Gay Hill, Texas – TEXAS HISTORY NOTEBOOK

Contents:

• GAY V. WILLIAM HILL MANOR, INC.
• WILLIAM GAY WAS NEVER TOO BY FOR LIFE’S SMALLER MOMENTS
• GAY HILL, TEXAS
• MAN CHARGED WH FERAL HATE CRIME IN ANTI-GAY ASSLT AT AMAZON FACILY
• HIM/GAY TIMES 73, SEPTEMBER 1984
• WILLIAM ALBERT GAY OBUARY

GAY V. WILLIAM HILL MANOR, INC.

Part of what ma this reveal so fantastic is the characterizatn of William and how he breaks stereotyp of what a gay character looks and sounds like.

We’re so ed to seeg the gay character a story as nothg but a walkg stereotype, someone flamboyant and characterized as a girl’s bt iend. That’s not to say that overly-flamboyant gay characters are a bad thg, but a world where all media portrays a gay guy as flamboyant and fun ’s a ltle tratg to see an entire mographic forced to this one character type.

It mak sense that durg the William’s (likely) last holiday season he would want to fd his partner and apologize for leavg, and I’m so happy that this is how the show went about tellg that William is gay. However, when to normalizg gay characters on TV and makg sure they e across as normal people who happen to like the same sex, the Pearsons’ acceptg nature is gog to prove to be an valuable lson on how to do jt that. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns.

WILLIAM GAY WAS NEVER TOO BY FOR LIFE’S SMALLER MOMENTS

"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said.

"I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said. For him, beg gay was a ath sentence beg that he grew up the 1990s durg the HIV/AIDS epimic and a fay member died of the disease. Gay, had been employed as a nurse's ai at William Hill Manor, Inc., a nursg home, om December 16, 1981, until May of 1983.

Gay's dismissal: namely, physil mistreatment of a patient, excsive absenteeism and cg disobedience to the l and regulatns of the facily. Gay was also given a letter at this time which advised her that she had been banned om the premis and that she would be "arrted for trpassg" if she were to e on the property. Gay that beg acpanied to her locker and then om the buildg was any way unual or even that was so perceived by other employe and rints of the nursg home.

GAY HILL, TEXAS

Gay had been termated for "vlatn of Patient Bill of Rights which the facily follows, physil mistreatment of a rint, cg disobedience to l and regulatns of the facily, and unsatisfactory work performance and attu. The wrers of Scripture and the Church Fathers had such a negative view of homosexual acts as a vlatn of the very foundatn of creatn that all discsn of the goods of homosexual uplg mt be treated as a sensizg of the Christian church agast this grave wrong. If we would be ncerned about a Christian lear who says that he is “moved” by adult-mted ctuo or polygamo unns and bemoans the church’s failure to regnize the non-sexual goods such relatnships, we should be all the more ncerned when a Christian lear do the same for homosexual “marriag.

Hill ma a seri of remarks that prompted me to post on my Facebook page: “Am I the only one for whom this post by Wley Hill sets off alarm bells, particularly after yterday’s disclosure of Julie Rodgers’ acceptance of ‘gay marriage’ as a valid alternative for ssa-Christians?

MAN CHARGED WH FERAL HATE CRIME IN ANTI-GAY ASSLT AT AMAZON FACILY

” Rodgers, a self-intified “celibate gay Christian, ” was one of the ntributors to the Spirual Friendship se (last ntributg Oct.

Hill wrote a post explag why he was so “moved” by “gay” iends celebratg the Supreme Court “gay marriage” cisn rather than beg anguished by that cisn: (1) the alternative for most was a church hostile to celibate “gay” Christiany or at least different to velopg “spirual iendships”; (2) there are many goods associated wh homosexual relatnships even if the sex n’t be approved om a biblil standpot.

” At several pots the article (not to mentn his other wrgs) he stat that he is not rejectg the church’s teachg that homosexual sex is wrong. Hill begs by mendg a statement of Alan Jabs, who was “moved by many of the scen yterday of gay people gettg married….

HIM/GAY TIMES 73, SEPTEMBER 1984

I hope that many Amerin gays and lbians choose marriage over promiscuy, and I hope those who marry stay married, and flourish. “When some of tradnalist Christians were moved by the pictur we saw of gay upl, or moved by the real-life viss wh our gay iends, the day of the SCOTUS lg, … were wantg our iends not to be lonely and alienated om love, and we were wantg them to keep hopg and searchg for Love Himself.

Yet the precedg remarks about beg “moved” and, a way, about feelg happy for their newfound legimacy as “gay upl” are que out of touch wh the views of Scripture. He talks about the “lump my throat on Friday [immediately after the SCOTUS Obergefell verdict] as I was scrollg through news feeds and seeg gay iends’ pictur pop up on Facebook and Twter” and “their current jubilatn.

“That same teachg certaly isn’t nmng all the thgs about ‘gay culture’ that give those weepy chills when we see them at their bt. “Nor is the Christian tradn tendg to nigrate the many virtu exhibed by gay upl [note: not jt persons wh ssa but those homosexual relatnships]. I myself believe that when the history of our particular time … is eventually wrten, we will look back on gay upl as the [sic] among the on who redisvered and tght some important thgs about the virtu ofiendship, thgs we’d fotten our fixatn on heterosexual romantic love.

WILLIAM ALBERT GAY OBUARY

I thk, for stance, of Andrew Sullivan’s betiful wrgs about gay iendships durg the AIDS plague years; those stori will be remembered. In our “fixatn on heterosexual romantic love” we have lost sight of the fact that “gay upl” are “among the on who redisvered and tght some important thgs about the virtu of iendship”? The night I met William Gay, we were a bar Columbia, South Carola, town for the Southeastern Inpennt Booksellers Associatn annual nference.

“Tst me, ” he said, “you haven’t heard of William Gay but that’s about to change when his first novel out November. Gay and Hill were said to have been store owners this Washgton County settlement, though some acunts say that only Hill owned the store. He first settled the area that beme part of At and Fort Bend unti but later reloted to the area that beme Gay Hill Washgton County.