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• THE GAY AMIC UNN: THE PROCEEDGS OF ITS FIRST NATNAL CONFERENCE NEW YORK CY, 1973, BY JOHN D'E
• GAY AMIC UNN
• GAY HISTORY NEVADA AND LAS VEGAS, 1969-2009, BY DENNIS MCBRI, CRYSTAL VAN DEE, AND PL ERSHLER
• 21 GAY AMIC UNN
• GAY AMIC UNN OF NEW ENGLAND RERDS
• GAY AMIC UNN JOURNAL : GAI SABER.
• GAY AMIC UNN—ST. LOUIS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• SENDG OUR GAY STUNTS TO RSIA

THE GAY AMIC UNN: THE PROCEEDGS OF ITS FIRST NATNAL CONFERENCE NEW YORK CY, 1973, BY JOHN D'E

More than three hundred of were gathered there for the openg of the Gay Amic Unn’s gural natnal nference, “The Universi and the Gay Experience. ” McNeill was on a panel that everyone there attend, “Scholarship and the Gay Experience, ” a ssn that had been terpted by a bomb threat lled to 911 and that forced all of temporarily to evacuate the buildg.

At that pot, 1973, I was several years to the procs of acceptg my gayns, and I was dog more and more “g out” my personal life and my life as a graduate stunt. For the first time I was hearg a thoughtful and rmed challenge to the standard teachgs of Catholicism about homosexualy. McNeill was parsg the story of Sodom and Gomorrah Genis and argug, unmistakable and nvcg terms, that the s of Sodom was not homosexualy, but hospaly.

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He went even farther by assertg that there were no nmnatns of homosexualy the Scripture that Catholics as well as other Christians revere. The nference wnsed a nstuency g together, and s published proceedgs pture somethg of those early years after the Stonewall uprisg New York and the birth of a gay liberatn movement. Though gay and lbian issu were surfacg some profsnal associatns, like those of anthropologists, soclogists, and psychologists, this was the first large and ee-standg multi-disciplary gatherg of queer amics.

The tell-your-iends method of recg new fac to meetgs smacked right to the genr separatn that existed the social circl and mercial stutns available to lbians and gay make personal, seven years of participatn New York’s gay life, I had never knowgly met a lbian until I began gog to GAU meetgs. On the other hand, my social circle at the time the GAU got started clud more gay men of lor than not, but they were almost all workg-class men for whom the GAU had no relevance.

GAY HISTORY NEVADA AND LAS VEGAS, 1969-2009, BY DENNIS MCBRI, CRYSTAL VAN DEE, AND PL ERSHLER

Texas Supreme Court cisn that brought an end to state sodomy laws that crimalized homosexual behavr. I hope that readg “The Universi and the Gay Experience” not only provis an absorbg dip to a moment LGBT history, but provok your thkg about this qutn and many more. The Gay Amic Unn (GAU) was a group of LGBT amics who aimed at makg the amia more amenable to the LGBT muny the Uned Stat.

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Polil Alliance of Massachetts rerds. Found as the Lbian and Gay Polil Alliance of Greater Boston (LGPAGB) 1982, the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Polil Alliance of Massachetts (LGBTPAM) is a polil advocy anizatn for gay and lbian rights. The group has pursued relatg to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr issu, such as fundg for AIDS rearch and tn, anti-discrimatn legislatn, legalizatn of same-sex unns, and the elimatn of anti-gay vlence.

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The founrs of the anizatn hoped to crease the gay muny's volvement Boston's polil procs. Origally ncentratg on Greater Boston, the Lbian and Gay Polil Alliance of Greater Boston later expand to 18 towns.

In 1994, the Lbian and Gay Polil Alliance of Greater Boston beme a state-wi anizatn, changg s name to the Lbian and Gay Polil Alliance of Massachetts (LGPAM). The group voted to clu bisexual and transgenr people 1999, beg the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Polil Alliance of Massachetts. OutHistory prents the proceedgs of the November 25, 1973 Gay Amic Unn Conference, wh a new troductn by John D'E, who was also a GAU founr.

"The Universi and the Gay Experience, " this 105-page document, clus keynote addrs by Barbara Gtgs and Mart Duberman.

GAY AMIC UNN OF NEW ENGLAND RERDS

As late as the 1980s, gay awarens at the Universy of Nevada, Las Vegas [UNLV] was limed to fag jok and mardg jocks.

A small "gay awarens" group met the offic of universy unselor Marlene Zychowicz durg the Sprg 1981 semter, and on May 9, 1981 KUNV rad personaly Dom Brascia broadst an terview wh Dennis McBri about homosexualy which drew no rponse om mp.

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But the Gay Amic Unn [GAU] was about to put gay issu and gay celebratns squarely out ont. He was disappoted that Nevada wasn’t as progrsive as legal gamblg and prostutn suggted should be, and the gay muny, still mostly closeted, orbed around the cy’s bars. " He avoid g the words gay, lbian, or bisexual bee he was sure that that would sre people.

Mike Loewy, a stunt the Psychology Department whose parents years before had forced him to therapy to cure his homosexualy, joed Colls’ group, and so did several others—all men--who began meetg at Colls’ off-mp apartment on October 30, 1982. "May I ask, " Smeby wrote, "sce homosexuals do not have the abily to reproduce their own homosexual kd (whout recg), how a 'support group' uld help a nfed 'gay'?...

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Homosexuals need unselg to help elimate their homosexualy—not 'UNLV regnn' to promote . The lack of women members of GAU s formative months was migated when Colls asked Christie Young, a straight activist workg the gay muny who’d e to Las Vegas om Reno November 1982, to jo. Christie’s volvement proved ccial and her perspective as a straight person workg on behalf of gay people was unique for the time.

Havg received CSUN regnn and earned the privilege of rent-ee space mp buildgs, the GAU ved the Metropolan Communy Church [MCC] and Nevadans for Human Rights [NHR] to jo the stunt anizatn to plan Las Vegas’s first Gay Pri celebratn—referred to as a Human Rights Semar. [5] The 1983 Gay Pri celebratn was the first high-profile cy-wi gay event Las Vegas and Will Colls and Christie Young ma several appearanc on lol televisn and rad programs to promote .

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The public appearanc raised tertg issu not only about how the Las Vegas media alt wh the "gay thg, " but about the Las Vegas gay muny's own closeted nature.

Will and Christie went on-air bee they didn't "look gay, " would be "more acceptable the mass media, " and bee all the lbians who followed Christie to GAU "were jt too ep the closet. Followg the succs of Gay Pri 1983, GAU-UNLV affiliated officially wh the natnal anizatn and changed s name to the Lbian and Gay Amic Unn [LGAU]. Illtratg that enmy was a ntroversy over LGAU’s advertisg the 1984 Gay Pri celebratn on CSUN’s marquee, which stood on Maryland Parkway ont of Grant Hall.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Perhaps the most signifint anizatn/event spired by LGAU and origally sponsored by was the Dert and Mounta Stat Lbian and Gay Conference, found by LGAU print Mike Loewy, first held March 30-31, 1985 Las Vegas.

Where the gay muny till then had been foced on Las Vegas, Loewy wanted to "get Las Vegas the larger picture. Loewy had a telephone ll one eveng om a man named Bill Phoenix who had learned about the human rights semars LGAU sponsored as part of the Las Vegas Gay Pri celebratns. Bill suggted everyone get together to sponsor a broad Southwt nference on gay activism and velopg learship the gay muny siar to--but predatg by several years--the Creatg Change nferenc sponsored sce 1993 by the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force.

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The planng nference Loewy set up drew participants om throughout the Southwt, cludg Judy Corbisiero, one of the Las Vegas gay muny’s most important activists.

That first Dert and Mounta Stat Conference, whose theme was Empowerg Each Other, had an imprsive list of speakers: Jefey Levi of the Natnal Gay Task Force; Nancy Roth, director of the Gay Rights Natnal Lobby; gay cy uncilman Steve Schulte of the newly formed cy of Wt Hollywood; and U. Army Sergeant Perry Watks who sued the ary 1981 over beg discharged for his homosexualy. Sce s foundg nearly 30 years ago, the GAU has existed on the UNLV mp unr several nam, cludg the Lbian and Gay Amic Unn; the Lbian, Gay, Bi-Lovg Associatn; the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Associatn; the Gay Straight Freedom Alliance; and, at the time of this wrg, Spectm UNLV, whose work is supported and enuraged by an Office of Stunt Diversy Programs and Servic.

SENDG OUR GAY STUNTS TO RSIA

Rebel Yell (October 21, 1982), 1; (October 28, 1982) 43; (December 2, 1982), 3; Nevada Gay Tim(Febary 1983), 5; Mike Loewy, terview by Dennis McBri, December 14, 1997 [thor’s transcript]; Colls terview; UNLVSC MS 85-121. Rebel Yell (December 6, 1983), 6; Nevada Gay Tim (May 1983), 1; (June 1983), 1, 7; McBri journals, May 10 and 11, 1983 [thor’s llectn]; Colls terview; Young terview. Nevada Gay Tim (May 1983), 1; (June 1983), 1, 4, 7, 8; (July 1983), 11; Las Vegas Review-Journal(May 7, 1983), 2C; (May 16, 1983), 6B; Las Vegas Sun (May 7, 1983), 31; Young terview; Colls terview; Loewy terview; Young journals, April 23, 25, 28, 29, 30 and May 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1983 [UNLVSC MS #99-15]; McBri journals, May 10 and 11, 1983 [thor’s llectn].