It don't list any effects like other backgrounds character creatn so is jt for flavor or do have any game effects? Specifilly is necsary to select the homosexual background orr to be able to e gay dialogue optns/flirtg, also will lock straight dialogue optns/flirtg?
Contents:
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
- MASKED BALLS AND GAY UPRISGS: QUEER MAPS IS A GUI TO 150 YEARS OF LGBTQ HISTORY
- GAYHAREM WIKI
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily. * masquerade gay *
By the mid-1920s, at the height of the Prohibn era, they were attractg as many as 7, 000 people of var rac and social class—gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and straight alike. Stonewall (1969) is often nsired the begng of forward progrs the gay rights movement.
MASKED BALLS AND GAY UPRISGS: QUEER MAPS IS A GUI TO 150 YEARS OF LGBTQ HISTORY
The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center hosted s annual MASQ ball durg NYFW wh Benny Drama, MaryV Beno and Chella Man among the well-drsed crowd. * masquerade gay *
The Begngs of a New Gay World“In the late 19th century, there was an creasgly visible prence of genr-non-nformg men who were engaged sexual relatnships wh other men major Amerin ci, ” says Chad Heap, a profsor of Amerin Studi at Gee Washgton Universy and the thor of Slummg: Sexual and Racial Enunters Amerin Nightlife, 1885-1940.
By the 1920s, gay men had tablished a prence Harlem and the bohemian mec of Greenwich Village (as well as the seedier environs of Tim Square), and the cy’s first lbian enclav had appeared Harlem and the Village.
GAYHAREM WIKI
Each gay enclave, wrote Gee Chncey his book Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, had a different class and ethnic character, cultural style and public reputatn. Gay Life the Jazz AgeAs the Uned Stat entered an era of unprecented enomic growth and prospery the years after World War I, cultural mor loosened and a new spir of sexual eedom reigned. Though New York Cy may have been the epicenter of the so-lled "Pansy Craze, " gay, lbian and transgenr performers graced the stag of nightspots ci all over the untry.
”At the same time, lbian and gay characters were beg featured a slew of popular “pulp” novels, songs and on Broadway stag (cludg the ntroversial 1926 play The Captive) and Hollywood—at least prr to 1934, when the motn picture dtry began enforcg censorship guil, known as the Hays Co. ” The sale of liquor was legal aga, but newly enforced laws and regulatns prohibed rtrants and bars om hirg gay employe or even servg gay patrons. In the mid- to late ‘30s, Heap pots out, a wave of sensatnalized sex crim “provoked hysteria about sex crimals, who were often— the md of the public and the md of thori—equated wh gay men.
” This not only disuraged gay men om participatg public life, but also “ma homosexualy seem more dangero to the average Amerin.