Member nam released for DA’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Commtee - Philalphia Gay News

Contents:

• OPENLY GAY PROSECUTOR, LGBTQ+ LIAISON: AN ADVOTE FOR EMPOWERMENT, PROGRS
• DEMOCRAT DA SILENT AS ANTI-GAY GANG NS LOOSE NEW YORK
• SAN FRANCIS GAY RIGHTS AND LGBT LAWYERS
• ALV BRAGG SILENT AS GANG OF KILLERS PREYS ON GAY MEN, LEAVG 2 AD AND A DOZEN ROBBED
• GAY PARIS
• COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S SE HEADS TO TRIAL

OPENLY GAY PROSECUTOR, LGBTQ+ LIAISON: AN ADVOTE FOR EMPOWERMENT, PROGRS

Adam was the first openly gay prosecutor on Staten Island. Adam land a llege ternship wh the Staten Island District Attorney’s Office 2016 that did more than pad his rume — powered a, 28, one of Staten Island’s first openly gay prosecutors, is the first to hold the tle of LGBTQ+ liaison at the borough DA’s office. He nnects regularly wh the Staten Island Pri Center, LGBT Bar Associatn, the Gay Officer’s Actn League, and other pri-foced anizatns his liaison role.

Adam was one of the first openly gay prosecutors on Staten Island. Monstrate that beg an openly gay prosecutor is possible. “Havg an openly LGBTQ+ person reprentg the district attorney’s office signals to the larger LGBTQ+ muny that the district attorney’s office is there for them, ’’ Sloan adms that beg openly gay and publicly prosecutg acced crimals has prented a few hurdl — pecially for his parents, who worry for his and Cecilia have been supportive om the moment their son me out as a gay man at age 17, Adam said.

DEMOCRAT DA SILENT AS ANTI-GAY GANG NS LOOSE NEW YORK

(Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel) Disturbg news of anti-gay hate crim across the unty — cludg the 2016 mass shootg at an Orlando gay nightclub, and many other events sce — ntue to be terrifyg, ’’ Adam said, pecially sce his muny meetgs often take place at siar clubs. Adam)A ‘RUNAWAY PLAN’ JUST IN CASEWhen he told his parents he was gay as teen, Adam adms he had a naway plan place, se they didn’t react well.

SAN FRANCIS GAY RIGHTS AND LGBT LAWYERS

“We’re workg toward a world where kids n e out of the closet to their parents and not have a naway plan, ’’ he Gay Officers Actn League, he says, is a fe example of the cy’s evolutn. Adam jos members of the Gay Officers Actn League durg Staten Island PriFt 2023. Adam)MORE PRIDE STORIESA journey of rpect: Staten Island parent’s 10-year path to accept -- and embrace -- transgenr childOpenly gay prosecutor, LGBTQ+ liaison: An advote for empowerment, progrsThis Staten Island gay male was met wh love and rpect when he me out as a pre-teenA te-love story: His partner now intifi as transgenr and they stayed together‘Show you’re here, queer and proud’: Staten Islanr wants to set good example for stunts, muny‘I’ll be their ri or die’: State Sen.

Jsi Srcella-Spanton pledg her support to the LGBTQ+ munyStaten Island playwright of ‘My Big Gay Italian Weddg’ reflects on LGBTQ+ cln progrs, work that li aheadWhere have Staten Island’s LGBTQ+ bars gone? "Ameri's Top Gay Cop" is the headle of the Q&A wh the normally bslike Democrat who overse prosecutns the natn's third-largt unty.

My parents were of the generatn — they felt like my beg gay was their rponsibily, and that they were morally acuntable.... " And they said, "Yeah, but you're gay.

ALV BRAGG SILENT AS GANG OF KILLERS PREYS ON GAY MEN, LEAVG 2 AD AND A DOZEN ROBBED

Succsful gay people were not out of the closet Hoton, Texas. The rt of the OutSmart terview addrs issu of law and polics, om Ogg's party swch to the 1995 mpaign (when she was "gay-ccified, " she said) to her plans for higher office. In 1992, PAHR’s membership cid that the lol climate was beg a safer place to actively advote for gay rights and changed the anizatn’s name to the Gay and Lbian Lawyers of Philalphia, or GALLOP.

GAY PARIS

Msapotamia “Msy” Lefae (she/her) is a queer baret artist who has llaborated and performed wh The Beard Ladi, Opera Philalphia, Wilma Theater, and Villanova Universy, and is a Bgo Verifyg Diva at AIDS Fund’s GayBINGO. Msy liv the Gayborhood. Philalphia Gay News is one of more than 20 news anizatns producg Broke Philly, a solutns-oriented llaborative reportg project on poverty and Philalphia’s ph for enomic jtice.

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.

” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe. ” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.

COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB SHOOTER’S SE HEADS TO TRIAL

Manhattan's District Attorney, Alv Bragg, is layg and hrg an vtigatn to what NYPD officials scribe as a gang that is targetg and murrg gay men around New York Cy's Hell's Kchen area. The New York Post reports, "a gang that preys on gay men at Hell’s Kchen nightclubs is spected of killg at least two victims and of dggg and robbg more than a dozen other men — but Manhattan District Attorney Alv Bragg’s office is impedg the vtigatn.