PEACHY KEENAN: Everyone is gay, n you blame them? | Human Events |

Contents:

• PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?
• THE GAY SEX EVENT THAT MA ME A P
• GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024
• “A GAY EVENT”
• GAY MONTREAL
• LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN

PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?

Thursday night’s Log Cab Republins’ “Spir of Lln” gala the ma ballroom of Donald Tmp’s Mar-a-Lago beachont club was a joyo celebratn of gay rights. Thursday night’s Log Cab Republins’ “Spir of Lln” gala the ma ballroom of Donald Tmp’s Mar-a-Lago beachont club was a joyo celebratn of gay rights and — a se of ironic timg — the historic same-sex marriage law signed by Print Joe Bin days earlier. He received a standg ovatn after liverg an enthiastic affirmatn of gay rights not often heard the GOP.

“We are fightg for the gay muny, and we are fightg and fightg hard, ” the former print and 2024 ndidate said. Throughout the eveng, speakers praised Tmp for his embrace of the gay muny. They creded him for his iativ to bat the crimalizatn of homosexualy, his work phg for public heath iativ to bat the HIV epimic, and for appotg the first openly gay Cabet member, Grenell, as director of natnal telligence.

THE GAY SEX EVENT THAT MA ME A P

He’s been cricized for drivg a wedge between gay and transgenr muni, and for promotg extreme relig liberty polici and executive orrs they say allowed for discrimatn agast LGBTQ people that phed the movement backwards. Charl Moran, print of the Log Cab Republins, challenged other 2024 hopefuls to also say they are willg to fight for gay rights. Tmp, for one, med about his wife Melania Tmp jog Grenell, who is gay, for a Log Cab Republins trip to Beverly Hills, Calif., last week.

“Sudnly thgs changed when you fd out that your son or dghter is gay. In Team Ameri, the 2004 puppet edy om the creators of South Park, there’s a scene that satiriz the prevalence of gay-themed stage plays of that era (Angels Ameri, Rent, etc.

The gay or lbian populatn has creased by 26% and the percentage of stunts intifyg as bisexual has creased by 232%. I had spent the last six hours at the Black Party, a giant gay event that tak place every year at Roseland Ballroom Manhattan.

GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

For three s, the party has been a rnchy high pot of the gay lendar New York, and a throwback to the most hedonistic aspects of pre-AIDS gay culture. I had e here to nfirm several of my long-cherished beliefs about sex and gayns: that sex all of s forms was awome, that gay men's permissive attus toward were much saner than the straight muny's, and that events like this one were a healthy celebratn of the most transgrsive elements of gay life that had preced me. Like most gay guys, I spent my late teens and early 20s makg up for the chasty of my high school years.

As I moved om my hometown Edmonton, Canada, to bigger ci, I went to gay punk shows and arty queer dance parti, gettg myself dnk enough to talk to men I thought were cute and, on ocsn, gog home wh them.

" When I got a job workg a gay vio store, I uld see guys hangg out on the roof ck of the gay bathhoe across the street. I would watch them idly smoke their cigarett durg the afternoon and wonr whether I was missg out on a key part of the gay experience by not beg over there my towel, stead of headg home to my boyiend. " I'd heard people scribe as one of the filthit events you uld go to New York Cy, and I knew a ltle b about s history -- like the mors that s performanc, at one pot, had clud a man havg sex wh a snake and the fact that had emerged out of the Sat, the notor East Village gay dance club.

“A GAY EVENT”

Although closed 1988, the Sat's extravagant productn valu and mcular clientele helped fe the body-obssed party culture that most people still associate wh gayns. (It was so central to the 1980s New York gay scene that when AIDS first appeared, was referred to as the "Sat's Disease.

It's the most extreme maniftatn of a gay party culture that has waned the last -- as suggted by the disappearance of New York's extravagant gay dance clubs and the dramatilly creasg attendance rat of the Circu -- but was still an only--New York episo I didn't want to miss. It embodied the radil gay polics I thought were lackg my generatn of gay men, so ncerned wh marriage and adoptn and ftg .

GAY MONTREAL

I'm sure a gay man any era uld have been eaked out by that kd of extreme exhibnism, but I wonred if my squeamishns wasn't also a sign of a generatnal divi. If gay sex the 1970s was marked by rampant hedonism, and gay sex the 1980s was fed by AIDS, then perhaps gay sex the new lennium -- a time which kids like me are g out at earlier and earlier ag and fdg themselv ls and ls fed by their sexualy -- is largely distguished by s normalcy.

As gay culture be more and more like straight culture -- and creasgly unnstraed by stereotyp -- mak sense that, for better or worse, our attus toward sex bee more and more like straight people's as well. And don't mean I'm not grateful -- over the last few s, those hors of kky gay men paved the way for my sexual eedom.

LGBTQ BROOKLYN – A GAY GUY’S WEEKEND GUI TO BROOKLYN

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