Conflatg 'Gay' and 'the DL': Omari Hardwick on Playg Carl 'For Colored Girls' - tlewisisdopetlewisisdope

Contents:

•  WHO IS GAY HARDWICK? GOLN STATE KILLER SURVIVOR ADVIS GILGO BEACH MURRERS VICTIMS' FAI TO KNOW 'THEIR RIGHTS' TO FIGHT AGAST SPECT
• EXHIB A FOR A MAJOR SHIFT: JTIC’ GAY CLERKS
• CONFLATG ‘GAY’ AND ‘THE DL’: OMARI HARDWICK ON PLAYG CARL ‘FOR COLORED GIRLS’
• OMARI HARDWICK GAY
• IS OMARI HARDWICK GAY?
• GAY HARDWICK
• 35 YEARS AGO THE SUPREME COURT CRIMALIZED GAY SEX. COULD HAPPEN AGA?
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI
• WHY ADVANCG GAY RIGHTS IS ALL ABOUT GOOD TIMG

 WHO IS GAY HARDWICK? GOLN STATE KILLER SURVIVOR ADVIS GILGO BEACH MURRERS VICTIMS' FAI TO KNOW 'THEIR RIGHTS' TO FIGHT AGAST SPECT

LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK: In the wake of the recent arrt of Rex Hermann nnectn wh the Gilgo Beach murrs, a survivor of the Goln State Killer, Gay Hardwick, exprsed her hop that the fai of the victims fd solace through unrstandg their rights as direct victims of the heo crim. " Everyone is speakg to Michael Hardwick the days, the new symbol of gay rights nied a straight world -- even though he lost his fight over Geia's sodomy law after takg all the way to the Supreme Court.

"The urts saw as a 'homosexual' issue, but most people see as a human rights issue, " he says, tickg off a by schle of talk shows and gay rights ralli ahead, a risg star on the prott h para. " Overnight he's walkg pot for gays a macho world, a hero to those who flirt here beneath Tiffany glass, or dance near a display se of lor snapshots featurg mcled men black bikis -- "Mr.

"My gay hairdrser said, 'If he'djt stayed quiet, we'd be better off, ' " says Abby Rubenfeld, legal director of Lambda, the leadg homosexual fense fund that backed the nstutnal asslt.

EXHIB A FOR A MAJOR SHIFT: JTIC’ GAY CLERKS

"Sometim I don't prosecute people for killg each other if there's a valid reason, " says the veteran prosecutor, who abhors "that type of nduct among homosexuals or lbians. " He's never ed the law to prosecute a gay for simply havg sex, and would prefer as a mismeanor, but he fds a eful weapon to ter hookers, pimps, gay excs public parks and for plea bargas more vlent s. One of four children born to a hard-drkg Miami firefighter, Hardwick don't remember his father ever huggg him -- they were never close -- and wonrs if has somethg to do wh his never feelg fulfilled until he beme a homosexual at 21.

” Acrdg to the urt, the “right to privacy” protected some aspects of marriage, procreatn, ntraceptn, and fay relatnships, but did not protect gay sodomy om terference om the state bee “no nnectn between fay, marriage, or procreatn on the one hand and homosexual activy on the other has been monstrated. Kennedy, nsentg adults had a right to privacy and “the liberty protected by the Constutn allows homosexual persons the right to choose to enter upon relatnships the nf of their hom and their own private liv and still reta their digny as ee persons.

CONFLATG ‘GAY’ AND ‘THE DL’: OMARI HARDWICK ON PLAYG CARL ‘FOR COLORED GIRLS’

Was stgglg wh how to st the cisive vote a 1986 Supreme Court se that would end up vastatg the gay rights movement, he told his fellow jtic that he had never met a tth, one of his four law clerks that term was atmosphere at the urt today is far different om 1986, wh a pace of change that may have surpassed that the rt of society. Coll, who served as a law clerk to Jtice Ruth Bar Gsburg, “certa of the jtic undoubtedly will reflect upon their real-world experienc of gettg to know and to unrstand lbian and gay people as dividuals and as members of fai.

The send se uld tablish a natnwi nstutnal right to same-sex marriage, though most observers expect a narrower the years, the urt’s embrace of gay rights has closely tracked chang popular attus, the legal culture and, perhaps pecially, the visibily of openly gay people at the urt. Although no prehensive rerd of gay Supreme Court law clerks exists, Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price — thors of “Courtg Jtice, ” a 2001 history of gay rights s at the urt — intified 18 gay men and four lbians who had been clerks.

The cisn upheld a Geia law that ma sodomy a Wilson/The New York TimFormer clerks and urt historians agree that Jtice Powell ma the remark about havg never met a homosexual durg a private nference wh his fellow jtic as they nsired the se. “He did not notice thgs about people that he nsired unplimentary, ” Profsor Jefi said of Jtice Powell, who he said thought homosexualy “was a slur or an embarrassment.

OMARI HARDWICK GAY

That is a much higher percentage than any schools and the legal profsn have, moreover, been particularly welg to gays and lbians, a trend Jtice Anton Slia cricized his dissent the Lawrence se. “Today’s opn, ” Jtice Slia wrote, “is the product of a urt, which is the product of a law profsn culture, that has largely signed on to the so-lled homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda promoted by some homosexual activists directed at elimatg the moral opprobrium that has tradnally attached to homosexual nduct.

IS OMARI HARDWICK GAY?

Profsor Jefi, the Powell bgrapher and Virgia profsor, said the prence of openly gay clerks at the Supreme Court the days is but an stance of a societal transformatn on gay rights. ”A rrectn was ma onJune 16, 2013: An article last Sunday about openly gay law clerks and how monplace they have bee the chambers of both liberal and nservative Supreme Court jtic erroneoly attributed a distctn to the Natnal LGBT Bar Associatn. Lawyers wh Gaylaw, a Washgton bar associatn, were admted to the Supreme Court bar 2007; a ceremony January for the LGBT group was not the first time lawyers wh a gay legal group achieved that we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Exhib A for a Major Shift: Jtic’ Gay Clerks.

GAY HARDWICK

I thk we do want actors to put the bt work they n and try to fe even the flattt and most ridiculo characters wh dimensn, but I don’t even know what playg Carl more “gay” would have looked like – or what that even means.

It’s easy to get distracted by Hardwick’s articulate ments here, rather than sta a crique of Perry’s bad wrg and penchant for anti-homosexual sentiment his films. This entry was posted Film, Sexualy and tagged black actors, black gay men, black men, black sexualy, Black SGL men, black women, Brokeback Mounta, Carl, DL, For Colored Girls, gay, gay actors, Heath Ledger, J. Dpe Omari Hardwick has never said to be homosexual, the procs of g out amongst celebri n be seen as easier nsirg there are many who have already e out wh the muny.

35 YEARS AGO THE SUPREME COURT CRIMALIZED GAY SEX. COULD HAPPEN AGA?

"Gay Hardwick, left, is forted by her spoe Bob Hardwick and San Joaqu County's District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar durg the send day of victim impact statements wh Joseph Jam DeAngelo at the Gordon D.

Hardwick also argued that the law and his arrt had had a chillg effect on the relatnship of a psdonymo heterosexual married uple (the law applied to heterosexual as well as homosexual sodomy), John and Mary Doe, and that vlated the uple’s right to privacy their maral relatns, which the Supreme Court had regnized Griswold v.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

In ntrast to the 11th Circu, which had addrsed the qutn of whether the antisodomy law vlated Hardwick’s right to privacy, Whe asserted that “the issue prented is whether the Feral Constutn nfers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage sodomy. ” He likewise narrowly nsted the spe of several prev Supreme Court cisns that the 11th Circu had regard as tablishg a right to privacy that would enpass acts of nsensual sodomy, whether homosexual or heterosexual.

He th rejected the 11th Circu’s fdg, clarg that “no nnectn between fay, marriage, or procreatn, on the one hand, and homosexual activy, on the other, has been monstrated. Whe held that such a ratnal basis was aquately provid by “the prumed belief of a majory of the electorate Geia that homosexual sodomy is immoral and unacceptable.

WHY ADVANCG GAY RIGHTS IS ALL ABOUT GOOD TIMG

Blackmun acced the majory of badly distortg the central issue of the se (as well as those of the relevant precents) by focg on overt behavur, particularly “homosexual activy, ” rather than on unrlyg prcipl. ’” Acrdgly, the majory’s cisn did not merely “refe to regnize a fundamental right to engage homosexual sodomy; what the Court really has refed to regnize is the fundamental tert all dividuals have ntrollg the nature of their timate associatns wh others.

Hardwick to dismiss claims of unnstutnal discrimatn agast gays and lbians, reasong that a group that is nstutnally subject to crimal penalti for s behavur uld jtifiably be treated differently om other groups. Hardwick, was cid 35 years ago this week, when the Uned Stat Supreme Court issued one of the most famo cisns s history, sentially crimalizg the sexual practic of gays, lbians and bisexuals. As the late Jtice Anton Slia noted, if you n crimalize the nduct of the entire class of gay people, stat n certaly prive them of non-discrimatn and other protectns.