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Contents:
- HOW BEA ARTHUR GAVE BACK TO THE GAYS WHO LOVED HER
- GAY HOMELS YOUTH AND THEIR LIV ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CY
HOW BEA ARTHUR GAVE BACK TO THE GAYS WHO LOVED HER
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Aged 65 or olr intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. The guts were by and large gay men — closeted, as most were back then — who were drawn to Arthur, like moths to a porch light.
“They were always exced to e to her hoe, ” says Matthew, now 55, of his mother’s many gay nfidant. Arthur, who died of ncer 2009 at age 86, occupi a sgular space amid the pantheon of gay ins: Neher preeng show diva nor pill-poppg wreck, she was stead a pillar of liberal-md fortu, always at the ready to do battle wh the Archie Bunkers of the world.
All of this held nsirable sway over the emergg gay-rights movement. Fully aware of the appeal she held over her gay fans, Arthur cid to give somethg back, and left an endowment to the Ali Forney Center, an anizatn for homels LGBT youth New York Cy.
GAY HOMELS YOUTH AND THEIR LIV ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CY
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The mostly-gay crowd very nearly flew to a enzy, “phg toward her, grabbg at her, eager for face time wh the great legend. ) “It seemed like all her chari were mostly about nocents — eher kids or animals or gay or lbian teens, who have a bigger fight than anybody n image, ” Saks says. Don’t let the gff fa fool you: Arthur was a softy through and through, as evinced by the Bea Arthur Rince for LGBT Youth — an honor, among gay ins, sure, but Saks puts thgs perspective.
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Absolutely the bt gay themed movie I've seen sce Brokeback Mounta and some ways surpass that movie. How rehg to see a film that als wh gay characters and none of them have a disease or are all about sex. Not that there's anythg wrong wh that but 's about time we see more movi that reprent the ENTIRE spectm of the gay muny.
The suatns here were two leads had actual chemistry and there was an overall realism to that we've rarely seen on screen wh gay characters. Wele to Try Place Shelter, where our missn is to help homels lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer (LGBTQ*) youth and young adults New York Cy to safely transn out of the shelter system and grow to pennt, posive, and productive adults. KIEV, Ukrae — In a four-bedroom apartment found among a row of typil Eastern bloc-styled buildgs one of Kiev’s sleepg districts, a group of strangers om around Ukrae is makg a h start a place they now nsir ll their newly acquired rince “The Shelter, ” a safe space where they are ee to be themselv — a mix of ag, backgrounds and genrs ngregatg unr one roof, bee their sexual orientatn left them wh nowhere else to Lvov, 22, has been at The Shelter Kiev on and off sce January of this Yanovska“I’ve known I was gay sce I was a child, ” said Nik Lvov, 22, who has been at The Shelter on and off sce January of this year.
“They know that I’m gay and don’t accept me. ”While was one of the first post-Soviet untri to crimalize sex between two men — a move taken to rid the stigma preventg those wh HIV om seekg medil aid — Ukrae today lacks the legal tools and legislative reforms for LGBTQ people to live openly society whout fear of 2016, there were 276 documented s of vlent and discrimatory acts of homophobia and transphobia, as stated by Nash Mir, one of the few anizatns trackg hate crim agast the Ukraian LGBTQ muny.