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Contents:

• SENOR CHANG'S "HA, GAY!"
• SHANG-CHI'S SIMU LIU: PEDOPHILIA IS 'NO DIFFERENT THAN BEG GAY'
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• AM I GAY?
• QUEERG CHE CROSSGS LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY JAMAI: LARRY CHANG AND THE GAY FREEDOM MOVEMENT
• GAY CHIANG MAI
• FLORIDA LAWMAKERS PASS NTROVERSIAL SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• SOME GAYS CAN GO STRAIGHT, STUDY SAYS
• WHY BODY IMAGE ISSU PERVA THE GAY COMMUNY
• CAST MEMBER OF GAY DATG SHOW NFIRMED HIS RELATNSHIP WH REAL PHOTOS OF HIS DATE

SENOR CHANG'S "HA, GAY!"

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The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

SHANG-CHI'S SIMU LIU: PEDOPHILIA IS 'NO DIFFERENT THAN BEG GAY'

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". ”And The Wall Street Journal, Jason Gay appraised Carlos Alraz’s victory over Novak Djokovic an epic five-set showdown at Wimbledon by notg Djokovic’s preternatural stama. “There may be no harr opponent to close out sports, ” Gay wrote, addg: “Even after you feat Djokovic, you should go up to the srekeeper and get the rult wrg, jt to nfirm.

Due to Chang's unual enunciatn, upled by his qutnably sophomoric word choice, the scene has lent self to many parodi and YouTubePoop remix on s like Tumblr and YouTube. In one of the scen, Jeff Wger (Joel McHale) tri to spire his stunts by tellg the class that "the most important tool is rpect, " to which Señor Ben Chang (played by Ken Jeong) simply retorts "Ha, gayyyyy! On November 5th, 2010, webic artist Stephen Gillan referenced Señor Chang's quote his Antics Comic seri, which beme wily known as the Homophobic Seal among the fans.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

In this particular ic, two men ci to embrace each other an arctic blizzard orr to survive the ld, when the homophobic seal sudnly appears out of nowhere and yells "GAAAAAAYYYY.

Simu Liu, star of the superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rgs, once ma ments on Redd sympathizg wh pedophil and likeng them to gay people acrdg to a seri of Redd acunt that ma the ments and that has been lked to Liu has been leted, but social media ers have been sharg imag of the ment nnected the acunt NippedInTheBud to Liu through multiple touch pots.

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AM I GAY?

(Kent Nishimura / Los Angel Tim) To the edor: I wonr if the LGBTQ+ muny realiz that the Supreme Court lg favor of a webse signer who didn’t want to create weddg s for gay upl n work our favor as well. (“How the ripple effect of the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative cisn uld swamp civil rights, ” Opn, July 12)As a gay man, I am always ncerned if the bs where I spend my money are supportive of my muny. Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr.

Alongsi s ternatnal reputatn for black empowerment and homophobic exceptnalism the late twentieth century, Jamai also be home to the anglophone Caribbean’s first gay activist anizatn, the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM), led by Che-Jamain General Secretary Larry Chang.

Drawg on archival rearch and oral history terviews, I argue that Che-ns was key to Chang’s polics of crossg which he wrote as different characters GFM’s newsletter to reprent and rec across the l of race, class, genr, and natn support of a broad-based gay social movement. In 1981 Larry Chang, founr of the anglophone Caribbean’s first gay activist anizatn, the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM), wrote the followg the anizatn’s newsletter the Jamai Gaily News (JGN):. This was ma possible by the Sttish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG), our tw anizatn, who not only enuraged to attend, but also met all my foreign exchange needs.

QUEERG CHE CROSSGS LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY JAMAI: LARRY CHANG AND THE GAY FREEDOM MOVEMENT

SHRG and GFM’s “pairg associatn” was not unmon as the late twentieth century wnsed the emergence of gay activists groups around the world and the buildg of relatnships between them (Bloom 1986; Dcker 1996). First, GFM’s volvement ternatnal gay liberatn efforts plit readgs of Jamai terms of homophobic exceptnalism that emerged after the group’s mise 1984 (Ch 1997). Fally, that a Che subject be reprentative of Jamain gay activism serv cril scty amid the rise of Black Power across the Ameris and the creasg legimizatn of Black claims of cizenship Jamai (Palmer 1989; Bogu 2009; At 2007).

In this say I foc on Chang’s posn as “Oriental” to nsir the raced, classed, and genred polics of transnatnal gay activism late twentieth-century Jamai. 3 I exame how Chang’s gay activism facilat an analysis of the ways Che-ns plays to cross-race, cross-class, and cross-genr relatns both on the island and overseas. Wrg “standard” English, Long was figured as a normatively mascule, middle-class gay man who was tend to engage ternatnal terlocutors and Jamai’s Whe and Brown middle and upper class.

I argue that Chang’s fabritn of Long and Man nstut a form of textual crossg which he reach across the l of race, class, and genr to nstct as broad a gay social movement as possible.

GAY CHIANG MAI

That Chang’s efforts take on wrten form is signifint, not only bee the taboo nature of homosexualy at the time ma difficult to unrtake more embodied forms of social and polil engagement, but also bee the wrten word allowed for transgrsns of race, class, and genr ways that would be nsirably more difficult to enact person. His textual crossgs of race, class, and genr draw together differently posned subjects support of sexual eedom by redistributg rourc om wealthy to poor and workg-class gays. While he received a BFA environmental sign, his tn extend far beyond the classroom as he me to be policized by femist, Black power, and gay liberatn movements sweepg across the US.

While homophobic vlence was very much prent on the island at this time, Jamai was also home to a vibrant though unrground gay scene which Chang quickly took part. By ordatg a muny meetg to addrs the equent fights among patrons of the gay club The Closet that threatened the tablishment’s ntued existence, Chang started what was to bee the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM) 1977.

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Very quickly, GFM grew to be a muny iative seekg to provi stctur of support and muny buildg for gay men and women on the island while also tacklg the homophobic ndns of Jamain society. 8 This was a historic event as was the first time not only that a “gay” anizatn gaed natnal publicy, but also that a Jamain willgly intified himself as part of .

Durg GFM’s existence, Chang’s home beme a verable muny centre which gay women and men om all over the cy vised seekg support, iendship, and opportuni for sex. He was often the first pot of ntact for overseas visors as well as gays other parts of the island who sought to vis Kgston, and he operated as a central no a muny work, lkg newers to nnectns for hog and employment. As GFM’s General Secretary rponsible for the anizatn’s rrponnce, Chang’s name also beme synonymo wh GFM wh the orb of the group’s ternatnal work cultivated through travel, JGN’s offshore circulatn, and munitn wh gay Jamains livg the diaspora.

9 Though was mon for gay women and men to wre unr a psdonym at this time, Chang’s e of the characters was not so much about ncealg his inty om JGN rears as was a liberate outreach strategy oriented around the polics of reprentatn. The need to unrtake this labour suggts that far om beg a universal tegory late twentieth-century Jamai, “gay” took shape through different relatns of race, class, and genr. 13 By llg attentn to the new “girls” on the scene, romantic break ups, and asslt, Man gossips about datg, social life, and safety Kgston’s gay muny.

SOME GAYS CAN GO STRAIGHT, STUDY SAYS

Wh Long, Chang “wanted to reprent a fely gay male perspective whout any kd of effemacy, while beg very objective and sober … what name is more mon, more typilly male than Tony?

”15 Unlike Ss-Uratn, Long’s entri were matter-of-fact treatments of topics legible to rears unfaiar wh Kgston’s gay scene and always wrten “standard” English. Kuras, wrg the Boston paper Gay Communy News, recently had this to say: “I have enuntered a certa school of thought among lbians and gay men which they assume that a sgle person will overthrow our opprsn … they awa a queer savr to ee om our turmoil” … Y, my iends, this do apply jt as much to . In ntrast to Man’s gossip, Long’s ntributns clud a seri of articl on beg gay, opn piec on the relatnship between homosexualy and topics such as relign and monogamy, and updat on GFM activi.

Fally, while both Man and Long highlighted the transnatnal nature of Jamain gay life, Man was more likely engage Jamain diasporans, while Long attend to relatnships between Jamains and foreign dividuals and anizatns. The transnatnal spe of his attempts to nstct expand forms of gay muny Jamai ntradicts attempts to posn the Che dichotomo terms durg the height of Black Power movements the anglophone Caribbean.

WHY BODY IMAGE ISSU PERVA THE GAY COMMUNY

The exigenci of gay activism late twentieth-century Jamai meant that Chang’s engagement wh poor and workg-class Black Jamains did not preclu and perhaps required simultaneoly workg wh Whe and Brown upper-class Jamains as well as ternatnal terlocutors.

Earlier issu of JGN also note the divi that Chang mentns between gays who wanted to overtly brg about change Jamain society and those who preferred to mata the stat quo. For stance, the thor of a letter submted to JGN who referred to themselv as “Of you but by no means wh you” wrote: “If the homosexual is to get any pleasure or any happs or any real love his life, he is more likely to get by not drawg untoward attentn to himself as such.

CAST MEMBER OF GAY DATG SHOW NFIRMED HIS RELATNSHIP WH REAL PHOTOS OF HIS DATE

While Chang is rrect notg that better-off gays preferred to keep to themselv and not associate wh GFM, the support of a handful of wealthy Jamains was ccial to GFM’s succs. The owner of the gay club Maddam’s allowed GFM to e his premis durg off-hours for muny meetgs, and an tablished real tate broker would rm GFM of properti that were empty that uld be “borrowed” for gathergs that supported gay muny social life.