Miss Manners: Nosy women at retirement muny ask rint ‘are you gay?’ durg dner

Contents:

• SENOR CHANG'S "HA, GAY!"
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• QUEERG CHE CROSSGS LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY JAMAI: LARRY CHANG AND THE GAY FREEDOM MOVEMENT
• GAY REPUBLINS EXPLA WHY THEY ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTG DONALD TMP
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

SENOR CHANG'S "HA, GAY!"

Senor Chang's "Gayyyyy" refers to a quote attributed to the fictnal character Señor Ben Chang the TV s seri Communy. Due to Chang's unual enunciatn, upled by his qutnably sophomoric word choice, the scene has lent self to many parodi and YouTubePoop remix on s like Tumblr and YouTube. In one of the scen, Jeff Wger (Joel McHale) tri to spire his stunts by tellg the class that "the most important tool is rpect, " to which Señor Ben Chang (played by Ken Jeong) simply retorts "Ha, gayyyyy!

On November 5th, 2010, webic artist Stephen Gillan referenced Señor Chang's quote his Antics Comic seri, which beme wily known as the Homophobic Seal among the fans. In this particular ic, two men ci to embrace each other an arctic blizzard orr to survive the ld, when the homophobic seal sudnly appears out of nowhere and yells "GAAAAAAYYYY.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

One of the first notable remix based on Señor Chang's "Gayyyyy" soundbe was upload by YTPMV artist zumspeedboi on June 21st, 2011. Passg the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu bill would further rce eedoms a untry where gay sex is already punishable wh up to three years jail, crics and activists Odoi, an amic rearcher, filed a lawsu on July 7 challengg the bill's nstutnaly, sayg would impact donor aid and other forms of fancial support.

Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednday led her arguments were not sufficiently nvcg to grant an lg cleared the way for the bill, one of the harsht towards the LGBTQ muny Ai, to go through a fal stage of parliamentary approval before beg signed to May, Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, which spelled out the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"'s bill, backed by relig and tradnal lears, clus jail sentenc of up to 10 years for advotg for LGBTQ rights.

Alongsi s ternatnal reputatn for black empowerment and homophobic exceptnalism the late twentieth century, Jamai also be home to the anglophone Caribbean’s first gay activist anizatn, the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM), led by Che-Jamain General Secretary Larry Chang. Focg on Chang’s life and work, this say analyz the relatnship between Che-ns and lol and ternatnal eratns of Jamain gay activism.

QUEERG CHE CROSSGS LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY JAMAI: LARRY CHANG AND THE GAY FREEDOM MOVEMENT

Drawg on archival rearch and oral history terviews, I argue that Che-ns was key to Chang’s polics of crossg which he wrote as different characters GFM’s newsletter to reprent and rec across the l of race, class, genr, and natn support of a broad-based gay social movement. In 1981 Larry Chang, founr of the anglophone Caribbean’s first gay activist anizatn, the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM), wrote the followg the anizatn’s newsletter the Jamai Gaily News (JGN):. My prence at the 3rd Annual Conference of the IGA [Internatnal Gay Associatn] is of historil signifince on many levels.

This was ma possible by the Sttish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG), our tw anizatn, who not only enuraged to attend, but also met all my foreign exchange needs. SHRG and GFM’s “pairg associatn” was not unmon as the late twentieth century wnsed the emergence of gay activists groups around the world and the buildg of relatnships between them (Bloom 1986; Dcker 1996).

GAY REPUBLINS EXPLA WHY THEY ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTG DONALD TMP

First, GFM’s volvement ternatnal gay liberatn efforts plit readgs of Jamai terms of homophobic exceptnalism that emerged after the group’s mise 1984 (Ch 1997). Fally, that a Che subject be reprentative of Jamain gay activism serv cril scty amid the rise of Black Power across the Ameris and the creasg legimizatn of Black claims of cizenship Jamai (Palmer 1989; Bogu 2009; At 2007).

In this say I foc on Chang’s posn as “Oriental” to nsir the raced, classed, and genred polics of transnatnal gay activism late twentieth-century Jamai. 3 I exame how Chang’s gay activism facilat an analysis of the ways Che-ns plays to cross-race, cross-class, and cross-genr relatns both on the island and overseas. Wrg “standard” English, Long was figured as a normatively mascule, middle-class gay man who was tend to engage ternatnal terlocutors and Jamai’s Whe and Brown middle and upper class.

I argue that Chang’s fabritn of Long and Man nstut a form of textual crossg which he reach across the l of race, class, and genr to nstct as broad a gay social movement as possible. That Chang’s efforts take on wrten form is signifint, not only bee the taboo nature of homosexualy at the time ma difficult to unrtake more embodied forms of social and polil engagement, but also bee the wrten word allowed for transgrsns of race, class, and genr ways that would be nsirably more difficult to enact person.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Chang’s gay activism renfigur the relatns among race, diaspora, and neolonial pal that middlemen mori are expected to enact. His textual crossgs of race, class, and genr draw together differently posned subjects support of sexual eedom by redistributg rourc om wealthy to poor and workg-class gays.

While he received a BFA environmental sign, his tn extend far beyond the classroom as he me to be policized by femist, Black power, and gay liberatn movements sweepg across the US. While homophobic vlence was very much prent on the island at this time, Jamai was also home to a vibrant though unrground gay scene which Chang quickly took part.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

By ordatg a muny meetg to addrs the equent fights among patrons of the gay club The Closet that threatened the tablishment’s ntued existence, Chang started what was to bee the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM) 1977. Very quickly, GFM grew to be a muny iative seekg to provi stctur of support and muny buildg for gay men and women on the island while also tacklg the homophobic ndns of Jamain society.