Tijuana, Mexi's gay bars have historilly centered cis men, but a DIY nightlife scene is makg space for margalized queer people.
Contents:
- “SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!” GAY TIJUANA
- T.J. HOE, FORMER MLB PCHER, OUT AS GAY: "LOVE HAS FALLY SET ME EE"
- MPOWERMENT: A COMMUNY-LEVEL HIV PREVENTN INTERVENTN FOR YOUNG GAY MEN
“SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!” GAY TIJUANA
Country artist TJ Osborne of Brothers Osborne shared a historic kiss wh boyiend Abi Ventura at the CMA Awards months after g out as gay. * tj young gay *
TJ Osborne, the first openly gay mician signed to a major untry rerd label, ma history aga Wednday night by kissg his boyiend on natnal televisn at the Country Mic Assn. Earlier the telest, Osborne opened up about his journey to untry superstardom and the obstacl he has faced bee of the genre’s homophobia and lack of reprentatn for LGBTQ+ artists.
“I would watch this show year after year, and I always thought how credible would be, ” Osborne said while troducg the duo’s performance of “Younger Me, ” a song the 36-year-old wrote about growg up gay. “Let me tell you seeg an openly gay man w a #CMA award & the meras not cut away when he kissed his date, is not somethg I thought I’d see my lifetime, ” wrote Ante Miller. They fd their help a gay uple, Aaron and Charl.
He has brought his hband along, only his mother and sister don't even know he is gay. Woven to gay Tijuana, on the razor’s edge of the red-light district to the north, is a wars of that threat and others, and an entrenched sire to fet them.
T.J. HOE, FORMER MLB PCHER, OUT AS GAY: "LOVE HAS FALLY SET ME EE"
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As the rabowre would suggt, there are plenty of gay bars Tijuana. The cy do, however, have a rich history of gay male mobilizatn, chronicled a 2019 dissertatn by social scientist Jse Anguiano of Wtern Michigan Universy.
MPOWERMENT: A COMMUNY-LEVEL HIV PREVENTN INTERVENTN FOR YOUNG GAY MEN
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The movement began the 1970s; Plaza Santa Cecilia, today a vibrant gay statn, served as one of the earlit meetg s for the cy’s gay male liberatn groups.
Anguiano wr about Tijuana’s first official Pri march 1995, after a hateful rponse to an unofficial march over a earlier: In 1983, spectators hurled eggs and sults om the siwalks at a group of 30 gay men marchg for their rights. But wh metro San Diego and s flourishg queer life ls than a half-hour to the north—the Hillcrt neighborhood, which is the cy's thrivg gay district, is home to two lbian bars—Tijuana n still feel like ’s laggg behd.