<p>The Huffgton Post on Tuday ma s support of gay marriage official — but the outlet's Gay Voic edor Noah Michelson says won’t mean any change the se’s polil reportg on the issue.</p>
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
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. * huffington post gay voices *
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.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
Consirg that the se jt lnched, the mix of the ntent so far seems to be verg all the bas. Not sure if that will ntue, but the ma article today on the Gay Voic homepage about HIV gave me some hope. * huffington post gay voices *
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.
HUFFPOST GAY VOIC DEBUTS
gay voic * huffington post gay voices *
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.
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. 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?
HUFFPO OFFICIALLY OUT SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE
* huffington post gay voices *
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.
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.
SIGNORILE TO HUFFPOST'S 'GAY VOIC'
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. ) 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...