The activist and grandson of the Hollywood legend tails his first gay sexual experience his new memoir, A Tale of Two Omars. Read an exclive excerpt here.
Contents:
- NEIL GORSUCH IS THE ANTI-LGBTQ NIGHTMARE HIS GAY FRIENDS HOPED HE WASN'T
- GORSUCH NOT EASY TO PIGEONHOLE ON GAY RIGHTS, FRIENDS SAY
- “SURVIVOR 42” EP. 5: THE GAY AGENDA-IFITN OF “SURVIVOR”
NEIL GORSUCH IS THE ANTI-LGBTQ NIGHTMARE HIS GAY FRIENDS HOPED HE WASN'T
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But when you really look at , people like me who are gay or people of lor, we are substandard. Known as Accs, the group opened the Natnal Mm 2005 to promote Arab-Amerin June 2016, the mm examed the subject of gay discrimatn wh the Lebane band Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead sger, Hamed Sno, intifi as queer. Zar add that even among cultural stutns the Uned Stat that feature artists of Arab scent, “the tenncy is to do survey exhibns that lump artists together” by natnaly but rarely explore issu of sexual the Arab world, openly gay, lbian and transgenr people face persecutn.
The penalty some untri is imprisonment; even where there are no laws on the books, gay people may still be prosecuted.
GORSUCH NOT EASY TO PIGEONHOLE ON GAY RIGHTS, FRIENDS SAY
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Colonial teractns might have also fluenced bias, brgg European notns of homophobia and views of homosexualy to the culture. Among the first stutns to explore this theme were the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art and the New Mm, both New York.
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“SURVIVOR 42” EP. 5: THE GAY AGENDA-IFITN OF “SURVIVOR”
”The Los Angel County Mm of Art, the New Mm and the Metropolan Mm of Art say they have exhibed the work of Arab and Mlim artists who are gay but choose not to rporate their inty to their art, or make their sexualy known Wagstaff, head of the partment of morn and ntemporary art at the Met, said she prefers the work speaks for self. ”Several gay or lbian artists workg both the Wt and the Middle East said they did not wish to be terviewed for this HelluAmong those the 2015 Llie-Lohman exhib was the Lebane artist Omar Mismar. Mismar said, Lebanon is viewed as “allowg a space for out gay artists and creators to exist, but at the same time thgs are never really guaranteed.