The right to a ary burial for gay spo was guaranteed natnwi wh the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015, but only a handful of known same-sex ary upl are buried across US natnal cemeteri. For most, the right to such an honor has been hard won.
Contents:
- FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
- THE GRAVE AND THE GAY: THE CIVIL WAR ON THE GILD AGE LECTURE CIRCU
FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
Campbell was the first gay veteran to secure burial rights for her spoe, and the pair were the first same-sex ary uple to be buried together at a US natnal cemetery. The right to a ary burial for gay spo was guaranteed natnwi wh the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015, but only a handful of known same-sex ary upl are buried across the 172 natnal cemeteri the US – grounds rerved chiefly for ary members and selected fay. However, gay veterans have always fought for their right to be clud and celebrated such spac.
THE GRAVE AND THE GAY: THE CIVIL WAR ON THE GILD AGE LECTURE CIRCU
Their tombston shout to the silence: “Gay is good, ” reads a plaque below the grave of Frank Kameny, an inic activist, civil servant and World War II veteran. A glossy namels marble headstone marks the grave of Leonard Matlovich, one of the first LGBTQ veterans to prott the ary’s ban on homosexualy, as one belongg to “A Gay Vietnam Veteran. Livgston Allen, unlike most of his more famo lleagu, left a plete versn of his lecture, which he self-published as Both Sis of Army Life: The Grave and the Gay.
Livgston Allen, Dcriptive Lecture: Both Sis of Army Life, the Grave and the Gay (np: The Author, 1885), 1. The acronym LGBTQ+ refers to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and Two Spir peopl, as well as those who intify as Pansexual, Qutng, Non-Bary, and other genr and sexualy mori. Roadblocks to reprentatn burial and memorializatn n appear anywhere om funeral directors, to church doctr, cemetery regulatns, next-of-k laws, and homophobic fai, jt to name a few.
The Gay Vietnam Veterans Memorial – Congrsnal Cemetery. The cemetery’s gravpe was first dispted by the creatn of the Gay Vietnam Veterans Memorial 1984, which is reprented by the grave of Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a gay Vietnam War Veteran and LGBTQ+ Activist.