Gay Aviatn Enthiasts

Contents:

• 'I DON'T FEEL PART OF THE MILARY ANYMORE': OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAV AFTER HARASSMENT
• GAY PILOTS BRG LOVE OF AVIATN TO HELP KICK OFF PRI MONTH CEDAR RAPIDS
• OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAVG NAVY AFTER HARASSMENT
• MANY UNTRI DON'T ACCEPT OUR RIGHT TO EXIST: LIFE AS A GAY TRAVELER
• PIEDMONT STANDS WH PRI: EMBRACG DIVERSY AVIATN WH THE NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN
• NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN (NGPA) STANDS WH TRANSGENR AVIATN COMMUNY
• BEG GAY NAVAL AVIATN

'I DON'T FEEL PART OF THE MILARY ANYMORE': OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAV AFTER HARASSMENT

Follow along on a gay wrer’s adventur at Pri around the world; read about a bisexual woman’s journey to The Gambia to vis her stnchly relig fay; and hear om a non-genr-nformg traveler about unexpected challeng and triumphs on the road. Wh the rise of gay rights movements worldwi, aviatn pani have stepped up as some of the most vol supporters of queer , promisg workspace equaly and gettg volved wh the muny to assuagg doubts that’s ’s all jt rabow-washg to prof off Pri Month. Sce was found 1990, the Natnal Gay Pilot Associatn has bee the largt and most fluential group of LGBTQ+ profsnals and enthiasts the world.

Still, there’s always a possibily to enunter homophobic microaggrsns or flat-out discrimatn om passengers a service-oriented role.

'I Don't Feel Part Of The Milary Anymore': Openly Gay Pilot Leav After Harassment One of Naval Aviatn's few openly gay pilots is leavg his ary reer behd after only six years, cg harassment as the reason. KPBS' Steve Walsh has the WALSH, BYLINE: For most of his six years the Navy, Litenant Adam Adamski says he felt supported as an openly gay pilot. And I saw my drs wh draped over and around the TV, and there was hardre gay porn His uniform was wrapped around a TV playg pornography.

GAY PILOTS BRG LOVE OF AVIATN TO HELP KICK OFF PRI MONTH CEDAR RAPIDS

ADAMSKI: I received numero lls om people that are the closet that squadron, both men and women, and openly gay service members tellg me that they are upset and that they don't thk the climate, pecially for pilots, is a good climate that squadron and that they thk I should report The don't ask, don't tell policy end a ago, allowg LGBT service members to serve openly.

CEDAR RAPIDS — For the first time sce was found 1990, the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn is holdg a major event flyover untry. On Sunday, the nonprof — which has 4, 100 LGBTQ pilots and aviatn profsnals — won’t be holdg s newt event gay mecs like Provcetown, Mass., or Palm Sprgs, Calif.

OPENLY GAY PILOT LEAVG NAVY AFTER HARASSMENT

” Comments: (319) 398-8340; Stephan Jansen Van Vuuren, a flight stctor and member of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn, anchors his aircraft Friday after flyg to The Eastern Iowa Airport. More than 100 members of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn are expected to arrive wh their aircraft for the Wgs Over Iowa event on Sunday. The pilots are two of more than 100 members of the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn expected to vis for the Wgs Over Iowa event at the airport on Sunday.

When Lonely Pla asked me to wre about my experienc as an openly gay traveler and journalist, was one of the harst assignments I’ve ever accepted. Julie Newmar, a backuntry sheriff is searchg for the three drag queen protagonists, and he wr out a list tled “Plac for Homos”. The story of passenger aviatn is tertwed wh gay men, most famoly gay flight attendants, stereotypilly swishg their way through the ski wh their gal pals, a guy every (air)port, footloose, fancy ee and happy.

As one of the relatively few openly gay aviatn journalists, and one who specialis the passenger experience – what we all see when we travel – the way this particular quirk of history has evolved, as Phil Tiemeyer’s excellent book Plane Queer tells , trigu me. Ined, I me of age the 1990s, when the only gay people on TV were hairdrsers, drag queens, flight attendants and people dyg of AIDS. Right now, the shadow of another panmic, my gay iends of a siar age and I talk equently about how formative that particular experience was how we’re reactg to COVID-19, and how much affected our perspective.

MANY UNTRI DON'T ACCEPT OUR RIGHT TO EXIST: LIFE AS A GAY TRAVELER

In more than a dozen untri, gay people n still be put to ath for spendg a night wh our partners, arrted for holdg hands, prosecuted for gatherg wh other people like , jailed for even discsg our liv – let alone beg attacked by mobs for simply beg who we are. I intify as gay and queer, and I reclaim the word “queer” along wh others to scribe a wir sense of inty, the unrstandg that there is a generatn olr than me, of gay men particular, who don’t like the word, havg had screamed at them by police as they were arrted and btalized.

Let me be the first to highlight that the LGBTIQA+ muny is as diverse as s members, and I n only speak to my experience as a whe, cisgenr, universy-ted thirty-somethg gay man livg wtern Europe, which giv me a particular perspective on the world. Enjoyg credible drag performanc Sgapore, the search for the perfect ty gay bar Shju, gog for a drk the Stonewall, lettg my purple hair down gayborhoods om the Marais to the Castro, browsg queer bookstor om Toronto to Melbourne, dancg the night away among fellow queers om Beijg to Buchart… and chattg the galleys of aircraft worldwi: gettg to experience the amazg flavor of queer life across the world is a joy and a privilege. It’s also a rponsibily: as a journalist wh a public profile, I often avoid postg about visg gay venu and queer spac on social media untri where LGBTIQA+ people are still targeted for harassment, vlence and opprsn by ernments or society.

PIEDMONT STANDS WH PRI: EMBRACG DIVERSY AVIATN WH THE NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN

I also grew up the UK the 1980s when the Thatcher Government stuted laws that prevented schools om talkg about gay people and lol ernments om fundg servic for , cludg AIDS servic. We still live a world where scribg the layed rponse to the HIV-AIDS epimic – where failure to fund treatments for a disease that was first lled Gay-Related Immune Deficiency was wispread durg a time where was seen as a “gay disease” — as a genoci is ntroversial. We live a world where I’m expected to travel to and via some of the dozens of untri where I uld be put to ath, jailed, tortured or extrajudicially killed for beg gay whout a send thought.

We live a world where, prr to leavg for a trip to or via an even larger list of untri, I need to b through my phone for anythg gay that uld e problems.

NATNAL GAY PILOTS ASSOCIATN (NGPA) STANDS WH TRANSGENR AVIATN COMMUNY

We live a world where beg openly gay means g out every sgle day to someone new, never knowg whether that will be met wh an exced “me too!

We live a world where I watch and listen to the experience of the transgenr, genr-nonnformg, genrqueer, non-bary and other members of the LGBTIQA+ muny, and see so many disturbg parallels to how gay people were treated earlier my lifetime that I n’t help but stand bi them.

BEG GAY NAVAL AVIATN

The most gay-iendly plac on the pla 7 historic LGBTIQ+ US statns to celebrate Pri How Black LGBTIQ+ travelers navigate a challengg world. The NGPA is an ternatnal anizatn of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) aviatn profsnals, enthiasts and their alli om around the world.

#IamNGPA #ngpa #ngpaeverywhere #equal #thentic #rpected #loveislove #lgbt #lgbtq #lbian #gay #bisexual #transgenr #queer #pilot #aviatn #avgeek #equaly #diversy #aviatndaily. As wh most anizatns, you won’t fd any sgle foundatnal story about how the Natnal Gay Pilots Associatn (NGPA) was found and me to be a force for diversy and cln aviatn. In fact, outsi of aviatn, if you were to mentn that there is an anizatn that seeks to une and advote for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people the aviatn dtry, you would probably be met wh puzzled looks.

Though they were g to disver new iends the gay aviatn muny, only first nam where ed to protect those at risk of losg their jobs or beg dishonorably discharged om the ary. “The NGPA has answered the llg to lead a global dtry-wi effort to end homophobia and transphobia aviatn, ” said NGPA Print David Pettet addrsg how the missn of NGPA has evolved to clu many other iativ.