How a tired homophobic tchphrase was reclaimed—and changed forever—by the gay rights movement.
Contents:
- HOMOSEXUALY AND THE BIBLIL GENIS: WERE ADAM AND EVE GAY?
- ADAM AND STEVE: QUEER ARTISTS REPURPOSE GENIS AS A GAY LOVE STORY
- ADAM AND EVE: A RATNAL ARGUMENT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE?
HOMOSEXUALY AND THE BIBLIL GENIS: WERE ADAM AND EVE GAY?
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At 16, Craig Chter fell love wh a boy his suburban Dallas was the early 1980s—hardly a hopeful time for gay acceptance the South—and Chter still remembers what his pastor told him when he found out about the doomed love: "God ma Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. "There were startg to be gay characters on televisn. And New York and the gay agendas.
ADAM AND STEVE: QUEER ARTISTS REPURPOSE GENIS AS A GAY LOVE STORY
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He's now a filmmaker; the first movie he wrote was the gay romantic edy Adam & s, the right-wg fight to keep gay upl om gettg married—which culmated feat wh last Friday's Supreme Court cisn—has returned aga and aga to that sgle tchphrase: "God ma Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. ) But there's a lot packed to such a succct homophobic mantra: God. The first known appearance of "Adam and Steve" me 1977, what would bee s natural habat: a picket sign at an anti-gay rally.
This particular prott brought 15, 000 "pro-fay" spectators to an arena Hoton, where burgeong Relig Right ins like Phyllis Schlafly and Natnal Right to Life Commtee founr Mildred Jefferson railed agast homosexualy, abortn and the Natnal Women's Conference happeng five away.
Is a Turkey, " "Not Gay, But Happy People—Happy, Texas" and, of urse, "God Ma Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve. Whoever wrote the slogan was probably gog for a snappier take on "If God had wanted homosexuals, he would have created Adam and Freddy, " which was scrawled by a San Francis graffi artist 1970 and parroted by anti-gay activist Ana Bryant (who swapped out "Freddy" for "Bce") People magaze if you were to gus who first gave the phrase wir natnal exposure, you'd probably get right on the first or send try: the late televangelist Jerry Falwell, of "Gays Csed 9/11" fame.
ADAM AND EVE: A RATNAL ARGUMENT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE?
A Massachetts polician, Roger Goyette, ed to block gay rights legislatn 1985. "HOMOSEXUALITY: Adam and STEVE" was a chapter tle Michael Yosef's 1986 book "Leadg the Way: The Church or Culture? " Strangt of all, rocker Ltle Richard ed to renounce his own "gay liftyle.
"We ed to go down to the gay bars Dallas and try to save the gays, " he says. After he'd e out and moved to New York, he returned to Dallas and attend a gay pri para. Alpert intified as havg bee "an important slogan for the antigay movement, " notg s prence on plards, bumper stickers and televisn.
Gay-bashg policians have ntued to return to ever sce. "Then, The Most Fabulo Story Ever Told, a 1998 play by the openly gay playwright Pl Rudnick, God do make Adam and Steve—as well as a lbian uple named Jane and Mabel.