From marriage equaly to the end of don't ask, don't tell, this has been an extraordary year. Here, Aaron Hickl, edor--chief of Out magaze, looks forward to the end of gay culture
Contents:
- 2011: AN EXTRAORDARY YEAR FOR GAY RIGHTS
- 2011: A GOOD YEAR TO BE GAY
- BBC NEWS 2021 (BRASIL), ON ANTEC O 1º SAMENTO GAY, Há EXATOS 20 ANOS
2011: AN EXTRAORDARY YEAR FOR GAY RIGHTS
This year was an extraordary one for many thgs — pecially gay rights. In September, the end of the ary's "don't ask, don't tell" policy allowed gay, lbian and bisexual people to serve openly.
'A Good Year To Be Queer' Among those appldg the recent stris gay rights is lumnist and activist Dan Savage, who told Sheir that was a "good year to be queer.
"[Clton] stood up for half an hour and lectured world lears on the fact that gay rights are human rights, " Savage says. He was standg next to a gay uple he didn't know, and one of the men asked Savage, "We're always happy for them, would kill them to be happy for ? After s which gay rights have polarised US opn, the untry barely shgged September when a two- old law prohibg gay men and women om servg openly the ary was fally repealed, promptg thoands of gay soldiers to post g-out vios on YouTube – jt one more example of how the web has transformed gay visibily.
2011: A GOOD YEAR TO BE GAY
To put that ntext, there are more people livg New York than the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalise same-sex stggle for marriage equaly has been one of the most bterly divisive issu Ameri, but after a seri of feats for gay-rights advot, the ti appears to be shiftg irrevobly their directn. In the 2004 electn, unr the keen enuragement of Karl Rove, no fewer than 11 stat passed ballot iativ banng gay marriage — a cynil get-out-the-vote ploy that helped swell Republin ranks at the pollg perceptn that marriage equaly was a poisoned pk chalice persisted up to the 2008 electn, when even Obama was reful to clarify that he wasn't favour of gay marriage, apparently heedg warngs om Bill Clton to give the issue a wi berth.
BBC NEWS 2021 (BRASIL), ON ANTEC O 1º SAMENTO GAY, Há EXATOS 20 ANOS
Yet this year's bat between the ragtag pack of Republin printial nome, the ual rhetoric nouncg gay marriage has been noticeably absent. Even Obama, facg prer odds for a send term, has said that he favours repealg the notor Defense of Marriage Act that has prevented feral regnn of gay marriag, even those performed stat where they are changed those few short years? In many ways the transformatn of attus has been ongog for s, accelerated large part by the impact of Aids, which renfigured gay inty around muny and relatnships.