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WORLD''S FIRST TWO GAY GUYS
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Norm wasn’t a gay guy, he was a DEEPLY CLOSETED gay guy. Macdonald’s edy had recurrg stras of seemg misogyny and homophobia that ma you wonr whether was what he actually thought. I asked him about this once and he said, and I’m paraphrasg some saltier wordg, that if you believed he meant his jok about women and gay men then you were a dimw — and if he did mean them, then he was a dimw and th irrelevant.
As ltered wh a tly shockg brand of misogyny and homophobia as his songs uld be, they were also ventive how they took the vlent fantasi of subgenr like gangster rap and transformed them to mic lan wh vulnerabily about Simmons’s own spirual travails and mental-health stggl. Or when she spoke at lbian and gay rights ralli or jumped on the classroom table to get her stunts’ attentn at San Francis State Universy, where she was a profsor of munitns, the first open lbian hired there a tenure-track posn.
In 1978, she helped change history when she and Harvey Milk, a San Francis cy supervisor, led a mpaign agast the Briggs Iniative, a state bill that aimed to ban gay men and lbians om teachg public schools. Soon thereafter, Hormel me out to his fay members as gay.
WORLD'S FIRST TWO GAY GUYS
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He beme a philanthropist, wh a specific foc on gay equaly and rights, givg more than $15 ln to L. Over his life and tablishg himself as one of the most genero gay donors U.
“The early ’90s were still a time when we’d e out to iends and fay and were often met wh rejectn, ” says Kari Hong, who me out as gay her first year at Swarthmore and is now an immigratn attorney. Hormel was poised to be Ameri’s first openly gay ambassador, and Senate Republins objected to his nomatn not bee of his lack of foreign-policy experience — awardg ambassadorships to polil ntributors was a bipartisan practice — but bee of his sexualy. Hormel, Senator Jam Inhofe of Oklahoma warned, was “a gay activist who puts his agenda ahead of the agenda of Ameri.
Sudnly, the issue of who served a sleepy ambassadorship was transformed to an important stggle over gay rights. Swarthmore stunts to attend a chary gala for a Philalphia gay-rights group. “We liked to joke that when I was a sophomore, ” Araque says, “Jam was a senr.