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Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS
• ATRALIAN MAN SENTENCED TO 9 YEARS PRISON FOR GAY AMERIN’S 1988 MANSLGHTER
• THE GAY AGENDA BLUEPRT: A PLAN TO TRANSFORM AMERI
• DMMER NO.115 GAY 1988 D. D. TEOLI JR. A. C.
• HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
• BROTHER OF GAY AMERIN WHO WAS FATALLY ATTACKED SYDNEY 1988 SAYS POLICE MONIZED FAY
• MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
• AN ATRALIAN MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLGHTER ATH OF A GAY AMERIN 1988
• BROTHER OF GAY AMERIN ATTACKED ON SYDNEY CLIFF 1988 SAYS KILLER SERV NO LENIENCY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• 1988 CHATE LE GAY
• GAY V. AK
• HIDN BRA: AMERI'S CHANGG ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE
• SYDNEY MAN ADMS TO PHG AMERIN OFF CLIFF 1988 GAY HATE CRIME
• ATRALIAN PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLG GAY AMERIN 1988

GAY RIGHTS

Sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act 1988 stated that lol thori uld not "tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy" or "promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship". He meets a handsome bisexual productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview works, thanks to HarveyAward wng wrer actor Harvey Fierste portrays a shy and lovels baret artist who to terms wh his bisexual lover, wh the man of his dreams, and fally ( a heartbreakg nontatn sure to leave a lump even the most stoic of throats) wh his homophobic, harpy mother. Allan Tannenbm via Getty ImagCoupl embrace and kiss Central Park after a gay Pri para, New York, New York, June 26, Alpert via Getty ImagA gay rights protter drag wh a banner clarg 'Not Every Boy Dreans Of Beg A Mare' durg a gay rights march up Fifth Avenue to Central Park, New York Archive via Getty ImagA group of men ri a tck at the tersectn of 32nd Street and Fifth Avenue durg the annual gay Pri para New York Cy, cir Prs via Getty ImagGay and lbian Pri para New York Cy, cir 1980.

C., Gay & Lbian Physicians of Chigo' durg the annual Chigo gay and lbian Pri day para, Chigo, Illois, June 28, Sohm/Visns of Ameri via Getty ImagGay and lbian Pri para, Hollywood, California, McPartland via Getty ImagTwo women wearg 'Wife' signs around their necks, se for the mera, at the 1989 gay Pri para Greenwich Village, Manhattan, memoratg the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, June 25, 1989: #TheFutureIsQueer is HuffPost’s monthlong celebratn of queerns, not jt as an inty but as actn the world. Not only are stunts here ntent to rema ignorant about homosexualy, but they don't md wieldg their prejudice like a weapon agast gays as a group, or any man who don't achieve some unfed and arbrary level of "masculy, " or any woman who is sufficiently "feme. One nsequence of applyg the stereotyp is that a small actn of people who nform to them are persecuted while the vast majory of gay people - who do not nform to them - are ee om beg labeled "fags, " "homos, " "dyk, " etc., and do not cur the same persecutn and discrimatn.

ATRALIAN MAN SENTENCED TO 9 YEARS PRISON FOR GAY AMERIN’S 1988 MANSLGHTER

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

THE GAY AGENDA BLUEPRT: A PLAN TO TRANSFORM AMERI

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn. 1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.

Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.

DMMER NO.115 GAY 1988 D. D. TEOLI JR. A. C.

In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985. But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.

In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U.

Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth. SYDNEY (AP) — An Atralian man who admted killg a gay Amerin by punchg him off a cliff top Sydney 1988 was sentenced on Thursday to ne years prison, endg the victim’s fay’s 35-year battle for Phillip Whe, 52, had plead guilty the New South Wal state Supreme Court to Los Angel-born Stt Johnson’s had plead guilty last year to the then-27-year-old’s murr — a greater crime — and had been sentenced to more than 12 years prison.

HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE

Well-rearched surveys (as opposed to some wh markedly skewed sampl and/or methodology) have nsistently placed the homosexual populatn of Ameri at around 2 to 3 percent—yet the fluence of homosexuals on Amerin culture is vastly out of proportn wh their actual numbers. A USA Today article last year reported 32 regularly appearg bisexual or homosexual characters primetime work scripted seri for the 2014-15 televisn season, wh another 64 appearg ble TV shows (Bill Keveney, “Y, You Really Are Seeg More LGBT Characters on TV, ” Oct. They then add this utn for those who would want to ph the gay agenda too far: “It almost go whout sayg that groups on the fartht marg of acceptabily such as NAMBLA [the North Amerin Man-Boy Love Associatn, which as s name suggts promot adult-child homosexual sex] mt play no part at all such a mpaign: spected child-molters will never look like victims...

BROTHER OF GAY AMERIN WHO WAS FATALLY ATTACKED SYDNEY 1988 SAYS POLICE MONIZED FAY

Yet at the same time, they ma a statement showg that gays really aren’t the opprsed, victimized group Kirk and Madsen advote they be portrayed as: “Bee those gays not supportg fai ually have more discretnary e than average, they uld afford to ntribute much more.

On May 9, 2012, Print Obama beme the first stg US print to clare his support for gay marriage, statg: “At a certa pot, I’ve jt nclud that for me personally is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I thk same-sex upl should be able to get married. Six other stat which gay marriage bans had been overturned, Colorado, Kansas, North Carola, South Carola, Wt Virgia, and Wyomg, were also affected by the Supreme Court lg bee they were the jurisdictns of the lower urts that had overturned the gay marriage bans. Most LGBT+ performers om Freddie Mercury to Gee Michael keep their sexualy quiet as the mic dtry mands, but two new bands wh out-gay members and lyrics wh gay them break nventn wh their h but sgl Frankie Go to Hollywood’s ‘Relax’ and Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown Boy’.

CANBERRA, Atralia (AP) — The brother of a gay Amerin who was attacked and fell om a Sydney cliff top 1988 said elements wh lol police had monized their fay over their pursu of Atralian man was sentenced to ne years prison Thursday for killg Stt Johnson. ” The fay was “very close iends” wh Detective Chief Inspector Peter Yeomans’ “amazg team” of vtigators that arrted Whe Johnson said the nvictn on Wednday of Stanley Bce Early, 77, for murrg Raymond Keam a gay hangout the Sydney suburb of Randwick 1987 was proof that old s uld be about Steve Johnson’s cricism that the fay had been monized, the police media office referred to Yeomans’ ments outsi urt on Thursday.

MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

Episo NotFrom Eric Marc: The late thor and activist Vo Rso is bt known for his 1981 landmark book, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi, and for -foundg both GLAAD (origally known as the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and ACT UP (the AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power) my terview wh Vo, you’ll hear him trace the start of his activism to a ndlelight vigil outsi St. Jefey also piled hours of outtak om the documentary on a range of topics and featurg terviews wh several different people, which you n fd Rso is also creded as a wrer for the 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet, which is based on his book and learn more about the pictn of male homosexualy  the silent and “pre-” eras of film the U.

AN ATRALIAN MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLGHTER ATH OF A GAY AMERIN 1988

So those three facts sort of nspired to make me realize that I wanted to wre a readable, accsible book about the history of the ways which lbians and gay men had been portrayed on the screen, pecially mastream movi, which reach most people, bee I felt that our image was at the root of homophobia.

In 1964, a Florida legislative mtee led by Senator Charley Johns published Homosexualy and Cizenship Florida, also known as the Purple Pamphlet, as part of a wch hunt to seek out gays and bisexuals workg schools, universi, and ernment jobs, who they believed were termed to “subvert the Amerin way of life by ntrollg amic stutns and by rptg the natn’s moral fiber, ” acrdg to Carry’ on the Lbian and Gay South. This began a pilgrimage to Broward, pecially to Fort Lrdale and s neighbor Wilton Manors, which has bee a gay mec s own right, ranked as the cy wh the send hight percentage of LGBT rints the untry as of the 2010 cens, makg up 14 percent of s populatn of jt over 11, 000.

BROTHER OF GAY AMERIN ATTACKED ON SYDNEY CLIFF 1988 SAYS KILLER SERV NO LENIENCY

SYDNEY (AP) — A man who admted killg Amerin mathematician Stt Johnson by punchg him om a cliff top at a gay meetg place Sydney 1988 serv no leniency and should face the longt time jail, the victim’s brother said Phillip Whe, 52, appeared the New South Wal state Supreme Court for a sentencg hearg after pleadg guilty to manslghter.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

10, 1988, Whe said he threw a punch at Stt Johnson, 27, g him to stagger backward and fall to his ath over a cliff at North Head that was known at the time to be a meetg place for gay Angel-born Stt Johnson’s ath was ially lled a suici, but his fay prsed for further vtigatn. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on September 27, 2004Disagree wh two of the reviewers below: Gay is not unbearly biased favor of Frd, book is not too much for sual dabblers the, one uld hardly expect a six hundred page bgraphy of Frd to be thored by someone who hat the man. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a eper look this morng at one of the most profound shifts public attus ever rerd - 's the public view of people who are gay and much of this natn's history, of urse, the vast majory of people disapproved of homosexualy so strongly that anyone who me out was guaranteed to face difficulty and even risked danger.

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

And then, what ltle data we have on trans rights also suggts that there's been a sharp crease appreciatn for the rights of trans I thk one of the thgs that has been shown by the Marriage Equaly Movement is that if you're a gay or lbian, you have more rights than you ed to have. (Nati Harnik / AP)Edor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall groups have always been about a simple, key objective: Stop all the groups are GSAs—Genr-Sexualy Allianc, though they were origally known as Gay-Straight Allianc—and that was their missn when they first rose to promence the late 1980s.

Perhaps, the theory was, jt by existg, the groups uld make gay kids feel ls alone, and that self uld rce suici risk, which was mon among gay teens at the Lipk, a former high-school history teacher, an thor, and a proment LGBTQ-rights advote, was one of the GSA movement’s earlit pneers. ”Before long, siar mp clubs were croppg up— the Boston area and beyond—“simultaneoly” and “spontaneoly, ” says Sharon Tentarelli, who as a high-school junr 1989 found the GSA at the prtig boardg school Phillips Amy A iendship fed through the gay-rights movementGSAs sprang up anilly bee of the prence of lears who felt a need for them, not a natnal learship stcture that swooped and set them up. Though they varied size and strategy om group to group, they tend to share the same basic visn, one articulated by Kev Jenngs, now 56, then a young high-school history teacher at a Boston-area boardg school lled Conrd Amy: Make gay stunts feel ls alone.

”Kev Jenngs (purple shirt) alongsi members of the Conrd Amy Gay-Straight Alliance at the 1993 March on Washgton for Gay, Lbian, and Bi Equal Rights (Courty of Kev Jenngs)It was a pivotal moment for Jenngs, who went on to -found the LGBTQ-youth advocy anizatn today known as GLSEN (formerly the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network), wre var books on LGBTQ jtice schools, and serve as an assistant secretary the Department of Edutn unr Print Barack Obama. A man told police he killed Amerin mathematician Stt Johnson 1988 by phg the 27-year-old off a Sydney cliff what prosecutors scribe as a gay hate crime, a urt heard on Whe, 51, appeared the New South Wal state Supreme Court for a sentencg hearg after he plead guilty January to the murr of the Los Angel-born Canberra rint, whose ath at the base of a North Head cliff was ially dismissed by police as will be sentenced by Jtice Helen Wilson on Tuday. Whe was charged 2020 and police say the reward will likely be ’s former wife Helen Whe told the urt that her then-hband “bragged” to their children of beatg gay men at the clifftop well-known for gay Whe said she read a newspaper report 2008 about Johnson’s ath and asked her hband if he was rponsible.

1988 CHATE LE GAY

He said the gravy of the murr was signifintly elevated bee was motivated by the victim’s ’s lawyer Belda Rigg said her client was gay and had been ncerned that his homophobic brother would fd January, Whe yelled repeatedly urt durg a pre-trial hearg that he was guilty, havg prevly nied the lawyers will appeal that plea the Court of Crimal Appeals and hope he will be acquted at Johnson was a doctoral stunt at Atralian Natnal Universy and lived Canberra. CANBERRA, Atralia (AP) — An Atralian plead guilty on Thursday to manslghter the ath 35 years ago of an Amerin who fell om a Sydney clifftop that was known as a gay meetg place, wh the victim’s fay welg the turng pot their long mpaign for Whe’s admissn the New South Wal state Supreme Court me three months after he had his nvictn on charg of murrg Stt Johnson overturned by an appeals fay of Los Angel-born Johnson had fought for years to overturn an ial fdg that the 27-year-old mathematician had taken his own life 1988.

Vlence agast gay men Sydney was particularly prevalent om the mid-1980s until the early 1990s due to creased hostily and fear stemmg om the AIDS epimic, an HIV support group, ACON, told the Johnson, a wealthy entreprenr, offered a 1 ln Atralian dollar ($704, 000) reward 2020 for rmatn about his brother’s ath, matchg a reward already offered by, 52, was arrted Sydney that year and plead not guilty to the murr of Johnson, who was an Atralian Natnal Universy Ph. Police have suggted the reward led to the arrt, sayg they expected would be llected after Whe’s took his lawyers by surprise January last year by pleadg guilty to murr durg a pretrial 20 mut later, Whe signed a statement sayg that he had been “nfed” when he plead guilty, had not ed Johnson’s ath and wanted to plead not the judge rerd the guilty plea and Whe was sentenced to 12 years and seven months sentencg Whe, the judge said she did not fd beyond reasonable doubt that the murr was a gay hate crime, which would have led to a longer prison term.

GAY V. AK

HIDN BRA: AMERI'S CHANGG ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE

SYDNEY MAN ADMS TO PHG AMERIN OFF CLIFF 1988 GAY HATE CRIME

ATRALIAN PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLG GAY AMERIN 1988