Party and prott: the radil history of gay liberatn, Stonewall and Pri | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• U.S. ARY MAK RADIL GAY ACTIVIST S POSTER BOY FOR 'PRI MONTH'
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• SEARCHG FOR SILVER LAKE: THE RADIL NEIGHBORHOOD THAT CHANGED GAY AMERI
• RADIL 'GAY FURRI' HACKER'S REVENGE SPREE REACH 5 STAT OVER OBJECTNS TO CHILD MUTILATN BANS
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• HOW THE RADIL GAY LEFT CSED HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF HOMOSEXUALS TO DIE OF AIDS
• JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY
• PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

U.S. ARY MAK RADIL GAY ACTIVIST S POSTER BOY FOR 'PRI MONTH'

Air Force has sent a "Pri Month" celebratn memo to s entire workforce that uncrilly regurgat biased "gay" history, cludg a tribute to anti-Christian gay activist Harvey Milk that whewash Milk's predatory "marriage" to a a teenage boy when he was his thirti. " That is what LGBT advot and their alli ll the entire month of June as they dite to celebratg homosexualy, bisexualy, transgenrism and other aberrant sexual and genr liftyl – behavrs that lns of Amerins, relig and secular, nsir wrong or sful.

" Milk was a radil gay activist who reportedly was homosexually molted as a young teenage boy himself, and who went on to live a perverse homosexual 'marriage' wh a teen naway boy when Milk was his thirti. The Air Force-circulated memo clar, "Pri Month is a time to celebrate the ntributns and rights of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer/Qutng (LGBTQ+) muny, spanng over the entire month of June each year.

The memo wh the full thorizatn of the Department of the Air Force at a time when growg numbers of Amerins are exprsg outrage at the promotn of LGBT "pri" once-tsted stutns, pecially as affects children bombard wh pro-homosexual and, now pro-transsexual, msag.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Ironilly, the same DEOMI that is lnizg "gay" ins like Milk whout mentng relevant facts such as his live-, sexual "relatnship" wh an unrage naway boy (as documented by a sympathetic homosexual journalist, Randy Shilts) is also tasked wh assistg the Pentagon "extremism preventn" tn wh the Armed Forc.

A DEOMI Prs "Pri Month Rource Base" document featur a glowg article about the radil homosexual and "AIDS activism" group ACT UP, even gog so far as scribg the group's notor vasn and disptn of a Catholic mass at St. The DEOMI gui stat that Harvey Milk "realized he was gay an an early age" whout mentng that Milk as a boy was molted by adult homosexual men, as documented by Shilts his 1982 bgraphy on Milk, "The Mayor of Castro Street. He noted that the nctn aims “to stigmatize the word ‘gay’ by brgg reprentatn to spac that have not tradnally featured queer products, such as bars, liquor stor, grocery stor, rtrants, hotels and more.

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

By the 80s, Silver Lake was a center of queer life, pecially queer Lato life, and, Palencia says, nearly every other storeont was a gay or lbian bar, a leather store, a bookstore, or a muny Aids anizatn. At Basgo’s Dis, which was famo for s art-punk athetic and BDSM performance Sunset Boulevard, there are other holdouts om Silver Lake’s gayer past: Rough Tra, a leather and fetish shop, is a few doors down om the Black Cat.

”Silver Lake, then a largely Lato neighborhood, beme a haven for Palencia and his iends, who -found Gay and Lbian Latos Unidos (GLLU), an advocy group foced on issu and people they felt whe gay anizatns and whe femist anizatns ignored. While there were tensns at the time between gay and lbian anizers LA, the gay men who started GLLU reached out to lbian Latas to get them volved as lears the group, as documented Unidad, a new film about the group’s history.

Palencia said this was ccial: “Polilly, the lbians were much more evolved terms of their thkg of systems – like patriarchy, enomic systems, sexism, even racism, ” wh an agenda “that went beyond sexual polics” members supported Lato labor anizers and the Uned Farm Workers, and proment labor activists, cludg Dolor Huerta, marched alongsi them a 1983 Pri Wt Hollywood gay scene, ntrast, was sometim explicly racist and misogynistic: Stud One, a proment club, sparked protts for s excln of men of lor and of women, and s obv preference for wealthier whe male Silver Lake uld also be dangero, Palencia said: there were gay-bashg attacks rried out by lol Lato gang members. Photograph: Male Tolle/The GuardianTo addrs the tensns between gay and Lato rints whout turng to “mass rceratn, ” anizers started a ee lol mic ftival, the Sunset Junctn street fair, 1980, which had activi for kids and bands to appeal to a wi range of cultural terts. Palencia drove a few blocks off Sunset Boulevard to what he lled a “ltle oasis that’s still the same as what ’s been the past s” l Campo, an inic Mexin rtrant a bright pk buildg, has been a refuge for gay patrons sce s foundg 1962, and ’s still owned by the same Hollywood showbiz Del Campo, who started the rtrant, had been a dancer featured films like Wt Si Story, an Amerin Paris, and A Star is Born, and his old iends and lleagu beme his new patrons – cludg, of urse, many gay people.

SEARCHG FOR SILVER LAKE: THE RADIL NEIGHBORHOOD THAT CHANGED GAY AMERI

Instead, her son said, the rtrant beme her the early days, closeted gay Hollywood celebri like Rock Hudson, one of the most proment people to die early the Aids crisis, equented the rtrant, which had dark booths wh curtas on the wdows, so that patrons uld de whout scty om outsi. One of Robert and Ga’s sons me out to them as gay while stg one of the booths once popular wh closeted rtrant host when we vised was 18-year-old Logan Wynn, who has lived the neighborhood his whole life, and who chatted amiably wh about the rtrant’s gay history and his memori of eatg here as a kid. Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype.

Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. As other Wtern mocraci creasgly legalize gay marriage, Atralia still languish due to polil foot-draggg, spe of pollg that dit more than 60 percent of Atralian voters support marriage equaly.

An outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, Abetz suggted that the flags of anti-gay groups like the Marriage Alliance should also hang alongsi the rabow flag, which he scribed as an activist symbol of a "polil mpaign. "By way of some slight humor on this issue, this particular flag, you will realize, is the flag of the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands, " said Abetz, smirkg as he shuffled a stack of papers.

RADIL 'GAY FURRI' HACKER'S REVENGE SPREE REACH 5 STAT OVER OBJECTNS TO CHILD MUTILATN BANS

"The senator was referrg to a ragtag troupe of radil gay activists who, June 2004, claimed an archipelago of ty unhabed islands as their newly formed kgdom—a vast, 300, 000-square-e external terrory of Atralia that's jt off the ast of by their emperor, Dale Parker Anrson, they set out on a ship dubbed the "Gayflower" and sailed for 200 ntil to the Coral Sea Islands Terrory.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

Upon landfall, Anrson and his ras planted the rabow flag, their chosen natnal emblem, on ty Cato Island, where they set up a post office, erected a monument and selected Gloria Gaynor's "I Am What I Am" as the natnal anthem. Even so, the Gay and Lbian Kgdom may fact reprent the first terrorial claim of sovereignty by an LGBTQ group for an pennt gay 'd be easy to wre this seemgly absurd pennce movement off as a creative brand of direct-actn prott—a silly stunt to garner prs for the e. Yet 's a le of thought that has existed LGBTQ liberatn sce s earlit days, maniftg everythg om a radil proposal to take over a California unty to lbian-only mun to ltle-known groups prently lobbyg for an pennt gay as longstandg tensn wh the LGBTQ muny between social assiatn and separatism—that is, the bate over whether queer people should try to blend wh the rt of society or reject society outright—ntu to churn, the roots and history of queer natnalism seem as relevant as of the rnerstone exampl of a queer natnalist state is known rmally as Stonewall Natn, a 1970 plan to tablish a separatist gay muny Alpe County, a mountao and ral rner of northern California, which, at the time, had 384 registered voters.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

Historian Lillian Farman, thor of the prehensive gay liberatn overview The Gay Revolutn, told me that some supporters genuely yearned for a sort of gay natn wh a natn; others saw as a prs ploy to monstrate that the gay and lbian movement had teeth. As the Cologne, Germany-based executive officer of the Gay Homeland Foundatn, which he scrib as a "thk tank" for queer natnalism, he's ma headl of his own for promotg the ia of an pennt gay precisely would such a state look like? Thankfully, there's a proven PR method the queer natnalist's bag of tricks: board the Gayflower, blast Gloria Gaynor and sail straight to the Sunday pag while beltg out the words of the anthem: "Why not try to see thgs om a different angle?

Gay activists champned “liberatn” the form of fiant promiscuy, the overthrow of “bourgeois morals” regardg sexual rtrat, and, by logil extensn, the rejectn of “bourgeois” standards of public hygiene. As the Gay Liberatn Front’s 1970 manifto proclaimed: “We are a revolutnary homosexual group of men and women formed wh the realizatn that plete liberatn of all people nnot e about unls existg social stutns are abolished.

HOW THE RADIL GAY LEFT CSED HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF HOMOSEXUALS TO DIE OF AIDS

Between 1967 and 1970—when the sexual revolutn me to full bloom—the cince of amoebiasis, a parasic sexually transmted disease, creased fifty-fold  San Francis bee of promiscuo oral-anal sex among homosexuals.

Both before and after the onset of AIDS, gay activists scribed the public “bathho” where such sexual activi took place as homosexual “liberated zon” and regard any efforts to close them as a “threat” to gay “liberatn. Easy treatment had imbued them wh such a valier attu toward venereal diseas that many gay men saved their wag-le numbers, like ltle tokens of sirabily, and the clic was nsired an easy place to pick up both a shot and a date. ” At a public meetg the year precedg the first AIDS s, Edmund Whe, -thor of The Joy of Gay Sex, proposed that “gay men should wear their sexually transmted diseas like red badg of urage a war agast a sex-negative society.

JAGUARS STRENGTH ACH IS FIRST MALE ACH A MAJOR US-BASED PRO LEAGUE TO E OUT AS GAY

” And gay activist Michael Callen, boastg that he had already had 3, 000 sexual partners, stated, wh what he would later scribe as “the bt of revolutnary tentns”: “Every time I get the clap [gonorrhea] I’m strikg a blow for the sexual revolutn. The enteric diseas—amoebiasis, Gay Bowel Syndrome, giardiasis and shigellosis—were followed by an epimic of hepatis B, which had transformed self, via anal terurse, om a blood-borne surge to a venereal disease that was particularly mon among people wh HIV.

PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

In the first five years of the epimic, when sexually transmted AIDS was largely nfed to the whe gay muni of three metropolan areas—New York Cy, Los Angel and San Francis—aggrsive public-health practic uld have prevented the epimic’s outward spread. For stance, when officials tried to stute screeng procr for the natn’s blood banks and asked the gay muny not to make donatns while the epimic persisted, gay polil lears opposed the preutns as gements on the “right” of homosexuals to give blood. The San Francis Coordatg Commtee of Gay & Lbian Servic issued a policy paper assertg that donor screeng was “remiscent of miscegenatn blood laws that divid black blood om whe, ” and “siar ncept to the World War II roundg up of Japane-Amerins the wtern half of the untry to mimize the possibily of pnage.