Tyler Roberts, Gay Adult Film Star, Is Dead

Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
• DEATHS OF 2 MEN THAT WERE DGGED, ASSLTED AT GAY NIGHTCLUBS LED AS HOMICIS
• FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Jam Bidgood, the filmmaker behd the unrground gay classic Pk Narciss, died January at age 88.

It picted the fantasi of a young gay sex worker, played by Bobby Kendall, Bidgood’s roommate. In 1980, Maison was the top legal fenr of gay men arrted for "public lewdns" a police stg the prev year at Village Statn.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kantrowz was “an early champn of gay rights and an fatigable mpaigner for fairer treatment of gay people by the media, ” the Tim not. Mass, a founr of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, lled Kantrowz “a te sage and champn. ”He beme vice print of the Gay Activists Alliance, one of the first groups found the wake of the Stonewall rts, 1970.

That was also the year he me to terms wh beg gay, acrdg to the Tim. 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.

He also scribed events the gay rights movement, cludg New York Cy’s first Pri march.

HERE ARE THE FIVE VICTIMS WHO WERE KILLED COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG

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. ”“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.

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

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

FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS

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. 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. 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.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

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.

He was the first out person at his high school and found the first gay and lbian stunt unn.

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. Bee homosexual men are not actively participatg the perpetuatn of human life.