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Contents:
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
- WHAT THE 'SIP-IN' DID FOR GAY RIGHTS: BEFORE STONEWALL, THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY INSPIRED A NEW YORK BAR CRAWL
- NBA RUMOR: MAVS LKED TO RUDY GAY AFTER THUNR CUT
- THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
* the gay crowd inside *
The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.
They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
Takg spiratn om the “S Ins” the South of Ameri durg the civil rights movement, the “Sip-In” was a way for gay rights activists to make themselv heard. * the gay crowd inside *
He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.
To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.
WHAT THE 'SIP-IN' DID FOR GAY RIGHTS: BEFORE STONEWALL, THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY INSPIRED A NEW YORK BAR CRAWL
After beg released by the OKC Thunr, Rudy Gay is reportedly expected to draw tert om the Dallas Mavs among other possible ee agency suors. * the gay crowd inside *
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“He’s a hater of homosexual women. He’s homophobic and transgenr phobic.
In the sprg of 1966, members of a gay rights anizatn wanted to make their voic heard. Instead of takg to the streets, they h the bars New York Cy and mand to be served, spe laws statg homosexuals uld not was a rebelln that paid homage to the “S In” protts Southern Stat durg the Civil Rights movement, as those phg for equal rights would s at a “wh only” unter and mand to be April 1966, members of the Mattache Society plotted to go to one bar and try and get arrted for askg for an alholic drk. They tend to challenge New York State Liquor Authory (SLA) regulatns that ma so bars uld not serve drks to known or spected gay men or lbians bee jt their beg there was signated as "disorrly.
NBA RUMOR: MAVS LKED TO RUDY GAY AFTER THUNR CUT
“I thk this is what really happened the '60s, before Stonewall, is that we started challengg the ia that all homosexuals were sick, ” activist, “Sip-In” participant and Mattache Society treasurer Randy Wicker told Insi Edn Dry WellsIn the early 1960s, the New York State Liquor Authory refed to issue licens to gay bars as they were nsired “disorrly ho” and spots where “unlawful practic are habually rried on by the public. "Though homosexualy was technilly legal the state, the muny often faced ridicule and discrimatn. People uld be fired om their rporate jobs for beg gay.
Stonewall Inn bartenr Tree told Insi Edn Digal 2019 that gay bars were hidn pla sight, and to fd one, you had to be taken there by someone who already knew where was. “The wdows were pated, everythg was dark, black, you had to knock on the doors, ” said Tree, who asked that his last name not be were notor for raidg bars the Wt Village and Lower Manhattan, which were spected of servg homosexual ctomers.
“If you sat at a gay bar, you uld not turn around, ” Tree said. ”Members of the Mattache Society, an early gay rights group, looked to do somethg about the treatment members of the LGBTQ muny Mattache Society took their name om French Renaissance groups who were spired by the Italian theater character Mattacco, a urt jter who spoke tths to a kg, acrdg to Society started the early 1950s Los Angel before spreadg across the untry.
THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED
It was one of the first gay rights groups Ameri, acrdg to the Library of Congrs. “We were an tnal rearch anizatn, ncerned wh issu regardg homosexuals, ” Wicker the Mattache Society tried to te and tried to raise awarens.
Wicker said he would try to appear on rad shows, report newspapers and 1964, he spoke on MacDougal Street to a small crowd to raise awarens about the discrimatn gay men faced si bars. “My legs were shakg at this moment, and I said, ‘Down the street, there is a bar that operat bee ters the homosexuals and operat only bee pays off the police, ’” he said. “This is bee gay bars are illegal this cy.