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Contents:

• TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
• GAYS AGAST IMPERIALISM
• THE TE STORY OF ‘A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL’ AND THE TRIALS OF A CLOSETED GAY POLICIAN
• BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
• THE GAY ‘SIP-IN’ THAT DREW OM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO FIGHT DISCRIMATN
• “ALL THE GAYS ARE LIBERAL?” SEXUALY AND GENR GAPS POLIL PERSPECTIV AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, MOSTLY HETEROSEXUAL, AND HETEROSEXUAL COLLEGE STUNTS THE SOUTHERN USA
• GAY RIGHTS

TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH

It spired Edward Carpenter and Magn Hirschfeld at the turn of the century; André Gi and Richard Lsert the post-World War I years; Harry Hay and Jim Kepner the post-World War II era; and the Brish and Amerin Gay Liberatn Front, the Italian Fuori!, the French FHAR, the German "Rotzschwule, " and the Dutch Red Faggots followg the Stonewall rebelln. While the official socialist parti of Northwtern Europe may have ma only limed ntributns to homosexual emancipatn, they certaly have a better rerd than nservative and Christian parti and even the liberals, who have nsistently, if ntradictorily, unrled the eedom of private life. Gay leftists who still subscribe to the ials exprsed Marxist and utopian socialist wrgs now fd themselv at monstratns shoulr-to-shoulr wh members of ACT UP and Queer Natn, to say nothg of gay nservativ and gay Christians.

GAYS AGAST IMPERIALISM

The succs achieved by the ntemporary gay movement spe or precisely bee of s diversy support Fouult's argument that "there is no sgle loc of great Refal, no soul of revolt, source of all rebellns, or pure law of the revolutnary. They moved this directn part bee the aln wh leftism so equently led to disappotment, particularly when gays and lbians workg wh socialist parti were lled upon to subordate or abandon their own goals favor of party platforms.

The rts signaled a new uny fed between the tablished, largely whe homosexual rights mpaigns and an surgent movement of people of lor — and the tegratn of the new gay liberatn movement to revolutnary polil onts across the world. ” The Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), radil lbians, and the Third World Gay Revolutn all took part: this new fightg republic found on universal prcipl, Ameri’s opprsed and exclud — among them queer people — had found a home and the procs provid the untry wh a livg mol of mocracy. Ahead of the gatherg, Panther founr Huey Newton his “Letter to the Revolutnary Brothers and Sisters about the Women’s and Gay Liberatn Movements” wrote that homosexuals “might be the most opprsed people” society — and uld subsequently be “the most revolutnary.

” It was the first time the Panthers had publicly embraced the movement, signalg both the velopg solidary between the two and the tegratn of the gay liberatn movement to the revolutnary polil stggle the Uned Stat. Acrdg to s foundg prcipl, the GLF saw gay liberatn as timately tied to other stggl, “part of the wir movement aimg to abolish all forms of social opprsn, ” among them “peopl opprsed by imperialism, who lack the natnal, polil and enomic pennce which is a prendn for all other social change. ” The mment to ternatnalism was paramount: on the fiftieth anniversary of the GLF’s formatn, Angela Mason relled how “we wanted to change the world and we were gog to change the world by lkg up our own actns and spreadg the word about lbians and gays.

THE TE STORY OF ‘A VERY ENGLISH SNDAL’ AND THE TRIALS OF A CLOSETED GAY POLICIAN

It was a time when nservativ were attemptg to reassert a Brish ethnonatnalist inty and, acrdg to Rahul Raho, there was a mon view among the tablishment that the emergence of homosexualy was bound up the loss of Empire. But the legacy of gay liberatn is alive the practic of queer solidary today that mobilize support around llective prcipl – the ongog stggle for trans rights, mpaigns agast pkwashg solidary wh the Paltian people, and the fight for Black liberatn. The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay.

The panic over homosexualy ntued after World War II, wr historian Michael Bloch Closet Queens: Some 20th Century Brish Policians: “A fiercely homophobic Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, aid by an equally puranil Director of Public Prosecutns, Sir Theobold Matthew, was termed to ‘rid England of this plague. Var methodologil differenc between the two surveys may acunt for the differenc the timat, cludg that the NHIS survey was nducted person, asked about lbian/gay stat and bisexual stat separately, and did not ask for intifitn as transgenr. ''Florida, Montana among worst for LGBTQ muny The x ranked stat acrdg to five areas: work environment, legal protectns, youth and fay support, health accs and safety, and polil and relig at the top tend to get more clive over the past year, while their lower-ranked peers beme ls tolerant or didn't move om where they were 'T SAY GAY LAWS SPARK FEAR:If they 'say gay, ' will my child be safe?

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMany of New York Cy’s most outwardly gay-iendly parish are ncentrated Manhattan, a center of both gay culture and efforts to build a gay-iendly Watts for The New York TimThe pews fill up quickly each Sunday at the Church of St. Mistri; anizg events like spirual retreats, hik and happy hours at lol gay bars; celebratg Mass and other events durg Pri Month; and by speakg up for the gay Watts for The New York TimWhen the Vatin issued a statement March that said prits uld not bls same-sex unns, which rid as a form of s, the parish and a handful of others Manhattan issued statements of dismay or ed hoi durg Mass as an opportuny to fort L.

BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS

Lbian, gay and bisexual people are much ls likely than heterosexuals to attend relig servic, intify as a member of a relig group or believe that Scripture is the word of God, acrdg to Pew Rearch Center survey data om 80 percent of people surveyed that poll said they nsired the Catholic Church to be “uniendly” to the L. ”The efforts to create a gay-iendly Catholicism highlight the reful path the Catholic Church and s clergy mt walk liberal plac like New York, an important Amerin relig center where churchgoers often look askance at the Vatin’s stanc on admistered day-to-day by more liberal, self-erng relig orrs — cludg the Jus, the Plist Fathers and the Francisns — affords the parish and their prits the eedom to do thgs like preach hoi that extol the digny of gay people and the value of their relatnships a way that prits who work directly for the rdal tend to also giv the archdce some distance om activi that tradnalists might oppose, like the Pri march participatn of St. In orr to better unrstand the relatnship between sexual mory and polil inti, we examed five ditors that scribe the relatnship people have wh their lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) inty and their nnectn wh the LGBT muny.

They approached the bartenr, proclaimed they were gay and then requted a drk—and were promptly nied tr had acplished their goal; their “Sip-In” had men, who were part of the Mattache Society—an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay rights—wanted to monstrate that bars the cy discrimated agast LGBTQ people. ”There had been dozens of raids before the “Sip-In” that never garnered such a fierce reactn as Stonewall, which happened three years after the three men had stepped up to Juli’ than 50 years later, Juli celebrat s history as one of the olst gay bars New York Cy.

Specifilly, sexual inty (lbian, gay, bisexual, mostly heterosexual, and heterosexual), genr (man/woman), and the tersectns among sexual inty and genr are explored as they relate to policized perspectiv (liberal iology and femist inty) and support of policized issu (ath penalty and legal abortn). G., Schnabel, 2018; Swank, 2018b), by examg the unique polil perspectiv of lbian, gay, bisexual, and mostly heterosexual women and men, important differenc across the tersectnal inti n be highlighted (Worthen, 2013).

THE GAY ‘SIP-IN’ THAT DREW OM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO FIGHT DISCRIMATN

Below, sexualy and genr gaps regardg liberal iology and femist inty are Inti and Liberal Iology: Sexualy GapsHertzog’s (1996) tailed analysis of the votg patterns of LGB people the 1990s dited “There is a ‘lavenr vote’ Ameri, as opposed merely to gay, lbian, and bisexual voters. For example, lbian women and gay men have been found to be more likely to intify as polil liberals parison to bisexual men and women (Grollman, 2017; Herek et al., 2010; Lewis et al., 2011; Schaffner, MacWilliams, & Nteta, 2017). Ined, g the Amerin Natnal Electn Survey of 2016 (N = 2691), Swank (2018a) found that lbian women and gay men were signifintly more likely than bisexuals to have voted for the liberal 2016 US Democratic Party ndidate, Hillary Clton.

For example, emergg om radil femism, the lbian separatist movement created a schism between lbian separatists and all men (cludg gay men) whereby lbian rights were seen as qualatively distct om gay men’s rights (Hertzog, 1996; Ste, 1997; Weiss, 2004).

“ALL THE GAYS ARE LIBERAL?” SEXUALY AND GENR GAPS POLIL PERSPECTIV AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, MOSTLY HETEROSEXUAL, AND HETEROSEXUAL COLLEGE STUNTS THE SOUTHERN USA

Below, sexualy and genr gaps regard to support of the ath penalty and legal abortn are Inti and Death Penalty Attus: Sexualy GapsTwo existg studi dite that gay and lbian dividuals are ls likely than heterosexuals to support the ath penalty for murrers (Hertzog, 1996; Worthen, Sharp, & Rodgers, 2012). Hertzog’s (1996) summarizatn of fdgs om a 1990 CBS ex poll show that heterosexuals support the ath penalty for those nvicted for first-gree murr at nearly double the rate of gay men and lbian women, ditg a sexualy gap pal punishment perspectiv.

GAY RIGHTS

However, logistic regrsn mols wh heterosexual men as the reference tegory, beg a gay man was found to exert a signifint negative effect on ath penalty support even when ntrollg for background variabl cludg years of schoolg, total fay e, age, southern US regn, ral unty, and race/ethnicy. In the only study to date that has partially examed this, Hertzog (1996) found that gay men support abortn rights as strongly as lbian women; th, there was no “genr gap” among lbian women and gay men their abortn attus. In Table 1, ANOVA and post hoc Tey-Kramer tt rults reveal signifint sexual inty differenc means whereby heterosexuals are ls liberal than MH, LGB, lbian/gay, and bisexual people terms of liberal iology, femist inty, and support for legal abortn.

Mostly heterosexuals are signifintly more likely than LGB people to support the ath penalty (partially supportg Hypothis 1b) and lbian/gay people are signifintly ls likely than bisexuals to support legal abortn (ntradictg Hypothis 1c). Siarly, across all mol 2s, all three measur of sexual inty nsired separately follow the same patterns, monstratg heterosexual-mostly heterosexual, heterosexual-bisexual, and heterosexual-lbian/gay gaps liberalism whereby heterosexuals are ls liberal than all other groups.

In ntrast, the teractn effect reprentg lbian women operat the oppose directn and is posively related to ath penalty support and negatively related to liberal iology, femist inty, and the liberal sle ditg a lbian woman-gay man gap whereby gay men are more liberal than lbian women, ntradictg Hypothis 2b. In ntrast, the teractn effect reprentg lbian women operat the oppose directn and is negatively related to liberal iology, femist inty, support of legal US abortn, and the liberal sle ditg a lbian woman-gay man gap whereby gay men are more liberal than lbian women, ntradictg Hypothis 2b.

Send, mol 2s, beg bisexual was signifintly posively related to three measur of liberalism (femist inty, legal abortn support, and the liberal sle) and beg lbian/gay was signifintly negatively related to ath penalty support. By vtigatg MH people (stead of only LGB people) and parg MH people to LGB people (stead of only parg to exclive heterosexuals), the current study allows for a more nuanced unrstandg of the relatnships and monstrat some signifint MH-LGB sexualy gaps noted above, a sexualy gap polil perspectiv between lbian/gay and bisexual people has been found prev lerature whereby lbian/gay people are more liberal than bisexual people (Grollman, 2017; Herek et al., 2010; Lewis et al., 2011; Schaffner et al., 2017; Swank, 2018a). In addn, although the ma effects of beg bisexual and beg lbian/gay were siar Table 3, mol 2s, where the reference tegory was exclive heterosexuals, Table 4 where the reference tegory was mostly heterosexuals, different patterns emerged.

Together, the experienc may motivate bisexual women to bee actively volved advocy cludg iativ that support mp climate chang as well more general liberal social jtice current study’s examatn of genr gaps among lbian women’s and gay men’s polil perspectiv whereby lbian women were theorized to be signifintly more liberal than gay men (Hypothis 2b) revealed perhaps the most surprisg rults. For example, Table 3, mol 3s, where the reference tegory was exclive heterosexuals, pared to beg a gay man, beg a lbian woman was signifintly negatively related to three measur of liberalism (liberal iology, femist inty, and the liberal sle) and posively related to ath penalty support.