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Contents:
- ROCK HUDSON'S 'TE LOVE' SPEAKS: HOW WE KEPT OUR GAY LIFE SECRET
- STT D. PIERCE: ROCK HUDSON WAS A GAY IN, BUT HE WAS NO HERO
- CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- GAYT PLAC IN NEW YORK FOR 2020
- UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
ROCK HUDSON'S 'TE LOVE' SPEAKS: HOW WE KEPT OUR GAY LIFE SECRET
Rock Hudson remas a gay in, but he most fely was not a heroic figure. Whatever good he did for the gay muny was spe of his actns, not bee of them. And some of his actns put the liv of other people at risk. * hudson gay community *
Party wh Willam, Amanda Blair, Essa Noche, Matthew Camp, John Daniels, Dt Svm & more at our annual Gay Pri Night.... Some velopments are universal, such as the advent of social workg s, to which he attribut the disappearance of gay bars and gay bookstor the regn. Other chang, such as the diversifitn of the LGBTQ+ muny, are unique and have even been fostered by Big Gay Hudson Valley.
“I thk for too long people have gotten ed to gay and lbian events only beg nightlife events that happen a bar, ” Hengst says, “and there’s a lot more muny that exists outsi the nf of a bar.
“We have a Catholic church here that is adamantly agast gay people, but half my iends attend .
STT D. PIERCE: ROCK HUDSON WAS A GAY IN, BUT HE WAS NO HERO
Big Gay Hudson Valley also ramps up s programmg for Pri Month, most notably wh s Queen Cy Pri Communy Piic at Loct Grove Poughkeepsie.
Big Gay Hudson Valley’s events are signed to foster a muny that is open and clive for everyone. “Big Gay Hudson Valley gave a voice to a lot of people who didn’t que know where to channel the posive change they wanted to make happen, ” he explas.
CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
Of urse, the social landspe for LGBTQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenred, and Qutng) dividuals changed forever when same-sex marriage was legalized New York State last year. But there has long been a vibrant gay life the Valley, and is fally g out om unr the “gaydar.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
” Here, we prent snapshots of some of the regn’s diverse LGBTQ members, take a look at var aspects of gay life (om socializg to school), and lve to some of the most prsg issu — cludg bullyg — facg this growg muny.
GAYT PLAC IN NEW YORK FOR 2020
It’s a problem for many fay typ, not jt gay upl, bee some children are raised by their grandparents, by multiple parents, and so on.
Dan, who is 42 and works for the state Supreme Court system, was about 19 when he fally admted to himself that he was gay, and then he me out to his parents. “They loved him as much as I did, ” says Hay, who not that the attu of the untry towards gays is creasgly more favorable.
UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
When the uple moved to Kgston after Wae’s retirement, Hay joed the group Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG). “In 2005, a lbian uple who had moved to the area iated plans for a gay pri march and ftival, ” he says.