They were a gay, terracial uple an age of relentls bigotry. The two Harolds didn’t flch. - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• ONE INTERRACIAL GAY COUPLE TRI TO TRAVEL FEARLSLY — AND SOMETIM FDS ACCEPTANCE SURPRISG PLAC
• A ‘GAY HOMELAND’ UNDONE BY HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM
• COMMENTARY: AS A BIRACIAL GAY UPLE, WE HAVEN’T FACED MUCH HATE BUT WE WORRY OUR KIDS ULD
• THEY WERE A GAY, TERRACIAL UPLE AN AGE OF RELENTLS BIGOTRY. THE TWO HAROLDS DIDN’T FLCH.
• HOLLYWOOD’S GAY POWER COUPL: SARAH PLSON AND HOLLAND TAYLOR, MORE

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

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A ‘GAY HOMELAND’ UNDONE BY HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM

Brendan and I don’t want to support the enomi of plac wh homophobic laws, like Myanmar, Kenya, or Sdi Arabia — the latter’s royal fay hardly needs our three-dollar bills. We did go to the Maldiv, where they have whipped people for homosexual activy, but there seem to be separate l for lols and visors — I thk the tourists get safe words.

But ambiguy and hospaly don’t mix well eher; gay travelers want the same treatment as straight on, and rorts and hotels want to acmodate the burgeong number of tourists who intify as LGBTQ. Related: What It’s like to Travel Ameri As a Gay Couple Livg an RV: Episo 2 of Travel + Leisure’s New Podst. Even gay-iendly spac the U.

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

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It was a major step visibily to see an terracial gay relatnship on televisn, and the two grow together and start their own fay throughout Six Feet Unr's five seasons on the air.

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

The seri revolved around a group of black gay men livg Los Angel, and promently featured issu facg that muny, cludg datg, same-sex parenthood, HIV and AIDS awarens, and homophobia. We watch as Wa out as a gay man, and fac the harsh reali that n sometim acpany that procs for black men. HBO's Lookg only aired for two seasons, but I found to be an pecially powerful, joyful, and realistic look to what 's like to be gay man morn society.

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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.

HOLLYWOOD’S GAY POWER COUPL: SARAH PLSON AND HOLLAND TAYLOR, MORE

“Group Buys Ghost Town for Homosexual Cy, ” said the Las Vegas Review-Journal.