Contents:
- MEET ‘SISTER RAY DEE O’ACTIVE,’ YOUR NEW GENR-FLUID GAY ACTIVIST FERAL ERNMENT LEARSHIP
- DOCUMENT: BIN’S NEW NUCLEAR WASTE EXPERT HELPED CRAFT ANCHORAGE’S 2020 BAN ON GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’
- NUCLEAR_GAY
MEET ‘SISTER RAY DEE O’ACTIVE,’ YOUR NEW GENR-FLUID GAY ACTIVIST FERAL ERNMENT LEARSHIP
Y, I am ready to take on," they wrote at the time.The Department of Energy did not rpond to Yahoo Life's requt for ment.Brton’s years-long reer nuclear waste management, climate change, LGBTQ activism and youth mentorship — cludg stts at Global Zero, the Trevor Project and Deep Isolatn, a pany of rearchers and scientists advancg safer methods for nuclear waste disposal — is well documented, as is their activism kk subculture.A graduate of MIT wh dual masters gre nuclear engeerg and technology and policy programmg, Brton has been unapologetic about their activism, as well as their life as a drag performer and as one of the loust voic fightg to end nversn therapy as the founr of the 50 Bills 50 Stat mpaign.Dpe Brton's qualifitns, nservative outlets have attempted to smear their reputatn through a seri of mpaigns targetg Brton's personal life — as have some on social media, where the appotment has been lled a sign of "moral y."Terry Schillg, print of the Amerin Prcipl Project, a nservative lobby group, lled Brton a "plete sexual generate." Another tweeted: "If this is what's charge of nuclear waste issu the Bin Admistratn, should start wh self."But the face of homophobia and transphobia, queer activists and policians are attemptg to shift the msage om one of hate to one of pri.Why mattersBrton (who did not rpond to Yahoo Life's requt for ment) is not the first drag performer to have dispted polics.Back 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. "How we are built off of a patriarchal, racist system that needs to be rebuilt to be tly equable for all people, Black and brown, digeno, AAPI, Jewish, Mlim — everyone, and that clus queer people, nonbary, transgenr and genrqueer people, like Sam."Marti Cummgs, a drag performer and queer activist who ran for electn to the New York Cy Council last year, explas that drag culture has always been at the foreont of polil actn and that Bin's appotment is a sign we're movg forward as a untry."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.
DOCUMENT: BIN’S NEW NUCLEAR WASTE EXPERT HELPED CRAFT ANCHORAGE’S 2020 BAN ON GAY ‘NVERSN THERAPY’
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.
Brton has bragged about participatg kk relatnships as a “pup handler” — a person, typilly a gay man, who enjoys teractg wh other typilly gay men as they pretend to be dogs. He is a “pup handler” — that is, a gay man who leads other gay men who pretend to be dogs. Most normi thk that ’s about helpg the fellow normie gay man or lbian -worker or neighbor live whout harassment — somethg that many nservativ (like me) would support.
In 1993, I was livg Washgton and vered the big, ln-person gay march on the Mall. There were a lot of normie gay folks there. Around the same time, I rell that Jerry Falwell, I believe was, was unr fire for broadstg on his show, whout mentary, clips om a DC Gay Pri Para, featurg floats filled wh people like Sam Brton.
NUCLEAR_GAY
One of the Bin admistratn’s latt hir is homosexual activist Sam Brton, a drag queen and “pup handler” – that is, a gay man who treats other gay men like dogs to get fired up about havg sex wh them, reports, among many others. Sam Brton has bee the first non-bary, gay drag queen to hold a feral ernment learship posn. In addn to that, they are associated wh Trevor Project, a group that operat to brg down suici rat gay and transgenr image posted by Twter acunt Libs of Tiktok featurg Brton Amerin flag heels and a sparkly drs standg bi three people role-playg as dogs drew flak on social media.
'Social media largely opposed Sam Brton's appotment the nuclear energy waste partment cg they 'lead around other gay men pretendg to be dogs.
A gay man Sam Brton, who leads around other gay men pretendg to be dogs. He is not only a gay activist, but nsirs himself “genr fluid, ” a term for someone who go back and forth between intifyg as a man or woman. He ordated wh the Anchorage Assembly’s gay members to draft the ban on nversn therapy and the Assembly voted on Augt of 2020, while prohibg the public om attendg s Assembly meetgs.