HuffPo officially out support of gay marriage - POLITICO

Contents:

• HERE'S WHY HUFFPOST GAY VOIC JT CHANGED ITS NAME TO HUFFPOST QUEER VOIC
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• HUFFPOST GAY VOIC DEBUTS
• HUFFPO OFFICIALLY OUT SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE
• SIGNORILE TO HUFFPOST'S 'GAY VOIC'

HERE'S WHY HUFFPOST GAY VOIC JT CHANGED ITS NAME TO HUFFPOST QUEER VOIC

Today, for the very first time, we're thrilled to wele you to HuffPost Queer name change four-and-a-half years after we origally buted as HuffPost Gay Voic -- and after untls nversatns wh untls people, both si and outsi of the HuffPost I've had my own love affair wh the word "queer" for as long as I n remember (more on that a mute), at the time of our lnch 2011 some people felt that the term was too ntroversial, too divisive and, bee of s history as a slur, perhaps jt too paful to e.

Instead, we settled on HuffPost Gay Voic (you n read more about how that cisn was reached here). "Queer" functns as an umbrella term that clus not only the lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr people of "LGBT, " but also those whose inti fall between, outsi of or stretch beyond those tegori, cludg genrqueer people, tersex people, asexual people, pansexual people, polyamoro people and those qutng their sexualy or genr, to name jt a few. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

Though she may perpetually be a enzied state of flux -- cked out a drs fashned om Kerm the Frog heads one stant and bleedg to ath on televisns around the world the next -- one thg has remaed nstant sce she charged onto the scene the fall of 2008: Lady Gaga is unfailgly dited to the LGBT out of the gay club scene, the sger has never fotten where she's e om or the fact that the queer muny was the first to champn her mic.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

At the 2009 MuchMic Awards she offered up her trophy for Bt Internatnal Vio to "God and the gays" and she's the first bonafi superstar to give a shout out to trans people a pop song. Service members discharged om the ary for beg openly gay to acpany her to the MTV Vio Mic Awards and tweeted Senate Majory Lear Harry Reid to urge him to schle a vote on repealg the measure.

HUFFPOST GAY VOIC DEBUTS

Most recently she's ma the eraditn of bullyg her passn and has promised to meet wh Print Obama about the matg on Lady Gaga's parable attentn to LGBT activism and the mastream visibily that she has brought to the queer muny (not to mentn how sanely talented she is), we at The Huffgton Post Gay Voic thought who better than her to help lnch the page? If that's the creria we're g, then I'd venture to say that a lot of my gay iends aren't gay bee they've never been love at is an tertg thg. I like to be as poignant as I n be about sayg the kd of bisexual woman I 've been an advote for LGBT people om the begng of your reer, pecially when to more homonormative issu like gay marriage and "don't ask, don't tell" but I wonr about queer people who aren't terted those subjects -- people who are sayg "I don't want to get married" and "I have no tert the ary" or even "I'm anti-ary.

HUFFPO OFFICIALLY OUT SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE

Some generatns the gay muny may not fd some eedoms as important as other generatns might. People are still disgted by the sight of somethg as nocent as two men holdg hands, much ls the thought of gay sex. I thk that the more we ph forward love and acceptance and equaly and the more we start to brg gay upl to the foreont of culture terms of beg a nuclear fay the way that straight upl are revered, I thk those are the sorts of thgs that are gog change people's perspectiv terms of gay sexualy.

Even havg more gay upl on TV shows and the movi -- that's how I approach culturalism. The Huffgton Post has lnched Gay Voic, another “vertil” (their term for a specific sectn of the se) their seemgly ever-growg list (Black Voic, Lato Voic, etc.

SIGNORILE TO HUFFPOST'S 'GAY VOIC'

) servg ntent by er his gural post welg rears, Gay Voic edor Noah Michelson addrs the ratnale for the se and s name:While the Huffgton Post has done an credible job of verg queer stori the past, Gay Voic will provi a place for all of those stori to “live” together, thereby makg much easier for rears to fd, share and discs queer topics...

Brgs to the term “gay” and why we chose the name Gay Voic... While most often scrib a “male homosexual, ” “gay” has been and n be ed by (and to refer to) those wh other margalized sexual inti.

I fully nce the term may not be one everyone feels fortable claimg or wants to be associated wh (pecially when to issu of genr rather than sexualy), but after realizg that there was never gog to be the perfect term for to e, we felt that “gay” packs the most stantaneo punch and immediately intifi the ntent on this vertil as alg wh the typ of issu and argument that “gay” is still the clost we have to a universally acceptable word to scribe LGBT people is not new. The qutn I have om the above ratnale is: Has the word “gay” really e full circle? Well, Gay Voic seems to thk so.