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- GAY LA: BT GAY POWER PARTI
- ANOTHER GAY PARTY LE : A QUIET REVOLUTN: A BACKLASH TO STRINT ACTIVISM OF THE ‘80S HAS CREATED A SMALL ARMY OF GAYS WHO JT WANT TO BE ORDARY AMERINS
- 52 ESSENTIAL GAY BARS AND NIGHTS AROUND LOS ANGEL
- WHERE TO HAVE A GAY OL' TIME LOS ANGEL: A NIGHTLIFE GUI
- THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
- THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
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One Saturday last sprg, the same day that marked the kickoff of Wt Hollywood's annual Gay and Lbian Pri Celebratn, a small group of nservative Republin activists got together for an al fund-raisg bnch a Hollywood Hills home. * gay party line los angeles *
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When I go around the untry speakg to groups, I hear people say, ‘I’ve always been volved gay polics but I’ve had wh listeng to someone talk about savg the whal or the spotted owl. ”Several of the bnch guts were schled later the day to man the Log Cab booth at the Gay Pri ftival, where the prence of gay Republins would provoke as much shock as would at an Amerin Legn nventn.
After 25 years of a tumultuo, often anguished, stggle for eedom, self-teem and civil rights that began wh a rt at Stonewall Inn, the celebrated gay bar Greenwich Village, some gay and lbian Amerins are marchg off unexpected directns, while others are clg to march at all.
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One of the most trigug bat volv homosexuals who have no tert anized polics, eher of the right or the left, and who want to live unexceptnal liv mastream Amerin society. Behd the rhetoric of the nascent nservative movement li a mon ncern that, far om beg new, or unique to the gay muny, is as old as human longg: Where do I belong the world, where n I fd my te home?
“Logilly speakg, ” says Colbert, the TV producer who is also print of Log Cab’s Los Angel chapter, “gays and lbians should be Republins, given the basic tes of the party: right to privacy, personal eedom. But gays, along wh those who favor abortn rights, are now targets of ceasels opportuny for extremists Virgia--where Oliver North, wh support om the radil right, has won the Republin nomatn for the Senate--and six or more other stat, cludg Mnota, where nservative Christians have taken ntrol of GOP party Los Angel, gay Republins got a harsh lson Realpolik last sprg when the executive director of the California Republin Party, Bob Carpenter, and his wife, Pat Giarda-Carpenter, the state party’s fance director, attend a Log Cab membership meetg at Luna Park Wt Hollywood. A morn Republin the style of the late Lee Atwater, who envisned the party as a big, hospable tent, Carpenter gave a speech which he scribed some right-wg Republin extremists as “probably the most tolerant people” he had ever spent time than a month later, after the speech had been ially reported the weekly San Diego newspaper Gay and Lbian Tim, Carpenter and his wife found themselv unemployed.
“I went through every number there was to look at after we lost that race, ” Carrick says, “and I’ll bet you Dianne mt have gotten at least 80% of the gay and lbian vote down here Wt Hollywood. “I gus Wilson may have done better outsi the urban centers, but that’s only bee there are small enclav of affluent gay and lbian voters plac like Laguna, Santa Barbara or Palm Sprgs.
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As equaly and acceptance for the LGBTQ muny slowly be the norm across the natn, a betiful by-product has emerged: There are more plac than ever for people of all sexual preferenc to e together and party. Here L.A., queer nightlife has long been a primary source for joyful revelry and creative exprsn, and promoters and owners alike keep evolvg, growg and "(gay)me-changg" beyond social stereotyp, wh new hot spots new parts of town. * gay party line los angeles *
When rponnts were asked 1992 about their polil iology a natnal poll, 11% of gay men and 12% of lbians scribed themselv as nservativ; California that year, the percentag were 12 and 8. Colbert’s other belief, which ronat wh the tle of Bce Bawer’s book, holds that grass-roots activism giv gay Republins a chance to show other Republins who they really are.
He meets secretly wh closeted gay Republin staffers on Capol Hill who give him tactil tips, and on the road wh straight policians who want to support gay but not public. “As I walk through the room at fund-raisers Washgton now I spl the group to two mps, and the sad thg is a lot of people on the si that mov away om me are closeted gays. Several phone lls on the subject to the office of Hoe Mory Whip Newt Ggrich of Geia went unreturned, and when a reporter stck up a nversatn wh Senate Mory Lear Bob Dole as Dole walked om the Senate chamber to his office, the Kansas senator was glad to make small talk about baseball--”the Red Sox are playg tonight, you know, Gee Mchell’s favore team”--but he seemed to blanch at the prospect of talkg about gays and the GOP; his rponse was to turn the reporter over to his prs secretary, who never lled the other hand, Barney Frank, the gay Democratic ngrsman om Massachetts, was characteristilly outspoken his nvictn that nservative gays are barkg up the wrong tree.
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And Los Angel, Tafel advised the mpaign staff of Richard Rrdan on the lite bs of takg gay vot away om the Democratic mayoral rival, Michael Woo, whout losg Rrdan’s own nservative base.
Another change was signaled recently by the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the untry’s largt gay anizatn (whose membership of 85, 000, as opposed to the ln or more members of the Christian Coaln, suggts not how many but how few homosexuals belong to polil actn groups). In June, the fund released a list of 71 senators who had signed a statement that they do not discrimate agast gay people the “hirg, promotg, or termatg of employe their Senate offic. Simpson of Wyomg, Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and Thad Cochran of Mississippi, and Geia Democrat Sam Nunn, who had fired two gay staff people over a fund released a siar list of 234 members of the Hoe--also a majory--last Febary.
Print Clton, a Valente’s Day letter to the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund, said: “Those who would legalize discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the valu that make our natn strong. The Print’s letter was dismissed by some the gay muny as damage ntrol after he failed to liver on his mpaign promise of endg discrimatn agast homosexuals the ary. ), wh about 30 -sponsors the Senate and more than 100 -sponsors the THE SHORT TIME THAT gays and lbians have participated openly nservative polics, no one has monstrated the hop and nfns of this posn more dramatilly than Marv Liebman.