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Contents:

• GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
• DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!
• HOW TIME’S REPORTG ON GAY LIFE AMERI SHAPED—AND SKEWED—A GENERATN’S ATTUS
• HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
• COMG OUT GAY STEP-BY-STEP
• GAY
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS

After Barclay cis to e out as gay at his school’s big pep rally, he is faced wh unexpected hostily, be at odds wh his team and don’t have his grandfather to turn to as he did before. While both discsg their experienc growg up gay small towns, the nversatn eventually led to Time Out.

1 athlete the state e out as gay and what effect that would have on the team, the school, the town, the state and most important, his personal relatnships, ” they said. In that spir, TIME is publishg this article by Eric Marc, thor of Makg Gay History.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

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. Unknowgly, my red-faced outrage offered another clue to my mother that there was more than a ltle self-tert at stake for me the fate of the gay civil-rights movement.

June 20, 1997 TIME article about Ana Bryant’s mpaign to repeal a gay-rights bill Da County, Fla. 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 .

I thk was meant as a medatn on what to make of the then-growg visibily of gay life Ameri. The media those years, as is most often the se today, reflected society’s prevailg views about homosexuals.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

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. In New York, a state law about “disorrly” nduct was terpreted as makg illegal to serve known homosexuals alhol, and the police routely raid gay bars.

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. 31, 1969, ver story was headled “The Homosexual: Newly Visible, Newly Unrstood.

THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME

And yet the picture the article pated of the “newly unrstood” homosexual was still drippg wh sarsm and ntempt.

DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!

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.

” After scribg the different tegori, the wrer not: “The homosexual subculture, a semi-public world, is, whout qutn, shallow and unstable. ” 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? When I told my mother eight years later that y, I was gay, she jt looked at me wh a blank stare.

In tth, I was a prsed gay teenager who feared that his life was ed bee of this one, immutable flaw. ” 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). Even before my mother asked me that fateful qutn, TIME had published a ver story on Leonard Matlovich, who was challengg the ban on gay people servg the ary.

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

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 . Marc and his mother at the 1993 March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberatn. 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).

Eric Marc is the thor of Makg Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lbian and Gay Equal Rights and the founr and host of a podst of the same name. When down to , there is no reliable "Am I Gay tt", so the only way to know that you are gay (fn of gay) is to look wh yourself to terme your own thoughts and feelgs towards others of the same sex.

You might also want to nsir the possibily that you are neher gay nor straight and are bisexual or jt cur.

HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY

There is no one way that gay people act or look – gay people are jt as diverse as straight people. Jt bee you are a man who is effemate or a woman who is boyish, that do not mean that you're necsarily gay. When lookg at the signs you are gay, you might want to ask yourself the qutns:1.

There is no need to sh to a cisn or tell anyone about your exploratn or e out gay.

COMG OUT GAY STEP-BY-STEP

And if do turn out that you are gay, remember that there is nothg wrong wh beg gay – is jt part of who you are. Comg out gay refers to the procs of acceptg one's own sexualy and embracg , followed by disclosg to fay, iends and -workers. Due to different amounts of social and fay prsur that surround each dividual, g out gay is different each stance.

Bee of this, many people who have e out gay refer to as a procs of beg reborn. Although beg gay do not fe a person, is nohels a new part of that person's life. The dividual do not have to pletely alter their personaly, they are still who they are, but when you e out gay, do provi an opportuny to:.

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Oftentim when a person out gay, they feel isolated and different regardls of where they live and who they surround themselv wh. There are many gay support groups, anizatns, rourc and foms one n go to orr to al wh this strs.

The clu gay muny centers and gay onle muni, where one n fd others alg wh siar issu who n offer some support. Any person who has e out gay has alt wh a certa amount of strs alg wh the reactn of his or her loved on.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

If a person's fay do not take kdly to the news, they should try to te their fay regardg their liftyle and maybe seek out a support program at a lol gay muny center. Comg out gay is not a race and there is certaly no set timele one mt adhere to.

The one mon theme that seems to be prent amongst all dividuals who e out gay is the liberatn of no longer havg to lie or hi the tth. So take a lson om someone who has done (almost) more tim than he n first time I me out was my hman year of high school: Jt like most other ltle gay teens, I was “bisexual” – “experimentg.

In hdsight, I gus they were right, but some lacked the sense to differentiate between the two and lled me the homophobic F-word anyway. For lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people, realizg their sexual orientatn or genr inty and sharg that rmatn wh fay and iends is often a gradual procs that n unfold over a seri of years. A majory of employed LGBT adults say their workplac are acceptg of people who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.

And some 54% say all or most of the important people their life know that they are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.

Lbians and gay men are more likely than bisexuals to have told at least one close iend about their sexual orientatn (96% of gay men and 94% of lbians, pared wh 79% of bisexuals). And they are much more likely to say that most of the people who are important to them know about this aspect of their life: 77% of gay men and 71% of lbians say all or most people know, pared wh 28% of bisexuals. Among all LGBT adults, those wh a llege gree are more likely than those who have not graduated om llege to say all or most of the important people their life know they are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (64% vs.

Lbian, gay and bisexual survey rponnts were asked how old they were when they first felt they might be somethg other than straight or heterosexual. Gay men report, on average, thkg around age 10 that they might not be straight.

Among gay men, about four--ten (38%) say they were younger than 10 when they first felt they were not heterosexual. The vast majory of lbians, gay men and bisexuals say they were their teens or younger when they first started to feel they might not be straight.

Gay men are the least likely to report first havg the feelgs their twenti or beyond: 3% say they were 20 or olr, pared wh 14% of lbians and 15% of bisexuals. 15 Among LGBT adults who say they know for sure that they are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (92%), 17 is the median age at which they say they knew.