PoliFact | Attorney General ndidate Pam Bondi's stance on gay adoptn unr attack by social nservative

Contents:

• SOCIAL GROUPS FOR GAYS
• BONDI ELIVE AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL FLORIDA
• LE EVANS IS REPORTEDLY DATG A NEW MAN SYDNEY AHEAD OF THE GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
• GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
• JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP

SOCIAL GROUPS FOR GAYS

Livg Mosto, Calif., nearly 100 om the gay mec of San Francis, he beme nsumed wh his work as a real tate agent and slogged away the hours among lleagu who might've known he was gay but around whom he felt unfortable sharg much about himself or his jog the San Francis Gay Men's Chos, he began to make a turnaround.

BONDI ELIVE AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL FLORIDA

"As a socially stigmatized group, gay men may particularly benef om an affirmative sense of belongg to a larger muny. Rearch has shown that a sense of "llective self-teem" when people feel that their membership a larger group has Drcher, the thor of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man and a psychotherapist private practice New York Cy, said that many of the men he unsels are reluctant to h the bar scene to meet people-- his md, for good reason. "Jeff Kagan, the founr and director of the New York Cy Gay Hockey Associatn, touts the benefs of jog a sports team.

"Some gay men might feel exclud their liv om their own fai, " he says.

" boasts teens particular, perhaps facg difficulti wh homophobia as they negotiate their way out of the closet, and who as a mographic are at high risk for suicidal prsn, n benef immeasurably om a sense of cln. Acrdg to Carolyn Lb, executive director of the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, a nonprof advocy group based San Francis, there are an timated 4, 000 GSAs U.

LE EVANS IS REPORTEDLY DATG A NEW MAN SYDNEY AHEAD OF THE GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

"There's no qutn that for young people all over the untry accs to a gay-straight alliance club n be lifavg, " Lb says. "In particular helps you know as a young gay person that you're not alone whatever your stggl may be regardg g out or facg harassment at school.

GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE

The gay-straight alliance club n be a safe haven and a place to feel supported, to have a nnectn to your muny, and to have alli. Way back 1972, mastream heterosexual actors Hal Holbrook and Mart Sheen portrayed a gay male uple That Certa Summer, a primetime Movie of the Week for the ABC work.

It was historic, if not exactly memorable, for the risks Holbrook and Sheen took advancg public intifitn wh homosexualy (at that time a passnate, not sanctimon, act). I remembered that fotten Summer while watchg the new film Love Is Strange where today's equivalently tablished, mastream actors, John Lhgow and Aled Mola, also play a gay male Ben and Gee, recently married New York Cy who mt give up their Wt Village home and separate, Lhgow and Mola, two highly theatril, never que believable actors jt like Holbrook and Sheen, reprent fortably adjted middle-aged whe figur--such as mastream gays like to see themselv portrayed: the midst of middle-class is Strange don't stra that wishful intifitn as far as the already fotten die-lbian s The Kids Are Alright did (Ante Beng and Julianne Moore played quasi-bisexual paragons).

This is due to director and screenwrer Ira Sachs who boldly advanced pennt filmmakg wh his great, tense gay but feature The Delta (1997). Here, Sachs challeng mastream nventns wh a method that go back to the problem/prott film--the genre that always marks the begng of Amerin film culture' social nscns about sex, race, and s almost apologetic tle, Love Is Strange dramatiz gay male acceptance as s primary issue.

JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP

Ben and Gee's feelgs of beg sudnly margalized return them to the begngs of gay inty.