Milk served the Navy the 1950s, but was discharged after beg qutned about his sexual orientatn. He beme the first openly gay elected official California before his ath 1978.
Contents:
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- THE STORY OF BAYARD RT, OPENLY GAY LEAR THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
- UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
- 40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA
- FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
- THE U.S. NAVY HAS CHRISTENED A SHIP NAMED AFTER SLA GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK
- HOW A LEADG CHRISTIAN COLLEGE TURNED AGAST ITS GAY LEAR
- ‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- THE DOWNFALL OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT
- FORMER "EX-GAY" LEAR WARNS ABOUT THE DANGERS OF SO-CALLED "CONVERSN THERAPY"
- BOY SUTS TELL GAY LEAR TO TAKE A HIKE
- WHY ARE GAY LEARS PERCEIVED AS EFFECTIVE? THE ROLE OF THE TYPE OF ANIZATN, SEXUAL PREJUDICE AND GENR STEREOTYP
- STATE DEPARTMENT'S 1ST OPENLY GAY SPOKPERSON SENDS SIGNAL TO THE WORLD, ADVOT SAY
- UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'
- IN NSERVATIVE UTAH, NAMG ROAD FOR GAY LEAR STANDS OUT
- BOY SUTS OF AMERI TO ALLOW GAY ADULT LEARS; CHURCH-N UNS N KEEP THE EXCLN
- 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * gay leader *
”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. * gay leader *
1/11 Cred(Guillermo Gutierrez Carrasl/SOPA Imag/LightRocket/Getty Imag)View as articleJune 1 marked the start of Pri month, acknowledged by untri across the globe as a time to memorate the LGBTQ+ Pri month is wily celebrated, LGBTQ+ rights are still subject to bate much of the world, wh many untri divid over gay marriage, genr-affirmg re for transgenr mors and other legislatn affectg the LGBTQ+ muny. Lawmakers Latvia’s legislature elected Rkēvičs to serve as print wh 52 vot May, makg him the European Unn’s first openly gay head of 2014, Rkēvičs tweeted that Latvia “mt create a legal amework for all kds of partnerships, I will fight for , I know that there will be mega hysteria right away, but #Proudtobegay.
Addnally, same-sex upl are not allowed to adopt Febary 2019, Brnabić and her partner weled their first child via artificial sematn, acrdg to the Varadkar4/11 Cred(Peter Morrison/AP)View as articleLeo VaradkarCountry: IrelandPosn: Prime MisterTime Office: June 2017-PrentLeo Varadkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay prime mister when he took office 2017. The announcement is the latt dispute between state and lol officials after the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board voted 3-2 on May 16 to reject the curriculum, wh some board members claimg there was not enough parental volvement the curriculum creatn procs as well as makg ments attackg gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk. Poilievre tells T to 'butt out' of New Bnswick's policy on LGBTQ stuntsPoilievre wish Canadians a happy Pri month — but won't say if he'll attend an eventThe "straight pri" movement has emerged recent years as a backlash agast growg social acceptance of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and other sexually diverse Pri paras are held around the world throughout the summer months.
OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
While openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr world lears are still a rary, there are a few who are breakg barriers. * gay leader *
They mark the June 1969 Stonewall rt, when gay bar patrons fought back agast a police crackdown — a pivotal moment wily seen as the start of morn gay rights paras are meant to celebrate a muny that has endured generatns of opprsn and events have taken on new promence at a time when some jurisdictns, notably the U.
" Beyond her LGBTQ activism, DeLarverie also anized and performed at fundraisers for women who suffered om domtic vlence and their Jam Baldw (Photo by Ted Thai)The LIFE Picture Collectn/GettyJam Baldw (1924-1987)A wrer and social cric, Baldw is perhaps bt known for his 1955 llectn of says, "Not of a Native Son, " and his groundbreakg 1956 novel, "Gvanni's Room, " which picts them of homosexualy and bisexualy. Baldw spent a majory of his lerary and activist reer tg others about Black and queer inty, as he did durg his famo lecture tled “Race, Racism, and the Gay Communy” at a meetg of the New York chapter of Black and Whe Men Together (now known as Men of All Colors Together) and playwright Lorrae Hansberry her New York Cy apartment April Attie / Getty ImagLorrae Hansberry (1930-1965)Hansberry was an activist and playwright bt known for her groundbreakg play “A Rais the Sun, ” about a stgglg Black fay on Chigo’s South Si. The inic work was then ma to a 1961 film starrg Sidney Poier and Ruby to “A Rais the Sun” fame, Hansberry — who never publicly acknowledged she was a lbian — joed lbian rights group Dghters of Bilis and ntributed letters about femism and homophobia to s magaze, “The Ladr, ” acrdg to LGBTQ historian Eric Marc, host of the “Makg Gay History” podst.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
A Southern California school district that failed to adopt a state-endorsed social studi curriculum over mentn of gay rights lear Harvey Milk has been fed $1.5 ln by Gov. Gav Newsom. * gay leader *
Now 79, Miss Major, known to many simply as “Mama, ” ris Ltle Rock, Arkansas, where she ntu to be a vol Sprg's mayor Ron On, April 18, Khan / LA Tim via Getty ImagRon On (Born 1950)When On was elected mayor of Palm Sprgs, California 2003, he ma history by beg the first openly gay Ain Amerin man elected mayor of an Amerin cy.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year. * gay leader *
After the war, he earned a doctorate at Harvard Universy and tght astronomy at Geetown Universy, In 1957, Kameny had jt started workg for the Army Map Service, wh hop of beg an astront, when he was termated after vtigators unvered evince he was a, then 32, appealed the firg, argug that flatly labelg gay people a secury risk was “no ls od than discrimatn based upon relig or racial grounds. The jtic refed to hear the appeal, but marked the first time the high urt even nsired a civil rights se based on sexual orientatn — and galvanized Kameny to beg a lifelong activist for equaly for gays and years later, 1965, Kameny, Kay Tob and Barbara Gtgs started the Annual Remrs, the first anized picket protts for gay rights Ameri, held at Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall.
That ugly dismissal cut Milk loose to pursue other terts — he tght high school on Long Island, worked at an surance firm and Wall Street brokerage New York Cy and ultimately opened a mera shop on Castro Street San Francis, where his activist reer began was one of the first openly gay elected officials the U.
’s work—which poss that cultural, societal, and dividual stigmas tend to margalize LGBT lears—we argue that pared wh heterosexual lears, gay and lbian lears will be perceived as ls-effective lears by their followers and receive ls nformy to their fluence attempts (Blashill & Powlishta 2009; Herek, 2007, 2008). G., manager-as-male stereotype; Dodge et al., 1995) suggts study participants might have shown more nformy to lbian lears than to gay lears (Koenig et al., 2011; Shar, 1975) 2: Hypothis DevelopmentAlthough Study 1 did not fd the expected tersectn between lear same-sex sexual orientatn and blogil genr, rearch on genr versn suggts that the tersectn uld be ntgent upon lear genr prentatn (Ellis, 1927; Ke & Dex, 1987; Madon, 1997; Taylor, 1998).
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
This Pri Month, as part of our “Hidn Histori” seri, we look at the ntributns of Bayard Rt, one of the drivg forc of the civil rights movement, whose life as an openly gay man relegated him to behd-the-scen rol much of the time. * gay leader *
's (2010) theoretil mol, we exame whether follower characteristics may tersect wh lear same-sex sexual orientatn to fluence follower learship perceptns and nformy to lear fluence noted earlier, rearch on genr versn suggts that gay men are stereotypilly believed to behave like women, whereas lbians are believed to behave like men (Clsell & Fiske, 2005; Herek, 2002; Ke & Dex, 1987; Madon, 1997; Taylor, 1998).
Therefore, gay lears’ genr prentatn may modify the effects of their same-sex sexual orientatn on followers’ learship perceptns and behavrs, such a way that gay lears who appear to be feme tend to be perceived as ls effective and receive ls nformy to their fluence attempts than gay lears who appear to be mascule.
THE STORY OF BAYARD RT, OPENLY GAY LEAR THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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Empiril evince the LGBT lerature shows that feme gay mal were perceived more negatively than mascule gay mal by predomately heterosexual mal and femal (Blashill & Powlishta, 2009; Lehavot & Lambert, 2007), suggtg a plsible tersectn between gay lears’ sexual orientatn and their genr addn, lbian lears who behave a mascule way fall unr stereotyp about lbians, and are believed to be ls effective than lbian lears who behave femely (Lehavot & Lambert, 2007), bee the former vlat lear genr role stereotyp and junctive norms (i.
Hypothis 3: For lears wh same-sex sexual orientatn, their blogil genr, and genr prentatn teract, such that feme gay lears tend to (3a) be perceived as lower learship effectivens by their followers and (3b) receive ls follower nformy to their fluence attempts than mascule gay lears, and that mascule lbian lears tend to (3c) be perceived as lower learship effectivens by their followers and (3d) receive ls follower nformy to their fluence attempts than feme lbian lears.
As noted earlier, due to homophobia towards gay and lbian dividuals and stereotyp regardg prototypil lears, heterosexual followers tend to perceive lears wh same-sex sexual orientatn as ls effective and exhib low levels of nformy to the lears’ fluence ntrast, sexual mory followers are more likely to intify socially wh their sexual mory lears and tegorize them as -group members (Avol, 2007; Chatman, 1991; Tajfel & Turner, 1985). G., Herek, 2000; Ke & Dex, 1987)—might have implicly fluenced Study 1 participants to react to the gay lear and the lbian lear such a way that they might have harshly punished the gay lear for not adherg to sex-role norms for men, but given ltle punishment to the lbian lear or even reward the lbian lear for beg prumably mascule, a stereotypilly necsary lear qualy (e. However, Study 2, explic rmatn on the lbian lear’s masculy (“rock-climbg, mpg, and brewg craft beer”) and the gay lear’s femy (“bakg, realy TV, and repurposg vtage cloth and knick-knacks to sell on his (her) onle store) might have drawn Study 2 participants’ attentn to the two lears’ same-sex sexual orientatn, which vlat the heteronormative standards for lears (e.
THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
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(2008) reported that a male nferate gay unrgraduate stunt received more negative evaluatns when he was rogated by an experimenter as “beg so gay” than when he appeared to be gay but didn’t receive such a rogatory remark om the experimenter or when he appeared to be straight and didn’t receive any rogatory, was likely that our manipulatn check qutn served as a rogatory remark that cued Study 1 M-Turkers to exprs their prejudice agast same-sex dividuals. E., participants) the current study reacted siarly to the mascule lbian lear and the feme gay lear wh rpect to nformy to the lears’ fluence attempts, renrg no support for our speculatn that the lbian lear received more followers’ nformy than the gay lear Study 1, bee of followers’ assumed masculy for the lbian lear. Aga, as discsed Study 2, we spect that explic rmatn on the lbian lear’s masculy and the gay lear’s femy the current study might have trigged study participants to foc on the lears’ sexual orientatn and rulted harsh punishments om the study participants on both lears for their vlatn of the heteronormative standards for lears (e.
UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. * gay leader *
However, given the relatively small proportns of gay and lbian lears, as well as the potentially sensive nature of the topic, a non-experimental vtigatn of lear sexual orientatn undoubtedly would prove example, rearchers would need to nsir the ethil implitns of gatherg rmatn om followers who perceive their lears to be gay or lbian. In a untry where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ muny through text msag and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ Nkom intifi as heterosexual, she has dited her work to fightg for Cameroon’s LGBTQ muny and found the Associatn for the Defence of Homosexualy 2003. Jonathan Van Ns, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk, and Karamo Brown om Queer Courty of NetflixThe all-star st of Netflix’s new Queer Eye seri — a reboot of Bravo’s early 2000s seri Queer Eye for the Straight Guy — may be all fun when to makeovers, but they’re ser about makg a difference the “Fab Five” — Tan France, Jonathan Van Ns, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, and Antoni Porowski — speak openly on Queer Eye about their personal stggl and experienc wh homophobia and discrimatn.
3 ln members, Pastor Rohrer had been barred om the church bee of s “polici agast gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer dividuals, ” acrdg to Pastor Rohrer’s bgraphy on the Grace Evangelil Lutheran Church Megan Rohrer Pastor Rohrer was ordaed 2006 through the Extraordary Candidacy Project, now known as Extraordary Lutheran Mistri, which origated the early 1990s ristance to an Evangelil Lutheran Church policy that required s gay clergy to be celibate. ”In July 2010, Pastor Rohrer was one of seven openly gay pastors who had prevly been barred om mistry to be regnized as clergy members by the Evangelil Lutheran Church a news nference after the pastors were regnized, Pastor Rohrer relled facg challeng while growg up South Dakota and endurg discrimatn, such as havg holy water thrown at them the name of exorcisg them. 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.
40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA
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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. 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).
FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
Bayard Rt was an dispensable force behd the Civil Rights Movement and openly gay. * gay leader *
Focg on the ntext of discrimatn the workplace, recent evince shows that gay men and lbians are treated and evaluated unfairly parison to heterosexual people, as a rult of sexual prejudice and stereotypil genr rol (ACLU, 2015; Barron & Hebl, 2013; Drydakis, 2015; Horvath & Ryan, 2003; Ruggs et al., 2013; Tilcsik, 2011). Th, the perceived effectivens of a gay male lear havg stereotypil feme characteristics and of one havg stereotypil mascule characteristics was stereotyp refer to different expectatns associated wh men and women, and scribe how they are expected to behave and appear to others (Eagly, 1987; Heilman, 1983). On the other hand, women are expected to have stereotypil feme characteristics like munaly, warmth, and sociabily (Cuddy, Fiske & Glick, 2008; Eagly & Steffen, 1984) Genr Inversn Theory (Ke & Dex, 1987) poss that gay men and lbians are perceived to posss stereotypil characteristics associated wh heterosexual dividuals of the oppose sex rather than of the same sex.
THE U.S. NAVY HAS CHRISTENED A SHIP NAMED AFTER SLA GAY RIGHTS LEAR HARVEY MILK
Dpe the legalizatn of same-sex marriage the Uned Stat (U.S.) and an creasg number of out gay and lbian bs lears, we have ltle * gay leader *
A large body of work has supported the assumptn of genr versn theory that people perceive gay men to be siar to heterosexual women and lbians to be siar to heterosexual men (Blashill & Powlishta, 2009; Callenr, 2015; Dex & Ke, 1985; Ke & Dex, 1987; LaMar & Ke, 1998; Madon, 1997; Miller & Lewallen, 2015; Niedlich, Steffens, Krse, Settke & Ebert, 2015; Page & Yee, 1986; Steffens, Jonas & Denger, 2015; Taylor, 1983). Prev rearch has also shown that men wh stereotypil feme characteristics are more likely to be perceived as gay, whereas women wh stereotypil mascule characteristics are more likely to be perceived as lbians (Cox, Deve, Bischmann & Hy, 2016; Geiger, Harwood & Hummert, 2006; Lehavot & Lambert, 2007; Storms, Stivers, Lambers & Hill, 1981) an versn of genr stereotyp is an important predictor of workplace discrimatn agast people sexual mori (Clarke & Arnold, 2018; Liberman & Golom, 2015; Morton, 2017). We proposed that sexual prejudice is a signifint factor creatg biased evaluatns of gay lears, pecially when those lears are characterized by stereotypilly feme Lord and Maher's (1991) Learship Categorizatn Theory, learship effectivens is termed by whether the characteristics of an dividual are perceived to match those of the prototypil lear.
HOW A LEADG CHRISTIAN COLLEGE TURNED AGAST ITS GAY LEAR
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 leader *
Th, other words, a gay man, who belongs to a stereotyped group, uld be perceived as havg social role that is ngent wh a learship role, which lowers the evaluatn of that group member as an actual or potential occupant of that the same time, the ternalizatn of a culturally shared knowledge about the state of ferry and powerlsns of people belongg to sexual mori n be exprsed the form of negative attus towards them (Herek & McLemore, 2013).
‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY
John Smid once ran the "ex-gay" group Love Actn, recently portrayed the film Boy Erased by Joel Edgerton. Smid now breaks his silence on his earlier work. * gay leader *
In their study, the thors found that people wh high sexual prejudice tend to nigrate most strongly the people who simultaneoly vlated expectatns regardg both dimensns of the tradnal sexual and genr prent relevance, Morton (2017) found that high levels of sexual prejudice exerted a negative effect on perceptns of the learship effectivens of gay men.
Th, addn to the key role played by sexual prejudice the biased perceptn of gay lears, is possible to expect sexual prejudice and genr stereotyped characteristics associated wh gay lears to have a bed effect, raisg distorted perceptns about those lears, pecially when their learship effectivens is to be two onle experiments volvg heterosexual men, we examed perceptns of the learship effectivens of gay men the Uned Stat. Mascule) characteristics associated wh the gay lear would strengthen the negative relatnship between sexual prejudice and learship, Study 1 was foced on the teractive effects of the sexual orientatn of male lears, genr stereotyp associated wh work anizatns and sexual prejudice on perceived learship effectivens. "Several nservative members of the Methodist clergy told Fox News Digal June that far om settlg the issue, however, the 2019 vote was disregard by many liberal lears wh the UMC who cid to rema the nomatn while missng openly gay clergy and officiatg same-sex weddgs Lomperis of the Instute on Relign & Democracy, who has served as a UMC General Conference legate, told The Christian Post that Bridgeforth's promotn exhibs "further direct fiance of the UMC’s official l, which is creasgly beg normalized.
(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) (The Associated Prs)SALT LAKE CITY – A proposal to name a street after pneerg gay lear Harvey Milk is the latt display of Salt Lake Cy standg out as a blue dot a ep-red state where the prevailg Mormon fah still has a ght relatnship wh the LGBT 's pal cy recently elected s first openly gay mayor and s send stg gay uncilman, creatg an creasgly iendly atmosphere for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny the home of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day nservative relign's tone on gay issu has softened recent years, but still oppos same-sex marriage, believ homosexualy is a s and recently banned baptisms for the children of gay parents.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The Wtern Jurisdictn of the Uned Methodist Church promoted an openly gay clergyman to the rank of bishop fiance of their l prohibg the ordatn of "practicg homosexuals." * gay leader *
Temple Square was the se of protts 2008 after the church supported efforts to pass a short-lived gay marriage ban lears subsequently softened their tone, backg a Utah anti-discrimatn law last year that protects gay and transgenr people om hog and employment discrimatn while safeguardg the rights of relig groups and many as two-thirds of Utah's 3 ln rints are believed to be members of the Mormon relign, though some are more volved the fah than 's pal also has supported a thrivg gay muny. "The admissn of openly gay lears is nsistent wh the doctr of the Church and what have tradnally been the valu of the Boy Suts of Ameri, " said a statement om Mormon headquarters Salt Lake ntrast, the Human Rights Campaign, a natnal LGBT-rights anizatn, said the Boy Suts should not allow church-sponsored uns to ntue excludg gays.
Several nomatns that llectively sponsor close to half of all Sut uns — cludg the Roman Catholic church, the Mormon church and the Southern Baptist Conventn — have been apprehensive about endg the ban on gay BSA's top lears pledged to fend the right of any church-sponsored uns to ntue excludg gays as adult volunteers. Louie Gigl beg removed om givg the benedictn at the Ingural addrs over his past anti-gay ments serv to remd everyone that gay bashg is still a favore past-time certa evangelil Christian to anti-gay pastors specifilly, there are those wh feelgs of hate and those wh somethg so far off the wall that you wonr if supernatural mon posssn is to blame.
THE DOWNFALL OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT
A proposal to name a street after pneerg gay lear Harvey Milk is the latt display of Salt Lake Cy standg out as a blue dot a ep-red state where the prevailg Mormon fah still has a ght relatnship wh the LGBT muny. * gay leader *