Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer News & Polics

Contents:

• THE LONG, SORDID HISTORY OF THE GAY CONSPIRACY THEORY
• FOR GAY CONSERVATIV, THE TMP ERA IS THE BT AND WORST OF TIM
• THE PHILOSOPHIL FASCISTS OF THE GAY ALT-RIGHT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

THE LONG, SORDID HISTORY OF THE GAY CONSPIRACY THEORY

One of the founrs of ele women's club The Wg publicly cricized New York Cy's openly gay Cy Council Speaker for sharg a picture of a shirtls man on social Gelman, who -found The Wg wh Lren Kassan 2016, tweeted a screenshot of a recent Instagram post shared by Corey Johnson, who has served on New York's Cy Council sce 2014 and as Cy Council Speaker sce 2018. It might perhaps be more uful to ph for a world where women enjoy the same eedoms as men, rather than argue that men's bodi should be as rtricted or ntrolled as their female don't even beg to addrs another ncerng dynamic at play Gelman's tweet, that of a straight woman attemptg to hold a gay man to heterosexual moral standards -- but only Gelman n say for sure what her tentns were. Adult film performer Steven Mil (aka Sergeant Mil), who has worked straight and gay porn, has been arrted for his alleged participatn the vlent vasn of the U.

FOR GAY CONSERVATIV, THE TMP ERA IS THE BT AND WORST OF TIM

The porn se Str8UpGayPorn (NSFW) reports that ne days later, Mil took to Twter to blame Antifa and Black Liv Matter activists for the vlent surrectn. Crics ll a “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill, argug that s vaguens and reliance on lawsus for enforcement will renr tors aaid of mentng the mere fact of gay or trans law is now at the center of the culture wars.

Here’s Christa Phaw, a spokperson for DeSantis, wrg on Twter:The bill that liberals accurately ll “Don’t Say Gay” would be more accurately scribed as an Anti-Groomg Bill.

THE PHILOSOPHIL FASCISTS OF THE GAY ALT-RIGHT

Democrats sometim exprs ncern about the ia of rporatns g their clout to tervene polics, but this ntroversy they had the oppose plat, as my lleague Ronald Brownste explaed last month:The refal of the Walt Disney Company, one of Florida’s most powerful employers, to publicly cricize Florida’s “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” bill as moved through the legislature has quickly e to symbolize a retreat om the loud public opposn that many pani exprsed to earlier state iativ rtrictg civil liberti, such as the “bathroom bill” North Carola Republins approved 2016. But then, my experience was bafflgly the oppose of what I had heard … my learship has been so welg to my not-at-all-secret gay agenda … Then all that momentum that I felt, that sense of I don’t have to be aaid to have the two characters kiss the background, I was jt, wherever I uld jt basilly addg queerns––if you see anythg queer, I was basilly jt like, no one would stop me and no one was tryg to stop me.

” We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters our stori, and yet we don’t have enough leads and narrativ which gay characters jt get to be characters and not have to be about gay stori. ”I’ll rea om cludg many more opns here, sce this week’s qutn is about this same ntroversy––do email your thoughts om any perspective so I n air them the next edn––but I did thk this historil ntext om The Advote was worth cludg:“Don’t say gay” bills have gotten much publicy this year, but they’re really nothg new. Before there was “don’t say gay, ” there was “no promo homo”—bills that proliferated the 1980s and ’90s as nservative legislators rpond to the AIDS crisis by seekg to ban what they nsired “promotn of homosexualy” schools, pecially sex tn urs.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

“Enjoyg sexual difference, ” Lu nclud, “is cril to almost all of the romanc, and while homosexuals do have Plato's Symposium and the poetry of Sappho, their stock of cultural associatns is much, much thner. The webse champned legislatn that would have allowed Arizona bs owners to refe service to gay ctomers, adoptg the basels relig liberty narrative beloved of the bill's supporters.