Brown and Gay LA - Anthony C. Ompo

Contents:

• BROWN AND GAY LA
• SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
• COMMUNY CONNECTEDNS, CHALLENG, AND RILIENCE AMONG GAY LATO IMMIGRANTS

BROWN AND GAY LA

While some experienc may feel universal—and th, timels—the queer polics of today are obvly very different om the 1970s and '80s, when the gay liberatn movement was full swg and clarg onelf a lbian was extremely polil, every sense of the word. And while Gen Z is more likely to intify as LGBTQ+ than any generatn prr, 's also more likely to prefer the term 'queer' as opposed to a word wh seemgly narrower nnotatns, like gay or lbian.

There's a longstandg spicn that gay parents beget gay children, as well as the belief that havg gay parents is the ultimate utopia, at least pared to a more stereotypil upbrgg a cishet hoehold. "Folks would always say, 'Oh, that's so ol that you have gay parents, mt be so easy for you as a gay person'—and a way, is, but 's also really beltlg of my experience, " Faria says.

SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

Though his father died five years ago, he still has his mother, and his other Cheb, a mic librarian who liv the East Village, is the gay son of a lbian who liv wh her pann, and he belongs to an unual -- and, for some, unsettlg -- kd of fay.

COMMUNY CONNECTEDNS, CHALLENG, AND RILIENCE AMONG GAY LATO IMMIGRANTS

But there are also those who me out to seemgly heterosexual parents, only to have those parents later acknowledge their own homosexualy.

Sometim they are swept to the polil and scientific bate over whether homosexuals are born or ma, and whether parents fluence their children's sexual on the polil and relig right claim that homosexualy is a choice, that n be tght or reversed and that do not warrant legal protectns.