Rev. Steve Pieters, an HIV survivor and gay activist who helped shift views around HIV/AIDS the ’80s, has died at 70. Pieters was known for his landmark terview wh televangelist Tammy Faye Baker on her broadst which went to lns of nservative Christians. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life well lived.
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- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- O WILL STRANGER THGS é GAY? NOAH SCHNAPP RPON
- KANSAS CY CHIEFS STARTG LB WILLIE GAY SPEND FOUR GAM
- REV. STEPHEN PIETERS, HIV SURVIVOR AND GAY ACTIVIST, DI AT 70
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay has been spend by the NFL for four gam for a vlatn of the league's personal nduct policy. * will e gay *
Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.
While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.
”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.
O WILL STRANGER THGS é GAY? NOAH SCHNAPP RPON
”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.
One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici.
KANSAS CY CHIEFS STARTG LB WILLIE GAY SPEND FOUR GAM
Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. It is hard for me as a gay this untry.
”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St.
Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people. That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.
REV. STEPHEN PIETERS, HIV SURVIVOR AND GAY ACTIVIST, DI AT 70
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" A cena, então, levantou uma qutão: Will é gay? -- Chiefs lebacker Willie Gay has been spend by the NFL for four gam for a vlatn of the league's personal nduct was arrted January Overland Park, Kansas, on a charge of crimal property damage of ls than $1, 000, a 's spensn will beg immediately. He will miss gam agast the Colts, Bucneers, Rairs and Bills and is eligible to return after the Week 6 game agast agreed over the summer to enter a diversn program to rolve the crimal the next two weeks, acrdg to NFL l, Gay is prohibed om enterg the Chiefs' practice facily or havg any ntact wh team officials.
Steve Pieters, an HIV survivor and gay activist who helped shift views around HIV/AIDS the ’80s, has died at 70.