It’s still dangero to be gay Wyomg — High Country News – Know the Wt

Contents:

• IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY WYOMG
•  WYOMG LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR

IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY WYOMG

A transgenr woman was beaten Caspe, and a bar Cheyenne was disvered to be sellg anti-gay t-shirts, which has sce stopped producg. PFLAG promot the health and well-beg of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr persons, their fai and iends through:Support: to pe wh an adverse society. “I thk there has been movement forward, but you didn’t need to look any further than the dog park here Casper, or the library Gillette, or the bar Cheyenne, and realize that homophobia and transphobia is still very much alive and well this state, ” he said, referrg to recent exampl that attracted natnal negative attentn.

 WYOMG LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

“People need to unrstand there’s no such thg as gay rights, ” he ntued, “we’re talkg about equal rights. People e the word ‘gay rights’ as as a buzzword to upset others to say ‘they’re gettg somethg I don’t have. Anti-gay vlence Wyomg is real, and serv a real rponse.

THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR

This was 2001, jt a few years after Matthew Shepard’s murr had ma gomely public the anti-gay vlence that was takg place throughout Wyomg. Durg that time, appeared to me that gay rights had ma great stris — not least wh the cremental support to legalize gay marriage natnwi. Livg plac as different om each other as Buenos Air, Chigo and New Orleans, I wnsed homophobia now and then, but not nearly as often as I saw jubilant monstratns of gay pri — or, more equently, pla old gay normalcy.