'It’s hard beg a traveller and beg gay - don’t mix' - Manchter Eveng News

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• 'IT’S HARD BEG A TRAVELLER AND BEG GAY - DON’T MIX'DEAN, WHO GREW UP THE GYPSY MUNY, HAS TOLD HIS STORY OF A LIFE AS A GAY TRAVELLER TO ENURAGE OTHER LGBT PEOPLE THE GYPSY, TRAVELLER AND ROMA MUNI TO SPEAK OUTMENBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYBETH ABB07:00, 28 APR 2018BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWSIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S BIGGT STORI SENT DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S BIGGT STORI SENT DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• ‘MOST FAI FD SHAMEFUL’ – FDG PRI A MUNY WHERE BEG GAY IS TABOO
• GAY LIFE ROMANIA
• GAY LIFE A BTAL GYPSY HOME
• DECIVILISG GAYS AND GYPSI?

'IT’S HARD BEG A TRAVELLER AND BEG GAY - DON’T MIX'DEAN, WHO GREW UP THE GYPSY MUNY, HAS TOLD HIS STORY OF A LIFE AS A GAY TRAVELLER TO ENURAGE OTHER LGBT PEOPLE THE GYPSY, TRAVELLER AND ROMA MUNI TO SPEAK OUTMENBOOKMARKSHARENEWSBYBETH ABB07:00, 28 APR 2018BOOKMARKVIO LOADGVIO UNAVAILABLECLICK TO PLAYTAP TO PLAYTHE VIO WILL TO-PLAY SOON8CANCELPLAY NOWSIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S BIGGT STORI SENT DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER TO GET THE DAY'S BIGGT STORI SENT DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

“I knew I was gay om an extremely young age, I’ve never known anythg else, ” says Dean, om Greater Manchter, where the travellg muny is believed to be 15, 000 strong.

“Growg up everyone joked that I was gay so I know some people wouldn’t be surprised. “But no-one wants to be associated wh ‘gays’ the gypsy muny and the way people speak about would put anyone off g out - they aren’t supportive.

POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE

It aims to challenge homophobic attus and provi support for those who often feel they have nowhere to turn. The Traveller Movement say they have found that discsg LGBT issu is taboo travellg muni - and that homophobia is a very real but hidn problem. “If I were to e out today would only take one person to take a picture of me and put a ptn about me beg gay and would go around on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media – the news would travel fast, ” he says.

“Most of my fay thk I’m straight so I have to act as that person and not slip up about beg gay. ” The fay members Dean has told have accepted that he is gay - but there are lims to their acceptance.

“In this day and age the attus towards gay people are still bad but not as bad as they were five or 10 years ago, ” he says. The iative is the first of s kd the UK and aims to challenge homophobic attus towards Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people, as well as providg valuable rourc and support for LGBT Gypsi and Travellers who often feel they have “nowhere to turn”. We need to stop this taboo of ‘we n’t talk about relatnships, we n’t talk about beg gay, we n’t talk about problems we are havg’.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Over and over my head I did not want to be this way but realy beg gay is ok and no matter what you’re not the only one that is gay.... ”That may seem like a strg of nonsense words om Dr Sss’s The Cat the Hat or Anthony Burgs’s A Clockwork Orange but ’s a real-life greetg gay men the UK would say to each other the 1950s and 60s. To avoid imprisonment, gay men ed Polari, a language that the Oxford English Dictnary says is “ma up of Italianate phras, rhymg slang and nt terms.

The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy between 1933 and 1945.

It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power. It is important to note that not all of the men arrted and nvicted unr Paragraph 175 intified as gay.

‘MOST FAI FD SHAMEFUL’ – FDG PRI A MUNY WHERE BEG GAY IS TABOO

However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men. Gay men Germany were not a monolhic group, nor did the Nazi regime view them as such. For example, gay men active anti-Nazi polil movements risked beg arrted as polil opponents.

Already the mid- to late-neteenth century, there were ditns of nascent and growg gay muni Germany.

GAY LIFE ROMANIA

Among the terms were “gleichgchlechtlich” (“same-sex oriented”) and “homosexuell” (“homosexual”). The latter term dated to 1869, when a pamphlet advotg for crimalizatn of sexual relatns between men ed the term “Homosexualät” (“homosexualy”). The newer slang word “schwul” (often translated to English as “gay”) was also creasgly popular among certa groups.

Gay muni and works Germany ntued to grow and velop durg the Weimar Republic (1918–1933). In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach. It was the relatively eeg atmosphere of the Weimar Republic that gay muni and works grew and veloped unprecented ways.

GAY LIFE A BTAL GYPSY HOME

Some joed “iendship leagu” (Frndschaftsverbän), groups that polilly and socially anized gay men, lbian women, and others.

Gay men gathered together at meetg plac, such as bars, that tered to a gay clientele. Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works. They actively tried to build a sense of muny among gay men, and clud personal ads and rmatn about gay meetg plac.

DECIVILISG GAYS AND GYPSI?

Part of this nmnatn was a rejectn of the era’s open exprsns of sexualy, cludg the visibily of gay muni.