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Contents:

• LANCE GAY
• WHY LANCE BASS WAS TERRIFIED TO E OUT AS GAY TO HIS PARENTS
• DR. GARY LLIE GAY, DO
• LANCE GAY
• FOUND 13 RULTS FOR LANCE GAY

LANCE GAY

This week that cricism took a profoundly personal tone when Katy alum Greg Gay, once known as Greg Barrett, stepped to the podium at a KISD board meetg and told a s-old story of middle school abe.

I had laid on the ground a fetal posn as the kids kicked me, " said Gay. Gay then intified his prciple attacker as the man currently mand of the state's 9th largt school district, Supertennt Lance Hdt. "Lance, you were the one who shoved my head the ural, " said Gay.

WHY LANCE BASS WAS TERRIFIED TO E OUT AS GAY TO HIS PARENTS

Gay claims the emotnal trma left him suicidal. 45 out of my father's drawer and put my mouth, bee at this pot I had nobody, nobody the school system to help me, " said Gay.

Gay says his primary sire is for Hdt and KISD to acknowledge that bullyg is a major problem and take ser steps to addrs the issue. Gay told FOX 26, “I want Lance to step up, acknowledge what happened.

“The time has e when we n serly and whout sensatnalism asss the gay and lbian experience of stud-era Hollywood, ” wrote William J. Mann “Wisecracker, ” a bgraphy that explored the very public “private life” of gay silent-era-leadg-man-turned-terr-rator-to the-lg-class, William Ha.

DR. GARY LLIE GAY, DO

Takg his cue om Neal Gabler’s “An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, ” Mann’s new book about gay Hollywood, “Behd the Screen, ” enavors to expla how gays and lbians shaped the those rears ls than faiar wh the stud era’s rise and fall--or gay polics and social history, for that matter--are relatively well aware of the fact that the same-sex-oriented played a major role . The stickg pot is precisely how that role was played, given the paradox of the culture’s stated disapproval of gays and lbians, and the haven that plac like Hollywood provid for sexual nonnformists. Although the film dtry’s gays and lbians had eedom, they did not--until the 1990s--have any real gree of make or break power.

LANCE GAY

Mayer’s mom-and-apple-pie paeans to the fictnal ultra-WASP Hardy fay, and that “mory wh-and-whout” of gays who, while never igng to raise their voic, slipped one past the goalie, as the sayg go, om time to time--as, for example, Jack Cole’s eye-poppgly homoerotic “Is There Anyone Here for Love? ” Ever sce homosexualy was vented as a behavral tegory by Karoly Maria Benkert, a Hungarian physician, 1869 and adopted by the medil profsn as a quasi-disease (mental illns or “geic fect, ” take your pick) the 20th, a prolonged stggle ensued to get this “elephant the bedroom” (and everywhere else the “hoe” for that matter) regnized as a simple fact of this stggle has by no means end, the last four s have seen the “unspeakable” spoken wh creasg regulary, if not honty, tobgraphi such as Arthur Lrents’ “Origal Story By” and David Graham’s “Castg About. ” And jt last year, same-sexualy figured major news stori about everythg om hate crime laws to gay marriage bat to the Boy Suts ntroversy, the Salvatn Army sndal and the onle sexual pecdillo of HIV-posive reactnary uber-pund Andrew Sullivan.

Or--to put the entire subject on a more vulgar Natnal Enquirer level--the movi are the most acceptable route to divg who’s gay and who isn’ don’t play that game.

More important, he’s well aware that “the closet is not an appropriate nstct” for scribg gay and lbian life at any level the stud era; Mann prefers the far more helpful terms “overt” and “circumspect” to scribe people and ntexts.

FOUND 13 RULTS FOR LANCE GAY

The tegrated liv of today’s gay celebri weren’t possible back then. But, beg succsful, rpected and well-liked among his peers, Cor was able to navigate a “private life” the average gay or lbian of that era would em unparalleled s eedom. And then there’s “I Remember Mama, ” Gee Stevens’ credibly movg tribute to “fay valu” produced by Louella Parsons’ lbian dghter, Harriet, and wrten by DeWt Boen--a brilliant gay screenwrer whose creds clu “Cat People.

”Clearly there were profsns wh the dtry that were more “gay iendly” than others.