I Was Part of 303 Creative's Case. I Back Gay Marriage—but SCOTUS Is Right

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a feat for gay rights, the Supreme Court's nservative majory led on Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to sign weddg webs n refe to work wh same-sex upl. One of the urt's liberal jtic wrote a dissent that the cisn's effect is to “mark gays and lbians for send-class stat” and that the cisn opens the door to other discrimatn.

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I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

In the gay dark ag (sometime before Ksey’s rearch revealed how many of there actually are), the sparse rmatn available about the gay muny was pure famatn. ‘Homosexual, ’ a medil term associated wh mental illns and synonymo wh pedophilia, was often the only word available for scribg queer people of any kd (excludg slurs). When the Amerin gay liberatn movement started the late sixti, clil terms like ‘homosexual’ and ‘transexual’ were dropped for the more posive ‘homophile’ (and then simply ‘gay’) and ‘transgenr’.

The pk triangle, a hate-fueled mark assigned to gay men by the Nazis, and the black triangle for lbians were both appropriated by the muny.

Graphic signer Tom Doerr chose the Greek lambda for the Gay Activists Alliance, and would eventually bee the symbol for gay and lbian rights worldwi. For gay bars, pri events, important msag, and any tablishment that is lookg to stake out a fively queer space, say loud and proud wh a bold sign. That’s not so much the se the days, but we gays haven’t totally abandoned the mure approach.

THE SUPREME COURT RUL FOR A DIGNER WHO DON'T WANT TO MAKE WEDDG WEBS FOR GAY COUPL

Tel Aviv’s Shpagat gay bar mimal, offbeat text for that ht of quirk. Most gay liberatn movers and shakers probably weren’t tryg to be pneers—they were jt tryg to be themselv and live their liv an thentic way. The followg signs take their cue om the past, transformg classic genr symbols or a vtage athetic to a progrsive future wh that special gay flair.

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