Gay Black Women Allege Discrimatn In Vlent 7-11 Enunter | Los Angel, CA Patch

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• GAY BLACK WOMEN ALLEGE DISCRIMATN IN VLENT 7-11 ENUNTER
• GAY BLACK WOMEN ALLEGE DISCRIMATN IN VLENT 7-11 ENUNTER
• WATCH: VIRGIA MAN SAYS 7-ELEVEN FIRED HIM FOR BEG GAY

GAY BLACK WOMEN ALLEGE DISCRIMATN IN VLENT 7-11 ENUNTER

As a gay man a mted relatnship, our life together beme even ls secure, but a way that differed om most people.

So, while was and probably still is impolic to view 9/11 and the aftermath through the lens of my inty as a gay man, that’s a necsarily a part of the ntext of that day for me. And today seems appropriate to acknowledge how much gay and lbian Amerins were a part of that day.

As equently as we are wrten out of history, there has to be some effort to remember gays & lbians affected by the 9/11 attacks. Most of the 22 gay widows and widowers would soon face a tangle of legal obstacl over herance rights and a first-of-s-kd victim pensatn program offered by the feral ernment that would plite their liv and, many s, add to their grief.

GAY BLACK WOMEN ALLEGE DISCRIMATN IN VLENT 7-11 ENUNTER

Like I said, I was sure as I watched the events unfold that somewhere there was another gay man or lbian watchg and wonrg – or perhaps knowg wh certaty – that a partner wasn’t gog to be g back home. By then I knew of at least one gay fay that had died together on one of the plan that day.

By that time I’d already heard about Mark Bgham, a gay gby player who, many people believe, was among the passengers who brought down flight 93 before reached s statn that day. And perhaps the most well-known gay 9/11 victim, public relatns executive and gby player Mark Bgham, helped fight back agast terrorists on Uned Airl Flight 93, g to crash a ral Pennsylvania field stead of reachg s target Washgton, D. When nied pensatn by Virgia’s Crimal Injuri Compensatn Fund, she meet wh reprentativ of natnal gay and lbian rights anizatns, and is now negotiatg wh Kenh Feberg, an appotee of Attorney General John Ashcroft who is admisterg the feral September 11 Victim Compensatn Fund.

Mychal Judge, a gay Catholic prit who served as a chapla for the New York Cy Fire Department, was givg last r to an jured firefighter when the Tw Towers llapsed, killg them both and many others. 11 World Tra Center attacks, Randolph said he has had to stggle to fend the relatnship, to prove he was Mercer’s life partner and that, as a gay uple, their mment was equal to that of married straight people. I did post at an onle fom I vised equently at the time (and where I went, like many other Amerins on that day, to get rmatn on people I knew), and at least some of the rpons I got clud accatns of “spreadg divisivens” by acknowledgg specific gay & lbian Amerins among the people killed on 9/11 and among their survivg fai.

WATCH: VIRGIA MAN SAYS 7-ELEVEN FIRED HIM FOR BEG GAY

” One or two suggted was ls than patrtic to refer to myself as a gay Amerin or an Ain Amerin, or anythg else but jt an Amerin.

Yet, five years later, we aren’t all “jt Amerins, ” particularly when to gay & lbian Amerins facg state nstutnal amendments that might jt fe their fai out of legal existence. Five years later, many gay & lbian Amerins are nsirably ls safe terms their legal stat, the fact of another potential terrorist attack.

” However, January 2003, “the feral ernment’s 9-11 Compensatn Fund approved what is said to be the first payment to [Neff], a person a gay relatnship whose partner was killed the Sept. LGBT advocy groups cludg the Human Rights Campaign, Empire State Pri Agenda (ESPA), and Lambda Legal created the September 11 Gay & Lbian Fay Fund to provi some relief to survivg partners who were eligible for help om the feral relief fund program.