New York Tim fends Mara Gay's Amerin flag ments

Contents:

• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• HOW GAY MEN SAVED US FROM MPOX
• WHO IS MARA GAY?
• HIGH URT’S ‘GAY WEDDG WEBSE’ CISN BRGS HOPE TO PHOTOGRAPHER, BAKER, OTHER CREATIV
• MARA GAY
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• NYT PANNED FOR MARA GAY FENSE FOLLOWG HER 'DISTURBG' AMERIN FLAGS REMARK: 'EVERY WORD HERE IS A LIE'
• NY TIM FENDS MARA GAY FOR SAYG SHE WAS ‘DISTURBED’ BY AMERIN FLAGS

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

Today, we have an analysis of a piece of tn legislatn Florida that crics have referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” we have news of our own: We’re makg some chang to the Edutn Briefg. Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to sign Hoe Bill 1557, a proposed law that supporters ll the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill and opponents refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” lleague Dana Goldste has done a close readg of the bill self, which is about much more than gay rights.

HOW GAY MEN SAVED US FROM MPOX

Sentence has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” nickname:L 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state impact is clear enough: Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all gras.

That uld disurage a teacher om speakg about gay fai wh the whole class, even if some stunts have gay bill also targets mental health and unselg servic — a place where stunts often have difficult nversatns about genr inty and sexualy, pecially if they stggle to talk about those nversatns at as Florida revis s school unselg standards, adopted 2010, which affirm genr and sexual diversy unselg. On July 7, Frank Bni, a longtime Tim journalist, who is gay, wrote, "Establishg guil for the age at which ’s appropriate for children public schools to discs sexual orientatn and genr inty is legimate. He surely remembers how the word “gay” or “homo” or “queer” was bandied about gra schools back the ‘70s, and how those slurs were a sucker punch that ma you feel ls than.

WHO IS MARA GAY?

Both health officials and the media failed to expedly warn and engage the gay muny the outbreak’s ccial first the first s were reported among gay and bisexual men the Wt, health thori and the media uldn’t brg themselv to say the word “gay. The Associated Prs didn’t mentn that this outbreak was beg seen almost exclively gay men until 15 paragraphs to one report; other reports didn’t mentn gay and bisexual men at all. A gay man snng headl May of last year might have learned of an outbreak — but unls he had traveled to Wt Ai recently, or had ntact wh fected ronts or primat, he uld have easily nclud that he wasn’t at this sire to avoid stigmatizg gay and bisexual men was unrstandable, wasn’t helpful.

Cas began to appear a small handful of transgenr people and cisgenr women and children, raisg alarm about wir after was evint that this paful, potentially disfigurg or even fatal fectn was spreadg through gay men’s sexual works, public health officials and the media were hant to give the same advice they had given eely at the begng of the Covid panmic: Lim your number of sex partners and exprs your sexualy socially distanced while health officials and journalists hated, gay and bisexual men sprang to actn. Thomas referred to as “tough love” advice for their muny: Slam the brak on sex outsi of mted relatnships; seek immediate medil re for symptoms; and get vaccated as soon as the gay muny party promoters nceled long-planned events and dividual gay men temporarily leted hookup apps om their phon and rced their sexual ntacts.

The Centers for Disease Control and Preventn verified the shifts behavr, reportg that half of gay men surveyed rced their number of sex partners, one-time sexual enunters and e of datg apps durg the outbreak. And gay and bisexual men got vaccated drov; two-thirds of those surveyed by the Pew Rearch Center September 2022 reported that they had already received an mpox vacce or were planng to do so.

HIGH URT’S ‘GAY WEDDG WEBSE’ CISN BRGS HOPE TO PHOTOGRAPHER, BAKER, OTHER CREATIV

Gay and bisexual men endured tratg attempts to secure appotments for the ccial first dose of the two-dose seri and hourslong was at pop-up vaccatn s. Of the over one ln dos of the Jynneos vacce (protective agast smallpox and mpox) admistered the Uned Stat sce June 2022, more than 90 percent were given to men (prumably gay and bisexual men).

Spoke ankly about “back rooms” and “sex parti” and the risk of ntractg mpox those those warng gay men to cut back on sex until they were vaccated agast mpox experienced accatns of fomentg stigma — echog phback experienced by gay men who urged others to avoid bathho and start g ndoms at the start of the AIDS crisis the early 1980s — efforts to shoot the msenger were ls aggrsive than years past. /AIDS and mpox: Many of the msengers were gay and bisexual men themselv, cludg gay journalists, doctors and average cizens wh accs to social media, pl a generatn of gay men who had been spired to pursue public health reers the wake of C. ’s chosen spokman to lead natnal nversatns on mpox and gay men’s sexual health wasn’t a straight doctor a lab at who squirmed at the mentn of gay sex.

Fur over the feral ernment’s ial rponse to mpox, they mobilized and anized, prottg at lol Department of Health and Human Servic offic and filg a plat wh the Massachetts state attorney general over nial of mpox ttg and while an early and ankly hont public health rponse uld have blunted the outbreak, rultg far fewer s and far ls sufferg, the swift llective actn of gay and bisexual men prevented tastrophe.

MARA GAY

If the broar Amerin public had rpond to the threat of Covid-19 the way gay and bisexual men rpond to the threat of mpox, we might have seen fewer s (there have been 100 ln to date) and a lower ath toll (1. When the next fect outbreak strik (and surely will), the public would be wise to channel gay and bisexual men: munite openly whout stigmatizatn, anize and sist on accs to effective preventn, diagnosis and ’s another important lson about the gay muny that health officials and journalists need to remember gog forward: When to emergg health threats — even on that n spread sexually — gay men n handle the tth.

Gay also began trendg 2021 after sayg she was "disturbed" to see "dozens of Amerin flags" flown by Donald Tmp supporters durg a weekend trip to Long Island.

"The realy is here that we have a large percentage of the Amerin populatn — I don't know how big is, but we have tens of lns of Tmp voters who ntue to believe that their rights as cizens are unr threat by simple virtue of havg to share the mocracy wh others, " Gay told MSNBC host, Mika Brzezski. "I thk that as long as they see Amerinns as the same as one wh Whens, this is gog to ntue, " Gay said, mentg that "Whens" and "Amerinns" need to be separated. Carpenter is challengg New York’s “public acmodatn” laws that she and her attorneys say threaten f and jail time for Christian photographers who won’t photograph gay weddgs.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

Not until December 1973 did the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn vote to remove homosexualy om s psychiatric disorr tegory (the APA still reiled om llg “normal”). Enlightenment me slowly and has still not arrived some plac, so mak sense that Ed Koch ncealed and publicly nied his homosexualy until his ath 2013.

Koch was so nflicted and anguished by his inty, the Tim reports, that he once spontaneoly volunteered at a mayoral staff meetg, “I am not a homosexual.

The ma thg the feature miss — and this uld have been vered a paragraph or two — is any reflectn on the role the Tim played sculptg the culture that punished the gay and lbian muny. “Almost every New York Cy newspaper reference to lbians and gay men the fifti was nnected to a crime, ” Charl Kaiser wr his sential book om 1997, The Gay Metropolis. Arrts for “homosexual offens, ” which the paper fed as loerg “any public place solicg men for the purpose of mtg a crime agast nature or other lewdns.

NYT PANNED FOR MARA GAY FENSE FOLLOWG HER 'DISTURBG' AMERIN FLAGS REMARK: 'EVERY WORD HERE IS A LIE'

” But nveyg the moral panic over the “homosexual problem, ” Bracker nfsed that there was no reliable way to intify who was and who wasn’t gay on 42nd Street. “It is time to speak openly and ndidly of the creasg cince and fluence of homosexualy on New York’s stage—and, ed, the other arts as well, ” Howard Tbman wrote.

“The cy’s most sensive open secret — the prence of what is probably the greatt homosexual populatn the world and s creasg openns —has bee the subject of growg ncern of psychiatrists, relig lears, and the police, ” Doty wrote, and New Yorker Koch prumably read.

NY TIM FENDS MARA GAY FOR SAYG SHE WAS ‘DISTURBED’ BY AMERIN FLAGS

“On one si was the ‘anized homophile movement — a mory of ant homosexuals that is openly agatg for removal of legal, social, and cultural discrimatns agast sexual verts. ’ This group argued that gay people should be treated like any other mory group bee homosexualy was ‘an curable, ngenal disorr’ — although the Tim report sisted ‘this is disputed by the bulk of scientific evince. ” But the paper’s edorial page rethought s stance a year later, as gently edorialized favor of a New York state law that would have crimalized homosexual acts nducted private.

The ti turned harr 1967, when the paper’s magaze published a feature about gay rights, 1969, when the paper allowed the publitn of a first-person arts say argug (psdonymoly) agast the fictnal trope of homosexual as socpath, and harr still 1971, when published thor Merle Miller’s breakthrough say, “What It Means to Be a Homosexual.