In 1973, An Arson Killed 32 People At A Gay Bar. For Years, It Was Fotten : NPR

Contents:

• MURRS OF GAYS, LBIANS U.S. CREASED LAST YEAR, GROUP SAYS
• IN 1973, AN ARSON KILLED 32 PEOPLE AT A GAY BAR. FOR YEARS, IT WAS FOTTEN
• OUTBREAK OF BACTERIAL ILLNS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA HAS LEFT AT LEAST 7 AD
• NYC GAY BAR ATHS WERE HOMICIS, MEDIL EXAMER L
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• DEATHS OF 2 MEN THAT WERE DGGED, ASSLTED AT GAY NIGHTCLUBS LED AS HOMICIS
• 6 DEAD AMID MENGOCL DISEASE OUTBREAK AFFECTG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA: CDC
• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS
• GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP

MURRS OF GAYS, LBIANS U.S. CREASED LAST YEAR, GROUP SAYS

In 1980, Maison was the top legal fenr of gay men arrted for "public lewdns" a police stg the prev year at Village Statn. Kantrowz was “an early champn of gay rights and an fatigable mpaigner for fairer treatment of gay people by the media, ” the Tim not.

”He beme vice print of the Gay Activists Alliance, one of the first groups found the wake of the Stonewall rts, 1970. He helped found GLAAD, then known as the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, was a profsor the English partment at the Cy Universy of New York’s College of Staten Island om 1965 to 2006, and while there he created one of the first gay studi urs the natn. He promoted the work of Walt Whman and other gay 1977 he published a memoir, Unr the Rabow: Growg Up Gay,  which he chronicled the difficulti he and other gay people faced mid-century Ameri.

Much later, 2009, he was grand marshal of the Staten Island Gay Pri was a ntemporary and iend of many fellow activists, cludg Vo Rso, thor of The Celluloid Closet. He appeared  Vo, a 2011 documentary about Rso, and several other documentari about the LGBTQ+ muny, cludg Gay Sex the ’70s and After Stonewall. He also was one of the first out gay guts on popular rad and TV talk shows, speakg to Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jsy Raphael, and more.

IN 1973, AN ARSON KILLED 32 PEOPLE AT A GAY BAR. FOR YEARS, IT WAS FOTTEN

”“He was thoughtful, charmg, and like any good profsor (he was among the first to teach a urse gay lerature, 1973), a lifelong stunt and teacher, ” former Whe Hoe staffer Jeremy L.

Leo Bersani, an amic theorist noted for wrg about gay inty durg the height of the AIDS crisis, died Febary at age 90.

” which he lambasted “the tenncy among some gay activists to rpond to AIDS by downplayg their sexualy and emphasizg the need to replite bourgeois heterosexualy, ” the Tim reports.

OUTBREAK OF BACTERIAL ILLNS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA HAS LEFT AT LEAST 7 AD

“Male homosexualy was not the mirror image of heterosexualy, he argued, but somethg radilly different, lackg many of the patriarchal equali that he said fed straight life, ” the paper explas. “Far om apologizg for their promiscuy as a failure to mata a lovg relatnship, gay men should ceaselsly lament the practil necsy, now, of such relatns, should rist beg drawn to mimickg the unrelentg warfare between men and women, ” Bersani wrote the his 1995 book Homos, he criqued queer theory, sayg that by seeg gay inty as socially nstcted and performative, proponents of this theory ignored and unrmed the liberatg quali of beg gay.

In addn to wrg on gay inty, he was a scholar of lerature, pecially the work of gay French novelist Marcel Prot.

“He thought that the whole pot of beg a homosexual man is that you dispted the experience of posssn, ownership, fily, nsistency, safety, and you allowed sexualy to be what really is, which is disptive, disorientg, shatterg, lim-vlatg and boundary-breakg, ” she said.

NYC GAY BAR ATHS WERE HOMICIS, MEDIL EXAMER L

Vaid was executive director of the group, then known as the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, om 1989 to 1992.

She thored the books Irristible Revolutn: Conontg Race, Class and the Assumptns of LGBT Polics (2012), and Virtual Equaly: The Mastreamg of Lbian and Gay Liberatn (1996). Jefey Esffier, a longtime activist, thor of works on gay inty, and creator of public health mpaigns, died May at age e was plitns om a fall, his fay told the paper.

NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN

He beme print of the Philalphia chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance, and 1972 he found The Gay Alternative, published by the anizatn.

Eleven years later, San Francis, he started another publitn, Out/Look: Natnal Lbian and Gay Quarterly. He and his staff at Out/Look anized the OutWre nference for LGBTQ+ wrote numero says on gay inty and the factors that shape . They were llected volum cludg Amerin Homo: Communy and Perversy and Sex, Society, and the Makg of Pornography: The Pornographic Object of Knowledge.

DEATHS OF 2 MEN THAT WERE DGGED, ASSLTED AT GAY NIGHTCLUBS LED AS HOMICIS

Returng to New York the 1990s, Esffier beme puty director of the Office of Gay and Lbian Health the cy’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 1995. Hunter Reynolds was a prized asset to the LGBTQ+ muny and for HIV activism, as the artist fought homophobia and the AIDS crisis head on durg the 1980s and ’90s.

After llege, his first huge movement the public eye stemmed om a quote he read by artist Mark Kostabi, om an article  Vany Fair: “The mm curators, that are for the most part homosexual, have ntrolled the art world the ’80s.

6 DEAD AMID MENGOCL DISEASE OUTBREAK AFFECTG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA: CDC

Riverfger Women has been named to The New York Tim’ list of 100 Greatt Gay Novels, while Beyond the Pale won the 1998 Lambda Lerary Award for Lbian Fictn.

She thored an tobgraphy, Call Me Crazy, and talked about beg the dghter of a closeted gay man.

”"I'd do an exercise vio bee there are so many gay men wh the perfect abs and they do exercise vios, " Jordan told The Advote  2020 for a digal ver story about how the viral vios started. In 2021, Jordan released his first album, tled Company's Com’, featurg gay in Dolly Parton and out sger-songwrer Brandi Carlile among others, and he went on to make his Grand Ole Opry but as a rult.

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

Sourc reportedly told the outlet that thori received a 911 ll that a male sger, who was the younger brother of Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter, had a pop reer startg the late s release 2000, his sophomore album, Aaron’s Party (Come and Get It), went triple platum, acrdg to The Hollywood 2006, Carter appeared along wh his siblgs, Nick, B. Jim Kolbe, a longtime Republin ngrsman who me out as gay 1996 and was reelected several tim afterward, died December at age e of ath was a stroke, the Arizona Daily Star reports. The Advote mataed s policy agast outg but did ntact Kolbe to ask him to expla his DOMA vote and to see if he would discs beg gay.

FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS

”Among those memorializg Kolbe was a gay Democratic ngrsman, David Cicille, chair of the LGBTQ+ Equaly Cc. “As an out gay man Congrs the late 1990s and 2000s, Jim Kolbe affirmed to the Amerin people and gay men across the untry that there was a place for them the halls of Congrs, ” he said a prs release. His urage to bee only the send openly gay Republin elected to Congrs was admired by many of his lleagu and untls Amerins.

“While a stunt at Louisville Collegiate School, he advoted for the rights of transgenr people by anizg a prott agast gay nversn therapy, speakg to the Kentucky Senate Edutn Commtee, and participatg other lol and natnal . 2017 was close behd wh 53 died acts of gome vlence, like Frank Yazzie, a gay Navajo man who was cut half and stuffed two trash bags 2009. It was a factor dozens of murrs the last 20 vlence claimed the life of Michael Stt Goucher, a 21-year-old whe gay man who met one of his assailants onle.

357 Magnum pistol, cludg three fal, and fatal, skull-cshg an tercepted jail letter McKney wrote to Shepard's other attacker, Rsell Henrson, while the two were awag trial, McKney ed a gay slur to scribe Shepard. "Why there are discrepanciWhether due to nonexistent laws or nsistent reportg, lol law enforcement agenci rarely report LGBTQ aths to feral thori that track hate crim — even if the killer ed slurs, rpond vlently to rmatn that a person was gay or transgenr, or showed signs of overkill.

GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP

Many of the aths noted earlier reports didn’t clu nam, but we were able to gather nam for most victims by piecg together intifyg rmatn om other reports, cludg media reportg advocy studi and police, we searched through several reports and onle listgs of LGBTQ murr victims, cludg Gay History Wiki, Internatnal Transgenr Day of Remembrance, In Memoriam: Lbian Murr Victims, Unerased: Countg Transgenr Liv, the Genr Public Advocy Coaln’s 50 Unr 30 report and a Human Rights Campaign report documentg hate crim between 1998 and 2002.

Siarly, we didn’t clu victims whose attackers ed the gay panic fense or people victimized at gay clubs unls we found other ditns that they intified as members of the LGBTQ muny. NEW YORK (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - The number of murrs of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people jumped 20 percent the Uned Stat last year, activists said on Monday, releasg their fdgs a day after a mass shootg at a Florida gay nightclub left 49 people ad. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts The vlence 2015 was the hight sce 2012, acrdg to the report by the Natnal Coaln of Anti-Vlence Programs (NCAVP) said 24 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people and people wh HIV were murred the Uned Stat, a 20 percent crease om advocy group released s fdgs a day ahead of their schled publitn after the Orlando, Florida shootg, the worst mass murr U.

On June 24, 1973, a fire ripped through the Up Stairs Lounge — a gay bar the French Quarter of New Orleans. " The man spected of startg the fire, Roger Nunez, was gay himself and had been kicked out of the bar earlier. "By early fall, there was creasg evince that the tragedy had roed a dre of gay New Orleanians ways unthkable jt a season before, " thor Robert Fieler wr Trbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberatn.