Sam Brton is a drag queen, a cric of gay nversn therapy, and an LGBTQ+ activist who has lectured on kk at llege mp and participated terviews about fetish roleplay. A photo taken at the Universy of Nebraska shows Brton a drs, standg over three kneelg mal wh leather bondage-style dog masks on…
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- ‘NUCLEAR FAY’ DIRECTOR RY RSO-YOUNG ON EXAMG MEANG OF FAY AND GAY PARENTHOOD THE ’90S
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- BIN APPOTS GAY DRAG QUEEN TOP OFFICIAL FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY
‘NUCLEAR FAY’ DIRECTOR RY RSO-YOUNG ON EXAMG MEANG OF FAY AND GAY PARENTHOOD THE ’90S
"But the face of homophobia and transphobia, queer activists and policians are attemptg to shift the msage om one of hate to one of mattersBrton (who did not rpond to Yahoo Life's requt for ment) is not the first drag performer to have dispted 1961, José Sarria, a part-time drag queen, beme the first out gay ndidate to n for office the Uned Stat — 15 years before Harvey Milk, the first out gay man to be elected to public office California, beme a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977. "I thk the right-wg attacks are gross and rooted homophobia, " Cummgs tells Yahoo Life of Brton's crics. Brton, a graduate of MIT wh dual master’s gre nuclear engeerg and technology, has also been an activist for Global Zero and the gay and transgenr suici preventn anizatn, The Trevor Project, and has advoted agast gay nversn therapy.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
LGBTQ+ advot have been praisg Brton’s appotment, cludg Marti Cummgs, a drag performer who ran for New York Cy Council last year, who said “I thk the right-wg attacks are gross and rooted homophobia.
26, follows Rso-Young’s mothers, Rob Young and Sandy Rso, who fought a long, emotnally ght ctody battle begng 1991 wh sperm donor Tom Steel, a then-proment gay lawyer.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
The Hollywood Reporter spoke wh Rso-Young ahead of the documentary’s release about balancg opposg perspectiv, cludg her own, gettg people on the rerd about her ctody se, how revisg her youth may have shifted her perspective and tellg a personal and universal story of gay parentg. Somethg that ronated wh me for personal reasons was how normalized you ma the story of your fay and that of other gay parents this really ght, homophobic time. I absolutely wanted to tell this specific story of the lawsu and my moms’ and my sperm donor but knew that there was a larger narrative of gay fai movg om a renega unterculture to the mastream acceptance of where we are now.
In your se, I thk tellg this story was extra tricky bee also volved two sis who were both beg discrimated agast by a homophobic and sexist society and urt system.
BIN APPOTS GAY DRAG QUEEN TOP OFFICIAL FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY
Was that a chronologil cisn terms of tellg the story of how history and gay rights unfold or was that more about your personal journey?
“First of all, I’m gay, ” he said, “and this movie is gog to be gay non.