club or a gay men’s choir or a trans open-mic or a queer kchen briga. In late 1980, at a support group for gay fathers, my dad met Lnel –– the man wh whom he would spend the next 23 years. He had seemed kd of lost his new life – phg 60, recently divorced om my mother, recently out of the closet as gay man.
PRI MONTH: ‘SAME STREET’ INTRODUC GAY MALE COUPLE FOR ‘FAY DAY’
He asked that I march wh him, alongsi the other gay fathers and their kids, the Los Angel Pri Para. What I do remember was that someone had ma T-shirts that said "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" and I refed to wear one. I told my dad, “I love you, but not bee you’re gay.
” The tth, though, is that I lacked the urage to stand all the way up for my father and his ras agast a homophobic and different world.