To some, Aniseto Herrera-Lyell is a fourth-gra teacher. To others, he's KC Sunshe, a performer known for his Michael Jackson impersonatn. But to the whole untry, he's Mr. Gay Ameri 2022. Herrera-Lyell won the tle October.
Contents:
- GAY SUNSHE
- GAY SUNSHE: ITEMS OM THE PRIVATE LLECTN OF WSTON LEYLAND
- KANSAS CY PERFORMER KC SUNSHE REFLECTS ON 'DREAM E TE' YEAR AS MR. GAY AMERI 2022
- WAS KC OM THE SUNSHE BAND GAY?
GAY SUNSHE
* sunshine is gay *
Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.
GAY SUNSHE: ITEMS OM THE PRIVATE LLECTN OF WSTON LEYLAND
Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".
Gay Sunshe was a radil unrground newspaper om Berkeley, created for the gay muny as an alternative to the more nservative gay prs, like SIR’s magaze Vector and to the existg unrground prs Berkeley, like the Berkeley Barb and the Berkeley Tribe, which did ver many gay issu, but wasn’t created for the muny. However, the goal of Gay Sunshe was the explore the tersectg radil polics of the Bay Area, not to be a sgle issue newspaper like past nservative gay publitns. Nick Benton, “Who Needs It?, ” Gay Sunshe, Augt-September 1970.
KANSAS CY PERFORMER KC SUNSHE REFLECTS ON 'DREAM E TE' YEAR AS MR. GAY AMERI 2022
What is need is a newspaper that will reprent those who unrstand themselv as opprsed— polilly opprsed by an opprsor that not only is down on homosexualy, but equally down on all thgs that are not whe, straight, middle class, pro-tablishment… It should harken to a greater e— the e of human liberatn, of which homosexual liberatn is jt one aspect—and on that level ma s stand.
An article wrten by Konstant Berlandt Gay Sunshe om September 1970, “Fly Oakland, ” monstrat the growg ti of Gay radils the East Bay rejectg the gay nightlife scene San Francis and turng towards lol bars.
Berlandt reviews gay bars Oakland, and the one, The Whe Horse, Berkeley. Konstant Berlandt, “Fly Oakland, ” Gay Sunshe, Augt-September 1970. (1) Nick Benton, “Who Needs It?, ” Gay Sunshe, Augt-September 1970.
WAS KC OM THE SUNSHE BAND GAY?
In 1980, Allen Gsburg wrote a letter to the Gay Sunshe Journal, praisg ‘s prentatn of lerary history hherto kept the closet by the ami. ’ Established Augt 1970 Berkeley, California, Gay Sunshe began life as a tabloid reportg on the gay liberatn movement that gaed momentum Ameri after the Stonewall uprisgs of 1969. When the llective which ran the publitn disband 1971, was taken over by Wston Leyland, a wrer, edor and former Catholic prit who had joed Gay Sunshe early on s ceptn.
Unr Leyland’s edorship, the publitn began to clu more gay lerary ntent and, 1973, moved to San Francis and rebrand as the Gay Sunshe Journal, providg a platform for the work of gay artists and wrers. In 1975, Leyland’s operatn branched out to book publishg, foundg the Gay Sunshe Prs as a not-for-prof enterprise, publishg publishg anthologi of homoerotic poetry and translatns of gay lerature om other cultur. The prolific output of Leyland’s publishg ventur has renred him one of the most fluential and active figur gay publishg and, 1980, he won the Stonewall Book Award for his work as edor of Now the Volno: An Anthology of Lat Amerin Gay Lerature.
Hherto unknown wrers, both om the ntemporary Amerin ntext of the liberatn movement and wrers om diverse cultur, languag and historil perds (llected anthologi eded by Leyland), were given voice through Gay Sunshe, exposg challengg, sensual and eply betiful gay wrg, often for the first time. This selectn of rari, the highlights om a llectn of 35 ems om Leyland’s private library, appears plete wh several unpublished letters and Leyland’s own pi of books published by the Gay Sunshe Prs, the hardback and luxe issu, most of which went to librari and are nsequently very srce. Addnal works by Gore Vidal, Tennsee Williams and Allen Gsberg, signed and some s bearg personal scriptns to Leyland, are reprented alongsi several anthologi of terviews, poems and letters which monstrate the pneerg project of the Gay Sunshe Prs.