Frank Bni is a longtime wrer for The New York Tim and the newspaper’s first gay lumnist.
Contents:
- MY GAY RETORT TO ALL THE GRIMNS
- FRANK BNI B, AGE, NEW YORK TIM, CNN, WIFE, HBAND, PARENTS, GAY, LATT COLUMN, EYIGHT AND NET WORTH
- FRANK BNI B, AGE, FAY, GAY, SCHOOL, SALARY, NET WORTH, NEW YORK TIM
MY GAY RETORT TO ALL THE GRIMNS
It mgled an analysis of journalism wh gay history, so the stunts and I looked at the Lavenr Sre, which was ntemporaneo wh the Red Sre and led to the firg or forced rignatn of thoands of gay and lbian people om ernment jobs the late 1940s and the 1950s.
We looked at the AIDS epimic, the first chapter of which st gay men as generat to be gasped at, lepers to be revis all of that was to be schooled anew the advanc sce. And that tn is beg amplified by the book I referred to: “Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, ” by Jam Kirchick, an advance py of which I’ve been slowly and raptly makg my way through. But more than that, mak me grateful, for all that has changed sce those days of li and of the ditn wrten by Kirchick, who is gay, says all.
FRANK BNI B, AGE, NEW YORK TIM, CNN, WIFE, HBAND, PARENTS, GAY, LATT COLUMN, EYIGHT AND NET WORTH
” I graduated om high school 1982 and then llege 1986, I wouldn’t have gused that I’d be livg now a untry where gay and lbian upl n be legally married ast to ast.
FRANK BNI B, AGE, FAY, GAY, SCHOOL, SALARY, NET WORTH, NEW YORK TIM
I didn’t foree this many gay dads, this many lbian moms. The past five years ma that most Amerins are nsc of equi a way that we weren’t before, and that’s te when not only to gay Amerins but also to other margalized groups. Fotote Gilardi/Getty ImagUsually, this recurrg feature of the newsletter is voted to a matter of language that one of you has brought to my attentn, such as the unwarranted judgment herent the phrase “broken fay, ” which I addrsed several months today I want to look at a phrase of my own obssn, one that creasgly bothers me, though I ed equently and whout pse the very recent past: “openly gay.
” It’s a ftg segue om the first em today’s still read “openly gay” newspapers and hear on televisn all the time. He is not nial about beg gay.