California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books. Voters uld remove next year - CBS Sacramento

Contents:

• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• GAY HISTORY: THE CLEVELAND STREET SNDAL
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

It also betrays s phemistic name by exprsly statg that workplace protectns agast employment discrimatn do not extend to gay cizens. In North Carola, an employer n fire a gay worker on the sole basis of his sexualy, leavg the termated employee wh ltle to no reurse. It also plac undue burns on gay and trans workers seekg to sue for other workplace human rights vlatns, such as sexual harassment and the creatn of a hostile environment.

When Indiana passed a barbaro law thorizg bs owners to discrimate agast gay ctomers, the backlash om entreprenrs, universi, entertaers, and cy uncils me so harshly and rapidly that ernor Mike Pence begdggly amend the homophobic Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act to remove language permtg anti-LGBT discrimatn. If Sprgsteen is able to expede the livery of jtice, he n add to his imprsively long rume of brave advocy for gay rights, datg back to earlier days of his reer when support for gay and people was often an anathema. To bat what Sprgsteen labeled the “veiled racism and homophobia of the anti-dis movement, ” he wrote “Protectn” for Donna Summer.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Many of the upl are gay. Not only do the vio assign equal attentn and value to heterosexual and homosexual relatnships, apprais the love between gay people acrdg to the same standards as do Sprgsteen’s own romance.

The energy and tensy of gay attractn and affectn is no different – better or worse – than the lt and love Sprgsteen shar wh his girliend.

GAY HISTORY: THE CLEVELAND STREET SNDAL

" The film tells the story of a gay man facg employment discrimatn after his diagnosis wh HIV. “My Lover Man” is a gay love song.

The tth seems that jt as Sprgsteen has wrten songs the voice of women, he narrat “My Lover Man” as a character – a gay character whose sexualy is not odd or immoral, but entirely normal and worthy of ser emotnal treatment. In a 1996 terview wh the Advote, Sprgsteen discs early iendships he enjoyed wh gay men after high school, and how he aimed to leverage his “very straight image” and “big guy dience” to make appear safe for heterosexual men to align wh gay rights. Sprgsteen’s bravery of polil and mil iendship wh gay Amerins had an unquantifiable, but real fluence.

His fort wh gay symbolism rmed me, as a straight young man workg overtime to imprs all the pretty girls, that homophobia was not an ditor of toughns or hipns. Sprgsteen had the nfince his own sexualy and masculy to sg the voice of a gay man, and to kiss his male iend on stage.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Those straight men who feel that the stabily of their inty requir hatred and harassment of homosexuals mt suffer om such severe self-doubt, almost mak their liv seem more sad than offensive. “Tougher Than The Rt” rerced the lson that mascule strength and pri rult om personal strength, but also sensivy toward the sir of women, while songs like “Streets of Philalphia” and “My Lover Man” stcted that gay people – their human value and the legimacy of their love – are equal to me. A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light’s disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney.

The mixture of vodka and soda water, long known rmally as “gay water” the LGBTQ muny, is the brachild of 30-year-old gay entreprenr Spencer Hodson. He noted that the nctn aims “to stigmatize the word ‘gay’ by brgg reprentatn to spac that have not tradnally featured queer products, such as bars, liquor stor, grocery stor, rtrants, hotels and more.