Nev Cohen, left, 48 and his partner Daniel Hernanz were the 2nd uple to be married at the Manhattan Cy Clerk's office New York Cy on the first day of legalizatn of gay marriage New... Get premium, high rolutn news photos at Getty Imag
Contents:
- OPN: TWO GAY HERO THWART ASSASSATNS -- WHAT A DIFFERENCE 35 YEARS MAKE
- THE GIFFORDS SHOOTG'S GAY, HISPANIC HERO
- DANIEL HERNANZ IS GAY
OPN: TWO GAY HERO THWART ASSASSATNS -- WHAT A DIFFERENCE 35 YEARS MAKE
Daniel Hernanz, an openly gay 21-year-old Universy of Arizona stunt, was jt five days to his new job as an tern for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) when, durg a route "meet & greet" wh her nstuents a suburban Tucson shoppg center, a mentally disturbed man open fired an assassatn attempt on Giffords, killg six people among the gathered crowd, cludg a feral judge... * daniel hernandez gay *
Hernanz, who is gay and Hispanic, has bee a particular hero for those groups recent days.
"I thk that what Daniel did has nothg to do wh his sexualy, but beg that he is openly gay, I thk that 's really amazg and credible to have someone wh the gay muny, particularly a young person, who n be seen as dog somethg heroic, " says Danielle Flk, who serv wh Hernanz on Tucson's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr missn.
— Daniel Hernanz Jr., an openly gay 21-year-old Universy of Arizona stunt, was jt five days to his new job as an tern for U. Hernanz says his foc is on lol learship, and while payg particular attentn to LGBTQ issu that affect his district, he says he don’t want to lim himself to those issu exclively, although he said he is absolute his mment to preventg anti-gay bullyg and raisg awarens of how eply that issue affects LGBT youth. I’m jt Daniel Hernanz, this isn’t about me beg gay or even Hispanic, ’s about me wantg to help others.
THE GIFFORDS SHOOTG'S GAY, HISPANIC HERO
daniel hernanz gay * daniel hernandez gay *
Daniel Hernanz is gay, a member of Tucson’s cy missn on gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr issu. I brg this up not only bee gay webs are talkg up, but bee remds me of another gay man who thwarted an assassatn attempt -- but a very different time and cultural climate.
The news verage that ensued changed Sipple’s life, not for the better, and ultimately had a hand makg Amerins nont their stereotyp about beg ‘gay.
’ Sipple was known to San Francis’s gay muny, where he had taken part some events, but he was not ‘out’ to his fay or to the larger world. News reports, cludg some this paper, discsed his sexualy -- perhaps disclosed, some speculated, wh a nudge om gay activist and future San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk (who would himself be assassated 1978). The Tim quoted Milk 1989 about Sipple’s actns: ‘For once, we n show that gays do heroic thgs, not jt all that - about moltg children and hangg out bathrooms.
DANIEL HERNANZ IS GAY
As a poster on Free Republic remarked, "Look shortly for the leftist media to ph the 'Gay, Hispanic-Amerin Intern savg the Liberal Congrswoman's life om the Tea Party' angle. And if simply beg gay and Lato were grounds for heroism, Ricky Mart's face would be on the $10 bill.
That shows the world that a hero n be gay or straight, n speak English or Spanish or both, and that stupid laws n exist plac full of good people. Y, the "gay Hispanic Amerin" saved a life on Saturday, and y, do matter. And Orlando Cz, a man who mak livg the boxg rg, revealed his homosexualy last year.
None of the men, or lns of others, f to the outdated stereotype of the limp-wristed, flamboyant, "sissy boy" that remas associated wh gay men. Yet here we are, 2013, and anti-gay nservativ are accg Daniel Hernanz Jr., a public servant who saved former Arizona Congrswoman Gabrielle Giffords's life after she was shot (and an Out100 honoree), of not beg a "real man.