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• HOW TO BE GAY AT WORK
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN BETA(FUNCTN(){FOR(VAR G="FUNCTN"==TYPEOF FEPROPERTI?FEPROPERTY:FUNCTN(B,C,A){IF(||)THROW NEW TYPEERROR("ES3 DO NOT SUPPORT GETTERS AND SETTERS.");B!=ARRAY.PROTOTYPE&&B!=OBJECT.PROTOTYPE&&(B[C])},H="UNFED"!=TYPEOF WDOW&&WDOW===THIS?THIS:"UNFED"!=TYPEOF GLOBAL&&NULL!=GLOBAL?GLOBAL:THIS,K=["STRG","PROTOTYPE","REPEAT"],L=0;LB||1342177279>>=1)C+=C;RETURN A};Q!=P&&NULL!=Q&&G(H,N,{NFIGURABLE:!0,WRABLE:!0,VALUE:Q});VAR T=THIS;FUNCTN U(B,C){VAR ("."),D=T;A[0] D||!D.EXECSCRIPT||D.EXECSCRIPT("VAR "+A[0]);FOR(VAR E;(());)||VOID 0===C?D[E]?D=D[E]:D=D[E]={}:D[E]=C};FUNCTN V(B){VAR ;IF(0=C.OFFSETWIDTH&&0>=C.OFFSETHEIGHT)A=!1;ELSE{D=C.GETBOUNDGCLIENTRECT();VAR ;("PAGEYOFFSET" WDOW?WDOW.PAGEYOFFSET:(DOCUMENT.DOCUMENTELEMENT||F.PARENTNO||F).SCROLLTOP);("PAGEXOFFSET" WDOW?WDOW.PAGEXOFFSET:(DOCUMENT.DOCUMENTELEMENT||F.PARENTNO||F).SCROLLLEFT);F=A.TOSTRG()+","+D;B.B.HASOWNPROPERTY(F)?A=!1:(B.B[F]=!0,A=(A+=E)}B.I&&(E="&RD="+ENURICOMPONENT(JSON.STRGIFY(B())),131072>(A+=E),C=!0);C=A;IF(C){D=B.H;B=B.J;VAR F;IF(WDOW.XMLHTTPREQUT)F=NEW XMLHTTPREQUT;ELSE IF(WDOW.ACTIVEXOBJECT)TRY{F=NEW ACTIVEXOBJECT("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")}TCH(R){TRY{F=NEW ACTIVEXOBJECT("MICROSOFT.XMLHTTP")}TCH(D){}}F&&(("POST",D+(-1==XOF("?")?"?":"&")+"URL="+ENURICOMPONENT(B)),F.SETREQUTHEAR("CONTENT-TYPE","APPLITN/X-WWW-FORM-URLEND"),(A))}}}FUNCTN B(){VAR B={},C;C=DOCUMENT.GETELEMENTSBYTAGNAME("IMG");IF(!)RETURN{};VAR A=C[0];IF(!("NATURALWIDTH" A&&"NATURALHEIGHT" A))RETURN{};FOR(VAR D=0;A=C[D];++D){VAR E=A.GETATTRIBUTE("DATA-PAGPEED-URL-HASH");E&&(!(E B)&&0=B[E].O&&>=B[E].M)&&(B[E]={,,OW:A.NATURALWIDTH,OH:A.NATURALHEIGHT})}RETURN B}VAR C="";U("PAGPEED.CRILIMAG.GETBEANDATA",FUNCTN(){RETURN C});U("",FUNCTN(B,C,A,D,E,F){VAR R=NEW Y(B,C,A,E,F);X=R;D&&W(FUNCTN(){WDOW.SETTIMEOUT(FUNCTN(){A(R)},0)})});})();('/NGX_PAGPEED_BEAN','','EVFAZEUQGZ',TE,FALSE,'SAQXVQB2GQO');
• 5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• SOME ROXANE GAY WORKS CROSSWORD CLUE
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• 5 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

HOW TO BE GAY AT WORK

As art holds an sential place the LGBT muny, The Advote striv to she a light on the work of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists who are movg the cultural needle wh the artists spotlight sectn. SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.

The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy. The queer g-of-age novel about Jim Willard and his search for love was the first novel om a rpected wrer (Gore Vidal) to speak directly and sympathetilly about the gay experience an era when homosexualy was still very much taboo. The only novel by the great Osr Wil may not be overtly gay, but there's plenty of gay subtext there for the reful rear - about as much gay subtext as a popular thor uld get away wh 's iends Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton exprs tense admiratn for his bety, and passag that show Basil's feelgs for Dorian as more clearly homoerotic were excised by an edor, acrdg to Nicholas Frankel, who eded an edn prentg Wil's origal text the text as origally published has referenc to Dorian's rptn of not only young women but young men: "There was that wretched boy the Guards who mted suici.

Integral to the lbian non (spe s beg nsired somewhat problematic) Brish wrer Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel foc on Stephen Gordon, an upper-class lbian who dons men's clothg and be a novelist who eventually be a part of a lerary salon Paris at a time when there were no overt laws exprsly barrg homosexualy. Hall's novel was groundbreakg her troductn of the views of "sexologists" Richard von Krafft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis, who posed that homosexualy was an born, unalterable tra that was nsired a ngenal sexual versn that simply meant a "difference" and not a fect. Wonrful book, " gay refugee activist and lumnist Danny Ramadan rav about the global-md book unpacks the emotnal life of a young girl displaced by the Nigerian civil war who begs a gut-wrenchg affair wh a fellow refugee.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

Dalloway, a novel to which Cunngham pays homage; mid-20th-century Los Angel, hoewife Lra Brown, disntented wh her life, nonts her attractn to women; and 1990s New York Cy, Clarissa Vghan, who is lbian, plans a party for her bt iend, wrer Richard Brown, a gay man dyg of AIDS. Meticuloly rearched and ttly plotted, books such as The Last of the We (1956) and The Persian Boy (1972) naturalistilly pict gay love agast a vivid, betifully renred backdrop of war and polil BaldwJam BaldwUPI/Bettmann ArchiveBaldw’s semal novel Gvanni’s Room (1956), about a tragic love affair between a nfed Amerin man and his Italian boyiend Paris, unflchgly exam the societal prejudic that kept (and ntue to keep) many people om acknowledgg their sexual AokiAoki is an Amerin wrer of Japane scent who is bt known for her llectns, cludg Seasonal Veloci (2012) and Why Dt Shall Never Settle upon This Soul (2015), and her novels, cludg He Mele a Hilo (2014) and Light om Unmon Stars (2021). Armistead MpMp’s effervcent novels about gay life San Francis, startg wh Tal of the Cy (1978), brought to life a i foreign to much of the JordanJordan primarily wrote through the lens of bisexualy and racial jtice.

That was the qutn we posed to six wrers — the sayist and novelist Roxane Gay, the playwright and tor Jam Ijam, the playwright and actor Lisa Kron, the journalist and TV wrer Thomas Page McBee, the novelist Neel Mherjee and the fictn and nonfictn wrer Edmund Whe — who gathered over Zoom early May for the latt stallment of our T 25 list. ImageThe T edor at large and the nversatn’s morator, Kurt Soller, bottom right, wh the panelists, clockwise om top left: Edmund Whe, Thomas Page McBee, Jam Ijam, Lisa Kron, Roxane Gay and Neel was ltle agreement beyond all that — no surprise for a group of six spired queers — and the shared sire to create a list that was ls whe, ls male, ls cis than those that’ve e before.

— Co RomackImageButch women and lbians midcentury Ameri, cludg, clockwise om left, “The Butch Stance” (cir 1960s) om the Lbian Herstory Archiv; a butch-femme uple San Francis durg the 1950s, photographed at one of the pneer Mona Sargent’s clubs; and the activists Del Mart (left) and Phyllis Lyon (cir 1950s) — who, 2004, had the first same-sex weddg San om left: Lbian Herstory Archiv; Wi Open Town History Project (#2003-05), urty of the GLBT Historil Society; Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart Papers (#1993-13), urty of the GLBT Historil Society Roxane Gay: I read “Stone Butch Blu” when I was 17, and was the first time I saw anythg remblg butch inty. Today, n still mean that, but ’s also a tchall term for the entire Mherjee: I feel a b of regret and some grief that the words “gay" and “lbian” have fallen off the map, although “queer” is more expansive. ” Once, on a bate stage, I was talkg about [Ernt] Hemgway’s [1927] story “Hills Like Whe Elephants, ” and I was sayg that a heterosexual wrer uld assume that the rear had the same valu as he did, and so he uld e directns — ’s about abortn, yet Hemgway never that word — but that a gay wrer like Prot had such unual ias that he had to spell them out for the general This brgs up the tertg ia of who wrers are wrg for.

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Like s gay narrator, who reunts his erant journeys a blend of first and third person — almost as though he were a stranger to himself — Galgut’s book rists easy tegorizatn but is fed, above all, by Damon’s abily to nnect wh others. Th Will lv to an earlier perd of gay life, one which secrecy often acted as an aphrodisiac, via Charl’s diari tailg his priapic days as a stunt at Wchter College and then Oxford, as a ernment official Sudan and beyond.

ImageThe nightlife scene queer 1980s London cludg, clockwise om left, a leather man 1983 at the club Heaven; the sger and mol Grace Jon, also at Heaven, 1985; and a scene outsi the Coleherne Pub, popular among gay men, om left: © Stuart Frankl/Magnum Photos; Adrian Boot/ Prs/Rx; © Francis Glibbery. Ravaged New York’s gay muny, Khner’s play follows s lead characters on their tertwed, often hallucatory journeys through grim apartments, hospal wards, Antarctic dreamsp, a Mormon Visors’ Center and a cmblg burecratic office heaven, “a Cy Much Like San Francis.

” (1970) om top: Walter Leporati/Getty Imag; © Donna Br; © Donna Gottschalk, urty of the Llie-Lohman Mm of Art McBee: I see Zoe’s poem on Instagram all the time — ’s somethg that people still rally Our progrs — and I say this wh such pa — was based largely on assiatn: on the fight for gay marriage, on beg regnized by rporatns. In “A Stterg of Salts, ” which is elegiac yet tactile, Merrill scrib the thrill of meetg other men (“A stranger’s idle glance uld be the match / That sends all to blaz”); the digni of hospalizatn as a gay man the ’90s (“Pills washed down wh ouzo hadn’t worked. They haven’t had time to be I would fely plump for Bryan Washgton bee I thk he’s an extraordary wrer, but Neel, as you say, maybe he’s too new to be “fluential” …Gay: New work n be jt as fluential as olr work, pecially when to queer work, where so many voic were overlooked for so long.

5 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

While the posed nu statu of ancient Greece and the genred ambiguy of the Mona Lisa are two ement exampl, jo Mr Hudson and the world’s most forward-thkg art mms as we lve eper to lser-known llectns and hidn reprentatns of homosexualy and same-sex relatnships art on a seri of LGBTQ-spired tours. Take a close look at ‘Immortal Friendships’, as well as the persecutn of artists, such as Botticelli and Leonardo, ‘Pursug Dir’, before movg onto ‘Deceptive Appearanc’ which unrsr the homoerotic nature of famo llectns like The Hermaphrode.

To celebrate 50 years of crimalisatn of homosexualy UK law, the mm curated the trail named ‘Dire, Love, Inty: explorg LGBTQ histori’ which leads visors through the LGBTQ history related to s permanent llectn, spanng ancient civilisatns to the morn-day. Ga sight to how gay eedoms have fluctuated throughout history, om the unbound gods Greek mythology to the nnoissrs of homoeroti Roman tim, learng how them of genr and sexualy have never been set Brish Mm | Photo: Ryan Stefan3.

The Louvre Paris, FranceWhen to art galleri, you n’t get much gayer than The Louvre Paris, thanks to s signifint llectns om ancient Greece, ancient Rome and the Italian Renaissance, arguably some of the gayt art eras human history. One of the world’s most prized gay art mms, here visors will disver var queer treasur om ancient Greek nus to Renaissance patgs, as well as swath of morn art created by LGBT artists or works pictg same-sex sire. Of the most proment exampl, Henry Stt Te’s imprsnist patg ‘The Promise’ is said to mark Te’s tert workg-class reali and male sexualy, a theory which looks at his nnectn to Osr Wil and the Uranian poets who aimed to brg Greek homoeroticism to the morn-day.

SOME ROXANE GAY WORKS CROSSWORD CLUE

Osr Wil Tours, WorldwiSpreadg Gay Pri throughout the world’s bt mms, Osr Wil Tours anis LGBT-foced trails that allow sight to the mds of LGBT trailblazers across human history, such as Sappho and Socrat, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vci, Shakpeare, Tchaikovsky and Virgia Woolf, dancer Nijsky, wrer Thomas Mann and, of urse, Osr Wil himself.

” Coover has watched ics evolve om Marvel's first openly gay character, Northstar (who me out an “X-Men” ic 2012), to a vast crease LGBTQ visibily and alternativ wh the medium, which she believ is “fluenced by young queer people across the spectm. Schwul Mm, BerlA selectn of the Schwul Mm trans art and memorabiliaChris PaxtonThe world’s first gay-specific mm, Berl’s Schwul Mm, has over three s amassed an enormo and diverse llectn of materials, cludg a large number of ems relatg to trans history.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

Bull and Hasks helped found the groundbreakg stunt group at the Universy of Mae 1973 — then held the first Mae Gay Symposium 1974, which jump-started Mae’s LGBTQ+ rights stggle, lnchg much further ahead toward jtice than most other stat. A photographic ntact sheet showg Steven Bull speakg at the first gay symposium put on by the Wild Ste Club at the Universy pf Mae 1974, is part of Bull’s papers hoed the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversy’s LGBTQ+ llectn at the Universy of Southern Mae.

In an UK Gay News op-ed piece, Baker wrote: “In my view the rabow flag is unfished, as the movement reprents, an arc that begs well before me, s breadth far broar than all of our experienc put together, reachg the fartht rners of the world wh a msage of solidary and a bean of hope for those who follow our footsteps. Gay prisoners Nazi ncentratn mps were forced to wear the pk triangle to show that they were homosexuals, which meant that they often received worse treatment and as a rult were ls likely to survive the mps.

5 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

His art reflected that grief, anger, tratn and fear by drawg attentn to Amerin relig fundamentalism, nservatism, fear of the body, homophobia, enomic imperialism, all while raisg up the voic of margalized and stigmatized dividuals. They are perhaps most famo for their image of three terracial upl (straight, gay and lbian) kissg above the ptn “Kissg Don’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do, ” as well as their work at the 1990 Venice Biennale where they juxtaposed two billboards: the image of the Pope wh a text about the church’s anti-safe-sex rhetoric; the other a two-foot-high erect penis wh texts about women and ndom e. The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

Alas, the future, make sure you ask about payment polici up ont to protect to Roxane Gay at Gay is an endowed profsor of media, culture and femist studi at Rutgers, the thor of the forthg “Opns” and a ntributg Opn wrer. They believe that the whole gay issue has been so heavily policized om the APA down to street outrage that is almost impossible to get a fair hearg for those who voluntarily choose to abandon the homosexual liftyle.

I believe that the gay muny is now sufficiently accepted by the popular culture that they n now afford to allow dividuals to transn out of homosexualy whout the need to disparage a former homosexual's life story.

Nilosi: This is not to say he or she is pletely "cured" of homosexualy and the procs may take many years, perhaps a lifetime, but he will acquire skills and self unrstandg to have his homosexual temptatns bee ls and ls until they bee signifint. A therapy that claims to nvert gay people to heterosexuals is beg tted urt wh two new s, one of which seeks to sue unselors offerg the therapy and the other seekg to fend nversn therapy, as is known, supposedly helps gay people overe same-sex attractns.

[7 Absolutely Evil Medil Experiments]More recently, people who have been through nversn therapy report talk therapy that emphasiz psdoscientific theori, such as the ia that an overbearg mother and a distant father make a child gay. His therapist blamed his parents for Arana's homosexualy, and urged him to distance himself om his female bt Lev, one of the men sug Jonah for ceptive practic, says that he qu nversn therapy after his therapist had him strip down and touch himself to "rennect wh his masculy, " acrdg to the New York Tim. Instead, societal ignorance, prejudice and prsure to nform to heterosexual sir are the real dangers to gay people's mental health, acrdg to a 1997 statement on "nversn" or "reparative" therapy by the APA.

It didn’t of the most proment advot of nversn therapy the 1940s and 50s was Edmund Bergler, who saw homosexualy as a perversn and believed he uld "cure" gay people wh a punishment-based, nontatnal therapy the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn stopped classifyg homosexualy as a mental disorr 1973, nversn therapi lost support. In 2003, famed psychiatrist Robert Spzer, who spearhead the removal of homosexualy om the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's mental disorr list 1973, reported the journal Archiv of Sexual Behavr that terviews wh nversn therapy patients suggted that some people uld change their sexual paper was cendiary and highly cricized, given that relied on terviews wh patients stead of measurable benchmarks of same-sex sir.

It was the first time gay-marriage activists adopted a strategy of srg their most well-heeled opponents away om the before the phrase “ncel culture” entered the lexin or Republin senators plaed about the power of “woke pal, ” Mr. ” Brian Brown — the executive director for California of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, the leadg sgle-issue anti-gay-marriage group, led by people wh close ti to lears the Catholic Church and the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats — boasted after the Grand Hyatt prott that Mr.

5 ln to a mpaign to pass Referendum 74, which would legalize same-sex marriage the state, proponents outspent opponents more than five to pro-gay-marriage activists ually creded chang their persuasive msagg to their improved mpaigns, their most obv new advantage me the form of rourc. There was only one week 2012 when anti-gay-marriage ads outnumbered pro-gay-marriage ads the stat wh November ballot measur, and the largt major media markets, pro-gay-marriage mpaigners averaged a two-to-one advertisg then, lls for boytts — as part of a broar iologil e rather than a narrow prott agast specific bs practic — have grown so equent that Amerin polics often feels like a proxy war between rporatns.