It’s an old stereotype: the gay terr signer. Ltle data exists regardg how many gay men are out the sign dtry around the world, but ’s whout a doubt a iendlier dtry than, say, profsnal sports. On the ocsn of World Pri month, Interr Dign reached out to gay sign profsnals around the physil and virtual worlds to get a sense of where thgs stand today, om Tulsa to Turkey.
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- A WORLD OF PRI: GAY DIGNERS TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE AND CHALLENG
- I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
A WORLD OF PRI: GAY DIGNERS TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE AND CHALLENG
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For years, swaths of the dtry were assigned the public nscns to gay men. Ially, this rerd will Pri Month begs, 's enlighteng to look back, so that all of —gay, straight, bi, trans, nonbary, qutng—have a better unrstandg not jt of the past but of where we are today.
Via Getty Imag1846: The buildg that would bee the Stonewall Inn, flashpot of the morn gay rights movement, ris New York Cy as a pair of stabl. The space will bee a rtrant 1934, a gay bar 1967, the se of gay-rights rts 1969, and a natnal landmark 2016. 1888: Ralph Adams Cram, the foremost Gothic revivalist who is now believed to have been gay, acrdg to thor Douglas Shand-Tucci Boston Bohemia, 1881–1900: Ralph Adams Cram: Life and Archecture, among others, opens an archecture office.
I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
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1970: Graphic signer Tom Doerr troduc the Greek lambda to reprent the gay liberatn movement—the first wily accepted LGBT symbol.
1970s: The brgs the rise of gay neighborhoods.