The Whe Hoe announced on July 21 that Print Bin has nomated gay Whe Hoe Special Assistant Jefey Marootian to bee Assistant U.S. Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, a posn that requir nfirmatn by the U.S. Senate.
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CHARLIE GAY
"But the face of homophobia and transphobia, queer activists and policians are attemptg to shift the msage om one of hate to one of mattersBrton (who did not rpond to Yahoo Life's requt for ment) is not the first drag performer to have dispted 1961, José Sarria, a part-time drag queen, beme the first out gay ndidate to n for office the Uned Stat — 15 years before Harvey Milk, the first out gay man to be elected to public office California, beme a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977. "I thk the right-wg attacks are gross and rooted homophobia, " Cummgs tells Yahoo Life of Brton's crics.
GAY WHE HOE STAFFER NOMATED FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF ENERGY
The observance featured remarks om Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm; Colette Brosard, a lear om the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (GLOBE) Employe and Alli ERG; and Michael Kopalek, Actg Print of GLOBE. Both Joseph Nilosi, a licensed therapist and nversn therapy advote who is the founr of the Retegrative Therapy Associatn, and Wayne Ben, an LGBTQ activist and opponent of nversn therapy who is the founr of Tth Ws Out, an anizatn dited to fightg “anti-gay relig extremism, ” poted out the nsistenci Brton’s story of havg been a “survivor” of nversn therapy, and slammed the larger LGBTQ movement for not beg more skeptil of Brton’s claims.
However, he claims, left-wg policians and activists were more ncerned about advancg a “narrative” that nversn therapy is harmful to those subjected to , and embracg the ia that homosexualy is not a mental disorr — ntrary to what many social nservativ believe. “But ex-gay nversn therapy needs no sensatnalism, and Sam’s story, if tly fabrited or exaggerated, adds to that stctn by unrmg credible survivor stori. Charlie Gay is the former director of the U.
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