Gay Market News.

Contents:

• DOWNTOWN MAILBAG: NEW GAY STREET MARKET BRGG SODAS, SNACKS, SCRATCH-OFFS AND SMOK
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE
• GAYE MARKET
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• DOWNTOWN MAILBAG: NEW GAY STREET MARKET BRGG SODAS, SNACKS, SCRATCH-OFFS AND SMOK
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

DOWNTOWN MAILBAG: NEW GAY STREET MARKET BRGG SODAS, SNACKS, SCRATCH-OFFS AND SMOK

This week, our downtown Knoxville team answers:Is the Indian rtrant and nvenience store still openg on Gay Street? Convenience store, Indian rtrant g soon to Gay StreetI recently stopped by what's soon to be Ian's Market the 100 block of Gay Street and spoke wh -owner Keyur Patel.

He said the store uld open as soon as July 17 or Patel, -owner of the forthg Ian's Market the 100 block of Gay Street, pos for a portra as workers prepare the space for openg day.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

Gay St., will have a variety of typil nvenience store ems that clu:BeerChips and snacksCigarettCoffeeIce creamLottery ticketsSodaAn ATM also will be loted si, and Patel said ems will be available through third-party livery servic.

Gay St. The new space is roughly the same size as the Gay Street lotn, and we will be the foc.

However, a small spirs sectn will be for the lotn, Bergmeier said, many Gay Street ctomers e om their hom Happy Holler and Fourth & Gill to shop. Gay Market News.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

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He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. Alas, the future, make sure you ask about payment polici up ont to protect to Roxane Gay at Gay is an endowed profsor of media, culture and femist studi at Rutgers, the thor of the forthg “Opns” and a ntributg Opn wrer.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

More about Roxane GayA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn BU, Page 3 of the New York edn wh the headle: #MyBossMaMePostThisStupidJobListg. 6% of Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer, acrdg to a new Gallup report.

DOWNTOWN MAILBAG: NEW GAY STREET MARKET BRGG SODAS, SNACKS, SCRATCH-OFFS AND SMOK

Sce the dawn of the polilly-motivated “Dream Market” the 1990s, whe, affluent, gay mal uld expect to see themselv gay prt magaz and onle portals, natnal ad mpaigns the media, and, creasgly, mastream media, particularly televisn and news media, while advertisers left the rt of the LGBTQ+ populatn, cludg all people of lor, out the ld. The Ls, Bs, Ts, and Qs were expected to see themselv reprented by advertisg to whe gay mal and be thankful for the visibily. Alternately, marketers were unapologetilly pursug the gay male dollar and had ltle regard for the rt.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

Clarify advocy and reprentatn In recent years, some advertisers have shifted away om “reprentg” all LGBTQ+ nsumers wh imag of gay mal towards advertisg that highlights the stggl of transgenr dividuals. For s, the advertisg dtry has neglected female members of the LGBTQ+ populatn wh a bias towards gay mal; this even though femal are more likely than mal to intify as LGBTQ+. Dpe the fact that a greater number of lbian upl have children than do gay men, gay men actually tend to be more equently portrayed wh fai pared to lbian upl.

Acrdg to a recent Ipsos report, among the progrsg generatns, more LGBTQ+ people are choosg to intify as “fluid” rather than “non-fluid” (meang gay or lbian) as members of Gen-Z are far more likely than prev generatns to be plurisexual or attracted to more than one sex.

Early rearch the field datg back to Frd’s Inversn Theory 1910 scribed gay men and lbians as “sexual verts”—implyg that homosexualy was some sense the reversal of “normal” sex. Gay mal and lbians tend to hold no ls of their own-sex tras than do heterosexuals.