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Contents:

• JOHANN HARI WIKI, PARTNER, GAY, FAY, HEIGHT, NET WORTH
• JOHANN HARI : THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF THE GAY FASCISTS
• JOHN GAY
• JOHN PLK FORMALLY RENOUNC, APOLOGIZ FOR HARMFUL 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
• GAY
• PRCE OF LIECHTENSTE: “GAYS N GET MARRIED, BUT THEY N’T ADOPT”
• THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF 'GAY FASCISM' NIERS
• WHY IS ANTI-GAY VLENCE SOARG BRA?

JOHANN HARI WIKI, PARTNER, GAY, FAY, HEIGHT, NET WORTH

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JOHANN HARI : THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF THE GAY FASCISTS

Sign up to our Eveng Headl email for your daily gui to the latt newsSign up to our ee US Eveng Headl emailThe Amerin right prents homosexualy as somethg alien to the Amerin experience – an tr that explibly gate-crashed Ameri 1969 the form of a rtg drag queen clutchg a high heel her fist as a weapon. For people who talk csantly about honourg Amerin history, they have built a historil picture of their untry that n only be staed by scbbg clean of a signifint part of the populatn and everythg they brought to the party (if not the Tea Party) his new book, A Queer History of the Uned Stat, the cultural cric Michael Bronski ns the film backward, through 500 years of Amerin life, showg there were gays and bisexuals every scene, makg and remakg Ameri.

JOHN GAY

They were among some of the untry's great ins, om Ey Dickson to Calamy Jane to perhaps even Abraham Lln and Eleanor rtg drag queens of the Stonewall Inn arrive only on page 210 of a 250-page book that argu gay people weren't merely prent at every stage – they had a historil missn Ameri. Yet a strange and disagreeable turn, Bronski nclus that the fal act of this story, gays have en masse abandoned their missn by mandg the most domtic and Puran goal of all: monogamo gay alternative to Puran Ameri began before the first whe settler ever arrived.

JOHN PLK FORMALLY RENOUNC, APOLOGIZ FOR HARMFUL 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT

The day before Christopher Columb set foot North Ameri, was a safer place for gay people than was ever gog to be aga for several limed-but-sturdy evince provid by historians that Bronski draws on suggts homosexualy was treated matter-of-factly among most Native Amerin trib.

The historian RI Moore has tried to unpack how societi create "dangero" groups that need to be shunned – Jews, heretics, lepers, gays – his book The Formatn of a Persecutg Society, and Bronski subscrib to his perspective.

Perhaps precisely bee Ameri was admirably a untry of immigrants, need to clg to the embers of Puran homophobia to rerce a sense of was only 1869 that the Hungarian wrer Karl-Maria Kertbeny ed the word "homosexual" and began to try to scribe the phenomenon scientifilly.

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Intrigugly, the first great open champns of homosexual eedom Ameri were, as turns out, almost all 's around this same time that gay people began craftg their own narrativ, albe awkwardly and pafully, for the first time the Amerin story. The gradual expansn and eeg of straight sexualy – s -Puranisatn – brought wh greater tolerance for gay sexualy, as the two the most cisive turng pot arrived when gay people began to band together to mand to be treated cently.

PRCE OF LIECHTENSTE: “GAYS N GET MARRIED, BUT THEY N’T ADOPT”

My view – sce readg Andrew Sullivan's masterpiece Virtually Normal when I was a teenager – is that the pot of the gay-rights stggle is to show that homosexualy is a trivial and meangls difference.

THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF 'GAY FASCISM' NIERS

Gay people are margal not bee of persecutn but bee they have a historil e – to challenge "how genr and sexualy are viewed normative culture" role is to show that monogamy, and genr boundari and ias like marriage throttle the ee libidal impuls of humany. This is the bt I n figure out his posn: He do fally explicly say that the gay movement should have fought stead to "elimate" all ncept of marriage unr the law, a e that would have kept gay people margalised for centuri, if not forever.

WHY IS ANTI-GAY VLENCE SOARG BRA?

It's bizarre that Bronski – after a rog historil rebuttal to the right-wg attempt to wre gays out of Amerin history – ends up agreeg wh Santom, Beck and Bachmann that gay people are herently subversive and revolutnary, longg for the basic stutns of the heterosexual world to be torn 's a whole Gay Pri para of people marchg through Bronski's book who show isn't so.