Letter: PT promoted as gay-iendly muny? | Port Townsend Lear

Contents:

• LETTER: PT PROMOTED AS GAY-IENDLY MUNY?
• GAY PASTOR PORT TOWNSEND FI NEWS OF UNED METHODIST CHURCH LE
• LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS WASHGTON
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS PORT TOWNSEND

LETTER: PT PROMOTED AS GAY-IENDLY MUNY?

” Seems to me that all of the assets listed screamed “gay muny. ” I proposed that we go wh and proclaim Port Townsend a “gay-iendly muny.

I mentned Provcetown, Mass., a gay-iendly statn loted at the tip of Cape Cod, and Key Wt, loted on the tip of southern Florida.

She told me that everyone town knows is a gay-iendly muny.

GAY PASTOR PORT TOWNSEND FI NEWS OF UNED METHODIST CHURCH LE

She told me that the lol populatn do not want to promote Port Townsend as such and that would be wrong to e the gay populatn to promote the cy. I may have this all wrong, but I believe that a signifint percentage of the gay muny would be proud to be associated wh an openly gay cy.

LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS WASHGTON

(Mayor Michelle Sandoval repli: I spoke wh Larry, y, rather reluctantly as several of his “funny” ments durg the meetg about gays his own neighborhood stck me as sensive at bt and homophobic at worst.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS PORT TOWNSEND

I don’t believe the list of assets “scream” gay any more than they scream 5 foot 2 and ey of blue. Martha Shelley, who anized the first prott march New York Cy after the 1969 Stonewall Rt and helped found the history-changg Gay Liberatn Front, is g to Port Townsend for an thor’s event next month.

After g out at a time when homosexual acts were illegal, she beme the public speaker for the New York chapter of the historic lbian rights group, the Dghters of Bilis. Immediately after the begngs of the Stonewall Rt on June 28, 1969, Shelley seized upon the history-makg nature of the rebelln agast police btaly and homophobia to anize the first post-Stonewall queer prott march.

At the same time, she joed wh others to found the Gay Liberatn Front.