Opn | Fellow gay people, don’t fet: We are a battle-harned movement - The Washgton Post

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• OPN FELLOW GAY PEOPLE, DON’T FET: WE ARE A BATTLE-HARNED MOVEMENT
• GAY VS FELLOW - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAY | FELLOW |AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AND FELLOWIS THAT GAY IS NAPE WHILE FELLOW IS (LB) A LLEAGUE OR PARTNER.AS VERBS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AND FELLOWIS THAT GAY IS TO CROW WHILE FELLOW IS TO SU WH; TO PAIR WH; TO MATCH.AS AN ADJECTIVE FELLOW ISHAVG MON CHARACTERISTICS; BEG OF THE SAME KD, OR THE SAME GROUP.GAYENGLISHPROPER NOUN(EN PROPER NOUN), ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY OM THE WORD GAY, "JOYFUL"; RARE TODAY.. ALSO A SHORTENED FORM OF GABRIEL, GAYLORD AND SIAR NAM, OR TRANSFERRED OM THE SURNAME.* 1992 , UNTO THE SONS , BALLANTE BOOKS 1993, ISBN 0804110336, PAGE 15- - - MY FATHER'S FATHER, GAETANO TALE ( WHOSE NAME I HERED AFTER MY BIRTH 1932, THE ANGLICIZED OM OF "GAY "), WAS AN ATYPILLY FEARLS TRAVELER,* 2004 , BAD DIRT , FOURTH ESTATE, ISBN 0007196911, PAGE 32"MR GAY BRAWLS. WHAT A NAME.""IT DIDN'T E TO MEAN WHAT MEANS NOW. PLENTY WERE NAMED GAY'. EVEN NEVADA. WAS OLD ' GAY PCH HAD A GAS STATN WNEMUC. NOBODY THOUGHT NOTH ABOUT AND HE RAISED A RAILROAD R OF KIDS.- - -ANAGRAMS*FELLOW
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• THIS PRI MONTH, FELLOW GAYS, KEEP YOUR KKS AT HOME — AND AWAY OM KIDS

OPN FELLOW GAY PEOPLE, DON’T FET: WE ARE A BATTLE-HARNED MOVEMENT

On Thursday, sr of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Amerins led up the glor sunshe outsi the southeast entrance to the Whe Hoe for the print’s eighth annual “celebratn of LGBT Pri Month. ”You have jt read one of hundreds of sentenc I never expected to be able to wre, four s after I realized that I was here is the sentence I never wanted to wre — about 50 people beg massacred a gay club, the worst mass shootg U. In the Uned Stat, almost every step forward for gay people has been followed by several steps Sunday’s horror exceeds anythg many people have experienced before — except for those of old enough to remember the mass sualti of the AIDS epimic.

That tastrophe wiped out one-half of the gay men of my the eve of that epimic, a siar though much smaller shootg spree sent a wave of fear through Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, que like the one felt Orlando early Sunday. Then he fired to a Village bar and two other lotns, killg two and woundg days like this, is pecially important to remember that we are a battle-harned, Thursday's Whe Hoe celebratn me 51 years after Washgton saw the very first people ever to intify themselv as gay outsi the Whe Hoe. Twelve picketers led by Washgton gay lears Jack Nichols and Frank Kameny startled bystanrs wh handwrten signs readg "15 Milln Homosexuals Prott Feral Treatment.

"They were referrg to the executive orr signed by Dwight Eisenhower 1953 that prohibed the feral ernment and all of s ntractors om employg anyone who was known to be gay — a policy backed even by the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn the s later, we had the n of the send floor of the Whe Hoe wh champagne and smoked salmon and the pany of Eric Fanng, the openly gay secretary of the Army. There too were openly gay legislators, such as Rep.

GAY VS FELLOW - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?GAY | FELLOW |AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AND FELLOWIS THAT GAY IS NAPE WHILE FELLOW IS (LB) A LLEAGUE OR PARTNER.AS VERBS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AND FELLOWIS THAT GAY IS TO CROW WHILE FELLOW IS TO SU WH; TO PAIR WH; TO MATCH.AS AN ADJECTIVE FELLOW ISHAVG MON CHARACTERISTICS; BEG OF THE SAME KD, OR THE SAME GROUP.GAYENGLISHPROPER NOUN(EN PROPER NOUN), ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY OM THE WORD GAY, "JOYFUL"; RARE TODAY.. ALSO A SHORTENED FORM OF GABRIEL, GAYLORD AND SIAR NAM, OR TRANSFERRED OM THE SURNAME.* 1992 , UNTO THE SONS , BALLANTE BOOKS 1993, ISBN 0804110336, PAGE 15- - - MY FATHER'S FATHER, GAETANO TALE ( WHOSE NAME I HERED AFTER MY BIRTH 1932, THE ANGLICIZED OM OF "GAY "), WAS AN ATYPILLY FEARLS TRAVELER,* 2004 , BAD DIRT , FOURTH ESTATE, ISBN 0007196911, PAGE 32"MR GAY BRAWLS. WHAT A NAME.""IT DIDN'T E TO MEAN WHAT MEANS NOW. PLENTY WERE NAMED GAY'. EVEN NEVADA. WAS OLD ' GAY PCH HAD A GAS STATN WNEMUC. NOBODY THOUGHT NOTH ABOUT AND HE RAISED A RAILROAD R OF KIDS.- - -ANAGRAMS*FELLOW

It is pecially appropriate that the greatt champn we have ever had the Whe Hoe is a black Amerin, bee the succs of the gay liberatn movement flowed om our emulatn of the fierce bravery of the nonvlent civil rights spoke briefly and betifully about the folks who "never imaged we'd e this far — maybe even some this room, " and about the upg generatn — "Malia's, Sasha's generatn [who] stctively know people are people and fai are fai. Outsi, we psed so I uld snap a shot of my Joe holdg up the print’s proclamatn of “Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Pri Month” wh the People’s Hoe behd then we woke up Sunday morng to the horrific news. I worried that if this was scribed as another act of terrorism, uld fuel the xenophobic mpaign of Donald when the shooter was intified as a Mlim, my thoughts passed to my newt Mlim iend, a recent graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, who is proud and out New York Cy but don’t thk he will ever be able to tell anyone his own East Ain fay about the way he that, I spoke wh Maloney, who had arranged our Whe Hoe vis, about the necsary nversatn to e: about anti-LGBT hatred, about gun vlence and about Maloney ma what I thk is an sential pot, that the mols for the gay muny should be “the brave parishners Charlton, who even the immediate aftermath of that horrific shootg rpond wh love and wh digny.

After seeg Stokely Carmichael clare on televisn 1968 that "black is betiful, " Kameny vented the first slogan of the gay liberatn movement: "Gay is good. "Gay is good, and gay is strongt when we e the worst adversy to strengthen our mment to liberty and more:.

Noah Schnapp me out as gay on TikTok.

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

Schnapp posted a TikTok vio January that read, "When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was 'we know. Now 's 100% clear that he is gay and he do love Mike.

THIS PRI MONTH, FELLOW GAYS, KEEP YOUR KKS AT HOME — AND AWAY OM KIDS

"Page, who is married to dancer Emma Portner, prevly me out as gay durg a 2014 speech at Time to Thrive, a nference to promote the welfare of LGBTQ youth Las Vegas. " she told the Gay Tim.

Jim Parsons has taken rol that amplify and explore the experienc of gay men. Parsons publicly me out as gay a 2012 New York Tim feature, which explored his role as a young gay activist onstage "The Normal Heart, " a Broadway show that grappl wh AIDS. If you still have a problem wh gay people, you directly have a problem wh me, '" he recently told Variety.

"The actor is set to star a Netflix adaptatn of the drama "The Boys the Band" alongsi fellow gay actors Matt Bomer and Zachary Quto.