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- NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH BRENT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG 'TWO GAY DADS' ON HOME MAKEOVER TV: 'WE BELIEVE OPENG UP THE DOORS'
- A WORLD OF PRI: GAY DIGNERS TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE AND CHALLENG
NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH BRENT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG 'TWO GAY DADS' ON HOME MAKEOVER TV: 'WE BELIEVE OPENG UP THE DOORS'
Nate Berk and Jeremiah Brent on the Importance of Beg 'Two Gay Dads' on Home Makeover TV: 'We Believe Openg Up the Doors'. "It's a renovatn show, but you're also gettg to e to the liv of two gay dads and their fay, so that's a great thg and of self, " says Brent, who weled dghter Poppy, 2, wh Berk March 2015. Jane Greenwood is the -founr of the ‘Organizatn of Lbian + Gay Archects and Digners’, along wh beg a vol advote for LGBTQIA+ rights.
It’s an old stereotype: the gay terr signer. Ltle data exists regardg how many gay men are out the sign dtry around the world, but ’s whout a doubt a iendlier dtry than, say, profsnal sports. And no matter the profsn, clearly the experience of gay men tersects wh other forc—race and class power dynamics, ageism, health, geography—and differs om the experienc of other members of the muny, cludg lbians and trans/non-bary/genr nonnformg sign profsnals.
But on the ocsn of World Pri month, Interr Dign reached out to gay men around the physil and virtual worlds to get a sense of where thgs stand today, om Tulsa to Turkey. “There are que a lot of gay upl livg eely and accepted, ” he says, “but not mentned a lot by the neighbors.
A WORLD OF PRI: GAY DIGNERS TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE AND CHALLENG
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And Orlando, was supposed to be at the Pulse nightclub the night of the anti-gay terror massacre 2016. For years, swaths of the dtry were assigned the public nscns to gay men. Ially, this rerd will Pri Month begs, 's enlighteng to look back, so that all of —gay, straight, bi, trans, nonbary, qutng—have a better unrstandg not jt of the past but of where we are today.