Ben McGrath wr about the life and ath of Ray Hill, a Texan who led a pirque life of w, crime, and gay-rights activism.
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- INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
- THE ELE GAY ARMY OF ANCIENT GREECETHE SACRED BAND OF THEB FEATED EVEN THE SPARTANSPETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·4 M READ·OCT 11, 2020--3SHAREGREEK WARRRS — ARTISTIC IMAGE (IMAGE:ARTSTATN/@ALIAKSANDR TRYZON)THE SACRED BAND WAS AN ELE ARY UN OM THEB PRISG 150 GAY UPL. AT THE BATTLE OF LCTRA 371 BC, THE 300 GAY WARRRS LED THE THEBAN ARMY AGAST THE SPARTAN ARMY. THE THEBANS WON AND SHATTERED THE SPARTAN NTROL OF GREECE.THE GREEK VIEW ON GAY WARRRSA MALE UPLE ENGAGG TERCRAL SEX. DEPICTED ON ANCIENT GREEK POTTERY (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE THEBANS BELIEVED GAY WARRRS FOUGHT BETTER ORR TO IMPRS AND PROTECT THEIR LOVERS. IF A LOVER FELL DURG A BATTLE, HIS PARTNER WOULD FIGHT EVEN HARR TO AVENGE HIS ATH.THREE THOAND YEARS AGO ANCIENT GREECE, BEG GAY OR LBIAN WAS NOT A CRIME. IN FACT, CERTA SUATNS, THE GREEKS EVEN ENURAGED HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS.YOUNG BOYS EXCHANGED ROMANTIC FAVORS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE PROVID BY THEIR OLR TUTORS. FATHERS WOULD PRAY TO THE GODS FOR THEIR SONS TO BE ATTRACTIVE BEE MEANT A BETTER MENTOR. SUCH RELATNSHIPS LASTED UNTIL THE YOUNG BOYS REACHED ADULTHOOD.SOLDIERS WOULD FORM ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS WH ONE ANOTHER TO BOOST THEIR MORALE.THE GREEK SOCIETY DIFFERENTIATED BETWEEN ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ROL BOTH GENRS TOOK DURG SEX. AN ACTIVE ROLE, BEG A PERATOR, MEANT MASCULY, ADULTHOOD, AND PRTIGE. A PASSIVE ROLE, BEG PERATED, REPRENTED FEMY, YOUTH, AND SHAME.FOR A RECEIVG PARTNER, ANAL SEX WAS MEANG. INSTEAD, THEY ENGAGED TERCRAL SEX.THE MEMBERS OF THE SACRED BAND OF THEB WERE ROMANTIC PARTNERS. THEY LLED AN OLR PARTNER THE ERAST (‘LOVER’) AND A YOUNGER ONE THE EROMENOS (‘BELOVED’). EACH PAIR EXCHANGED SACRED VOWS AT THE TEMPLE OF IOLS, THE LOVER OF HERACL.FACTS ABOUT THE SACRED BAND OF THEB
- THE GREEK ELE FIGHTG FORCE THAT CONSISTED OF 150 GAY COUPL
- EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
- GAY LATOS FIGHTG BIAS, STEREOTYP ON MANY LEVELS
- PAIR OF THIEV SUPER SOFT MEN’S PRI BOXER BRIEFS, BREATHABLE GAY PRI UNRWEAR WH MOISTURE-WICKG, QUICK DRY FABRIC
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
A new documentary, 'Unfivable,' follows Geovany, a gay former gang hman, who grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past. * gay thieves *
The prison director showed him an isolatn cell, where ne former gang members—om each of the untry’s three ma anized crime groups, MS-13, and two factns of Barr 18—had been moved after g out as gay. “Bee the gangs, if there’s even the spicn that you’re gay, you pay for wh your life.
THE ELE GAY ARMY OF ANCIENT GREECETHE SACRED BAND OF THEB FEATED EVEN THE SPARTANSPETER PRKAR·FOLLOWPUBLISHED LSONS OM HISTORY·4 M READ·OCT 11, 2020--3SHAREGREEK WARRRS — ARTISTIC IMAGE (IMAGE:ARTSTATN/@ALIAKSANDR TRYZON)THE SACRED BAND WAS AN ELE ARY UN OM THEB PRISG 150 GAY UPL. AT THE BATTLE OF LCTRA 371 BC, THE 300 GAY WARRRS LED THE THEBAN ARMY AGAST THE SPARTAN ARMY. THE THEBANS WON AND SHATTERED THE SPARTAN NTROL OF GREECE.THE GREEK VIEW ON GAY WARRRSA MALE UPLE ENGAGG TERCRAL SEX. DEPICTED ON ANCIENT GREEK POTTERY (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)THE THEBANS BELIEVED GAY WARRRS FOUGHT BETTER ORR TO IMPRS AND PROTECT THEIR LOVERS. IF A LOVER FELL DURG A BATTLE, HIS PARTNER WOULD FIGHT EVEN HARR TO AVENGE HIS ATH.THREE THOAND YEARS AGO ANCIENT GREECE, BEG GAY OR LBIAN WAS NOT A CRIME. IN FACT, CERTA SUATNS, THE GREEKS EVEN ENURAGED HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIPS.YOUNG BOYS EXCHANGED ROMANTIC FAVORS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE PROVID BY THEIR OLR TUTORS. FATHERS WOULD PRAY TO THE GODS FOR THEIR SONS TO BE ATTRACTIVE BEE MEANT A BETTER MENTOR. SUCH RELATNSHIPS LASTED UNTIL THE YOUNG BOYS REACHED ADULTHOOD.SOLDIERS WOULD FORM ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS WH ONE ANOTHER TO BOOST THEIR MORALE.THE GREEK SOCIETY DIFFERENTIATED BETWEEN ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ROL BOTH GENRS TOOK DURG SEX. AN ACTIVE ROLE, BEG A PERATOR, MEANT MASCULY, ADULTHOOD, AND PRTIGE. A PASSIVE ROLE, BEG PERATED, REPRENTED FEMY, YOUTH, AND SHAME.FOR A RECEIVG PARTNER, ANAL SEX WAS MEANG. INSTEAD, THEY ENGAGED TERCRAL SEX.THE MEMBERS OF THE SACRED BAND OF THEB WERE ROMANTIC PARTNERS. THEY LLED AN OLR PARTNER THE ERAST (‘LOVER’) AND A YOUNGER ONE THE EROMENOS (‘BELOVED’). EACH PAIR EXCHANGED SACRED VOWS AT THE TEMPLE OF IOLS, THE LOVER OF HERACL.FACTS ABOUT THE SACRED BAND OF THEB
Reports claimed that a 'gay sex predator' repeatedly asslted two trs who broke to his home. * gay thieves *
” In this particular prison, San Francis Gotera, the east of the Central Amerin untry, gang culture was not the only source of vilent homophobia.
The state had effectively ced ntrol of daily life si Gotera to church lears, who preach that homosexualy is a s as grave as vlence.
8—follows Geovany, a gay man who worked as a hman for Barr 18 and left the gang 2016. Livg the isolatn cell wh his partner and other gay mat, he grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past. Homosexualy remas taboo and vlence and discrimatn agast LGBTQ people is rife.
THE GREEK ELE FIGHTG FORCE THAT CONSISTED OF 150 GAY COUPL
In his book The Women's Hoe of Detentn, Hugh Ryan wr about the New York Cy prison and the role played the gay rights movement of the '60s, cludg the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg. * gay thieves *
“How is possible for a untry to have s moral pass so broken that homosexualy and murr n feel the same? “But the tth is that they are already nmned: they’ve left the gang; they’ve lived wh former members of other gangs; and they’ve lived openly as gay people, ” she says.
The homosexual is the same, ” says a pastor one terview laid over a scene of him preachg to rapturo crowds the prison urtyard.
EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SYSTEMILLY ABE AND TORTURE GAYS, RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
The 'Sacred Band of Theb' was one of the most ele fightg forc ancient Greece and was nsisted of 150 gay upl. * gay thieves *
) Martez says the film is not an attempt to reem the subjects “jt bee they’re gay, jt bee they n show love or tenrns. A "gay sex predator" sodomized two burglars after they broke to his home. In October 2016, viral entertament web s such as published articl posg that two burglars had been sodomized for five straight days after they broke to the hoe of a "notor gay sex predator" named Harry Harrgton:.
He’s a notor gay s*x predator who has served time jail for numero sexual asslts.
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GAY LATOS FIGHTG BIAS, STEREOTYP ON MANY LEVELS
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At the Battle of Lctra 371 BC, the 300 gay warrrs led the Theban army agast the Spartan army.
The Thebans won and shattered the Spartan ntrol of Greek view on gay warrrsA male uple engagg tercral sex. Depicted on Ancient Greek pottery (Image: Wikimedia Commons)The Thebans believed gay warrrs fought better orr to imprs and protect their lovers.
PAIR OF THIEV SUPER SOFT MEN’S PRI BOXER BRIEFS, BREATHABLE GAY PRI UNRWEAR WH MOISTURE-WICKG, QUICK DRY FABRIC
Health risks for gay and transgenr Latos n high part bee of multiple social prsur and several different typ of discrimatn. A recent legislative hearg brought this often hidn muny to the light, explorg what n be done to help them. * gay thieves *
If a lover fell durg a battle, his partner would fight even harr to avenge his thoand years ago Ancient Greece, beg gay or lbian was not a crime. In fact, certa suatns, the Greeks even enuraged homosexual boys exchanged romantic favors for the knowledge provid by their olr tutors.
'" In his new book, The Women's Hoe of Detentn: A Queer History of a Fotten Prison, Ryan wr about the prison, and about the role played the gay rights movement of the '60s, cludg the Stonewall Uprisg of 1969. "On the first night of the rts, people rcerated the prison uld actually see what was happeng out their wdows, and they started a rt all their own, settg fire to their belonggs and throwg them down to the streets below while chantg 'Gay rights! Gay rights!
" In the 1960s, the prison began markg gay prisoners wh a "D" for "generate, " and placg them to solary nfement bee they were nsired a "danger to other women. In the 20th century, gets ed to target gay men, trans women, lbians, trans men, anyone who drsed "rrectly" for their genr.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Buy Pair of Thiev Super Soft Men’s Pri Boxer Briefs, Breathable Gay Pri Unrwear wh Moisture-Wickg, Quick Dry Fabric and other Boxer Briefs at Our wi selectn is elegible for ee shippg and ee returns. * gay thieves *
On the Hoe of D's role Greenwich Village beg a gay pal of New York One of the big ways is that so many queer women and trans men were beg arrted around the cy every year and brought to this one place where they would be tried, where they would be held, where they would go for health screengs, where they would get fgerprted. Leonard Fk Photographs, The LGBT Communy Center Natnal History ArchiveMark SegalEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and marshal of the first Pri marchThe Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March was as revolutnary and chaotic as everythg we did that first year after the Stonewall rts. ” Today, my origal marshal’s badge is on display the JayEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and Radilbians and -anizer of the first march New York and Los AngelIt was a near miracle that the first Christopher Street Wt Para Los Angel kicked off at all on June 28, 1970.
Chantg gay liberatn slogans, we wore Halloween stum, our bt drag, tie-dye T-shirts, or almost nothg. For one day, we were victor agast the Ed Davis of the world, and no one seemed “dismod” the FkelsteJohn KyperEarly member of Boston’s Gay Liberatn Front and an anizer of Boston’s first Pri ParaWe held our first march Boston 1971 — a year after New York.
The march began at a baret bar lled Jacqu — which is still there and still gay — and ma three addnal stops along the route where we read a seri of mands. ActivistI grew up Jersey Cy close to the PATH tra and was lucky to fd my first boyiend my high school sophomore homeroom class.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay thieves *
I helped anize , wh other members of the Gay Liberatn Front. Our chant of “gay is good” challenged the orthodoxy that gay was bad, mad and sad.