Wnsg the Unwnsable: On Be Holdg by Ross Gay – Michigan Quarterly Review

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.

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! Imag like Ervg’s are the basis for the story Gay tells “Be Holdg. Each image is one of what Gay refers to as a “movement” the poem.

FLY THE GAY-IENDLY SKI: ALASKA AIRL GO ALL OUT

“I uld see a uple movements ( the poem), ” Gay said. “(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 .

REMEMBERG MARK BGHAM, THE GAY HERO WHO HELPED TAKE FLIGHT 93 BACK OM HIJACKERS ON 9/11

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. 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!

THE GAY-FRIENDLIT AIRL THE SKI

” 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:.

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.

A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS

The openly gay gby player once fought off an armed mugger to protect his partner of six years, Pl Holm. 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.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

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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. 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.

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WNSG THE UNWNSABLE: ON BE HOLDG BY ROSS GAY

In the hands of another pany, s 2010 PR mpaign to have the first -flight gay and lbian weddg ceremoni would have been nothg more than a stunt. SAS is also a member of the Stockholm Gay and Lbian Network, and partners wh VisSwen the US, which promot Swen as a leadg LGBT urty of Leonard Zhovsky / ShutterstockDelta Air LNext on our list of fav is Delta: Not only has the airle been rporate a sponsor of and participant yearly Pri events ("NYC Pri, LA Pri, Utah Pri Ftival, Motor Cy Pri, Seattle PriFt, Tw Ci Pri, Atlanta Pri and Pri Toronto, among other ftivals"), but has proudly claimed s mment to LGBT employe as well:We are proud to have been signated one of the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) "Bt Plac To Work" for LGBT employe 2010 and 2011, and we ntue to earn near-perfect sr on HRC's Corporate Equaly Inx ever sce. That's walkg the lov the gays, and shows!

Amerin AirlAmerin Airl is on our list of gay-iendly fav, as well. The airle was certaly ahead of the pack 2007 wh s Pk Flight, which featured a drag queen stewarss, pk airplane food and a shirtls petn on s way om SFO to the Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras the plane got primped! Photo urty of Peapple then 2010, an otherwise amg -flight safety vio featurg the All Blacks gby team had a weirdly homophobic moment (start at 2:55) that sparked enough plats to have the vio pulled.

ALASKA AIRL GIFTS PASSENGERS A EE FLIGHT FOR GAY PRI MONTH

Among the are Athlete Ally, Boston Gay Men's Chos, Empire State Pri Agenda, Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn, New York Cy Anti-Vlence Project, PFLAG NYC, Transgenr Legal Defense & Edutn Fund and pri celebratns at s foc ci Long Beach, CA and San Juan, Puerto Ri. Homosexualy is not illegal Cha and was officially removed om a list of mental disorrs 2001.

WHY AIR FRANCE'S GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANTS STILL HAVE TO FLY TO TEHRAN—FOR NOW

After the vio of him kissg his worker went viral, Chai said he was taken asi by a senr manager who told him that homosexualy was agast “socialist re valu, ” and asked him to rema silent on the topic. Peng Yanhui, who heads the Cha Rabow Media Awards, an LGBTQ rights advocy group, said pani rarely fire LGBTQ employe “explicly” for beg gay. Although Chai rerd some of his supervisor’s homophobic remarks – cludg llg homosexualy “abnormal” – durg their nversatns, Zhong said the airle sisted urt that those reprented personal opns, not a rporate posn.

Chai remembered tim when workers mocked more effemate gay flight attendants at Cha Southern – he said he stayed quiet to avoid unwanted attentn. After he was outed by the vio, he said many fellow gay employe retreated further back to the closet for fear of beg targets themselv.