California voters will be asked to affirm gay marriage rights on the 2024 ballot followg Prop. 8 ncerns about the state nstutn.
Contents:
- CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
- THE CHALLENG OF GAY MEN RELATNSHIP AND 8 WAYS TO MAKE IT EASIER
- HIV AND GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: PREVENTN CHALLENG
CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer. * homosexual challenges *
Wright, her cisn now go to the school board, which will discs the book challenge at s Monday meetg agenda and vote on a cisn on Tallahassee mom who submted the challenge, Katie Lyons, said her dghter, then a send grar at a lol elementary school, brought home the children's book about Kg, a tennis legend who is gay — and also brought qutns to her mother about a page regardg Kg's sexual orientatn. “It is important that be ma clear that this book was challenged not bee the book mentns Billie Jean Kg is gay, ” Lyons told the school board at a meetg last week. Regardls of orientatn, homosexual or heterosexual, the topic of sexual orientatn is not age-appropriate or velopmentally-appropriate for elementary stunts.
"I object to material that discs beg gay and what means to be gay, " wrote page drawg the challenge reads: "Around this time, I realized I was gay. Beg gay means that if you're a girl, you love and have romantic feelgs for other girls — and if you're a boy, you love and have romantic feelgs for other boys. "Lyons matas the book is ntrary to state law, largely cg the Parental Rights Edutn Act, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by crics, which prohibs stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty book challenge law:Florida schools stggle to apply new book law which even Shakpeare is 'spect'Why 's beg challenged:Tallahassee mom mak se that 'I am Billie Jean Kg' book 'g' on parents' rightsWright, her July 10 remendatn, unters that the book isn’t ed as “stctn” and poted to a clarifitn the Florida Department of Edutn issued statg that "cintal referenc" books to LGBTQ people are not also said a new law, HB 1069, directed each school district to adopt procs allowg parents to lim their child’s accs to library material.
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"The excln of one of the profil jt bee of the intifitn of the ma subject as homosexual is not the tentn of any law or statute passed by the Florida Legislature, " Syett Lyons said the parental book review procs is not enough to screen qutnable materials accsible to their stunts. McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.
He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was bil and ugly, filled wh “every gay slur you uld thk of, ” Bach said. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster.
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As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport. McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay.
”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry.
As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok.
HIV AND GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: PREVENTN CHALLENG
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’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. “I was sually like, ‘You know I’m gay, right?
That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac. “I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room.
Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy. Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done.
"If you really knew me, you wouldn’t love me." Do you ever feel this way your LGBTQ relatnships? Learn more about how to make gay relatnships easier. * homosexual challenges *
The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L. “Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely.
Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U.
Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right.
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Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor. Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and/or qutng (LGBTQ) stunts at.
Their ma topic volved the implitns of the nomatn’s Human Sexualy Report — particularly homosexual marriage.
The nomatn’s stance is homosexual marriage vlat God’s will.
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Not only do opposn to homosexual marriage rema, but the ramifitns for supporters have also BuursmaIn 2022, Synod clared acceptg the CRC’s Human Sexualy Report is a matter of “nfsnal stat. ” This means CRC office bearers (clergy, elrs, ans) are required to believe, or at least publicly uphold, this tradnal teachg ncerng homosexual marriage — that vlat God’s will.
Several church wanted the nomatn to disciple member church that “proudly and publicly proclaim acceptance” of homosexual marriage. This means a pastor, elr or an may not publicly reject the nomatn’s teachg that homosexual marriage vlat God’s will. This means “classis visors, ” or monors, should lovgly ensure church and their members adhere to the nomatn’s, no one who holds church office may clare they support homosexual marriage, even if they support homosexual marriage.
The nomatn teach that, even wh the bonds of marriage, homosexualism is patible wh God’s who regularly read my opns know my stance on homosexualy — is herent and immutable; harms no one; prevents no one om followg God’s mand to do jtly, love mercy, and walk humbly wh God; prevents no one om lovg God wh all one’s heart, soul, strength, and md; prevents no one om dog unto others as one would have done to onelf; prevents no one om servg God and his fellow is my claratn: Based on the teachgs of J Christ, based on science that monstrat homosexual orientatn is nate and unchosen, based on God’s statement that man should not live alone but wh a helpmate, I believe married homosexuals who clare their fah J are part of God’s kgdom and should be wholly wele his church, as ngregants, officers and clergy. I fear and spect, however, will not, and maybe shouldn’t if the st is so importantly for me, I sire homosexuals to know I and many others believe they, too, are God’s beloved children. Contact him at article origally appeared on The Holland Sentel: Ray Buursma: My claratn ncerng homosexual marriage.