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‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

Edward Albee — bt known for Who's Aaid of Virgia Woolf — was cricized for his acceptance speech at the 23rd annual Lambda Lerary Awards. "A wrer who happens to be gay or lbian mt be able to transcend self," he said May 26. "I am not a gay wrer. I am a wrer who happens to be gay." * was virginia wolf gay *

Instead of lbian, gay or bisexual, the term most monly ed by Va and Virgia to scribe their "proclivi" is "Sapphist": a phemism after Sappho, an ancient poet of sensual verse about women, who lived on the Greek island of Lbos (spirg, too, the word ‘lbian’).

PLAYWRIGHT ALBEE DEFENDS 'GAY WRER' REMARKS

While male homosexualy the U.

Was still a crimal offense at the time, there was no equivalent legislatn that targeted gay women. However, 1921, some lawmakers voted to crimalize “sexual acts of gross cency” between women, although the law was never passed bee policians feared would enurage women to explore homosexualy.

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