Commentary: As a biracial gay uple, we haven't faced much hate but we worry our kids uld - The San Diego Unn-Tribune

biracial gay couple

Black gay love is revolutnary.

Contents:

A ‘GAY HOMELAND’ UNDONE BY HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM

What happened when a biracial uple tried to tablish a gay muny lled Stonewall Park the Nevada sert durg the AIDS epimic * biracial gay couple *

9, 1986, at the height of anti-gay hysteria durg the AIDS crisis, a biracial gay uple om Reno, Nev., ma a remarkable announcement: They were gog to create what some lled “a gay homeland” the Nevada Schoonmaker and Aled Parkson planned to name the muny Stonewall Park, after the 1969 uprisg New York that lnched the gay rights movement.

The effort to transform the abandoned ghost town of Rhyole to an enclave wh gay-owned banks, shops, sos, and sgle-fay hom mec ma news. “Group Buys Ghost Town for Homosexual Cy, ” said the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Ghost Town to Bee Gay Town, ” said Uned Prs Internatnal.

ONE INTERRACIAL GAY COUPLE TRI TO TRAVEL FEARLSLY — AND SOMETIM FDS ACCEPTANCE SURPRISG PLAC

* biracial gay couple *

And the lol Death Valley Gateway Gazette put s own twist on : “Happy Gays Are Here Aga.

COMMENTARY: AS A BIRACIAL GAY UPLE, WE HAVEN’T FACED MUCH HATE BUT WE WORRY OUR KIDS ULD

This paper vtigat the black/whe gay male uple to discern if the partners are happy, enomilly patible, and well adjted to each other. A s * biracial gay couple *

” Schoonmaker billed Stonewall Park as a rort muny, a haven where gays uld live and thrive away om AIDS-spired and legally sanctned homophobia.

THEY WERE A GAY, TERRACIAL UPLE AN AGE OF RELENTLS BIGOTRY. THE TWO HAROLDS DIDN’T FLCH.

Schoonmaker, then 44, had faced homophobia long before movg to Nevada, which still had an anti-sodomy law, the 1980s. Growg up a small Wt Virgia mg town, he knew he was gay om age 9. In high school, his two bt iends, 16-year-old boys who were also gay, died by suici, part “bee they knew what society thought of gay people and didn’t anticipate a happy future for themselv, ” acrdg to a story the Los Angel 1974, Schoonmaker met Parkson, his partner, San Francis, where the two ran a few bs ventur before settlg Reno.

EBONY AND IVORY: THE TERRACIAL GAY MALE UPLE

There, they both worked at sos but were relegated to the rtrants — at that time, gays were forbidn to handle rds, dice and money for gamblg gam. Parkson was black, and as Schoonmaker soon saw, Ameri was not safe pecially for Ain Amerin gays at the time, they faced racial tnts Reno.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* BIRACIAL GAY COUPLE

Stonewall Park: Rhyole, Nevada gay muny undone by homophobia, racism - The Washgton Post .

TOP