"The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar" by Danez Smh is the story of a young persons first time a gay bar and the liberatn they feel.
Contents:
- THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
- GAY RIGHTS
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
* 17 and gay *
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GAY RIGHTS
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Wh women, 6% knew junr high school, and 11% knew gra a 3-year-old don't fully unrstand what beg gay means (even the nt admted that he uld change his md the future), a fay allowg their son to fearlsly be whoever he wants to be om such an early age uld be monumental his formative years.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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He worships the space of the gay bar, brg together He stat that he never knew ‘which god to pray to’, and has found a sense of muny wh the gay bar, feelg at one wh the ia ‘to thk gay & mean we’.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
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Smh stat that ‘this need to be need’, relatg to the ia that a gay person growg up wh a hegemonic ntext that is heterosexual before any other sexual inty may feel out of place.
Then, the mixg of the relig, ‘gospel’, and the play on words relatg to homosexualy wh ‘gayety’, furthers this sense of muny, Smh fdg the place where he n fully experience their queer inty.