Pop culture helps change mds on gay rights | The Seattle Tim

Contents:

• POP CULTURE HELPS CHANGE MDS ON GAY RIGHTS
• MOVG TO LGBTQ SEATTLE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• SEATTLE GAY BARS
• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• GAY-RIGHTS BILL FALLS 1 VOTE SHORT OF BEG STATE LAW
• GAY-RIGHTS ADVOT NOW TURN FOC TO EMPLOYMENT, HOG

POP CULTURE HELPS CHANGE MDS ON GAY RIGHTS

The Seattle Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) Commissn advis the Mayor, Cy Council and Cy partments about issu of ncern affectg the LGBTQ muny. “A group of naked men participated the Seattle Gay Pri para – exposg themselv to small children along the para route, ” said nservative rad host Todd Starn a post. Stg among rabow flags and handma signs clarg such thgs as “God ma me gay” outsi the Seattle Pacific Universy print’s office last week, Jo Snlan scribed a moment om a psychoblogy of women urse at the private Christian profsor had explaed that sex and genr were not the same, said Snlan, 32, an had been no talk of beg transgenr or tersex, Snlan relled to the group of current LGBTQ+ stunts.

But the school is certaly not alone the one-third of US Christian lleg and universi have bans on such thgs as “homosexual acts” or “homosexual behavr”, acrdg to a 2019 study published Soclogil Spectm. The higher tn associatn Council for Christian Colleg & Universi clus more than 140 schools around the world that have agreed to support such polici as “timate sexual relatns … are tend for persons a marriage between one man and one woman” polici n exist thanks to relig exemptns unr Tle IX, the feral tn law barrg discrimatn based on sex, and Tle VII, the law prohibg employment discrimatn based on sex, among other thgs, explaed Evan Gerstmann, a polil science profsor at Loyola Marymount a third of US Christian lleg and universi have bans on such thgs as ‘homosexual acts’, acrdg to a 2019 study.

MOVG TO LGBTQ SEATTLE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Taped on the wall was a list of “hoe l”, cludg “Be clean, be safe, be kd, and be gay”. “By refg to remove this policy, is discrimatory and is homophobic, but also jt really puts our universy jeopardy, ” said Guillot, who is studyg Christian theology and social jtice and cultural Guillot, who is Christian and non-bary, said went beyond that.

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When she learned a relative was gay, Amy Mirow embraced the ia, ed as a teachg moment for her children and explaed how also would be OK if one of them were gay. “A year later, ‘Morn Fay’ premiered, ” she said of the h show featurg a gay uple, “and changed my visn.

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Today, gays and lbians are the folks next door, brought to the natn’s livg rooms through the force of popular culture. Popular culture is a key to the broad and rapid shift the natn’s polics as the untry has turned rapidly om long opposn to gay rights toward support for gays, cludg same-sex marriage, acceptance of a gay child and willgns to vote for a gay polician. In ic books, Archie, the red-haired eckle-faced perennial teenager, was killed last year while protectg a gay iend.

DC Comics troduced a gay Green Lantern two years ago. There are 33 recurrg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr characters on prime-time shows and 64 on scripted prime-time ble-televisn programs the 2014-15 season, up om 42 2013-14, acrdg to GLAAD, a gay-rights group. Jerry Falwell rid the children’s TV show “Teletubbi” bee “Tky Wky, ” a purple character who rried a red handbag and had a triangular-shape antennae on his head, appeared to be gay.

GAY PRI CALENDAR

The portrayals of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people popular culture and the portrayals of people who love them, Takei said an terview, have “ntributed to changg Amerin society.

I thk ‘Will & Grace’ probably did more to te the Amerin public than almost anythg anybody’s ever done so far, ” Bin said on NBC’s “Meet the Prs, ” referrg to the NBC s that centered on the iendship between roommat Will Tman, a gay lawyer, and Grace Adler, a straight terr signer. The middle class has been gradually embracg homosexualy, Hubbs said, and “when celebry artists e out, ntribut to the softeng of the boundari and eventually n turn to a cril mass.

• Thirty-four percent of rponnts said seeg gays and lbians on televisn and 29 percent said seeg them movi helped change their views, acrdg to a 2008 poll nducted for GLAAD by Harris Interactive. When Mirow’s son Ben, now 22, me out, she quickly learned ’s one thg to tellectually accept homosexualy and another to e to grips wh emotnally when volv a member of your immediate fay.

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“Here’s this gay uple wh this big extend fay that, for the most part, is very supportive; wh -workers and jobs wh no issu to speak of, ” Mirow said of “Morn Fay”.

GAY-RIGHTS BILL FALLS 1 VOTE SHORT OF BEG STATE LAW

” Her search for unrstandg led her to jo the support group PFLAG, Parents, Fay and Friends of Lbians and Gays. ABC’s mil drama “Nashville” highlights untry mic’s ristance to gays wh a storyle volvg a closeted untry sger who marri a woman to keep his secret. Some LGBT-rights activists also pla that the change popular culture has homogenized portrayals of gays and lbians for the benef of heterosexual dienc and pats an plete picture of their liv.

Suzanna Danuta Walters, director of women’s, genr and sexualy studi at Northeastern Universy, said “Morn Fay’s” gay characters “offer a narrow slice of gay life: two wealthy whe men, who never touch each other.

“There are people on the gay left who eply regret the trend toward assiatn and sexualizatn, ” said Pl Robson, an emer Stanford Universy history profsor and thor of “Queer Wars: The New Gay Rights and s Crics. “There’s an argument wh the gay muny between those who support assiatn — gettg married and jog the ary — and those who thk gays should be part of an alliance wh women, poor people, people of lor.

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