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Contents:

• LGBT LATO ARTISTS THREATENED AFTER SAN FRANCIS'S GAY CHOLO CHINO MURAL DEFACED
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO
• IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

LGBT LATO ARTISTS THREATENED AFTER SAN FRANCIS'S GAY CHOLO CHINO MURAL DEFACED

Every year, June is celebrated as LGBT Pri Month to honor the 1969 Stonewall Rts New York Cy that set off the gay rights movement the Uned Stat.

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'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Outft and the Lbian and Gay Film Ftivals New York, San Francis, Seattle and Toronto. Standard crime thriller terrory, you might thk, but for the fact that Angel and Nene are gay lovers known as the ‘tws” and Cuervo brgs his own sexual tensy along wh his hottie girliend Vivi, and BTW all of this is based on a te story. The mural, which evok classic cholo culture but featur a gay male uple, a lbian uple, a trans man, and the words "Por Vida" ("for life"), is loted on 24th Street the Missn District, an area recently signated the Calle 24 Lato Cultural District.

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"I say this wh no tent of 'homophobia' or 'cyber attackg' as you stated on your webse. "It's hard to be gay and lbian and still be this Chino culture, " says Pl. " Judgg by the heated discsn onle among those upset by the mural's existence, Rivera says Por Vida seems to have stck a nerve for people who fe cholo culture as "hard" and "macho" -- and never "gay.

LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO

" While stg outsi the gallery as the mural was first beg stalled, Rivera says she wnsed a variety of reactns, but most of the negative ments were directed at the gay uple picted. A., and for the first time the cy’s history predomantly gay and straight Chino youth flood Hollywood’s dance floors. We beme fast iends, me out to each other, and started planng to transform our liv by visg a gay club we had heard about om a iend of a the journey om East Los Angel to Hollywood was a few short , to me seemed much further bee my fay never left the Eastsi, and I didn’t have a Friday eveng, feelg bold, I left my fay, who were watchg TV the livg room.

As I looked around, I noted how, the midst of all of downtown’s activy, this rner gave off s own gay vibe.

On one si of the tersectn was the notor gay cisg ground of Pershg Square, and on Fifth Street there was a bookstore where you uld peek at magaz like Physique Pictorial and After Dark.

IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

Here we vad the quiet world of mastream gay whe culture. There were no rabow flags or other obv ditors of a gay space.

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