Andrew Gay Q.C. - Attorney Vanuver, BC

Contents:

• ANDREW GARFIELD FAC BACKLASH AFTER SAYG 'I AM A GAY MAN RIGHT NOW JT WHOUT THE PHYSIL ACT'
• ANDREW O. GAY
• THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
• ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY
• THOMAS ANDREW GAY 1892
• ANDREW D. GAY Q.C., ATTORNEY

ANDREW GARFIELD FAC BACKLASH AFTER SAYG 'I AM A GAY MAN RIGHT NOW JT WHOUT THE PHYSIL ACT'

Andrew Garfield Fac Backlash After Sayg 'I Am a Gay Man Right Now Jt Whout the Physil Act'. Andrew Garfield found himself hot water on Monday wh the LGBTQ muny, after sayg, "I am a gay man right now, jt whout the physil act".

Andrew Garfield has found himself hot water wh the LGBTQ muny after sayg, “I am a gay man right now, jt whout the physil act” — and revealg that he prepared for his new role as a gay man by watchg RuPl’s Drag Race wh iends.

The 33-year-0ld actor is currently starrg the crilly acclaimed London revival of Tony Khner’s Angels Ameri, which he plays Prr Walter — a gay man battlg the realy of AIDS durg the height of the 1980s crisis that killed hundreds of thoands the gay muny.

ANDREW O. GAY

Durg a NT Platform discsn on Monday, the Amazg Spir-Man alum talked about how he prepared for the role — admtg at first that his “big ncern” was “what right did I have to play this wonrful gay role” as a man who currently intifi as straight. “As far as I know, I am not a gay man, ” Garfield, who formerly had a high-profile relatnship wh Emma Stone, began, the Gay Tim reported.

THE QUIET REVOLUTN: WHY BRA HAS MORE GAY MPS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE

“[The play is] as much voted to my iends the gay muny as is those that passed durg the epimic, ” he said. “I am a gay man right now jt whout the physil act – that’s all. Garfield may have immersed himself gay culture, but nfg that wh the extent of gay life upset many members of the LGBTQ muny — some of whom quickly exprsed their tratn on Twter, accg Garfield of cultural appropriatn.

“Mt be nice to be able to be gay whout any of the hardships. Other ers cricized Garfield for seemgly failg to unrstand that appreciatg gay culture is not the same as experiencg the opprsn facg the LGBTQ muny now and throughout history. “Garfield pared watchg a TV show and portrayg a gay man to beg gay whout the physil act.

No buddy, ” said one er — wh another addg Garfield had “a very limed view of what beg gay ACTUALLY is. “Playg a gay man…don’t sudnly mean he unrstands opprsn, ” a cric wrote.

ROYAL FAY MEMBER IS SECRETLY GAY

This isn’t the first time Garfield has found himself facg backlash om the gay muny. Andrew Gay practic and is the puty chair of Gentry Locke’s Constctn Indtry practice group and serv as outsi general unsel to his many nstctn clients.

Stephen Twigg was gay – a “practisg homosexual”, to e a formula still popular at the time – and though mours about Michael Portillo’s sexualy had been swirlg for years, he was most fely not.

THOMAS ANDREW GAY 1892

The day after Twigg’s victory, Chris Smh, an MP sce 1983 and out sce 1984, beme the first openly gay secretary of state – culture, naturally.

The years rolled by and anti-gay legislatn was rolled back. Now Bra fds self wh the queert legislature the world: 32 of the Uned Kgdom’s 650 MPs llg themselv gay, lbian or bisexual. And two nstuenci last week – Lanster & Fleetwood and Milton Keyn South – both the Tory and Labour ndidat were gay, lbian or bisexual.

Proportnally, though, the SNP is now by far the gayt party Wtmster, wh 12% of s MPs chalkg themselv up as sexual may scratch our heads as to the meang of the numbers: is a surprise that there are so many out Tori? How did a untry raised on tabloid sndal end up so at ease wh gay public figur?

ANDREW D. GAY Q.C., ATTORNEY

Homosexualy was crimalised England and Wal 1967 by reformg home secretary Roy Jenks (Stland had to wa until 1980, and Northern Ireland until 1982), but prosecutns for sexual offenc ntued to snare many gay men to the 90s. In addn, a vic prs culture of blackmail and exposure ma life difficult for gay people who wanted to participate ernment and Tatchell, who stood as the Labour ndidate for Bermondsey 1983, was the subject of a notorly homophobic mpaign by his Liberal opponents.

It was impossible for any ndidate or MP to be openly gay whout the fear of beg monised by the tabloids. “There were lots of gay MPs, ” he says, “but they were all the closet, eher bee they were secure about their own sexualy, or bee they feared vilifitn the papers and selectn by their party. ” So wasn’t jt the prs, but the party mach that failed to treat gay and lbian people wh rpect, wed by Fleet Street’s ferocy.

Constuents and rival parti said: ‘Not only is he gay and wants gay rights, he’s open and brazen about . ’”Peter Tatchell ( red shirt) jos the celebratns after MPs voted to cut the homosexual age of nsent to 16 1998. Photograph: Tony Harris/PAStill, Tatchell says there was “public revulsn” agast the homophobia he experienced, which he believ ma the tabloids more reluctant to nduct anti-gay wch-hunts, for a time, at least.

As a rult, Chris Smh had an easier ri when he me out Conservativ’ relatnship wh homosexualy was equally uneasy. “I told her I was gay when I went to say goodbye to her and she put an arm on my wrist and said: ‘Matthew, that mt have been very difficult for you to say. ’”Gay MPs were tolerated, so long as discretn led.

It was Edwa Currie who tabled an amendment to brg the age of nsent for gay men down om 21 to 16 – there was famoly no such law alg specifilly wh lbianism. “Major issued guidance sayg was OK for senr civil servants to be gay and that changed the atmosphere a b, ” says former Labour sp doctor Lance Price.

Price rells: “When I worked for Blair, we had the Sun rampagg around askg if we were beg n by a Gay Mafia.

”, was laidback about his gay MPs. The only thg the media wanted to know about was who else was gay and I didn’t thk that was very fair.

Photograph: Anthony Devl/PAGay MPs don’t necsarily mean gay rights.