Tensns are risg after Jamai refed to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.
Contents:
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
- THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
- 'SUCK DICK, FIGHT OR QU DOG GAY SH': THE TEXAS PRISON RAPE PROBLEM
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
The projects were elimated as part of a Republin en bloc amendment that advanced a range of Republin cultural prri, cludg a provisn that would ban flyg gay pri flags over ernment buildgs. Mark Pon said the mtee’s move to strip the earmarks was “bigoted” and scribed his own experience gettg attacked leavg a gay bar that left him unnsc. “It’s clearly, and directly a bigoted cisn, bee the Republin Party don’t like gay people, ” she said.
But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them. I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier. But om the picture above, we n see that there’s an entire shelf of queer manga that rang om “I n’t believe this your face smut is actually at the bookstore” to more story-driven tl like Given, How Do We Relatnship, Prcs Jellyfish, hell, Massive is a manga anthology created by gay men that featur terviews, says, and illtratns, while My Lbian Experience Wh Lonels is a eply personal tobgraphy.
THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
Rumors are swirlg that tensns between Jamai and the Uned Stat are risg after the former refed to grant accredatn to the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat – whose inty has not been ma public – sce same-sex marriage is not legal the Caribbean natn. Equalx reports that addn to same-sex marriage beg illegal, homosexualy among men remas outlawed Jamai and n be punished wh up to seven years prison. Homosexualy among women is not explicly illegal, but sodomy between any two humans is punishable wh up to 10 years prison.
'SUCK DICK, FIGHT OR QU DOG GAY SH': THE TEXAS PRISON RAPE PROBLEM
Although is clearly a homosexual act, there are those who nsir the ultimate extreme of male bondg. A CO at a different un was far ls gallant: “You n’t rape someone who’s gay, ” he told her, acrdg to Star. Instead, he suggted, “Suck dick, fight or qu dog gay sh and you’ll be okay, but qu nng me wh OPIs.
Then 18, she intified at the time as a gay man; she and her boyiend were nvicted by a Coryell County jury of abductg a ed-r aler named William McCune Augt 2002, takg off wh him the r durg a tt drive of a maroon Impala. ”Star says the affidav that her treatment was part of a long pattern of gang members victimizg LGBT or “feme”-seemg mat:There is a ctom TDCJ pursuant to which gay men and transgenr women are targeted by other mat, equently mat wh power and fluence the un, often gang members, and forced to perform sexual acts as a means of survival bee otherwise we will be asslted. ” Bee gay men and transgenr women are not protected by TDCJ staff, we are often erced unwillgly to unwanted sexual enunters to pe physil asslt if we try to tells Jezebel she ma her first plats 2003 at the Telford un.
(Throughout many of the plats, Star refers to herself as gay, not trans; she says the affidav that she believed rrectnal officers and TCDJ admistrators would unrstand “gay” better.