Contents:
- 'ARE YOU GAY, THOUGH?' VIO SHOWS MAN THROWG PUNCH POSSIBLE BIAS ATTACK
- THE SECRET GOLN AGE OF GAY MARDI GRAS BALLS
- GOME PHOTOS ALLEGEDLY SHOW ISLAMIC STATE THROWG GAY MEN OFF A TALL BUILDG
'ARE YOU GAY, THOUGH?' VIO SHOWS MAN THROWG PUNCH POSSIBLE BIAS ATTACK
Salt Lake Cy police have intified the spect an alleged hate crime ught on mera over the reported attack occurred early Sunday morng downtown Salt Lake Cy, jt three blocks south of the Salt Lake Temple, the center of the Church of J Christ of Latter Day Trejo, 29, said he was leavg a bar when he overheard someone near him talkg on the phone about standg near a gay person.
“It started wh him approachg out of the blue and makg homophobic and misogynistic ments towards our group, ” Trejo wrote a statement posted to Twter. "A vio Trejo posted to Twter appears to show a young man askg him, "Are you gay, though?, " to which Trejo, who is off mera, n be heard rpondg, "Oh, I am.
" The man then says, "All right then, you're gay, " as he throws a punch. "State Senator Derek Kchen, who is gay and reprents District 2, which vers downtown Salt Lake Cy where the attack occurred, said, "Hate crim are pecially bad bee they have two victims: the dividual who is attacked, and also the muny who they reprent.
THE SECRET GOLN AGE OF GAY MARDI GRAS BALLS
” Louisiana State Mm The flamboyant stum, the arne ctoms, the meldg of the genteel to the occult, the heapg rabows of beads: New Orleans Mardi Gras seems almost herently, stereotypilly gay.
It was only a matter of time before gay men breached the ball divi wh high mp flourish, dazzlg drag subversn and feathered headpiec that often towered five or more feet the air. In 1958 the first explicly gay krewe, the Krewe of Yuga, held s first mock ball an Uptown home, wh a krewe Capta, a Queen (the “Yuga Rega”), a Kg, butant and maids. The ball was a cisive move om r, private gay gatherg to liberate, drag-filled parody.
The annual return of the Yuga Rega and her urt beme the most anticipated gay event of the season, and gowns were sewn and sequed for months preparatn.
GOME PHOTOS ALLEGEDLY SHOW ISLAMIC STATE THROWG GAY MEN OFF A TALL BUILDG
But the gay ball stake had been planted, and several more krew sprang up, willg to rry s glter-ftooned banner. ” Louisiana State Mm The orig and history of gay Carnival krew is the subject of an extensively rearched, forthg book by Smh, the first of s kd, due Febary om Universy Prs of Mississippi. “It was not a great time to be gay New Orleans – but was also a great time to be gay New Orleans, ” Smh said.
“The natnwi Lavenr Sre and ernment purg of homosexuals the early ’50s had brought many gay people out of the shadows, to the glarg light. ” New Orleans, wh s Carnival and tourist tra, had a reputatn for beg a tolerant cy, and so s gay populatn began to grow exponentially. Acrdg to Smh, a tightkn gay culture formed around several Bourbon Street bars like Miss Dixie’s Bar of Mic and Bourbon Hoe, which, like bars around the untry, protected their gay patrons wh “pay-offs and backdoor als.
) Along wh the Starle Room, Mack’s and the Renzvo, the spots formed a gay bar-hoppg circu that attracted lumari like playwright Tennee Williams, thor John Rechy and fashn photographer Jack Robson. Later, 1970, a ranged man started a fire below gay bar UpStairs Lounge, which killed 32 people.