The actor and wrer's one-man play, Hi, Are You Sgle?, tackl rejectn the gay muny.
Contents:
- DISABILY: 'PEOPLE ASSUME I N'T BE GAY BEE I'M DISABLED'
- GAY AF MAN SHARED ‘HURTFUL’ GRDR MSAG TO MAKE AN IMPORTANT POT ABOUT ABLEISM
DISABILY: 'PEOPLE ASSUME I N'T BE GAY BEE I'M DISABLED'
* gay ableism *
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Among lbian, gay and bisexual adults, 30 percent of men and 36 percent of women intify as havg a disabily. Five nights a week LGBTQ people n turn on CNN and see Anrson Cooper, a CNN anchor who broke ground broadstg as an out gay man. Among the ristance work STAR did was to ll for an end to non-nsensual psychiatric rceratns of gay, lbian and trans people.
GAY AF MAN SHARED ‘HURTFUL’ GRDR MSAG TO MAKE AN IMPORTANT POT ABOUT ABLEISM
Gay af man Hayn Ira May shared "hurtful" ableist msag he received on Grdr to make a pot about ableism the LGBTQ muny. * gay ableism *
Johnson also lled for an end to nversn therapy and other forced therapi ed to “cure” lbian, gay and trans people of their sexual and genr inti. Wh his mother, Jeanne Manford, he -found PFLAG (Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) 1973.
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In 1972, after Morty was beaten and attacked durg a prott, Jeanne Manford wrote a letter to the New York Post which she said, “I am the mother of a homosexual son. ” Soon after, she began givg terviews wh Morty and marched wh him the Gay Pri Para. Kenny Fri is a longtime gay and disabily rights activist and world-renowned poet and memoirist.
The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people n live openly whout discrimatn and enjoy equal rights, personal tonomy, and eedom of exprsn and associatn. * gay ableism *
Fri is the thor of many books and scholarly works and has wrten extensively lerary and other venu on the tersectn of gayns and disabily his own life and the larger muny. As a Deaf gay man, Nyle DiMar ma history 2015 when he won “Ameri’s Next Top Mol. G., gay pri, Black pri), disabily pri is signed to subvert what has been a very stigmatized inty.
If feelg pri about one’s disabily sounds odd (or even like an oxymoron) to you, nsir that gay pri, for example, was a foreign ncept to the public before the massive shift public opn and civil rights engenred. In June 2018, then-58-year-old Lynn Zelv was refed entry at the Stonewall Inn, an inic gay bar Manhattan that was the se of the 1969 rts agast police that sparked the morn LGBTQ-rights movement.
Safe spac have bee srce for several reasons, cludg datg apps, which turn any bar to a gay bar, and the nsequenc of gentrifitn, which mak drks tablishments more expensive and creas leasg sts for bar owners. Gurza experienced discrimatn siar to Zelv’s when a mera crew filmed him outsi a gay bar for Picture This, a 2018 documentary about disabily and sexualy.