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Contents:
- 'HE'S PROBABLY GAY': VIO SHOWS COPS MAKG FUN OF BURGLARY VICTIM
- VIO: GAY MAN SAVAGELY BEATEN UNNSC BY TEXAS SECURY GUARDS
- THE ERA WHEN GAY SPI WERE FEARED
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- VIO: GAY MAN SAVAGELY BEATEN UNNSC BY TEXAS SECURY GUARDS
- 'HE'S PROBABLY GAY': VIO SHOWS COPS MAKG FUN OF BURGLARY VICTIM
'HE'S PROBABLY GAY': VIO SHOWS COPS MAKG FUN OF BURGLARY VICTIM
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A gay weddg planner was beaten unnsc by bouncers at a Texas nightclub last weekend, and vio of the cint has sce gone viral. He said such anti-gay bias is beg more monplace among bouncers at LGBTQ+ events the area.
“This is what happens when you take a anchise rtrant and turn to a ne club and after hours and then hire homophobic secury officers, ” Hoton-Pickett wrote a post to social media about the cint.
VIO: GAY MAN SAVAGELY BEATEN UNNSC BY TEXAS SECURY GUARDS
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THE ERA WHEN GAY SPI WERE FEARED
Image source, Getty ImagMI5 has been named the UK's most gay-iendly employer - but isn't long sce same-sex relatnships were nsired a threat to natnal secury.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
"How to spot a possible homo, " ran a headle the paper.
Below this, for MI5's benef, was a list of supposed signifiers of male homosexualy ("a gay ltle wiggle", "his tie has the latt knot", "an unnaturally strong affectn for his mother") pretext for this unsoliced advice - which now seems clearly offensive - was the se of John Vassall, a gay civil servant who spied for the Soviets unr threat of blackmail. A gay man, the paper's reporter said, was a facto secury risk: "I wouldn't tst him wh my secrets. "Fast forward 53 years and the service tops Stonewall's 2016 list of the 400 bt plac to work for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people.
VIO: GAY MAN SAVAGELY BEATEN UNNSC BY TEXAS SECURY GUARDS
Acrdg to the Tim, more than 80 of s employe belong to an LGBT staff source, Eveng StandardImage ptn, Brish civil servant and Soviet spy John Vassall shortly after his release om prison 1972And yet a ban on gay men and women servg MI5, MI6 or GCHQ was force as recently as 1991.
'HE'S PROBABLY GAY': VIO SHOWS COPS MAKG FUN OF BURGLARY VICTIM
A seri of Cold War sndals featurg gay men meant homosexualy was lked many people's mds wh pnage and betrayal. As well as Vassall, who was ught a honeytrap by the KGB, at least two of the Cambridge Five spy rg, Guy Burgs and Anthony Blunt, were gay, while a third, Donald MacLean, was bisexual. There was also Daily Telegraph Mosw rrponnt Jeremy Wolfenn - son of John Wolfenn, who chaired the missn that remend the legalisatn of male homosexual acts - who was photographed by the KGB havg sex wh a man, and whom MI6 subsequently attempted to e as a double agent.
He turned to heavy drkg and died 1965 age ptn, Alan Bat played spy Guy Burgs Alan Bent's An Englishman AbroadIn the Uned Stat, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-munist mpaign targeted sr of gay officials, explicly lkg homosexualy wh subversn and Soviet sympathi, a procs known as the "lavenr sre". FBI chief J Edgar Hoover - himself wily believed to have been gay - ed the agency to target dozens of gay ernment was a perd which LGBT people risked losg their reers and their eedom if their sexualy was revealed. In 1953 Print Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, which effectively led that gay people were secury risks.
Homosexual acts between men were illegal Great Bra until 1967.