Palm Sprgs Pri’s Ingural Big Gay BBQ  In The Arenas District: Saturday, June 24

Contents:

• BIG GAY BBQ
• PRI GROUP TO HOST ‘BIG GAY BBQ’ PALM SPRGS ON SATURDAY
• PALM SPRGS PRI’S INGURAL BIG GAY BBQ  IN THE ARENAS DISTRICT: SATURDAY, JUNE 24
• THE BIG GAY BBQ IS UNRWAY PALM SPRGS ON ARENAS
• STRAIGHT BARBECUE & GAY BEACH - FLCHER
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• GREATER PALM SPRGS PRI TO HOST INGURAL BIG GAY BBQ SATURDAY
• ARENAS DISTRICT BIG GAY BBQ
• BIG GAY BBQ - ARENAS DISTRICT
• EAST TEXAS BA SHOP THAT SLURRED GAY CTOMERS NOW THE “#1 GAY HANGOUT TEXAS,” ACRDG TO YELP
• ‘THE DAILY SHOW’ SET UP AN ANTI-GAY FOOD TCK AND SHOCKED NORTH CAROLIANS: WATCH
• GAY CHEFS — 11 GREAT RECIP
• FULL VIO OF DALLAS BBQ “GAY BASHG” RAIS QUTNS ABOUT VICTIM’S CLAIMS
• YOU KNOW HOW I KNOW YOU'RE GAY? BBQ APRON
• THE BIG GAY
• TEXAS GAY WEDDG CATERG, BUFFET & BANQUET SERVIC
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

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Palm Sprgs Pri, advotg for equaly and jtice Coachella Valley sce 1986, is prentg the gural BIG Gay BBQ, a summer Pri month celebratn. Love all, the BIG Gay BBQ brgs the muny together to celebrate diversy and LGBTQ people of all cultural backgrounds.

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Big Gay BBQSaturday, High Noon:: Monte R Public Beach, Monte R, CASchle of Events12pm Guts arrive Help yourself to a ol beverage, water or sunscreen!

Even the mayor of Long Beach is an out and proud gay man, so ’s no wonr that the cy would have s own bar scene terg to the muny. Many nsir Mhaft to be the anchor of Long Beach’s Broadway rridor, a e long stretch between Alamos Avenue and Cherry Avenue wh the cy’s nst llectn of gay tablishments.

ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

PALM SPRGS PRI’S INGURAL BIG GAY BBQ  IN THE ARENAS DISTRICT: SATURDAY, JUNE 24

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The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn. ”A Colorado law forbids discrimatn agast gay people by bs open to the public as well as statements announcg such discrimatn. Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual owners of bs challengg those laws have argued that the ernment should not force them to choose between the requirements of their fahs and their livelihoods.

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Jtice Sotomayor seemed pecially ncerned about the way the urt’s opn would send a disapprovg msage to the public about people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, or who were same-sex relatnships. Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple. ETFriday’s lg was another reassurg cisn for relig celebratory moment outsi the Supreme Court on Friday, after the urt livered the latt a strg of judgments favor of relig Zuhaib/Associated PrsConservativ who have moral and theologil objectns to gay marriage saw the Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday as reassurance that they would be able to assert their beliefs a public square that they see as creasgly hostile to a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the jtic agreed wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

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”Acrdg to pollg om 2021 by the Public Relign Rearch Instute, majori of most major relig groups — cludg Catholics, Jews and Mlims — oppose allowg small-bs owners to refe to serve gay and lbian people on relig grounds. Smh and her lawyers have emphasized that her objectn is not to workg wh same-sex upl or gay dividuals, but to signg webs for gay weddgs. Several siar s have centered on nservative Christian small bs owners who object to workg on gay weddgs specifilly, cludg a baker Colorado, two vatn signers Arizona and a Kentucky-based a news nference shortly after the lg was issued, Krist Waggoner, general unsel for Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented Ms.

” She said her nsiratn acceptg work as a webse signer was the “msage” of the se, not the inty of the Smh’s portfol clus webs for church, real tate pani and polil many nservative Christians hailed the cisn on Friday, drew cricism om some progrsive Christians and terfah groups, cludg those that serve gay people of fah. “Broad exemptns to allow relig-based discrimatn hurts people of fah, too, ” Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Mistry, which advot for gay Catholics, said a statement. McCoy for The New York TimGay and transgenr rights anizatns on Friday nmned the Supreme Court lg backg a Colorado webse signer’s bid to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, llg the cisn a dangero backslidg on L.

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ETHere’s how urt battl over servg same-sex upl have played out the Cote for The New York TimIn the latt se volvg same-sex marriage rights, relig eedom and discrimatn, the Supreme Court on Friday led favor of a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right not to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that bans discrimatn agast gay ’s a brief look at some of the most proment s before Friday’s:A Colorado baker ws urtIn June 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of a Colorado baker who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple.

Kennedy wrote that the missn’s members had acted wh “clear and impermissible hostily” to people wh scerely held relig Bra, a kemaker prevailsBra’s Supreme Court led favor of a bakery October 2018 that had refed to make a ke bearg the slogan “Support Gay Marriage, ” sayg the refal was not discrimatory.

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The urt’s cisn mak easier for bs Bra to cle ctomer requts that are at odds wh their dispute began 2014, when Gareth Lee, a gay rights activist Northern Ireland, sought to buy a ke for a party om Ashers Bakg Company Belfast that showed two “Same Street” characters, Bert and Ernie; a logo for his group, QueerSpace; and the slogan supportg gay marriage. A florist Washgton State says her rights were vlatedIn 2013, Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of a flower shop the small cy of Richland, southeastern Washgton, refed to create floral arrangements for a gay uple’s two grooms, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, had prevly bought flowers at her store, Arlene’s Flowers. ”Invatn signers sue the cy of PhoenixThe Arizona Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments January after two Christian vatn signers said they would refe to create weddg vatns for same-sex upl if Da and Breanna Koski, evangelil Christians and the owners of Bsh & Nib Stud, sued the cy of Phoenix 2016, sayg they feared legal retributn if they did not fulfill requts om gay or lbian upl.

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The duo, who create handma artwork for weddgs and other events, ntend that creatg vatns for gay or lbian upl would be tantamount to endorsg same-sex far, Ms. Colorado Civil Rights Cote for The New York TimThe Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday favor of a Colorado web signer has echo of a 2018 se about a baker who had turned away a gay uple seekg a weddg that cisn, Masterpiece Cakhop v.

Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn the 7-to-2 cisn 2018, seemed unable to choose between two of his re mments: He was the thor of every major Supreme Court cisn protectg gay rights unr the Constutn and also the urt’s most arnt fenr of ee speech. “The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, ” he wrote, “all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market. After the 2020 electn, Colorado bee a center of electn nspiraci, a e embraced by some of s state is “a nice enpsulatn on what lims have been placed on the Christian right and what power and fluence they n still yield, ” William Schultz, a historian at the Universy of Chigo Divy School who is workg on a book about Christian culture Colorado Sprgs, said last 1992, voters the state passed what was nsired at the time to be an unual ballot iative prohibg Colorado om regnizg gay, lbian and bisexual people as a protected class.

That statute was the subject of a siar high-profile se, which a baker om Lakewood, Colo., Jack Phillips, cled to make a weddg ke for a gay 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of Mr.

‘THE DAILY SHOW’ SET UP AN ANTI-GAY FOOD TCK AND SHOCKED NORTH CAROLIANS: WATCH

Smh have said they would serve gay people as dividual clients but object to providg servic for a same-sex weddg. PetersCoverg the media's tersectn wh polics, culture and lawThe Alliance Defendg Freedom is a drivg force s to lim gay rights.

Two s ago, for stance, urged the Supreme Court not to overturn a Texas law that ma homosexual activy illegal. PetersCoverg the media's tersectn wh polics, culture and lawThe majory opn by Jtice Neil Gorsuch c a major ee speech cisn volvg gay rights: Boy Suts of Ameri v. Dale, a 2000 se which the urt led 5-4 that the Boy Suts uld exclu gay sutmasters bee opposn to homosexualy is part of the anizatn’s “exprsive msage.

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Activists like Ana Bryant, Jerry Falwell and Jam Dobson characterized homosexualy as a threat to tradnal fay the Supreme Court led Obergefell v. Another poll by Pew found that almost half of whe evangelils born after 1964 favored same-sex marriage 2017, pared to about a quarter of olr whe fah groups that have tradnally opposed gay rights now support some acmodatns for same-sex marriage.

PetersCoverg the media's tersectn wh polics, culture and lawThree years ago, Jtice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote today's opn favor of the webse signer who oppos same-sex marriage, was the thor of a very different opn om the urt, lg that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgenr employe om workplace discrimatn.

Jtice Gorsuch wrote that would be impossible “to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex.

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Emphasizg her view that prohibg bs om discrimatg agast gay people is a regulatn of nduct, not speech, she wr: “The majory’s repeated votn of this Orwellian thought policg is revealg of jt how much misunrstands this se. The New Republic published an article reportg that the Colorado webse signer who oppos same-sex marriage, and whose challenge to Colorado’s antidiscrimatn law took this se to the Supreme Court, may not have received an actual requt om a gay uple to create a weddg 30, 2023, 10:17 a. ET Ruth GrahamCoverg relignThe Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented the Colorado signer who did not want to make a webse celebratg gay marriage, praised the lg.

ETHere’s what to know about the ee speech a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. ”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative Christians, who celebrated the lg on Friday as a victory for relig dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor lled the lg “profoundly wrong, ” argug that the Colorado anti-discrimatn law “targets nduct, not speech, for regulatn, and the act of discrimatn has never nstuted protected exprsn unr the First Amendment. A Colorado law forbids discrimatn agast gay people by bs open to the public as well as statements announcg such discrimatn.

At the same time, the lg limed the abily of the ernments to enforce anti-discrimatn urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn. In the 20th century, queer beme a rogatory term fg homosexuals and any others who acted outsi tradnal genr rol. Last week, San Diego State’s Queer Stunt Unn held s first annual Big Queer BBQ, an event prevly known as the Big Gay BBQ.

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This transformatn name begs the qutn: What signifince do the term queer hold the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny today? [quote]The transn om Big Gay BBQ to Big Queer BBQ signifi the relevance of the word queer as an clive term ed to clu and fe those who don’t intify wh any sgular sexualy or genr inty.

Tth be told, while some choose to intify as strictly straight or homosexual, there are people whose sexual inti are as fluid as their wardrobe choic.

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Whether you are gay, straight, bisexual, transgenr, asexual, pansexual, or any other sha of the rabow, queer allows for a place to belong. Nothg hers summer better than enjoyg lic BBQ, beverag, and great mic wh iends on a summer’s night at the biggt and most fabulo BIG Gay BBQ! At least, if the treatment of Coll Dewberry and Kelley Williams—a gay uple who vised the town—by the staff of Big Earl’s Ba Hoe and Country Store is any ditn, ’s not.

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When Dewberry and Williams’s story ma headl, hundreds of people took to Yelp to exact revenge by scribg Big Earl’s Ba Hoe as the “#1 Gay Hangout In Texas” and explorg the menu wh a wi variety of double (perhaps even triple) entendr.

I was sorely disappoted bee I had heard Big Earl’s was overn wh gays so I went there to try to meet some women. “If there’s any problems, they will be taken re of appropriately, ” says Christa Cheney, who is Big Earl’s dghter and the wars who ma the homophobic remark. It’d be nice to image that an flux of iendly gay ctomers uld broan the perspective of an stutn—but appears that the Big Earl fay, wh lls to the Sheriff’s partment and the state (prumably the Texas Rangers?

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In se your memory needs rehg, 32-year-old Jonathan Snip reported beg punched, kicked, and attacked by two men shoutg antigay slurs at the Chelsea spot after he accintally knocked over a drk while shg out of the rtrant after hearg about a ath his fay. Rob Smh is a multimedia journalist and thor of Closets, Combat and Comg Out: Comg of Age as a Gay Man the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Army.

Whether was issu of racism gay clubs, gay youth issu, issu specifilly pertag to black, queer people, I’ve kept an active profile. Beg a gay culary figure is important to me bee ’s a legacy built on the shoulrs of Jam Beard, Craig Claiborne, Bill Neal, and many others. When I was wrg The Cookg Gene, beme very important to me to do what they uldn’t do, which was to say, hey, gay chefs e om gay kids who once dreamed of wowg people wh their food and flair.