NPR's Ari Shapiro was Orlando, Fla., Sunday night. He spoke to members of the LGBT muny at Parliament Hoe, a historic gay club.
Contents:
- HOST OF 'MAKG GAY HISTORY' REFLECTS ON G OF AGE DURG THE AIDS CRISIS
- ARI SHAPIRO ‘NPR’ HOST ON GAY WEDDG, WHAT HE & HBAND EXPERIENCED
- IS ARI SHAPIRO GAY? WHO IS HIS PARTNER?
- IS ARI SHAPIRO GAY? BRGG NPR REPORTER’S SEXUALY INTO THE LIGHT!
- ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
- AT ANOTHER ORLANDO GAY CLUB, LGBT COMMUNY MOURNS SHOOTG VICTIMS
- 90-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN RELLS LONG STGGLE WH HIS SEXUALY
HOST OF 'MAKG GAY HISTORY' REFLECTS ON G OF AGE DURG THE AIDS CRISIS
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks wh Eric Marc, the host of the podst Makg Gay History, about his d memoir on g of age durg the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. * ari shapiro gay *
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks wh Eric Marc, the host of the podst Makg Gay History, about his d memoir on g of age durg the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. " It me out 1988, when there weren't too many gay people the public eye. " It's the latt season of his podst, "Makg Gay History.
(SOUNDBITE OF PODCAST, "MAKING GAY HISTORY")MARCUS: So I remember gog to your office. MARCUS: There was so much foc on people like me durg the AIDS crisis, of whe gay men, that we fet about the other people who were affected by . SHAPIRO: Eric Marc, his seri "Comg Of Age Durg The AIDS Crisis" is the latt season of his podst, "Makg Gay History.
Ari Shapiro along wh his hband was, th, one of the early trendsetters what is now nsired as a basic human right, wh their gay weddg held the days when was nsired gay, Ari has never been the one to get timidated. Wh a fearls personaly and his nature of standg up to what he believ is right, Shapiro along wh his hband was one of the early practners of a gay weddg. Wh fame and fortune g om several other attractive reer ventur prr to landg a job as a rad journalist, Ari stands today at the peak of his reer wh the sky beg his Host Gay Weddg Before Legalizatn, Supportive Hband Ma It WorthyAri Shapiro, a magna cum l om Yale Universy wh a Bachelor of Arts gree English, met the love of his life the form of Michael Gottlieb durg his time at the Universy.
ARI SHAPIRO ‘NPR’ HOST ON GAY WEDDG, WHAT HE & HBAND EXPERIENCED
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Startg out as iends, the duo soon veloped a romantic relatnship which as turned out iated a lifelong journey May Also Like: Andrew Napolano Reacts On Gay Marriage; Married Stat Of Fox's Senr AnalystOpenly gay, Ari and his hband Michael, soon lated their relatnship to the next level after gettg married to each other San Francis Cy Hall on 27 Febary 2004. The two were amongst the early upl who had performed a gay weddg at the seemed even big of an achievement now as talks of a nstutnal amendment banng same-sex marriage had been circulatg at that time. (Photo:) Ari’s hband, Michael, a lawyer who worked at the Whe Hoe unsel's office om 2013–2015, revealed an terview back 2004 about his experience about the gay weddg.
IS ARI SHAPIRO GAY? WHO IS HIS PARTNER?
Havg grown up listeng to Natnal Public Rad as a kid, might seem pre-ordaed that Ari Shapiro would someday bee the ubiquo voice of NPR’s flagship news program All Thgs Consired. But thgs are rarely as simple as they might appear on the surface. Ari Shapiro was somewhat of a unirn growg up Jewish Fargo, North Dakota the 1980s. By the time his fay reloted to Portland, Shapiro would e to terms wh another layer of his inty as a gay teenager. Shapiro has sce racked up an imprsive rume that clus a twenty-year reer at NPR as well as an enviable si-htle performg wh the world renowned, genre-spanng band Pk Marti. Shapiro’s circuo path to beg the ultimate multi-hyphenate phenomenon that he is today is unpacked and dissected his new book The Bt Strangers the World: Stori om a Life Spent Listeng. The book, which has earned rave reviews and beme an stant New York Tim btseller upon publitn, is an engrossg and enlighteng read, chock full of amg anecdot and life lsons, big and small which touch the heart and soul. * ari shapiro gay *
Shapiro, throughout the years, has remaed an active voice the support of gay rights and has been a major ntributor over the years the legalizatn of gay Also: Openly Gay Jwan Yosef is Married! ”Th, openly gay, Ari along wh hband Michael have no regrets whatsoever about their groundbreakg weddg and have only wonrful memori to Reveals Age, Career Highlights and Salary DetailsBorn Ari Michael Shapiro, the NPR host stands at the peak of his reer at age 40, as one of the four hosts of NPR’s program All Thgs Consired.
What I picked up as the first grar who was the, like, only Jewish kid his class and later picked up as, like, the only out gay teenager my high school, was the abily to go to a crowd of people and say, this is unfaiar, but I'm gog to help you unrstand . I volunteered to go ver that story bee I had been to gay bars, and I knew the importance of them.
And I had been to gay bars Orlando. It’s also a chronicle of the many liv and stori he’s enuntered over more than two s as a journalist—om his youth as the only out gay kid at his Portland high school to his time as a Whe Hoe rrponnt durg the Obama admistratn, to visg war zon and reportg on the Pulse nightclub massacre. I was surprised how much of the book als wh your inty as an out gay person….
IS ARI SHAPIRO GAY? BRGG NPR REPORTER’S SEXUALY INTO THE LIGHT!
Ross Gay spent a year wrg daily says about thgs that light him. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks wh Gay about some of the says clud his new book, The Book of Delights. * ari shapiro gay *
In my se, I’m Jewish, I’m gay. So, there are certaly specific stori where approachg the story as a gay man has, my view, ma a difference. AS: One of the reviews of this book—and I’m paraphrasg here—said somethg like, “He was one of the few Jewish kids at his elementary school, the only openly gay stunt at his high school, and today he’s likely the only public rad host who sgs a baret show wh Alan Cummg”—which, I know Alan well enough to say is a factually te statement.
When he was eight, his fay moved to Portland, Oregon, where he gradually me to another realizatn: g to the knowledge that he was gay, and feelg pretty fortable about that om the get-go.
ENRE: ROSS GAY WR 'THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS'
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"Yeah, 2004 was not that long ago, " he said, "but polics, same-sex marriage, gay rights, feels like a lifetime.
I cid I’d earned a night out, and so I ma my way to a nearly empty gay bar.
AT ANOTHER ORLANDO GAY CLUB, LGBT COMMUNY MOURNS SHOOTG VICTIMS
Tuday was their day off, so they ved me to go out wh them the next is what gay bars have done for people across ci and generatns. Gay bars helped birth the fight for LGBTQ rights, and they provid meetg plac for AIDS activists. Tuday was also gay night at Mannequs Dance Palace, the club that was part of Disney’s Pleasure Island plex.
I checked to my hotel and head to a gay venue lled Parliament Hoe, which had for s been a center of queer nightlife Orlando. He went by Omar, and he was 20 years Juli’s father kicked him out of the hoe for beg gay, Omar let Juli stay wh had a hard time tellg me the story.
90-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN RELLS LONG STGGLE WH HIS SEXUALY
And she offered a msage of nsolatn and my last full day reportg om Orlando, I had an terview wh the edor of the ee weekly gay paper, Watermark. I sighed to Nathan, “A gay bar is so much more than jt a place to get a drk.
“I uldn’t tell you how many stori I’ve seen of people who have walked through the doors at their first gay bar they’ve ever been to and really felt weled. ”One of the founrs of the morn gay-rights movement, Harry Hay, ed to talk about “subject-subject relatnships. Their voic bee gredients a recipe that I mix up, bake, and serve to an dience of believed that one reason gay people exist is to monstrate a different way of relatg to one another: not service of a selfish goal, but mutualy and regnn of one another as more than a means to an end.