On Augt 6, 1945, the crew of a modified Boeg B-29 Superfortrs named Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ed warfare, lled “Ltle Boy,” on the cy of Hiroshima, Japan.
Contents:
- TAKG FLIGHT: ROSS GAY’S ‘BE HOLDG’ TELLS A BLACK STORY THROUGH PHOTO AND LYRIC
- FLY THE GAY-IENDLY SKI: ALASKA AIRL GO ALL OUT
- REMEMBERG MARK BGHAM, THE GAY HERO WHO HELPED TAKE FLIGHT 93 BACK OM HIJACKERS ON 9/11
- THE GAY-FRIENDLIT AIRL THE SKI
- A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS
- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
- WNSG THE UNWNSABLE: ON BE HOLDG BY ROSS GAY
- ALASKA AIRL GIFTS PASSENGERS A EE FLIGHT FOR GAY PRI MONTH
- WHY AIR FRANCE'S GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANTS STILL HAVE TO FLY TO TEHRAN—FOR NOW
TAKG FLIGHT: ROSS GAY’S ‘BE HOLDG’ TELLS A BLACK STORY THROUGH PHOTO AND LYRIC
Award-wng thor and poet Ross Gay turned a 25-send basketball clip to a book-length poem. Gay’s poem, “Be Holdg,” stemmed om him watchg a vio of former Philalphia 76ers forward Juli Ervg, makg a reverse layup the fourth game of the 1980 NBA Fals. “Reverse layup” do not do jtice to the moment. Ervg... * taking flight gay *
Award-wng thor and poet Ross Gay turned a 25-send basketball clip to a book-length poem. Gay’s poem, “Be Holdg, ” stemmed om him watchg a vio of former Philalphia 76ers forward Juli Ervg, makg a reverse layup the fourth game of the 1980 NBA Fals.
Ervg’s show-stoppg move is the first image Gay illtrated for his Zoom dience at the creative wrg partment’s first stallment of the “Yawp!
FLY THE GAY-IENDLY SKI: ALASKA AIRL GO ALL OUT
After the Enola Gay beme the first plane to drop an atomic bomb — on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945 — the B-29 bomber stayed airborne. * taking flight gay *
Imag like Ervg’s are the basis for the story Gay tells “Be Holdg.
REMEMBERG MARK BGHAM, THE GAY HERO WHO HELPED TAKE FLIGHT 93 BACK OM HIJACKERS ON 9/11
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Each image is one of what Gay refers to as a “movement” the poem.
“I uld see a uple movements ( the poem), ” Gay said.
THE GAY-FRIENDLIT AIRL THE SKI
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“(The Ebo) people who were enslaved were brought over here and they were like ‘We’re not gonna be enslaved, ’ and they walked to the water and they flew back home, ” Gay said.
However, is an entirely different experience when Gay reads . The historic flight took off on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn raids, which are nsired one of the first major events of the gay rights and liberatn movement the flight parted Philalphia Internatnal Airport (PHL) for New York-LaGuardia (LGA) and was operated wh an Embraer E-190. If thgs aboard Alaska Airl flights seem a b gay-obssed this month, ’s bee the pany has gone to new heights to celebrate Pri Month.
A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS
A petn llg on the airle to let gay stewards opt out of the Tehran route has been signed by 23,000 people. * taking flight gay *
As passengers prepared to board, they were greeted by Ravi, a personaly and host of a gay travel pany.
He was drsed a rabow smock, holdg a microphone, while prancg and chantg “I say Gay, you say Gay!
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
” As ctomers board this month, the airl is playg gay-iendly boardg mic by artists such as Torii Wolf, Sarah, the Illstmentalist, and Low Girl. Alaska Airl is mted to phg gay theme throughout the year by sponsorg paras the followg muni:.
WNSG THE UNWNSABLE: ON BE HOLDG BY ROSS GAY
The love story is promently featured on s blog, which also has a photo of a young boy si a gay-rated airplane, as he sports a Pri Plane t-shirt.
When his flight land, his cellular service returned and he noticed a new notifitn on the gay datg app. Thorn said that acrdg to the gay datg app, the man was 90 feet away om him, and the man’s profile featur a photo of the sky taken om the ckp. The openly gay gby player once fought off an armed mugger to protect his partner of six years, Pl Holm.
ALASKA AIRL GIFTS PASSENGERS A EE FLIGHT FOR GAY PRI MONTH
Mark Bgham, a popular sportsman, me out as gay after graduatg om the Universy of California, Berkley, aged 21. Was he a ‘gay hero’ or a ‘hero who was gay’? Jt two days after the 9/11 attacks, two reverends on CBN asserted that God, angered by homosexualy and abortn, had allowed the attacks to happen.
Chair of Internatnal Gay Rugby (IGR) Ben Owen spoke reverence of Bgham to PkNews. “Mark was stmental sparkg what has bee the ternatnal gay and clive gby movement today as a member of and founr of some of the first ever clubs.
”The Stonewall rts are wily acknowledged as havg sparked the mastream gay rights movement, wh the first gay pri march takg place across the US the followg Stonewall 50 edn of WorldPri NYC will feature more than 50 events, cludg march, parti, talks, performance, film and more durg June 2019, culmatg the Pri march on 30 month, female drag act Lacey Lou (real name Lacey McFayn) claimed she was dropped om the Virg Atlantic ad for the pri flight bee she’s a woman. The Gay-Friendlit Airl the SkiThis post ntas referenc to products om one or more of our advertisers. For an explanatn of our Advertisg Policy, vis this recent years, many airl have woken up to the tth that our gay brothers and sisters are here, they're queer and they love to travel.
WHY AIR FRANCE'S GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANTS STILL HAVE TO FLY TO TEHRAN—FOR NOW
As we wrap up Natnal LGBT Pri Month — and celebrate SCOTUS' momento lg for gay marriage —I'm takg an -pth look at which airl are showg their te rabow lors.