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As half the fay har off to the French Riviera to unravel a myster herance, Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) stays behd to shepherd the productn of a silent film at Downton. Thomas Barrow (Rob Jam-Collier)—former footman, would-be blackmailer, and early morn homosexual everyman—is now head butler on staff, givg him ample opportuny to teract wh the visg stars, and particular, wh the bonair Guy Dexter (Domic Wt). While Lady Mary unexpectedly tak on a role the film, Thomas fds himself offered a new role all his own, when Guy pursu him to leave Downton and bee his manservant. But is there more to his offer? And even if there is, will Thomas be willg to give up everythg he’s achieved at Downton for ? </em></p><p data-no-id="1" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><em>In the origal televisn seri, Barrow’s character seemed preternaturally morn and self-knowg, nyg viewers the excg chance to see how our ias about queer inty veloped and spread the early 20<sup>th </sup>Century. As everyone else be, Barrow merely is. (For a further examatn of Barrow’s historil accuracy, read the article below.) The new film n’t erase this history, but do offer a glimmer of an alternative, by showg how celebry culture brought queer ias to even the most tradnal tat England. </em></p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><em>Datg back at least to the 19</em><em><sup>th</sup></em><em> century, queer performers were tegral to the spread of sexual rmatn several ways. Some took queer or genr-bendg rol, cludg such early silent films as </em>The Amazons<em> (1917) or </em>What Is the World Comg To?<em> (1926). Others lived public “bachelor” or “spster” liv, travelg om one metropolan center to another, nnectg queer muni and spreadg their ias. And regardls of their own te inti, nearly every celebry was the ocsn for a btlg gossip and newspaper dtry, whose timatns of sexual viance were equal parts tillatg and rmative to rears who might otherwise never had accs to the bedrooms of Hollywood and London.</em></p><p data-no-id="3" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><em>Although the queer storyle </em>A New Era<em> is small, is one of the most historilly illumatg that the anchise has produced to date.</em></p><style data-emotn="css 18pb4rg">{borr:0;borr-bottom:th solid black;marg:1.875rem 0;clear:both;}</style><hr data-no-id="4" class="css-18pb4rg et3p2gv0" /><style data-emotn="css o9c7xd">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;}{float:left;text-transform:upperse;font-weight:bold;marg-right:0.9375rem;marg-bottom:-0.625rem;marg-top:0;}{lor:#030929;font-fay:NewParis,NewParis-fallback,Geia,Tim,serif;font-size:3.8431rem;font-weight:normal;le-height:1;}@-moz-document url-prefix(){{marg-top:0.625rem;}}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:3.75rem;le-height:1.15;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:3.75rem;le-height:1.15;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:6.25rem;le-height:1;}} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="5" class="body-dropp css-o9c7xd et3p2gv0">Fifty-seven mut to <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the first episo of " class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">the first episo of </a><em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Downton Abbey" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Downton Abbey</a></em>, the fastid, sharp-featured footman Thomas Barrow mak his move, nontg his erstwhile summer lover—the impoverished (but entled) De of Crowborough—wh epistolary evince of their affair. Barrow has all the iled menace of a speful child, a weak sort of strength that only kicks when you’re down. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="6" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1eiql25">{text-align:center;marg:0rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><style data-emotn="css 118z4a">{background-lor:#9a0500;lor:#fff;ntent:'';display:block;height:0.125rem;marg:0 to 1.875rem;width:60%;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-118z4a eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css q6i00s">{lor:#030929;font-fay:NewParis,NewParis-fallback,Geia,Tim,serif;font-size:1.625rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.25rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.625rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.8125rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><blockquote class="css-q6i00s e1pe3zr90">Is Thomas an accurate unveilg of historil homosexualy, hidn but fully formed, jt wag for to notice his existence?</blockquote><style data-emotn="css 1fv5ixs">{background-lor:#9a0500;lor:#fff;ntent:'';display:block;height:0.125rem;marg:1.875rem to 0;width:60%;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-1fv5ixs eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="7" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The De, on the other hand, is louche and unctuo, the human personifitn of privilege loungg a fabulo drsg gown. Their short <em>tete-a-tete</em> is a gem of a scene, their body language forestg the evable: the attempted blackmail fails, and three mut later, Barrow watch his letters burn, takg wh them his imaged future as the De’s valet and lover. </p><p data-no-id="8" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It’s a bold move—for Barrow, sure, but more so for <em>Downton Abbey</em>. Wh one short scene, creator Julian Fellow ma a claratn: the love that dare not speak s name would be given voice here. Goodbye to veiled timatns and Signifint Looks; goodbye to fty, dty “nfirmed bachelors” and “spster” nts; goodbye to the historil closet and your mother’s <em>Masterpiece Theatre</em>. </p><p data-no-id="9" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Hello to the future of the gay past.</p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="10" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Su, Formal wear, Event, Tuxedo, " tle="Su, Formal wear, Event, Tuxedo, " loadg="lazy" width="3000" height="2000" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css qtcc4k">{lor:#030929;font-fay:Terma,Terma-fallback,Helveti,Arial,sans-serif;m-width:100%;paddg-top:0.625rem;width:0;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1rem;le-height:1.6;}} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;} i, em{font-fay:Terma,Terma-fallback,Helveti,Arial,sans-serif;}</style><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">(Left) Thomas Barrow the Downton Abbey televisn show.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Nick Briggs</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="11" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“I thk what we've done wh Thomas the story is tried to reflect how sry was,” says Alastair Bce, who worked as the historil advisor to the show, and is reprisg that role <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="wh the new Downton movie" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">wh the new <em>Downton</em> movie</a>, theaters September 20. In the film, dienc will see Barrow the ntext of a wir gay world for the first time: visg a secret gay bar, dodgg police harassment, and possibly even fdg love. </p><p data-no-id="12" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">It’s an excg tale set an excg perd. The post-Edwardian moment—<em>Downton Abbey </em>opens 1912, wh news of the skg of the Tanic; the movie tak the story all the way up to 1927—was an era of tremendo upheaval Wtern culture. World War I was still “the war to end all wars,” the Roarg Twenti were ratchetg up to the Great Deprsn, and the last vtig of Victorianism were beg thrown out the Overton wdow. A rejectn of the past was so fundamental to this perd that we still refer to the artistic flourishg of this moment as “Mornism,” spe now beg 100 years ago. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="13" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Downton Abbey" tle="Downton Abbey" loadg="lazy" width="3500" height="2333" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">"I thk one of the thgs that Downton Abbey don’t get right is that actually a great al more of those young men who were service were homosexual."—alastair bce, the show's historil advisor.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Jaap Buendijk</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="14" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Wendy Moffat, thor of the wily celebrated bgraphy <em><a href=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="A Great Unrerd History: A New Life of E. M. Forster" data-vars-ga-product-id="8752360d-3a52-43f3-a534-3fe87ee8ff3a" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"143b311b-9d5f-4937-a414-329e5c368343","se_id":"115eff3b-95a0-4668-832c-9d02ea92500d","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type data-vars-ga-product-brand data-vars-ga-product-price="$21.52" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="b1386759-6136-4961-aaab-77f5f4d5cb4a" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Authors" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="sale | (not set)" class="body-lk product-lks css-geg5 ebsw2pb0">A Great Unrerd History: A New Life of E. M. Forster</a></em>, characteriz this perd as one of “public disptn of what seemed like stable patterns” life. The tricky work of navigatg those chang is the dramatic enge that powers <em>Downton Abbey</em>. We are watchg morn life emerge all s msy glory, like a ltle alien head punchg through a rseted cht. Ias about sex and sexualy are as much a part of this vlent flowerg as are atonal mic or flapper drs. <em>Downton</em>’s protagonists were born unr one regime of thought, and we enjoy watchg them all stggle to enact s succsor.<br /></p><p data-no-id="15" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">All of them, that is, except for Thomas Barrow. Barrow is stantly regnizable as a morn gay man, even if he never que those words. From isolatn to nversn therapy, his stggl are our stggl, jt perd drag. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="16" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Clapham And Dwyer" tle="Clapham And Dwyer" loadg="lazy" width="2914" height="2185" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">A pair of well-drsed actors, cir 1920.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">B. H. Gooch</span><style data-emotn="css 117g3a1">{lor:#595959;font-fay:Terma,Terma-fallback,Helveti,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;paddg:0 0.3rem;text-transform:upperse;}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-right:0.3125rem;}}</style><span class="css-117g3a1 e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="17" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">On the one hand, this feels like an elaboratn of that famo gay liberatn slogan “we <em>are </em>everywhere,” expandg to be “we <em>were </em>everywhere” also. On the other hand, seems to remove sexualy om the doma of history entirely, suggtg that the experience of beg gay has always been the same, no matter the place or perd. This helps to expla why, after such a strong start, Barrow’s story le <em>Downton Abbey</em> largely fizzl out: he has nowhere to velop. While everyone else the show <em>be</em>, Barrow already <em>is</em>.</p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The qutn for queer <em>Downton Abbey</em> fans, then, is this: Is Thomas an accurate unveilg of historil homosexualy, hidn but fully formed, jt wag for to notice his existence? Or is he a backward projectn of our current ia of what means to be gay, an anachronism disguised as a revelatn?</p><style data-emotn="css 108o02t">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:50%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:0rem;float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:45%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:45%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:left;clear:left;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:45%;marg-right:1rem;marg-left:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:left;clear:left;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="19" class="align-left size-medium embed css-108o02t e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><a href=" target="_blank"><img alt="Landmark, Text, Font, Archecture, Le, Dign, Poster, Buildg, Advertisg, History, " tle="Landmark, Text, Font, Archecture, Le, Dign, Poster, Buildg, Advertisg, History, " loadg="lazy" width="1000" height="1022" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /></a><style data-emotn="css 78jldq">{paddg-left:0rem;}</style><div class="css-78jldq e1xqj1sx2"></div></div></div><p data-no-id="20" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The most obv pot of reference for Barrow’s character n be found E. M Forster’s <em>Mrice. </em>Forster, born on New Year’s Day, 1879, documented the emergence of morn England through the foibl and failur of those that lived (like Forster himself) on the outskirts of the upper-class.<br /></p><p data-no-id="21" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><em>Mrice</em>, his most tobgraphil book, was wrten 1914. It follows s tular protagonist, Mrice Hall—“a medcre member of a medcre school”—as he disvers his sir for other men. After an abortive and agonizg affair wh a fellow stunt om his own upper-class i, Hall meets Alec Scudr on a vis to his ex’s tate. The affair between Scudr and Hall rac forward, movg quickly through break-up and blackmail before liverg the happy endg that was Forster’s <em>raison d’etre</em> for wrg the book the first place. Like Thomas Barrow, Alec Scudr seems preternaturally <em>gay</em>, fully aware of his sexual sir, that they are exclively for men, and that they mark him, irrevobly, as a different sort of person. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="22" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Mrice Hugh Grant" tle="Mrice Hugh Grant" loadg="lazy" width="1024" height="693" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">Jam Wilby as Mrice Hall and Hugh Grant as Clive Durham Merchant Ivory’s 1987 film versn of mrice.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Courty of Merchant Ivory</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="23" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">On the surface, this feels like ntrovertible proof of <em>Downton’</em>s historil accuracy. But when Forster wrote <em>Mrice</em>, he’d never had a relatnship wh another man, and he wouldn’t until midway through World War I, when he was 38 years old. “He imaged the thgs well before he experienced them,” agreed Moffatt, Forster’s bgrapher. Yet the book is often ed as perd rearch. </p><p data-no-id="24" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“It’s much easier jt to look at some medil texts and maybe some lerary on, rather than do the difficult task of workg out what people <em>really</em> thought,” said Profsor Alison Oram, who led the iative <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Pri of Place: England’s LGBTQ Herage" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Pri of Place: England’s LGBTQ Herage</a>, which documented queer historil spac for the Brish ernment. </p><p data-no-id="25" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In particular, lerary rearch n substute the experienc of the upper class for those of all people. In the post-Edwardian perd, upper class men were more likely to already unrstand the world terms of heterosexuals and homosexuals, wh a bright and absolute le dividg the two. But for workg class men like Thomas Barrow, same-sex sire didn’t necsarily preclu havg an otherwise “normal” existence, often cludg relatnships wh women. </p><style data-emotn="css 1mtk2uq">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{clear:both;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:70%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:70%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:0rem;float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;clear:right;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:60%;marg-left:1rem;marg-right:lc(-30% - 1rem);float:right;clear:right;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="large" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="26" class="align-right size-large embed css-1mtk2uq e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="E.M. Forster" tle="E.M. Forster" loadg="lazy" width="2596" height="3617" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-78jldq e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">E.M. FORSTER IN AN UNDATED PHOTO. BORN IN 1879, THE NOVELIST AND CRITIC WROTE <em>HOWARDS END</em> (1910), <em>A ROOM WITH A VIEW</em> (1908), AND <em>A PASSAGE TO INDIA</em> (1924).</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Hulton Dtsch</span><span class="css-117g3a1 e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="27" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">When Forster himself did, fally, embark upon a sexual relatnship, was wh an Egyptian man named Mohammed el-Adl. Like Alec Scudr and Thomas Barrow, el-Adl was young and workg class. But whereas Scudr and Barrow seemed to thk of themselv as gay, el-Adl experienced his sire for men differently. He was worried about beg ught, but didn’t have the kd of existential, what-do-this-mean-about-my-inty crisis that we the Wt associate wh same-sex behavr. Soon after he and Forster met, el-Adl married a woman (for whom he had romantic feelgs), but didn’t curtail his relatnship wh Forster. </p><p data-no-id="28" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Forster was keen to get al-Adl to unrstand sexualy, and sexual orientatn, the same way that he did: An unnsc extensn of the broar lonial project of rhapg the world the image of (aristocratic) England. Over time, <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Brish ctoms would obscure and eventually replace the thoand years of Middle Eastern history celebratg (some kds) of sex between men" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Brish ctoms would obscure and eventually replace the thoand years of Middle Eastern history celebratg (some kds) of sex between men</a>, another example of “morny” beg born this perd. </p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But while El-Adl’s sir might have seemed strange to Forster, they would have been fairly regnizable to another group: workg class Brs. In the post-Edwardian perd, “there uld be greater acmodatn of same-sex sir and same-sex acts workg class muni,” says <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Profsor Jt Bengry" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Profsor Jt Bengry</a>, a cultural historian of queer sexualy England. </p><p data-no-id="30" class="body-dropp css-o9c7xd et3p2gv0">The Labouchere amendment of 1885 ma “gross cency”—a.k.a. sex between men—a crime, and was ed to prosecute Osr Wil. It was a forenner to the kds of police reprsn that Barrow enunters <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the new Downton movie" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">the new <em>Downton</em> movie</a>. But popular unrstandg, beg a “crimal pervert” wasn’t necsarily about the sex you were havg. It was about how well you lived up to the expectatns of your genr, if you wanted a married life, and if you were otherwise rpectable.</p><p data-no-id="31" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The most highly visible queer people this perd would have been those who openly fied genr norms. Even when me to the prosecutn of Wil, much was ma about his athetic and dandified existence, which mocked tradnal manhood.<br /></p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="32" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Shaken Not Stirred" tle="Shaken Not Stirred" loadg="lazy" width="3575" height="2852" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">A group of men socializg at the bar of the Savoy Hotel November 1927.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Fox Photos</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="33" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But for mascule, workg class men, wantg sex wh men “didn’t <em>necsarily</em> qutn their sense of themselv as virile or ‘normal,’” said Dr. Bengry. Acrdg to historian <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Matt Houlbrook’s " class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Matt Houlbrook’s </a><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Queer London" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0"><em>Queer London</em></a>, this is the “central difference between the sexual landspe of terwar London and the prent day.” </p><p data-no-id="34" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">To a 21<sup>st</sup> century ear, this might sound surprisg. But we have to remember the ntext which the men were raised. The Victorian world was cleft twa, wh men on one si, and women on the other. The divi between them was imaged as vast and almost surmountable. Outsi of their immediate fai, men were expected to spend most of their time wh other men; women, wh other women. <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Romantic and tense same-sex iendships were rigur" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">Romantic and tense same-sex iendships were rigur</a>. Heterosexual marriage obvly had sexual dimensns, but was also a eply practil stutn, the ma un of enomic productn the untry, and the only surance agast the vagari of old age. </p><p data-no-id="35" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">As Victorian ials reced om domance—as cross-genr iendships beme more mon, as marriage beme more pannate, as urbanism and greater social mobily created enomic possibili outsi the fay—the men and women who still had tense iendships and bloodls marriag began to seem strange. Increasgly, sexologists, policians, and wrers began to promulgate the ia that the behavrs were signifiers of homosexualy, to be surveilled and curtailed. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="36" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Lerary Garn Party" tle="Lerary Garn Party" loadg="lazy" width="2593" height="1971" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">A lerary garn party of Irish and English men cir 1924. Compton Mackenzie, pictured send om the left the ont row, wrote several works about gay men.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Bettmann</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="37" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">A workg class man like Thomas Barrow, livg the untrysi, was unlikely to have accs to this kd of rmatn about gay inty. Moreover, his relative manls meant he probably would never have thought to go lookg for . Acrdg to <em>Queer London</em>, men like Thomas “neher unrstood themselv, nor were labeled by others, through their choice of sexual partner.”</p><p data-no-id="38" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Later life, <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="after he embarked on a long relatnship wh a happily married London policeman" class="body-lk css-geg5 et3p2gv0">after he embarked on a long relatnship wh a happily married London policeman</a><u>, </u>even Forster realized that his portrayal of workg class sexualy was a b off. At first, he tried to change Bob Buckgham (as he had Mohamed el-Adl), wrg a letter “he mt be ma to see that there n’t be a <em>ménage a trois</em>.” But as the years ntued, and Forster entered to a rg détente wh his boyiend’s wife, he me to realize that was his fictn that might need to change, tellg Christopher Isherwood, “I have sometime thought of Alec [Scudr] marryg.” </p><p data-no-id="39" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Forster never did ed <em>Mrice</em>, however, and his hard-won knowledge of the plexi of the human heart (amongst other ans) died wh him. As s passed, the neat fictn of bary sexualy beme broadly acknowledged “tth,” leavg ls and ls space for middle-dwellg, workg-class men like Buckgham and el-Adl.</p><p data-no-id="40" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">From an earlier and earlier age, people would be tght— streets as much as schools—that homosexuals existed, that they were unlike other men, and that any apparent “middle ground” was actually a slippery slope head straight to hell. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="41" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Social group, Event, Relig stute, Uniform, Formal wear, " tle="Social group, Event, Relig stute, Uniform, Formal wear, " loadg="lazy" width="3574" height="2126" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-qtcc4k e1xqj1sx1">Thomas Barrow (Fourth om the right) the Downton Abbey televisn show.</div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-16u9763 e6iqd2">Collectn Christophel / Alamy Stock Photo</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="42" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">All of which brgs back to Thomas Barrow and the new <em>Downton Abbey</em> movie. 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The nflictg views of homosexualy—as a variant but normal human sexual behavur on one hand, and as psychologilly viant behavur on the other—rema prent most societi the 21st century, but they have been largely rolved ( the profsnal sense) most veloped untri. The Ksey report of 1948, for example, found that 30 percent of adult Amerin mal among Ksey’s subjects had engaged some homosexual activy and that 10 percent reported that their sexual practice had been exclively homosexual for a perd of at least three years between the ag of 16 and 55. In rponse to their activism, many jurisdictns enacted laws banng discrimatn agast homosexuals, and an creasg number of employers Ameri and European untri agreed to offer “domtic partner” benefs siar to the health re, life surance and, some s, pensn benefs available to heterosexual married upl.

In one such stance, Albania repealed s sodomy statut 1995, and gay upl Amsterdam 2001 were legally married unr the same laws that ern heterosexual marriage (rather than unr laws that allowed them to “register” or form “domtic” partnerships). However, most shared wh gay men the sire to have a secure place the world muny at large, unchallenged by the fear of vlence, the stggle for equal treatment unr the law, the attempt to silence, and any other form of civil behavur that impos send-class article was most recently revised and updated by Alison Eldridge. Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected.

Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc. It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly.

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"Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy. Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer".

Ms Macdonald said she had been ma to feel "shame" the 40 years Sunak ma the statement Parliament after a report to service personnel's treatment remend they be given a fancial reward and the PM should publicly lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 and Ms Macdonald was one of thoands of veterans thought to be ptn, Ms Macdonald joed at 19 and was a lance rporal the Women's Royal Army CorpsAfter hearg the statement, Ms Macdonald told BBC Rad Shropshire she had "lots of different emotns" and add: "It's such a historic day and 42 years on I never, ever dreamed that this would happen. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.

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SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. Most LGBT+ performers om Freddie Mercury to Gee Michael keep their sexualy quiet as the mic dtry mands, but two new bands wh out-gay members and lyrics wh gay them break nventn wh their h but sgl Frankie Go to Hollywood’s ‘Relax’ and Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown Boy’. For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans.

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It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years.

That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist.

Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End). It may seem surprisg to Amerin rears, but one of the most vibrant human rights movements around the world today is “gay reparatns, ” or polici tend to make amends for the legacy of systemic discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty.

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Jse Lee Peterson has emerged as one of the right’s most vol anti-gay figur, but his one-time iends now allege that the pastor has had many same-sex relatnships. * gay past *

In still other untri, gay reparatns have centered on a pardon to anyone nvicted unr laws that crimalized same-sex attractn, as the Uned Kgdom, which 2017 issued a posthumo pardon to those nvicted of “gross cency, ” cludg Alan Turg, the mathematician creded wh shorteng the end of World War II; or even fancial pensatn for wag or pensns lost due to havg spent time prison or a mental stutn bee of a homosexual offense, as Spa sce 2009 and Germany sce 2016. Surely, the absence of gay reparatns—or even a discsn of them— the Uned Stat is not out of a rosy history ee of systemic discrimatn toward the LGBTQ muny, although a valid argument n be ma that this history is not particularly well known, save, perhaps, for “don’t ask, don’t tell. Des before “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” om the 1920s through at least the 1960s, there was the policy of “entrapment, ” which volved unrver police officers sendg flirtat signals to other men they prumed to be homosexual the hop of ensnarlg them to illic activy.

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Robert Hammond, a -founr of Friends of the High Le, talks about the gay history surroundg the park. * gay past *

Acrdg to the historian Eric Cervi’s book The Deviant’s War, War, which is about gay rights pneer Frank Kameny, the 15 years after World War II, “homosexual arrts—cludg those for sodomy, dancg, kissg, or holdg hands—occurred at the rate of one every ten mut, ” for a grand total of 1 ln arrts. Supreme Court lg that upheld the state of Geia’s sodomy laws, the urt termed that the Constutn did not protect the rights of gays, lbians, and bisexuals to engage private, nsensual sexual relatns, bee, the jtic nclud, homosexual sex has no nnectn to fay, marriage, abortn, or procreatn.

The famo and bloody history of societal attacks on the Amerin LGBTQ muny clus sger and spokperson Ana Bryant’s 1977 Save Our Children csa, which picted gay men as pedophil; Evangelist Jerry Falwell’s “claratn of war” on homosexualy, a rhetoril tactic employed durg the 1980s to raise funds for Falwell’s Moral Majory anizatn; and the 2016 attack on Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida. The apology me wh a multiln-dollar payout to pensate victims of the “gay purge, ” those fired om the ary bee of their sexual orientatn, and thorized a memorial to the victims of those persecuted for their sexual orientatn the pal cy of Ottawa.

Some crics of gay reparatns such as the nservative polil mentator Michael Medved have mataed that gay people are not servg of reparatns bee unlike Black Amerins, gay people are not victims of multigeneratnal damage, meang that whatever ills homophobia may have ed the past, the ills are not the same as those left behd by slavery, as they do not rry over om generatn to generatn.

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Peter Ackroyd's latt book 'Queer Cy' offers up some surprisg revelatns about London's secret gay past datg all the way back to the Roman age. * gay past *

As argued by a wrer for the right-wg webse RedState, gay reparatns would allow for reparatn claims by the “obe, the disfigured, the disabled, the short, the bald, ” and also by “[m]igrants who weren’t treated kdly when they tried to enter the U. They have also leveraged historil narrativ of homosexual reprsn to fluence public opn and policy toward the LGBTQ muny, such as the opprsn of gays and lbians unr Nazi Germany or unr the homophobic laws of the Francis Fran regime Spa, and shamed public officials for failg to stand up for the human rights of LGBTQ people.

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The new Downton Abbey movie explor Tom's sexualy, but what was life really like for gay men 1920s Bra? Here's whether or not the movie portrayed accurately. * gay past *

Asi om rtorg digny to the victims of state-sponsored polici of anti-gay discrimatn and vlence, gay reparatns hold the promise of puttg an end to the history of opprsn of LGBTQ people while remdg future generatns of the sacrific and stggl that me before them.

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It's cur i watched some vios of straight youtubers (unlike lerary youtubers were most of them are gay the perfume youtubers i found are mostly straight) and both s they were very gay iendly, both were their 40's, straight, married, but not a sgle homophobic ment, fact both of them always said that sometim the label male/female perfume is nothg more than an strategy to sell, and if you like the perfume you should wear no matter if 's labeled as a female others, i fd Jeremy very prefabrited, like if he wanted to project an image and he is actg all the, beg an homophobe don't seem a good ia that kd of marketby Anonymoreply 28June 8, 2021 12:18 PM. That he sat on the throne named Neferkare leads many scholars to believe the tale Kg Neferkare and General Sase, which scrib a gay relatnship between a pharaoh and his general, was fact about Pepi, though Egyptologists ntue to bate if the story was tth or fictn. ”Now several of Peterson’s one-time iends allege that the pastor’s own personal life is rife wh gay sexual of Peter’s former male associat me out June wh on-the-rerd terviews sayg they engaged sexual activi wh him, while other men say he proposned them.

At the same time, Dungy had by then tablished himself as possibly the most publicly anti-gay person at least the recent history of the NFL, raisg money to fight agast same-sex marriage, and sce then publicly cryg the homosexualy of gay athlet and partnerg wh rabidly anti-gay anizatns and dividuals. As s passed, the neat fictn of bary sexualy beme broadly acknowledged “tth, ” leavg ls and ls space for middle-dwellg, workg-class men like Buckgham and an earlier and earlier age, people would be tght— streets as much as schools—that homosexuals existed, that they were unlike other men, and that any apparent “middle ground” was actually a slippery slope head straight to hell.

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Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * gay past *

End they go home to their wiv and male adult performers who go "gay for pay, " a term ed to scribe gay porn which two (or more) otherwise straight dus have sex on mera, the above scenar is jt another day at the Male Porn Stars Are Straight — But They Have Sex Wh Men for a LivgSource: YouTubeThis week, MTV is airg an episo of Te Life explorg the liv of two such performers, and their stggl to balance the seemgly nflictg mands of their profsnal and personal liv. In straight porn, the pay for men is notorly lower than the pay for women, so "gay porn [actors] general make a lot more than straight porn, " Damian McKnight, the CEO and producer of the succsful gay-for-pay se Broke Straight Boys, told the Daily Dot last year.

In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons. In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act.

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Read CNN’s Fast Facts on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng ton the Uned Stat, and learn more about their stggle for equal rights. * gay past *

Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons. This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat.

Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage). Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary.

December 3, 1996 - Hawaii’s Judge Chang l that the state do not have a legal right to prive same-sex upl of the right to marry, makg Hawaii the first state to regnize that gay and lbian upl are entled to the same privileg as heterosexual married upl. Luis Macias knew he had stck ter gold when the first symptoms of viraly h the meme that he had upload of Mike Pence standg alongsi a mcular gay man a rolled-up Pulls a Charlottville“Mike Pence - blast om the gay past, ” reads Macias’ ptn on the meme that’s sce been shared tens of thoands of tim.

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"Pence is so dangero to homosexuals this untry, " said Mike Bors, an illtrator who was one of the first to fd and repost the meme on Friday, startg on s journey to says many Amerins don't realize how dangero Pence is, but "this meme offers a way to get people to look to his relatnship wh gay people. "But like all thgs viral, the meme took on a life of s own and has been terpreted differently by different tweet of the meme, which has been shared 4, 500 tim, claims the photo is of Pence wh his former gay lover a claimg to be Mike Pence's gay lover the 80s posts pic of Pence bathhoe #Tmp #PenceVP — Tea n Whiskey (@Lips4daze) November 21, 2016Another tweet, shared 1, 600 tim, claims the photo is proof that the young gay Pence is agg Bors and Macias said their origal tent was to ll attentn to Pence’s anti-gay history, and jt how wildly out of touch he is wh most of mastream everyone is lghg.

The Begngs of a New Gay World“In the late 19th century, there was an creasgly visible prence of genr-non-nformg men who were engaged sexual relatnships wh other men major Amerin ci, ” says Chad Heap, a profsor of Amerin Studi at Gee Washgton Universy and the thor of Slummg: Sexual and Racial Enunters Amerin Nightlife, 1885-1940.

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”At the same time, lbian and gay characters were beg featured a slew of popular “pulp” novels, songs and on Broadway stag (cludg the ntroversial 1926 play The Captive) and Hollywood—at least prr to 1934, when the motn picture dtry began enforcg censorship guil, known as the Hays Co. ” By the post-World War II era, a larger cultural shift toward earlier marriage and suburban livg, the advent of TV and the anti-homosexualy csas champned by Joseph McCarthy would help ph the flowerg of gay culture reprented by the Pansy Craze firmly to the natn’s rear-view mirror.

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” Some of the lbian, gay or bisexual people of this movement clud wrers and poets such as Langston Hugh, Countee Cullen and Zora Neale Hurston; Profsor Ala Locke; mic cric and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and entertaers Ma Raey, Bsie Smh, Ethel Waters and Gladys Bentley. 1945 – German Homosexual men, signated by a pk triangle on their clothg, were the last group to be released om the Nazi ncentratn mps after liberatn by the Allied forc bee Paragraph 175 of the German Crimal Co stated that homosexual relatns between mal to be illegal.

The APA found that “the latt and bt scientific evince shows that sexual orientatn and exprsns of genr inty occur naturally…and that short, there is no scientific evince that sexual orientatn, be heterosexual, homosexual or otherwise, is a eewill choice.

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