Post-World War II, there was somethg seen as even worse than beg a munist U.S. polics: beg gay. We discs how liv and reers were lost through s of bipartisan homophobia.
Contents:
- AS AN OPENLY GAY PRO SPORTS EXECUTIVE, RICK WELTS, ’75, IS FALLY LIVG HIS TTH
- RICHARD GRENELL NOW HIGHT-RANKG OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL US ERNMENT HISTORY
- A GAY DC POWER COUPLE IS REMAKG A WT VIRGIA TOWN. NOT EVERYONE IS HAPPY ABOUT IT.
- WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
- SPOKANE’S GAYS SEEK OWN DISTRICT
- RICK GAY
- AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE
- A HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON THAT LETS HOMOPHOBIA STEAL THE SPOTLIGHT
- IN 'SECRET CY,' THOR JAM KIRCHICK TRAC THE UNKNOWN HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON
- JAM KIRCHICK EXPLOR DC’S GAY HISTORY AN AMB NEW BOOK
- GAY, BLACK TRACK ATHLETE HAD CHARACTER AND ROLVE TTED AT UNIVERSY OF WASHGTON
AS AN OPENLY GAY PRO SPORTS EXECUTIVE, RICK WELTS, ’75, IS FALLY LIVG HIS TTH
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Welts, the print and CEO of the Natnal Basketball Ball Associatn’s Phoenix Suns, May beme the send person men’s profsnal basketball history to e out openly as a gay man. NBA Commissner David Stern disclosed a New York Tim terview that he had known for years that Welts was gay but felt he uldn’t acknowledge .
RICHARD GRENELL NOW HIGHT-RANKG OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL US ERNMENT HISTORY
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Welts’ lleagu profsnal basketball have been supportive, and many have said they are happy that he fally was able to talk openly about beg gay. Phoenix Suns CEO Rick Welts, ’75, who May beme the first profsnal sports team executive to e out as gay, is jt the latt a le of high-profile UW alumni who have had the urage to do so. Last December — jt hours before his boss was impeached by the Hoe of Reprentativ — Grenell led the Uned Natns nmng 69 untri that still outlaw homosexualy.
“I want them to unrstand that you nnot put someone jail or kill someone simply for beg gay, ” Grenell told the assembled reprentativ, some om natns where LGBTQ people are targeted. It might sound rather formidable, here a sleepy farm town wh a church for every 50 rints: a duo who until recently were one of DC’s leadg gay polil power upl, turng a ep-red rner of Appalachia to a mag for weekendg Washgtonians? The two met DC the mid-’90s when Hchck was workg for the founr of the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund and Yandura was ascendg the Clton Whe Hoe.
A GAY DC POWER COUPLE IS REMAKG A WT VIRGIA TOWN. NOT EVERYONE IS HAPPY ABOUT IT.
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He later beme the gay-and-lbian outreach director for the Print’s ’96 reelectn mpaign, then raised lns om the LGBT muny for the Democratic Party.
Yandura (left) and Hchck met via Democratic circl the the time, Yandura was workg the Clton Whe went on to bee some of the party's most powerful gay operativ.
But the more entrenched he got the party, the sicker he felt about “verg the ass” of ndidat who took money om gay supporters whout standg up for them. In 2006, he fired off an e-mail to major gay donors implorg them to close their wallets until the Democratic Natnal Commtee started phg for their rights.
WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
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In 2015, Jonathan Lewis—heir to the Progrsive Insurance fortune, a major donor to gay-rights , and a longtime iend of Yandura’s who fund GetEqual—bought land for the project.
“Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, " by Jam Kirchick, is a 654-page tome that took years of rearch and an exhstive vtigatn to printial archiv, historil terviews and once-classified ernment rerds. “I realized that all the stori I was readg, and the personali and phenomena, whether was McCarthyism or the Reagans, FDR or JFK, that there were the gay stori lurkg the background, ” Kirchick said.
Those stori lurked the background out of necsy: The st of g out as gay — or, more likely, beg outed agast one’s will — was enormo profsnally and socially.
SPOKANE’S GAYS SEEK OWN DISTRICT
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“It was the specter of homosexualy that provoked the first and only suici by a member of Congrs his Capol Hill office, ed Lyndon Johnson to et that his historil lead would evaporate, and seized the paranoid md of Richard Nixon send only to the plots of his ever-expandg enemi list, ” Kirchick wr.
RICK GAY
” Rumors of homosexualy were tastrophic to those who were acced of , but Kirchick also asks the rear to nsir the broar human and societal impact of such wch hunts on gay Amerins workg ernment. “To asss the full sle of the damage that the fear of homosexualy wrought on the Amerin polil landspe, one mt take to acunt not only the reers ed and the liv cut short, but somethg vaster and unquantifiable: the possibili thwarted, ” Kirchick wr.
AS SEATTLE’S GAYBORHOOD MIGRAT, CAPOL HILL QUEER BARS FIGHT TO REMA A REFUGE
Although openly LGBTQ people have ma their way to the hight ranks of ernment today, was not long ago that spected homosexuals workg for the feral ernment were hunted down, publicly huiated and termated wh the full force of the ernment.
A HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON THAT LETS HOMOPHOBIA STEAL THE SPOTLIGHT
There were whispers that Reagan was possibly participatg “homosexual nduct, ” and some Republins saw Reagan’s potential nomatn as a “danger to the Republin Party and the untry.
IN 'SECRET CY,' THOR JAM KIRCHICK TRAC THE UNKNOWN HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON
The possibily that Kemp uld jo the ticket was evince that there was a “homosexual rg” around Reagan and that he was “the ventriloquized pawn of shadowy and sister forc, ” Kirchick wr. When a ngrsman later asked Reagan’s munitns ai about the loss of the nomatn for Kemp, he reportedly said, “It was that homosexual thg, ” Kirchick wr.
“Secret Cy” ends wh the princy of Bill Clton, who said a mpaign speech ont of a largely gay dience Los Angel 1992, “I have a visn, and you are a part of . ” Wh those words, Clton would do somethg that would have seemed unfathomable to most, if not all, of his precsors: make an explic appeal to gay Amerins for their support a printial electn.
Rick Peterson, a gay man and a former -print of the Feratn of Gay Gam, died Augt 15 after he was pulled om the water while swimmg Lake Washgton Seattle.
JAM KIRCHICK EXPLOR DC’S GAY HISTORY AN AMB NEW BOOK
When the AIDS epimic started, the unty health partment reced him, explaed Wood, a gay man, who mostly had seen gay patients at his private practice.
GAY, BLACK TRACK ATHLETE HAD CHARACTER AND ROLVE TTED AT UNIVERSY OF WASHGTON
"Rick was stmental drivg the efforts to crease mercial sponsorship fundg for the Gay Gam 11 Hong Kong, given the lack of fancial support om the ernment there, " Wtig, director of fundraisg for the event, wrote an email. "This rulted gettg prolific sponsors such as Marrtt Bonvoy, Google YouTube, Lululemon, Standard Chartered, and Gilead behd the ia that the world of LGBTQ+ people n ntue to be changed for the better, also new regns like Asia, through the sports and arts programs of the Gay Gam sce s first edn San Francis 1982.