The natn’s first gay and lbian talk rad show, The Gay 90s, aired om downtown Cleveland, Oh and started off wh a bang. Not lerally, but given the bomb threat lled before the show’s premier broadst on WHK 1420 AM was a possibily. Dpe the potential danger, The Gay 90s aired as schled on March 26, 1993, and beme the untry’s first mercial live, “ll ” rad program by, for, and about the gay and lbian muny. Given Cleveland’s history of settlg...
Contents:
- NEWS OF THE COLUMB GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY
- GAY IS GOOD FOR BS: LGBTQ RIGHTS AND THE ENOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF AMERI’S CI AND SUBURBS
- GOP LAWMAKERS TRODUCE VERSN OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL OH
- THE GAY 90S
- THOMAS SUDS: WHY GAY STREET IS GAY STREET AND SOME OH LAWMAKERS EMBRACE ANTI-GAY LAWS
NEWS OF THE COLUMB GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY
Oh Republins have troduced their versn of the "Don't Say Gay" bill that also clus rtrictns agast race tn. * gay rights history ohio *
Over the years here Oh, we have weathered everythg om antigay legislatn, to signifintly ls-than-supportive muni/fai, to the vastatn of HIV/AIDS, to severe enomic downturns.
Captured the k are the voic and stori of lbians who were not given their proper due other gay media, even as Dah provid a platform to brg the muny closer together both on and off the page.
GAY IS GOOD FOR BS: LGBTQ RIGHTS AND THE ENOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF AMERI’S CI AND SUBURBS
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The publitn featured a mix of lol and natnal news, verage of Cleveland and surroundg area events, advertisg for gay bs, and que a few vers featurg origal works of art. News of the Columb Gay and Lbian Communy. Lnchg the late 1970s, News of the Columb Gay and Lbian Communy is wily regard as one of Oh’s olst gay and lbian publitns.
Dpe s name, the newspaper (which had more the appearance of a really thick newsletter on newsprt) featured news both lol and natnal, alongsi personals ads, movie reviews, and the regular prtg of the standgs the gay bowlg league. Unr the tagle of “Servg Gays, Lbians and Friends, ” the newspaper prented a wi swath of ntent: natnal LGBTQ+ news (ually on the ont page), updat om var LGBTQ+ anizatns Ccnati, photos om events, and a “Health Comments by Dr. Gay People’s Chronicle.
Gay People’s Chronicle beme Cleveland’s send major publitn for the LGBTQ+ muny when was lnched 1985 by Charl Callenr, a profsor of anthropology at Case Wtern Rerve Universy. The Gaybeat.
GOP LAWMAKERS TRODUCE VERSN OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL OH
The Gaybeat lnched on January 21, 1985, the same day as Print Reagan’s send guratn. From their first issue, “This day marks another kd of guratn as well, that of a lol, gay news publitn…The purpos of The GayBeat are the: to report the news; to te the readg public about the issu which impact our muny; and to help foster a llective, polil agenda for the lbian and gay male muny of greater Ccnati.
” Over s 10 years prt, Gaybeat took many forms, om photopied typed sheets to a newsletter appearance to more tradnal newsprt. The ont ver did not acknowledge s lnch, stead tailg a story about the phone book allowg the words “gay and lbian” an ad, alongsi a story of a Ccnati man who was fired om his job after was reported that he was tted for AIDS.
The word self means ‘new’; but this magaze offers and gay and lbian muny somethg has long valued: lol news.
THE GAY 90S
After both Outl and Gay People’s Chronicle had closed up shop, Spotlight was lnched to fill the void of accsg LGBTQ+ ntent Northeast Oh.
” Although only lasted om January 2014 to Augt later that same year, Spotlight played a pivotal role dissematg rmatn and entertag the mass who had assembled for Gay Gam 9 om all over the world.
THOMAS SUDS: WHY GAY STREET IS GAY STREET AND SOME OH LAWMAKERS EMBRACE ANTI-GAY LAWS
(Our thanks to the followg who helped put this list together: Phebe Beiser, Jeff Bixby, Michael Chanak, Brian DeWt, Gay Oh History Iniative (GOHI), Staley Jophiel Munroe, Oh History Connectn, Oh Lbian Archiv, Bob Vale, and Wtern Rerve Historil Society. Supreme Court led several s that employers who fired gay or transgenr workers vlated the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The landmark cisns reprent an important tone for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) equaly, but they leave important qutns about accs to hog, tn, and public bathrooms unaddrsed. A 2020 report by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) found that roughly half of all LGBTQ people the Uned Stat lived plac wh explicly homophobic and transphobic legislatn or plac wh no explic legal protectns.
Consequently, LGBTQ activists the past 30 years have sometim found powerful alli lol chambers of merce and cy uncils plac like Meda, regardls of whether the municipal lears sympathized wh the larger gay or transgenr rights movement. For beg a gay relatnship. Durg the 1950s and 1960s, queer bars, bookstor, and some s, lol chapters of the Mattache Society—one of the first gay rights groups the untry—opened urban centers.