Excerpted om The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life Ameri by Charl Kaiser.
Contents:
- WHEN REAGAN SAID GAY
- THE REAL RERD OF THE REAGANS ON GAYS AND AIDS
- STRAIGHT PORN SUPERSTAR JAM DEEN TALKS GAY SEX, ONSCREEN AND OFF
- RON JR. ON THE RERD: THE SON OF RONALD REAGAN BREAKS HIS SILENCE REGARDG THE WHISPER MPAIGN THAT HE IS GAY.
WHEN REAGAN SAID GAY
In the 1970s the Republin Party tried to muzzle gay inty. * tommy regan gay *
Dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by crics, the legislatn would mandate that “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 standards. ”By permtg parents to sue school districts that fail to enforce s vague provisns, the act would effectively bar classroom discsn and dividual exprsn on a wi range of subjects not necsarily limed to homosexualy and genr inty. Gay stunts and the children of same-sex upl, for stance, would likely be hibed om talkg about their liv, and teachers uld face the wrath of angry parents simply for discsg historil events volvg gay people, such as the adly 2016 attack on a gay nightclub bill’s proponents sist that the measure has nothg to do wh harmg the digny of gay dividuals but rather is aimed at ensurg age-appropriate sexual tn.
“The bill that liberals accurately ll ‘Don’t Say Gay’ would be more accurately scribed as an Anti-Groomg Bill, ” Ms.
”The nflatn of gay people, and gay men particular, wh pedophil is an old and pernic stereotype.
THE REAL RERD OF THE REAGANS ON GAYS AND AIDS
* tommy regan gay *
In 1988 the Brish Parliament passed a measure preventg lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” or “the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship. Ten years later, the Rsian Duma unanimoly passed legislatn “for the purpose of protectg children om rmatn advotg for a nial of tradnal fay valu” prohibg the dissematn of “propaganda” of nontradnal sexual Asenc-Rhe/Tampa Bay Tim, via Associated PrsWhile brandg gay people as child molters has been a staple of right-wg rhetoric around the world, there has long existed a stra of Amerin libertarian nservatism that ems the legal enshrement of such prejudic as an vasn of privacy and a dangero enhancement of state power. Durg a siar episo of anti-gay moral panic, none other than Ronald Reagan — whose rerd on L.
”Much like the current Florida bill, the Briggs Iniative was ambiguoly word, such that would have permted the firg of not jt gay teachers but also anyone who spoke out on their behalf.
The measure was part of a natnal backlash agast the advancement of gay rights that began the prev year wh a mpaign by the Florida Cs Commissn spokwoman and gospel sger Ana Bryant to repeal an ordance Miami’s Da County that prohibed discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn.
STRAIGHT PORN SUPERSTAR JAM DEEN TALKS GAY SEX, ONSCREEN AND OFF
Porn performer Jam Deen will not discs his Canyons star Ldsay Lohan. But he will discs his experienc wh gay sex, both onscreen— Pl Schrar’s aforementned bizarrely mmerizg and already-storied thriller—and his real life. What do that say about a performer whose heterosexualy is a mody that’s sold untls straight porn movi, cludg Farrah Abraham’s “sex tape?” * tommy regan gay *
A Field poll published September 1978 found 61 percent of California voters supported banng gay teachers, a figure nsistent wh natnal proponents of Proposn 6 lookg at what seemed like an unobstcted path to victory, those opposn wonred what one of the state’s most popular Republins, s former ernor Ronald Reagan, thought about the measure. His rerd on gay issu was mixed.
RON JR. ON THE RERD: THE SON OF RONALD REAGAN BREAKS HIS SILENCE REGARDG THE WHISPER MPAIGN THAT HE IS GAY.
In 1967 a newspaper lumnist acced him of firg two gubernatorial ais after disverg their participatn “a homosexual y”; Mr. After takg a beatg the prs, he eventually admted to firg the ais and publicly lled homosexualy a “tragic illns” that “should rema illegal. ”Neverthels, an enterprisg gay activist leadg the No on 6 mpaign, David Mixner, sensed an opportuny.
Reagan, wh his Hollywood background, was more faiar wh gay people than the average Amerin and that the former actor was an advote for limed ernment and dividual rights. Reagan’s senr ais, himself a closeted gay man, to make the se agast Proposn Mixner persuad the ai to arrange an dience wh his boss.
Reagan’s own language: “Anarchy, ” he told the former ernor, who had ed that word to scribe mp unrt at Berkeley, would be unleashed classrooms statewi as stunts lodged spur charg of homosexualy agast their teachers. “I don’t approve of teachg a so-lled gay liftyle our schools, ” Mr.