Tony Guadagno discs legendary gay ins Jam Dean, Marlon Brando, Wally Cox, and Rock Hudson his May lumn about gay ins.
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GAY INS: JAM DEAN, MARLON BRANDO, WALLY COX, ROCK HUDSON
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On g out Cooper said “The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I uldn’t be any more happy, fortable wh myself, and proud.
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” He has stated over the years that he first realized he was gay his teen years, and first me to tly embrace that part of him shortly after llege.
As an activist for LGBT rights, she has been an outspoken cric of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy the US ary which prohibs gay and lbian servicepeople om beg open.
WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?
Diana was of the most fervent advot for those afflicted wh the HIV/AIDS, pecially the early years of the disease’s onslght, and she did this at a time when few others would – a time when gay men beme public enemy no. Those who were ma to feel “different” by a society that was largely homophobic uld intify wh Diana’s suatn life, and most uld admire her for the fiant poise and grace wh which she handled all.
Harvey Milk was a trailblazg openly gay polician who, as a member of San Fransis’s Cy Board of Supervisors, champned gay rights before beg assassated alongsi the cy mayor by a disgntled polil rival. Navy durg the Korean War before beg forced to accept a dishonorable discharge bee of his homosexualy (or else he would have been urt martialed). There is no qutn that he paved the way for gay rights activists that followed, not only San Fransis but throughout the Uned Stat and the world.
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He was a visnary whose credo was gay liberatn, the importance of lol muni, and the notn that ernment should be rponsive to dividuals.