The gay wrer who was banned om visg a London school discs why young LGBT+ people need reprentatn more than ever
Contents:
- DAISY JON & THE SIX FEATUR A MAJOR GAY PLOT TWIST, AND ’S REASON ALONE TO WATCH THE SHOW
- LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’
- WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
DAISY JON & THE SIX FEATUR A MAJOR GAY PLOT TWIST, AND ’S REASON ALONE TO WATCH THE SHOW
As social attus evolve, mastream cema has begun to treat gay love stori like any other romance. Love, Simon prov the pot * was simone gay in the book *
" MORE FROM FORBESNew Report Shows Where It's Illegal To Be Transgenr In 2020By Jamie WarehamMORE FROM FORBESWhy This Charmg Gay Fairytale Has Been Lost For 200 YearsBy Jamie Wareham. Reid said Simone is "very loosely based on Donna Summer, " a dis star who creded gay clubs wh her early succs.
LOVE, SIMON: AT LAST HOLLYWOOD IS SAYG ‘I’M GAY’
* was simone gay in the book *
"I thk was a great addn bee gay people created dis mic, " Be said. In the show, however, we see Simone stggle wh sexual harassment, the stggl of fdg succs her mic, as well as her plight to try to be an openly gay relatnship as a sger the '70s.
While the Daisy Jon & The Six book had one mor gay character the band’s manager, Rod, perhaps thor Jenks Reid’s most popular book, The Seven Hbands Of Evelyn Hugo, is full of LGBTQIA+ reprentatn. Simone, for stance, tak spiratn om Donna Summer, whose mic gripped the gay muny the 70s and gave the inic queer anthem “I Feel Love”. “I thk was a great addn bee gay people created dis mic, ” she told Insir.
WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
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Tolerance has s mercial benefs; a gay film need no longer appeal exclively to small or specialised when Betiful Thg opened 1996, the UK age of nsent for gay men had only recently been lowered om 21 to 18 (still two years higher than the heterosexual one). Lbians and gay men were banned om servg the armed forc, the sid Sectn 28 was seven years away om beg repealed while phras like “civil partnership” and “marriage equaly” were as unfaiar then as “social media” and “trigger warng” Get Real, a Brish g-out movie that followed two years after Betiful Thg, feel-good material still had to acknowledge the possibily of vlence and homophobia. Photograph: RONALD GRANTThe -stigmatisatn of homosexualy has removed om drama one of s olst standbys: the threat of ostracisatn and social .
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