TALLAHASSEE - CNN Host Anrson Cooper challenged Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on whether she was beg 'hypocril' to protray herself as a champn of the gay muny followg the Orlando shootg when she persisted a protracted and unsuccsful legal fight to prerve the state's nstutnal ban on gay marriage.
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
As he turned 50, Joe Bondi found himself creasgly isolated, prsed, and driftg back to a largely closeted liftyle. 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 ... * joe bondi gay *
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. "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.
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BONDI ELIVE AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL FLORIDA
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"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.
"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.
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.
LE EVANS IS REPORTEDLY DATG A NEW MAN SYDNEY AHEAD OF THE GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS
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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.
GAY BASHGS, HOMOPHOBIA: FORMER P RELLS HORROR YEARS NSW POLICE FORCE
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Ben and Gee's feelgs of beg sudnly margalized return them to the begngs of gay inty. )Powerlsns was also the theme that distguished The Delta, where Sachs got to the ighteng heart of class and race differenc that tragilly tersected the gay unrworld. No other Amerin gay filmmaker has ed social inty for such a pastakg, hont view of sexual mon ground.
JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
Sachs's prev film Keep the Lights Onma a tortured admissn of the masochistic risks when gay sire clash wh secury--existential powerlsns. And Love Is Strange fally be existential beneath s troubled, if ostentatly gentrified, surface where gays enjoy acplished iends, chic surroundgs, and genteel Is Strange provis a way-back mache for gay self-awarens by molg self after the classic 1937 Hollywood film Make Way for Tomorrow. This momento mori sequence personaliz gay social history as a remiscence, a legacy, and as a regniz the current state of gay social acceptance but also laments an unacknowledged past, generatns passed over by time, and the evable self-regard of class and generatnal advancement.
Durg a grandstandg moment of the terrible Melissa McCarthy film Tammy, Kathy Bat, playg a butch lbian, stcted a young woman: "You know, gay hasn't always been fashn, my ar! Lookg back, their relatnship rells an ialized versn of the plited and powerful emotnal nflicts that Richard Burton and Rex Harrison acted out as an elrly gay uple the 1969 film Stairse. Love Is Strange isn't nearly as strong as that trailblazer (see Stairse now, however you n) but Sachs's gratu towards gay pneers fulfills a different, ntemporary need.
By relatg to the parental plight of McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow rather than the social and psychologil pth (and humor) of Stairse, Sachs nfirms society's normalizg of gay upl and gay would be unfair to blame Love Is Strange for s upont bourgeois sence.