Mara Gay: Facts to Know about The New York Tim Journalist

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• MARA GAY: FACTS TO KNOW ABOUT THE CONSCIENT AND BRAVE JOURNALIST
• SHOP THE BT OF 'THE RIGHT STUFF'!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHFAYWABC-NY'S BILL RTER: I'M A PROUD LGBTQ+ ALLY AND ALWAYS WILL BE14:36LADY GAGA TO LGBTQ MUNY: 'I WOULD TAKE A BULLET FOR YOU' BYBILL RTERJUNE 22, 2021, 6:48 AMIN CELEBRATN OF PRI MONTH, BILL RTER, ANCHOR AT "EYEWNS NEWS" ON WABC-TV NEW YORK CY, REFLECTS A PERSONAL SAY ABOUT BEG AN LGBTQ+ ALLY. AS A PARENT, BEME EPLY PERSONAL FOR RTER WHEN HIS DGHTER MIA PROUDLY ME OUT AT AGE 17."IF A CHILD OF ME WAS BEG DISCRIMATED AGAST FOR WHO SHE IS, THEN THAT CIVIL RIGHTS VLATN WASN'T JT AGAST HER, WAS AGAST ME AS WELL," RTER WR. "WHEN 'S PERSONAL, 'S POWERFUL."RTER SAYS HIS ALLYSHIP WH THE LGBTQ+ MUNY BEGAN WHILE WORKG AT HIS PARENTS' BETY SUPPLY STORE THE 1960S AT A TIME WHEN MOST GAY PEOPLE WERE EHER FLAMBOYANTLY OUT OF THE CLOSET OR FIRMLY HIDG .READ RTER'S PERSONAL SAY BELOW ABOUT THE MEANG AND IMPORTANCE OF ALLYSHIP.MY DGHTER MIA WAS 17 WHEN SHE ME OUT. SHE WAS BOLD, SHE WAS HONT, SHE WAS STRAIGHTFORWARD. WHAT SHE WASN'T WAS SRED OF OUR REACTN. SHE KNEW THAT HER BABY BOOMER PARENTS AND HER MORN-DAY FAY WOULD EMBRACE HER PRONOUNCEMENT OF WHO SHE WAS, AND WHO SHE IS.WABC-NY'S BILL RTER SHAR A PHOTO OF HIS DGHTER, MIA.COURTY BILL RTERMY REACTN? I WAS SO PROUD OF MIA'S EXPLORATN, DISVERY AND JOURNEY ABOUT HER INTY.BUT I HAD A SEND, TERNAL REACTN -- ONE OF PARENTAL WORRY, BEE MIA HAD E OUT TO A WORLD THAT DIDN'T SEEM PREPARED TO OFFER HER THE SAME KD OF RIGHTS GUARANTEED TO PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T GAY.EDOR’S PICKSABC NEWS' ALEX PEREZ ON G OUT: IT 'ALLOWED ME TO FD AND MARRY THE LOVE OF MY LIFE'OCT 07, 2020ABC NEWS’ G BENEZ WR LETTER TO HIS YOUNGER SELF FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'IT WILL ALL BE OK'OCT 11, 2022ABC NEWS' STEVE OSUNSAMI WR LETTER TO HIS YOUNGER SELF FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'YOU'RE GOG TO FD TE LOVE'OCT 11, 2022MORE: ABC NEWS' BECKY WORLEY TO PARENTS ON NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'THIS DAY IS FOR YOU TOO'THE YEAR WAS 2009, AND JT FOUR STAT HAD LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAG. BUT THE TI WAS CHANGG. SIX YEARS LATER, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAG ALL 50 STAT BY STRIKG DOWN THE BANS ON SAME-SEX UNNS.IF A CHILD OF ME WAS BEG DISCRIMATED AGAST FOR WHO SHE IS THEN THAT CIVIL RIGHTS VLATN WASN'T JT AGAST HER, WAS AGAST ME AS WELL.I WATCHED THE TIDAL CHANGE DURG THOSE SIX YEARS WH MORE THAN A BYSTANR'S TERT. THIS DIRECTLY AFFECTED MY OLST CHILD, AND I WAS NOT THE SLIGHTT B IMPARTIAL ABOUT THIS ISSUE. I AM STILL NOT IMPARTIAL. IF A CHILD OF ME WAS BEG DISCRIMATED AGAST FOR WHO SHE IS, THEN THAT CIVIL RIGHTS VLATN WASN'T JT AGAST HER, WAS AGAST ME AS WELL.IT STILL IS. AND, FACT, 'S AGAST ALL OF . I FELT THIS BEFORE MIA ME OUT. I FELT ON BEHALF OF OTHER PARENTS OF GAYS AND LBIANS. BUT THERE'S NO QUTN, WHEN 'S PERSONAL, 'S POWERFUL.WABC-NY'S BILL RTER SHAR A PHOTO WH HIS DGHTER, MIA.COURTY BILL RTERMORE: ABC NEWS' STEVE OSUNSAMI WR LETTER TO HIS YOUNGER SELF FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'YOU'RE GOG TO FD TE LOVE'I FIRMLY EMBRACED #IAMANALLY AS A MANTRA. AND AS SOCIAL MEDIA GREW, I WAS PROUD OF PUBLICLY TALKG ABOUT BEG AN ALLY, PROUD OF MIA FOR STANDG UP FOR HER RIGHTS, AND NOT SILENT ABOUT BEG WORRIED ABOUT OUR UNTRY FOR NOT PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF MIA AND ALL GAYS OR LBIANS. THAT EXPAND TO THE LGBTQ+ WORLD THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED.I ALSO BEME AWARE OF SOMETHG ELSE -- SOMETHG SOME PARENTS FELT ABOUT THEIR GAY CHILDREN THE YEARS BEFORE SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENTS LIKE IVF AND DONOR EGGS BEME AVAILABLE ON A MASS SLE. SOME PARENTS TOLD ME THAT WHILE THEY SUPPORTED THEIR CHILDREN WHO ME OUT, THEY WERE AWARE TYPILLY MEANT THAT, MANY STAT, THEY ULD NOT HAVE CHILDREN OR ADOPT CHILDREN AS A GAY OR LBIAN UPLE. FOR THE PARENTS THAT MEANT NO GRANDKIDS; AND, TRY AS THEY MIGHT TO NOT LET AFFECT THEM, THEY SAID THERE WAS A SADNS TO THAT.BUT WHEN SCIENCE TMPED DARK-AGE PRACTIC AND MEDIL BREAKTHROUGHS ALLOWED FOR ANYONE TO BE ABLE TO DIRECTLY TAKE PART THE BIRTH PROCS, PARENTS' HATN MELTED.IT IS ONE REASON THAT MANY BELIEVE SUPPORT FOR SAME SEX MARRIAG EXPLOD DURG THE OBAMA YEARS WH THE ADVANCE OF SCIENCE AND A SUPPORTIVE WHE HOE ADMISTRATN.FOR ME, I DID NOT FEEL ANY SUCH HATN. PERHAPS WAS MY UPBRGG. I GREW UP WORKG MY PARENTS' BETY SUPPLY STORE. THEY SOLD PRODUCTS TO THE PUBLIC AND TO HAIR DRSERS AT HAIR SALONS. I WORKED THERE SEVERAL DAYS A WEEK AFTER SCHOOL AND, WHEN I WAS OLD ENOUGH TO DRIVE, LIVERED ON THE WEEKENDS TO HAIR SALONS.ALL OF WHICH IS TO SAY THAT, THE 1960S, I GREW UP TERACTG WH LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE GAY AT A TIME WHEN MOST GAY PEOPLE WERE EHER FLAMBOYANTLY OUT OF THE CLOSET -- OR FIRMLY HIDG .I ALSO GREW UP WH PARENTS WHO WERE PASSNATE SUPPORTERS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. MY 15TH BIRTHDAY PRENT WAS GOG TO OUR TEMPLE AND LISTENG TO DR. MART LUTHER KG JR. SPEAK.MY PARENTS WERE NOT ACTIVISTS BY ANY STRETCH, BUT WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT THEIR CTOMERS -- MANY OF WHOM WERE GAY -- THEY MA CLEAR TO THEIR TWO SONS THAT JT AS AIN AMERINS HAD A LACK OF CIVIL RIGHTS, SO TOO DID GAY PEOPLE LARGE PART BEE SO MANY HAD TO KEEP A SECRET ABOUT WHO THEY REALLY WERE.LATER, WHEN I BEME AN ANTI-VIETNAM WAR ACTIVIST, THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT WAS UNRWAY. AND GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISTS WHO WERE PART OF THE ANTI WAR MOVEMENT WERE QUE VOL ABOUT DISCRIMATN AGAST THEM.AS I GREW UP, I BEME MORE AWARE OF THE TOLL LIFE THE CLOSET TAK ON GAYS AND LBIANS. LATER, NEWSROOMS, THERE WERE OLR GAYS AND LBIANS WHO OPENLY TALKED ABOUT HOW STAYG THE CLOSET AFFECTED THEM GROWG UP, AND THEY MA DARN SURE THEY MENTORED THE YOUNGER JOURNALISTS WHO EHER HAD E OUT OR WERE STGGLG WH G OUT.SO WHEN I E THE HASHTAG #IAMANALLY, I GIVE NOT JT WH PRI FOR MY DGHTER, BUT ALSO TO SALUTE THOSE WHO HELPED PAVED THE WAY FOR THE EEDOMS GAYS AND LBIANS NOW EMBRACE, AND WHO SUPPORT THE EFFORTS TO EXPAND THOSE EEDOMS TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.AS WE HERALD ANOTHER PRI MONTH, I'M BEYOND PROUD, ONCE AGA, TO BE AN ALLY. AND I PROMISE TO ALWAYS BE.EDOR’S PICKSABC NEWS' ALEX PEREZ ON G OUT: IT 'ALLOWED ME TO FD AND MARRY THE LOVE OF MY LIFE'OCT 07, 2020ABC NEWS’ G BENEZ WR LETTER TO HIS YOUNGER SELF FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'IT WILL ALL BE OK'OCT 11, 2022ABC NEWS' STEVE OSUNSAMI WR LETTER TO HIS YOUNGER SELF FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'YOU'RE GOG TO FD TE LOVE'OCT 11, 2022UP NEXT FAY—PILOT RN GIRL WH LOST DOLL OM HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLDAUGT 25, 2023PILOT THANKS FLIGHT ATTENDANT MOM SURPRISE SPEECH ON THEIR 1ST FLIGHT TOGETHERAUGT 24, 2023MOM AND DAD SHARE SAME BIRTHDAY AS THEIR NEWBORN TWSAUGT 24, 2023NICU BABI GET PLAYFUL BARBIE-THEMED PHOTOSHOOTAUGT 24, 2023UP NEXT FAY—PILOT RN GIRL WH LOST DOLL OM HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLDAUGT 25, 2023PILOT THANKS FLIGHT ATTENDANT MOM SURPRISE SPEECH ON THEIR 1ST FLIGHT TOGETHERAUGT 24, 2023MOM AND DAD SHARE SAME BIRTHDAY AS THEIR NEWBORN TWSAUGT 24, 2023NICU BABI GET PLAYFUL BARBIE-THEMED PHOTOSHOOTAUGT 24, 2023
• THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
• GAY MIAMI
• MIAMI GAY SNAS
• MIA KIRSHNER’S GAY/LBIAN RUMORS, SEXUALY, AND DATG LIFE EXPLORED
• THE BT GAY CLUBS MIAMI FOR A NIGHT OUT WH THE BOYS

MARA GAY: FACTS TO KNOW ABOUT THE CONSCIENT AND BRAVE JOURNALIST

(Photo by Ram Talaie/Getty Imag)About Mara GayGenrFemaleParentsPatricia Voll-GayAddrsNew YorkCountryUned StatNatnalyAmerinJobJournalist, ReporterAlumniUniversy of MichiganEthnicyMixed RaceMara Gay is a faiar name to rears of The New York Tim as she has been wrg some imprsive articl lately on ntent issu that ncern the people, pecially the realm of polics. Those who have read The New York Tim and The Wall Street Journal have undoubtedly read the impassned articl wrten by Mara Gay over the last few years. People are cur to know more about this brave journalist, so here are a few facts om Mara Gay’s b and LkedIn Wr for The New York TimMara Gay is a member of The New York Tim‘ edorial board where she wr about the cy, state polics, and other New York issu.

SHOP THE BT OF 'THE RIGHT STUFF'!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHFAYWABC-NY'S BILL RTER: I'M A PROUD LGBTQ+ ALLY AND ALWAYS WILL BE14:36LADY GAGA TO LGBTQ MUNY: 'I WOULD TAKE A BULLET FOR YOU' BYBILL RTERJUNE 22, 2021, 6:48 AMIN CELEBRATN OF PRI MONTH, BILL RTER, ANCHOR AT "EYEWNS NEWS" ON WABC-TV NEW YORK CY, REFLECTS A PERSONAL SAY ABOUT BEG AN LGBTQ+ ALLY. AS A PARENT, BEME EPLY PERSONAL FOR RTER WHEN HIS DGHTER MIA PROUDLY ME OUT AT AGE 17."IF A CHILD OF ME WAS BEG DISCRIMATED AGAST FOR WHO SHE IS, THEN THAT CIVIL RIGHTS VLATN WASN'T JT AGAST HER, WAS AGAST ME AS WELL," RTER WR. "WHEN 'S PERSONAL, 'S POWERFUL."RTER SAYS HIS ALLYSHIP WH THE LGBTQ+ MUNY BEGAN WHILE WORKG AT HIS PARENTS' BETY SUPPLY STORE THE 1960S AT A TIME WHEN MOST GAY PEOPLE WERE EHER FLAMBOYANTLY OUT OF THE CLOSET OR FIRMLY HIDG .READ RTER'S PERSONAL SAY BELOW ABOUT THE MEANG AND IMPORTANCE OF ALLYSHIP.MY DGHTER MIA WAS 17 WHEN SHE ME OUT. SHE WAS BOLD, SHE WAS HONT, SHE WAS STRAIGHTFORWARD. WHAT SHE WASN'T WAS SRED OF OUR REACTN. SHE KNEW THAT HER BABY BOOMER PARENTS AND HER MORN-DAY FAY WOULD EMBRACE HER PRONOUNCEMENT OF WHO SHE WAS, AND WHO SHE IS.WABC-NY'S BILL RTER SHAR A PHOTO OF HIS DGHTER, MIA.COURTY BILL RTERMY REACTN? I WAS SO PROUD OF MIA'S EXPLORATN, DISVERY AND JOURNEY ABOUT HER INTY.BUT I HAD A SEND, TERNAL REACTN -- ONE OF PARENTAL WORRY, BEE MIA HAD E OUT TO A WORLD THAT DIDN'T SEEM PREPARED TO OFFER HER THE SAME KD OF RIGHTS GUARANTEED TO PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T GAY.EDOR’S PICKSABC NEWS' ALEX PEREZ ON G OUT: IT 'ALLOWED ME TO FD AND MARRY THE LOVE OF MY LIFE'OCT 07, 2020ABC NEWS’ G BENEZ WR LETTER TO HIS YOUNGER SELF FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'IT WILL ALL BE OK'OCT 11, 2022ABC NEWS' STEVE OSUNSAMI WR LETTER TO HIS YOUNGER SELF FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'YOU'RE GOG TO FD TE LOVE'OCT 11, 2022MORE: ABC NEWS' BECKY WORLEY TO PARENTS ON NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'THIS DAY IS FOR YOU TOO'THE YEAR WAS 2009, AND JT FOUR STAT HAD LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAG. BUT THE TI WAS CHANGG. SIX YEARS LATER, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAG ALL 50 STAT BY STRIKG DOWN THE BANS ON SAME-SEX UNNS.IF A CHILD OF ME WAS BEG DISCRIMATED AGAST FOR WHO SHE IS THEN THAT CIVIL RIGHTS VLATN WASN'T JT AGAST HER, WAS AGAST ME AS WELL.I WATCHED THE TIDAL CHANGE DURG THOSE SIX YEARS WH MORE THAN A BYSTANR'S TERT. THIS DIRECTLY AFFECTED MY OLST CHILD, AND I WAS NOT THE SLIGHTT B IMPARTIAL ABOUT THIS ISSUE. I AM STILL NOT IMPARTIAL. IF A CHILD OF ME WAS BEG DISCRIMATED AGAST FOR WHO SHE IS, THEN THAT CIVIL RIGHTS VLATN WASN'T JT AGAST HER, WAS AGAST ME AS WELL.IT STILL IS. AND, FACT, 'S AGAST ALL OF . I FELT THIS BEFORE MIA ME OUT. I FELT ON BEHALF OF OTHER PARENTS OF GAYS AND LBIANS. BUT THERE'S NO QUTN, WHEN 'S PERSONAL, 'S POWERFUL.WABC-NY'S BILL RTER SHAR A PHOTO WH HIS DGHTER, MIA.COURTY BILL RTERMORE: ABC NEWS' STEVE OSUNSAMI WR LETTER TO HIS YOUNGER SELF FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'YOU'RE GOG TO FD TE LOVE'I FIRMLY EMBRACED #IAMANALLY AS A MANTRA. AND AS SOCIAL MEDIA GREW, I WAS PROUD OF PUBLICLY TALKG ABOUT BEG AN ALLY, PROUD OF MIA FOR STANDG UP FOR HER RIGHTS, AND NOT SILENT ABOUT BEG WORRIED ABOUT OUR UNTRY FOR NOT PROTECTG THE RIGHTS OF MIA AND ALL GAYS OR LBIANS. THAT EXPAND TO THE LGBTQ+ WORLD THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED.I ALSO BEME AWARE OF SOMETHG ELSE -- SOMETHG SOME PARENTS FELT ABOUT THEIR GAY CHILDREN THE YEARS BEFORE SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENTS LIKE IVF AND DONOR EGGS BEME AVAILABLE ON A MASS SLE. SOME PARENTS TOLD ME THAT WHILE THEY SUPPORTED THEIR CHILDREN WHO ME OUT, THEY WERE AWARE TYPILLY MEANT THAT, MANY STAT, THEY ULD NOT HAVE CHILDREN OR ADOPT CHILDREN AS A GAY OR LBIAN UPLE. FOR THE PARENTS THAT MEANT NO GRANDKIDS; AND, TRY AS THEY MIGHT TO NOT LET AFFECT THEM, THEY SAID THERE WAS A SADNS TO THAT.BUT WHEN SCIENCE TMPED DARK-AGE PRACTIC AND MEDIL BREAKTHROUGHS ALLOWED FOR ANYONE TO BE ABLE TO DIRECTLY TAKE PART THE BIRTH PROCS, PARENTS' HATN MELTED.IT IS ONE REASON THAT MANY BELIEVE SUPPORT FOR SAME SEX MARRIAG EXPLOD DURG THE OBAMA YEARS WH THE ADVANCE OF SCIENCE AND A SUPPORTIVE WHE HOE ADMISTRATN.FOR ME, I DID NOT FEEL ANY SUCH HATN. PERHAPS WAS MY UPBRGG. I GREW UP WORKG MY PARENTS' BETY SUPPLY STORE. THEY SOLD PRODUCTS TO THE PUBLIC AND TO HAIR DRSERS AT HAIR SALONS. I WORKED THERE SEVERAL DAYS A WEEK AFTER SCHOOL AND, WHEN I WAS OLD ENOUGH TO DRIVE, LIVERED ON THE WEEKENDS TO HAIR SALONS.ALL OF WHICH IS TO SAY THAT, THE 1960S, I GREW UP TERACTG WH LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE GAY AT A TIME WHEN MOST GAY PEOPLE WERE EHER FLAMBOYANTLY OUT OF THE CLOSET -- OR FIRMLY HIDG .I ALSO GREW UP WH PARENTS WHO WERE PASSNATE SUPPORTERS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. MY 15TH BIRTHDAY PRENT WAS GOG TO OUR TEMPLE AND LISTENG TO DR. MART LUTHER KG JR. SPEAK.MY PARENTS WERE NOT ACTIVISTS BY ANY STRETCH, BUT WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT THEIR CTOMERS -- MANY OF WHOM WERE GAY -- THEY MA CLEAR TO THEIR TWO SONS THAT JT AS AIN AMERINS HAD A LACK OF CIVIL RIGHTS, SO TOO DID GAY PEOPLE LARGE PART BEE SO MANY HAD TO KEEP A SECRET ABOUT WHO THEY REALLY WERE.LATER, WHEN I BEME AN ANTI-VIETNAM WAR ACTIVIST, THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT WAS UNRWAY. AND GAY AND LBIAN ACTIVISTS WHO WERE PART OF THE ANTI WAR MOVEMENT WERE QUE VOL ABOUT DISCRIMATN AGAST THEM.AS I GREW UP, I BEME MORE AWARE OF THE TOLL LIFE THE CLOSET TAK ON GAYS AND LBIANS. LATER, NEWSROOMS, THERE WERE OLR GAYS AND LBIANS WHO OPENLY TALKED ABOUT HOW STAYG THE CLOSET AFFECTED THEM GROWG UP, AND THEY MA DARN SURE THEY MENTORED THE YOUNGER JOURNALISTS WHO EHER HAD E OUT OR WERE STGGLG WH G OUT.SO WHEN I E THE HASHTAG #IAMANALLY, I GIVE NOT JT WH PRI FOR MY DGHTER, BUT ALSO TO SALUTE THOSE WHO HELPED PAVED THE WAY FOR THE EEDOMS GAYS AND LBIANS NOW EMBRACE, AND WHO SUPPORT THE EFFORTS TO EXPAND THOSE EEDOMS TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.AS WE HERALD ANOTHER PRI MONTH, I'M BEYOND PROUD, ONCE AGA, TO BE AN ALLY. AND I PROMISE TO ALWAYS BE.EDOR’S PICKSABC NEWS' ALEX PEREZ ON G OUT: IT 'ALLOWED ME TO FD AND MARRY THE LOVE OF MY LIFE'OCT 07, 2020ABC NEWS’ G BENEZ WR LETTER TO HIS YOUNGER SELF FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'IT WILL ALL BE OK'OCT 11, 2022ABC NEWS' STEVE OSUNSAMI WR LETTER TO HIS YOUNGER SELF FOR NATNAL COMG OUT DAY: 'YOU'RE GOG TO FD TE LOVE'OCT 11, 2022UP NEXT FAY—PILOT RN GIRL WH LOST DOLL OM HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLDAUGT 25, 2023PILOT THANKS FLIGHT ATTENDANT MOM SURPRISE SPEECH ON THEIR 1ST FLIGHT TOGETHERAUGT 24, 2023MOM AND DAD SHARE SAME BIRTHDAY AS THEIR NEWBORN TWSAUGT 24, 2023NICU BABI GET PLAYFUL BARBIE-THEMED PHOTOSHOOTAUGT 24, 2023UP NEXT FAY—PILOT RN GIRL WH LOST DOLL OM HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLDAUGT 25, 2023PILOT THANKS FLIGHT ATTENDANT MOM SURPRISE SPEECH ON THEIR 1ST FLIGHT TOGETHERAUGT 24, 2023MOM AND DAD SHARE SAME BIRTHDAY AS THEIR NEWBORN TWSAUGT 24, 2023NICU BABI GET PLAYFUL BARBIE-THEMED PHOTOSHOOTAUGT 24, 2023

— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) October 17, 2018Before this, she had worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for the past five years, verg the Greater New York area. Workg at AOL News was a great learng experience for Gay as she was by wh reportg origal news stori and aggregated ntent; verg lol New York Cy, natnal, and ternatnal news; and wrg several high-traffic stori every day on a range of then worked as a natnal enterprise reporter for The Daily for a year and a half.

She earned a solid reputatn as a wrer of origal people-driven stori, as well as articl on natnal polics, the impact of Hurrine Sandy, and the ath and rebirth of the cy of Detro, jog the WSJ, she also had a four-month stt at New York Daily News as a Cy Hall reporter, which gave her a taste of the kd of work she would be dog Studied Polil Science CollegeGay entered the field of journalism wh ample preparatn by securg a bachelor of arts gree polil science om the Universy of Michigan. Gay was a stunt there om 2004 to 2008, and excelled as a nner throughout her unrgrad years.

It’s an activy she ntued to dulge after her graduatn as Read: Intertg Facts about the Host of “Fox & Friends” Todd PiroShe Is a PhilanthropistGay has n two New York-based half-marathons (Lake Placid and Hamptons) and raised over $3, 000 to support the Lkemia and Lymphoma Society through the Team Trag Has a Fondns for FoodGay grew up Wtchter County and Brooklyn, and currently liv Brooklyn today. Whenever Gay gets time off om her hectic work schle, she spends happily dulgg her favore activi like nng, tryg out new kds of cuise, and regularly g the cy’s bike share Parents Have an Interracial MarriagePeople who have met Gay marvel at the passn she has for her work and brgg important issu to the attentn of ncerned stakeholrs. Mara Gay’s parents are an terracial marriage and have faced much discrimatn and problems all their life due to has wrten about her parents’ unique love story, which began when they met Detro, one of the most segregated ci the U.

THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS

At that and me on fire islandPosted by Patricia Voll-Gay on Sunday, Augt 15, 2010Gay’s mother Patricia is whe and her father is black, but the uple fell love and cid to marry each other spe fierce opposn om both their fai and society. Today, of urse, their marriage is legal all 50 stat, but their choice to love one another through such difficult tim is a personal triumph for them and Gay Is an Inspiratn for Young PeopleGay is a role mol for young people of mixed race and all backgrounds Ameri, and has proved that a unique perspective on the world as well as abily, telligence, and hard work n get you the reer and life you’ve dreamed personal urage is pecially spirg to young victims of sexual asslt. Gay bravely shared her story as a rape survivor followg Dr.

Gay has achieved her objectiv by mtg herself to sharg the hard-htg stori that matter most to rears, whether polil or social.

Mara Gay has gaed that most important of thgs, rpect! "Rter says his allyship wh the LGBTQ+ muny began while workg at his parents' bety supply store the 1960s at a time when most gay people were eher flamboyantly out of the closet or firmly hidg Rter's personal say below about the meang and importance of dghter Mia was 17 when she me out.

GAY MIAMI

I felt on behalf of other parents of gays and lbians.

And as social media grew, I was proud of publicly talkg about beg an ally, proud of Mia for standg up for her rights, and not silent about beg worried about our untry for not protectg the rights of Mia and all gays or lbians. I also beme aware of somethg else -- somethg some parents felt about their gay children the years before scientific advancements like IVF and donor eggs beme available on a mass sle. Some parents told me that while they supported their children who me out, they were aware typilly meant that, many stat, they uld not have children or adopt children as a gay or lbian uple.

I worked there several days a week after school and, when I was old enough to drive, livered on the weekends to hair of which is to say that, the 1960s, I grew up teractg wh lots of people who were gay at a time when most gay people were eher flamboyantly out of the closet -- or firmly hidg . Parents were not activists by any stretch, but when they talked about their ctomers -- many of whom were gay -- they ma clear to their two sons that jt as Ain Amerins had a lack of civil rights, so too did gay people large part bee so many had to keep a secret about who they really, when I beme an anti-Vietnam war activist, the gay liberatn movement was unrway.

MIAMI GAY SNAS

And gay and lbian activists who were part of the anti war movement were que vol about discrimatn agast I grew up, I beme more aware of the toll life the closet tak on gays and lbians.

Later, newsrooms, there were olr gays and lbians who openly talked about how stayg the closet affected them growg up, and they ma darn sure they mentored the younger journalists who eher had e out or were stgglg wh g when I e the hashtag #IAmAnAlly, I give not jt wh pri for my dghter, but also to salute those who helped paved the way for the eedoms gays and lbians now embrace, and who support the efforts to expand those eedoms to all members of the LGBTQ+ we herald another Pri month, I'm beyond proud, once aga, to be an ally.

Gay revelers (and their lucky straight iends) are wavg their arms, strikg genue pos and shamelsly sgg along to the sugary 45-year-old pop standard that’s bee synonymo wh queer nightlife. ” and “Macho Man” for themselv, but there’s no way they’ll take this one om to multiple stage and screen rnatns of “Mamma Mia!, ” fabuloly garish stum om gay signer Owe Sandström and nsummately crafted songs more retroactively popular than their ’70s and early ’80s heyday, ABBA has for s been the bull’s-eye of the LGBTQ mil universe. Ostensibly cheerful but packed wh drama and peppered wh Sndavian melancholy, the Stockholm mixed-genr quartet’s pop has blueprted the glz of untls gay and gay-iendly acts om Kylie Mogue to Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert to Lil Nas X — a sgular achievement for a band that hadn’t pleted an album 40 years.

MIA KIRSHNER’S GAY/LBIAN RUMORS, SEXUALY, AND DATG LIFE EXPLORED

This week releasg “Voyage, ” s first new LP sce 1981 and a teaser for next year’s London ncerts featurg 3D avatars, ABBA is to many gay fans what the Rollg Ston are to straights — archetyp whose appeal transcends time, place and age. While even ins like Madonna polarize opn, nearly every lor of the gay rabow agre on wasn’t always the se.

Back when Donna Summer reigned as disputable dancg queen, ABBA didn’t get much gay club play, not even you-know-what. Y, there were exceptns: Larry Levan — the fluential gay Black DJ at New York’s legendary and largely Black/LGBTQ Paradise Garage — adored Cher’s “Take Me Home.

” But gay DJs and their dienc mostly favored unrground divas and obscure orchtral matros they disvered and popularized, not succsful pop acts plucked om AM changed the early ’80s when the U.

THE BT GAY CLUBS MIAMI FOR A NIGHT OUT WH THE BOYS

Straight clubs shifted to eclectic funk and new wave, but the well of speedy gay dancefloor arias nearly ran dry. ” “The first time he did that, was a mistake, ” rells Robbie Llie, DJ veteran of New York Cy’s the Sat, the ultimate ’80s gay dis.

”Like Llie’s siarly beloved mix of Jimmy Ruff’s “Hold on to My Love, ” Rodriguez’s ABBA transformatn appeared only on Dis, a gay-owned subscriptn remix service. This forced a 12-ch release overseas of “Lay All Your Love on Me’s” paratively ordary LP cut that prerved the exclivy of Rodriguez’s versn, while s longevy proved that dancers — particularly gay on — still craved fast and lty club anthems. In 1982, ABBA’s North Amerin label issued s kdred uptempo tune “The Visors” as a sgle, but once aga, a gay subscriptn-only remix service, Hot Tracks, supplied the extend ABBA that year rerd what would be for s s fal ssns, U.

Producers such as Stock Aken Waterman filled the void wh gay-targeted “hi-NRG” tracks that crossed to the mastream via Dead or Alive, Bananarama, Mogue and Summer, while everyone om the Lat Rasls to the Pet Shop Boys replited Rodriguez’s mache-gun hi-NRG ran s urse, England’s Erasure released 1992’s “Abba-que, ” a love letter of ver versns. Its gay lead sger, Andy Bell, and his straight synth sikick Vce Clarke even re-created their source material’s “Take a Chance on Me” vio drag, wh U.