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Contents:

• GAY TIMES
• HOW TIME’S REPORTG ON GAY LIFE AMERI SHAPED—AND SKEWED—A GENERATN’S ATTUS
• @GAYTIM
• OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
• GAY ONLINE MAGAZIN GLEICHLAUT ISSUE JULI #07/2023
• 6 DES OF LGBT MAGAZ, INCLUDG THE ADVOTE AND GAY TIM
• ABOUT XY, US’S #1 GAY MENS PRT MAG
• CALUM STT GO SHIRTLS FOR 'GAY TIM' COVER, HIS FIRST EVER!
• NEWSWEEK COVER: OBAMA 'FIRST GAY PRINT'
• ONE: THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE THE UNED STAT
• PHILALPHIA GAY NEWS
• READ THE 'YEP, I'M GAY' ELLEN DEGENER INTERVIEW FROM 1997
• WHAT FLORIDA'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL COULD MEAN FOR LGBTQ KIDS
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• GAY TIM – NOVEMBER 2021

GAY TIMES

Whether that's been spreadg ccial awarens on policy and our global queer siblgs' ongog fight for liberatn, to the latt celebry, TV, film and mic: Gay Tim reprents the tly multifaceted nature of the queer 1. The Begng or the End claimed the Amerin ary dropped warng leaflets about the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and that the Enola Gay me unr attack om Japane antiaircraft missile fire on s bombg n.

Did not drop leaflets warng of the atomic bomb specifilly, though pilots may have dropped more general notic of impendg attacks on Hiroshima, and the Enola Gay did not e unr antiaircraft fire.

HOW TIME’S REPORTG ON GAY LIFE AMERI SHAPED—AND SKEWED—A GENERATN’S ATTUS

“They were ashamed of their sexualy and genr inty so our unter to gay shame was Gay Pri, ” Peter Tatchell – one of the people who anised that 1972 Pri march – recently told GAY TIMES.

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“Back then the overwhelmg amount of LGBTQ+ people were closeted, shameful and didn’t believe they were entled to equal rights, ” Peter told , addg that gay patrons outsi of queer pubs would throw s and beer bottl at them. In the UK we’ve fought for and won many rights – om same-sex marriage, equal age of nsent, the Genr Regnn Act, and the right to adopt, through to repealg the homophobic Sectn 28 that probed the teachg of LGBTQ+ experienc schools the 90s. The former prs officer for the Brish Iron and Steel Feratn started volunteerg for the Homosexual Law Reform Society (HLRS) 1958, which mpaigned to change laws that crimalised gay men.

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Her life trajectory changed 1969 when embolned by the UK’s crimalisatn of homosexualy two years prevly, she formally me out at Speaker’s Corner Hy Park, tellg the assembled crowd: “You are lookg at a roarg dyke. ” From there on her lbian activism went on to fe much of the gay rights movement; she joed the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly, found the Gay Liberatn Front 1970, took part the UK’s first Pri march 1972 and found leadg lbian magaze, Sappho year later. He also found Black Lbians and Gays Agast Media Homophobia; an anisatn that challenged and lled out media tl who, at the time, regularly ran anti-LGBTQ+ and racist news reports the UK overflowg wh disrmatn and discrimatn.

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In s first two s, the helple was an valuable source of support for those g out after the 1967 partial crimalisatn of male homosexualy, as well as one of rmatn durg the HIV/AIDS epimic the 80s. A former member of Lbians and Gays Support the Mers, Jonathan Blake was one of the first people diagnosed wh HIV the UK and is one of the untry’s olst livg survivors wh the illns. Jonathan was also the face of Terrence Higgs Tst’s first safer sex poster aimed at gay men and has volunteered at var HIV drop- centr cludg THT, The Landmark Brixton/Tulse Hill, Lighthoe South London and The Food Cha.

All three members of the band, Jimmy Somerville, Steve Bronski and Larry Stebachek, who rerd the majory of the band’s hs were openly gay, and ed their mic to highlight LGBTQ+ jtic society. Wrten to mpaign for the lowerg of the age of nsent for homosexual acts to 16 le wh the heterosexual age of nsent the UK, the ner sleeve listed the varyg ag of nsent for nsensual gay sex different natns around the world. It was around this time that Bronski Beat also headled the Ps and Perverts ncert at the Electric Ballroom London to raise funds for the Lbians and Gays Support the Mers mpaign – an event featured the 2014 film Pri.

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Bronski Beat wrote unapologetilly queer lyrics which addrsed homophobia, lonels and fay misunrstandg, the only band of s time to stand so unapologetilly on a public stage for LGBTQ+ rights. A stnch gay rights mapger the early 1980s, he’s most well known for formg the Lbians and Gays Support the Mers group who would raise money for the Natnal Unn of Meworkers durg the year-long strike of 1984–1985.

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Smh was the only openly gay MP at the time of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative ernment banng the “promotn of homosexualy” wh Sectn 28 1988, somethg he joed the public prottg agast several tim. After beg diagnosed wh HIV November 1986, Marc Thompson has ntuoly fought for LGBTQ+ rights and for Black gay men to be clud the nversatn – a nversatn that notorly exclud his muny when the HIV/AIDS first ravaged the LGBTQ+ muny the 80s. He also led Posively UK’s peer mentor programme until June 2018, -found Blackout UK, a movement dited to buildg safe spac for Black gay men, and up until 2019 served as the Strategic Programme Lead for Health Improvement at the Terrence Higgs Tst.

Prevly livg privately as a gay man, Sir Ian publicly me out durg a BBC Rad 3 discsn about Sectn 28, the famo lol ernement act which ma the public ‘promotn of homosexualy’ illegal the UK. In a statement on his webse, Sir Ian discs his years of activism: “I have been reluctant to lobby on other issu I most re about… bee I never want to be forever spoutg, dilutg the impact of addrsg my most urgent ncern; legal and social equaly for gay people worldwi. “Rights are prec and our inti are prec and the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts is an opportuny to remember that we fought for the right to be here and we need to keep fightg for the right to be here, ” CEO Nancy Kelley prevly told GAY TIMES.

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In 2019, his niece, Amal Fashanu, set up the Jt Fashanu Foundatn to challenge the ntued racism and homophobia football, acknowledgg that very ltle feels like has changed sce Jt first me out 32 years ago.

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Followg Mermaids’ w for the GAY TIMES Honour for Brish Communy Trailblazer 2020, Krystyna Hebb – Helple Service Manager, Safeguardg Lead – said she se the chary offerg a “helple service 24/7 along wh lol support groups every ma cy/town of the UK” wh the next five years.

He led the charge on the repeal of Sectn 28; he succsfully mpaigned for the Equal Age of Consent om 18 to 16 for gay men; he challenged cls the Civil Partnership Act that allowed relig stutn to prohib same-sex ceremoni on their premis. Followg 9/11 and later the 7/7 bombgs London, Islamaphobia beme more rampant the gay scene and Imaan was there to make sure they provid a safe space for those who need , but also nnected wh muni to break down the bigotry and discrimatn that pervad the LGBTQ+ muny. His most notable works clu: Queer as Folk, a 1999 drama that chronicled the liv of three gay men Manchter’s gay village; Cucumber, a GLAAD-nomated mi-seri focg on middle-aged gay men; and It’s A S, a five-part seri pictg the liv of gay men who lived durg the HIV/AIDS crisis the UK.

In her 2018 ver story for GAY TIMES, Phyll strsed the need for QPOC spac, statg: “Until we all have the same rights, until we all do not face any form of jtice, until we all have proper accs to hog, to health, to school, to tn, then there will always be need for Black Pri. After many succsful years on the pch as once the most pped Welsh gby unn player and Wal’ third hight try srer, Gareth publicly me out as gay 2009, makg him the first openly gay profsnal gby unn player. The performance artist and wrer, who first had their poetry published the Black and Gay the UK anthology 2015, has travelled across the UK wh their theatre show Stori of a Queer Brown Muddy Kid, as well as Burgerz, which ran the UK between October and November 2018.

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” Wh a recent study om the Office for Natnal Statistics (ONS) revealg that the amount of people who intify as lbian, gay or bisexual doubled the UK om 2014 to 2020, servic such as Jt Like Us are ccial for LGBTQ+ young people. The Stonewall LGBT School Role Mol and Diversy Role Mol has also onted var mpaigns support of No Outsirs and the RSE tnal programme, and wrten about his experienc for several publitns such as Buzzfeed and Gay Star News.

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For his work challengg homophobia and Islamophobia, Khakan has been award a Brish Empire Medal the New Year’s Honours List 2021 and is the recipient of the Pots of Light Award om Downg Street. In 2021, Munroe was regnised wh the GAY TIMES Honour for Brish Communy Trailblazer at the fifth annual GAY TIMES Honours celebratn London, where she was prented the award by Ellie Gouldg.

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Jayne, who is a gay evangelil Christian, has been a pneer workg wh relig anisatns to elimate discrimatn based on sexualy and genr, somethg she found the Ozanne Foundatn 2017 to help achieve. Speakg about why she wrote the book to GAY TIMES, Shon said: “There was a need for some kd of terventn of sorts to the public disurse and mastream media, and realisg that I was fortunate enough to have the kd of platform to be able to do that.

Over lunch one afternoon at our kchen table, wh the latt issue of TIME turned to an article about Ana Bryant’s succsful mpaign to repeal a gay-rights bill Da County, Fla., I raged over the jtice of both Bryant’s assertn that gay people were a danger to children and the wardly legislators who ved to prejudice and ignorance.

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It wasn’t until more than a later, when I began rearchg an oral-history book on what was then lled the gay and lbian civil-rights movement, that I realized that TIME magaze had also played a role shapg how my mother thought of homosexuals — and how she’d e to view her teenaged gay son. In my rearch, as I stggled to ga an unrstandg of why people saw homosexuals as sick, sful and crimal, I stumbled on a 1966 say TIME that jt about burned the sk off my face as I read . Back then, homosexualy was still nsired a treatable mental illns, sexual relatns between two people of the same sex uld get you arrted almost every state, and thoands — perhaps tens of thoands — of gay men and lbians had been hound out of feral employment sce Print Eisenhower signed an executive orr 1953 banng them om ernment jobs.

The now-celebrated 1969 Stonewall uprisg — triggered by a police raid of the Stonewall Inn gay bar — which is beg marked this month by 50th anniversary celebratns, march and protts, got a particularly pungent headle the New York Daily News: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad.

” The Village Voice, an alternative downtown newspaper, published an article the immediate aftermath of the first night of rtg which the reporter ed a slur to refer to the uprisg’s participants, earng the Voice, jt days after the start of the uprisg, one of the first public protts that would e to characterize the newly ant era of “gay liberatn.

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One sectn of the report noted several “typ” of homosexuals: “The Blatant Homosexual, ” “The Secret Lifer, ” “The Dperate, ” “The Adjted, ” “The Bisexual, ” “The Suatnal-Experimental. ” Although that ver story also said some paratively nice thgs about homosexuals, is any wonr members of the newly formed Gay Liberatn Front and the Dghters of Bilis (an anizatn for lbians found 1955 San Francis) picketed the Time-Life buildg after s publitn?

” I’d e to unrstand om the rearch I’d done the Vassar College library that parents of gay children often felt that was their own flt (also thanks to TIME and all the other news outlets and so-lled experts who blamed homosexualy on a domant mother and passive father). That and subsequent ver stori — the 1997 Ellen DeGener “Yep, I’m Gay” ver or the 2014 Laverne Cox ver about transgenr civil rights, for example — helped rhape a posive way how people like me thought of ourselv and how the rt of the world saw . My mother me around, too, and by the early 1990s was an activist her own right, volunteerg to lead a support group for gay men whose partners had died om AIDS and helpg found the Queens chapter of PFLAG (once known as Parents, Fai and Friends, of Lbians and Gays).

GAY TIM – NOVEMBER 2021

Amid the flurry of rabow-lan rporate logos, sponsored events and news ems about gay pengus, is difficult to turn on a televisn or set foot public durg June whout the remr that ...