Drag queens chantg 'we're g for your kids' hurt gay rights

Contents:

• THE NEWT GAY BAR NYC
• DRAG QUEENS CHANTG ‘WE’RE G FOR YOUR KIDS’ HURT GAY RIGHTS
• TWO ARRTED AT NYC UNCILMAN'S APARTMENT 'GAYS AGAST GROOMERS' PROTT OVER DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR
• THE HISTORY OF GAY NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK CY
• THE TERACTN OF DRAG QUEENS AND GAY MEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPAC

THE NEWT GAY BAR NYC

The days, you n tch drag queens (often for ee) every night of the week onstage at gay bars throughout the boroughs (and Fire Island), and even on Broadway stag wh shows like Kky Boots servg fierce performanc. ” uld spark more anti-gay hate. “They’re danger every day, ” Ghzzo told The Post, referencg recent attacks on drag shows and the gay muny as a whole.

But others were more valier, and dismissed the chant as a harmls jab at anti-gay activists who falsely acce those the LGBTQ muny of beg pedophil and child “groomers. At the NYC Pri March, many revelers dismissed the chant as a harmls jab at anti-gay McGregor/Sipa USA. The march memorat the 1969 rts at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, which was wily nsired the birth of the gay rights via Getty Imag.

“I live Pennsylvania, where [homophobia] is a lot more mon, ” Blimle said Sunday. Still, beg able to lgh at the “absurdy” is important, said Jimmie O’Brien, a 66-year-old gay man om NYC.

DRAG QUEENS CHANTG ‘WE’RE G FOR YOUR KIDS’ HURT GAY RIGHTS

“Sadly – this will ntue to termate the view of the gay muny who fought so hard to be accepted.

The Newt Gay Bar NYCLoted at 34-10 30th Ave, Queens, New York NY 11103New Drag Bnch Saturday & Sunday! In recent years, such blunt, outrageo rhetoric om the gay left has bee pretty faiar.

Two years ago, the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos released a YouTube vio which 81 of s members sang a song wh the rea: “We’ll nvert your children / Happens b by b. Groups like the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos once played an important role givg gay Amerins a posive image.

TWO ARRTED AT NYC UNCILMAN'S APARTMENT 'GAYS AGAST GROOMERS' PROTT OVER DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR

The ia of gay people as more or ls ordary people next door was ccial helpg w popular support for gay equaly, gays the ary, and, ultimately, same-sex marriage. To ce the tle of my 1993 book, most gay Amerins jt wanted “A Place at the Table. The tle of Andrew Sullivan’s 1995 book ma the same pot: gay people were, all all, “Virtually Normal.

Our books were part of a rponse by the gay mastream to a self-styled “gay-rights movement” that, n by far-left iologu, had all too often promoted the ia of gays as the cuttg edge of a csa to overthrow every pillar of Amerin society: palism, relign, the ary, the fay. Nothg uld have been more unte to the realy of ordary gay Amerins’ liv or more damagg to the prospects for their equaly. They’d hijacked the fate of gay Amerins to ph their own utopian socialist agenda.

When Sullivan and I appeared on Charlie Rose’s show 1994, to memorate the 25th anniversary of the morn gay-rights movement, one of the other guts, a radil lbian, ma this agenda clear. Whatever they may say nowadays, the gay left hated the ia of same-sex marriage. Those of who supported weren’t jt cricized by right-wg fenrs of tradnal wedlock; we were fiercely attacked by “queers” – left-wg gays who cherished their margaly – for wantg to buy to a “heterosexual stutn.

THE HISTORY OF GAY NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK CY

In the end, fortunately, our si won – bee as a tsunami of gays me out of the closet the 1990s and afterwards, beme clear that those of who jt wanted to live normal liv were very much the majory.

On the ntrary, before long a large majory of Amerins said they were okay wh gay marriage. The wispread and relatively quick acceptance of gay marriage was a ttament to Amerins’ nate sense of fairns, of equaly before the law, of rpect for difference.

But a ty – and unreprentative – mory of gays obvly didn’t feel gratu.

THE TERACTN OF DRAG QUEENS AND GAY MEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPAC

That small sad segment of the gay populatn who are termed to be clowns, to make mischief, and to get easy thrills by terrifyg nice people, they’re out there now, givg an ugly name to the overwhelmg majory of cent gay Amerins who stggled for so long – and wh digny and patience and sensivy – to w equaly and rpect. And I know one thg: if anybody is upset more by this sishow than straight parents, ’s gay people who feel that their honorable movement for equal rights has been shanghaied by a gang of psychologilly disturbed egomaniacs. “Straight people were clumsy and had no rhythm, whereas gay men were right on.

Manco’s crowd, which clud many gay men of lor, bellowed out the chos, refigurg the song’s addrsee as a new kd of Shore Commissn, ‘Free Man’ (1975)D. -led dance spac that were exclive to gay men — ually whe, middle-class gay men — started to open Manhattan late 1972. Valento, ‘I Was Born This Way’ (1975)The first rerd to feature lyrics about beg an out-and-proud gay man me om the mil performer Charl “Valento” Harris, who released “I Was Born This Way” as an apparently one-off release on Gaiee.