Steve Bull once raced agast time to try to save the memoirs of one of Mae's gay rights pneers. His trip led him down memory lane.
Contents:
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- A GAY GUI TO PORTLAND
- PORTLAND GAY BARS
- THE MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CY AMERI—THE ANSWER IS SURPRISG
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
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Supreme Court lg that favored of a signer who don’t want to make weddg webs for gay upl and a slew of anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the untry this year, such as legislatn targetg drag performanc and genr-nfirmg health para-goer said was nice to see a posive si to thgs bee Pri is sential to show people ’s worth to live as their tt self. The astal sailg legend and Mae gay rights pneer died six months earlier the fall of 2012. Bull and Hasks helped found the groundbreakg stunt group at the Universy of Mae 1973 — then held the first Mae Gay Symposium 1974, which jump-started Mae’s LGBTQ+ rights stggle, lnchg much further ahead toward jtice than most other stat.
They are also anizg a 50th anniversary Mae Gay Symposium Orono and Portland this fall.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
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They named Wil Ste after the famo gay and lbian wrers Osr Wil and Gert Ste.
The club was part of the first wave of gay and lbian stunt groups tryg to w official regnn om llege admistrators. “Homosexuals nnot reproduce, therefore they mt rec.
A photographic ntact sheet showg Steven Bull speakg at the first gay symposium put on by the Wild Ste Club at the Universy pf Mae 1974, is part of Bull’s papers hoed the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversy’s LGBTQ+ llectn at the Universy of Southern Mae. One of the qutns was, “Do you have any homosexual tennci?
KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
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A week before the Universy of Mae board of tste was to ci Wil Ste’s fate January 1974, the club issued a prs release about s tentn to hold the first Mae Gay Symposium April.
That same week, gay and lbian stunts New Hampshire won their right to anize feral urt.
A GAY GUI TO PORTLAND
The symposium featured anizg meetgs, discsn panels and speakers, cludg Morty Manford of New York Cy’s Gay Activists Alliance.
Manford was famo for publicly gog toe-to-toe wh the cy’s mayor orr to get the police off the gay muny’s back. Gerald Talbot to troduce a gay rights plank the state Democratic Party platform.
The move passed — makg Mae the send state to pass such a party plank — spe a BDN edorial equatg gays and lbians wh felons, dg ers and draft dodgers.
PORTLAND GAY BARS
“We secured a wrten mment om the head of the Mae Teachers Associatn that they would fend any teacher gone after solely for their homosexualy, ” Bull said. Bull is helpg to anize a gay rights symposium the fall, 50 years after he helped anize Mae’s first. But this lotn has a unique flavor: Nearly everyone here is gay, lbian, or transgenr.
Bee, at that time I hired on, they uld have fired me for beg gay. Karabaic [narratn]: But Rose is sred wh the recent uptick vlence agast the LGBTQ+ I live fear that somebody, well, we’ve seen [people] go to the gay bars and shoot them up, you know? So if somebody asks, ‘When did you know you were gay?
THE MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CY AMERI—THE ANSWER IS SURPRISG
And the gay newspaper down there is the Bay Area Reporter. Karabaic [narratn]: But Taylor se that thgs have been Jt alg wh this backlash of agast gay people recently.