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:
- IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN
- SPECT ARRTED FATAL H-AND-RUN OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR
- 'HORRIFIC': SPECT ARRTED H-AND-N THAT KILLED 3 PEOPLE OUTSI INIC CHIGO GAY BAR
IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN
* hits gay bar *
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.
SPECT ARRTED FATAL H-AND-RUN OUTSI CHIGO GAY BAR
“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.
” 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. Joe Ziegler, a special agent wh the tax agency for 13 years, scribed himself as a "gay Democrat married to a man" and said he cid to e forward spe his personal polics bee he believ "no one should be above the law regardls of your polil affiliatn.
'HORRIFIC': SPECT ARRTED H-AND-N THAT KILLED 3 PEOPLE OUTSI INIC CHIGO GAY BAR
"I equate this to the experience and feelgs I enuntered when g out [as gay], " said Ziegler. M., four men were stck by a sedan near the longtime Black gay nightclub Jeffery Pub, acrdg to the Chigo Police Department, Chigo's Fox statn, WFLD, men were pronounced ad at the Universy of Chigo Medil Center; a fourth was serly jured and remas hospalized.
A man has been charged nnectn wh a h-and-n crash that killed three people and jured a fourth outsi a Chigo gay bar earlier this month.
Brown claimed an vtigatn showed Dunbar “tentnally stck multiple pestrians” when he plowed his r to a crowd of people gathered outsi the Jeffery Pub, a Black-owned gay club on Chigo’s South Si, around 5 a.