Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg.
Contents:
- WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF GOAL, THE GAY P CLUB BOOTED OM NYC PRI
- KG VON TELLS POLICE HE'S 'GAY' IN RURFACED JAIL VIO
WATCH VIRAL FOOTAGE OF KG VON ADMTG TO BEG GAY TO THE POLICE
* first gay police officer *
Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.
He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.
” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist.
On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. The late rapper’s rerd label released one of his albums dubbed “Grandsos” last week, and this week there’s a viral vio of Kg Von admtg to the police officers that he was gay, and social media is gog nuts.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GOAL, THE GAY P CLUB BOOTED OM NYC PRI
The vio first posted by DJ Akamiks saw Kg Von requtg that police officers put him protective ctody bee he was gay and hence uld be attacked a regular jail cell. The late 26-year-old never admted publicly that he was homosexual or gave any sign that fans would notice, hence the vio shockg fans. However, on Tuday, footage went viral of the “Took Her to the O” rapper claimg to be gay so that he uld be moved to PC, durg a stt behd bars.
But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them.
KG VON TELLS POLICE HE'S 'GAY' IN RURFACED JAIL VIO
I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier. Dpe the group’s s of activism wh the Big Apple’s LGBT muny, the Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL) has been shunned and exclud om New York Cy Pri events for at least the next four years.
From s nceptn, GOAL–a non-prof civil rights anizatn found 1982 by Charl Henry Cochrane Jr., the first openly gay NYPD officer–stggled for acceptance the NYPD.
GOAL started wh the missn to elimate discrimatn and employment termatn of gay police officers due to their sexualy. For many years, gay officers were shunned by lleagu for participatg as civilians durg Pri events. In a 2018 article tailg the history of the gay p club, the New York Post reported, “That same year [the su was filed] was the first time those officers were allowed to jo the Pri March full drs uniform.