Gay Pri month is here, and so is Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee. To honor the ocsns, we posed some of our own favore queens on some regal seats.
Contents:
- DRAG QUEENS CHANTG ‘WE’RE G FOR YOUR KIDS’ HURT GAY RIGHTS
- TWO ARRTED AT NYC UNCILMAN'S APARTMENT 'GAYS AGAST GROOMERS' PROTT OVER DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR
- GAY HISTORY: REMEMBERG ROLLERINA: NYC’S FAIRY GODMOTHER AND FIERCE AIDS/LGBT ACTIVIST
DRAG QUEENS CHANTG ‘WE’RE G FOR YOUR KIDS’ HURT GAY RIGHTS
” uld spark more anti-gay hate. “They’re danger every day, ” Ghzzo told The Post, referencg recent attacks on drag shows and the gay muny as a whole.
But others were more valier, and dismissed the chant as a harmls jab at anti-gay activists who falsely acce those the LGBTQ muny of beg pedophil and child “groomers.
TWO ARRTED AT NYC UNCILMAN'S APARTMENT 'GAYS AGAST GROOMERS' PROTT OVER DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR
At the NYC Pri March, many revelers dismissed the chant as a harmls jab at anti-gay McGregor/Sipa USA. The march memorat the 1969 rts at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village, which was wily nsired the birth of the gay rights via Getty Imag. “I live Pennsylvania, where [homophobia] is a lot more mon, ” Blimle said Sunday.
Still, beg able to lgh at the “absurdy” is important, said Jimmie O’Brien, a 66-year-old gay man om NYC. “Sadly – this will ntue to termate the view of the gay muny who fought so hard to be accepted. The days, you n tch drag queens (often for ee) every night of the week onstage at gay bars throughout the boroughs (and Fire Island), and even on Broadway stag wh shows like Kky Boots servg fierce performanc.
In recent years, such blunt, outrageo rhetoric om the gay left has bee pretty faiar. Two years ago, the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos released a YouTube vio which 81 of s members sang a song wh the rea: “We’ll nvert your children / Happens b by b.
GAY HISTORY: REMEMBERG ROLLERINA: NYC’S FAIRY GODMOTHER AND FIERCE AIDS/LGBT ACTIVIST
Groups like the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos once played an important role givg gay Amerins a posive image. The ia of gay people as more or ls ordary people next door was ccial helpg w popular support for gay equaly, gays the ary, and, ultimately, same-sex marriage. To ce the tle of my 1993 book, most gay Amerins jt wanted “A Place at the Table.