Opn: Poetic jtice for gay, transgenr workers

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The prevly unnamed Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower X revealed himself durg public ttimony before three GOP-led Hoe mte Wednday, sayg he is a gay Democrat married to a man and wrongfully slanred as a partisan operative or a traor to his party.

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OPN: POETIC JTICE FOR GAY, TRANSGENR WORKERS

Explore the rich tradn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer poets and poetry by browsg a selectn of poems & d. I was remd of lyrics om two different songs when I heard about the recent Supreme Court cisn that employment discrimatn based on gay and transgenr stat is unlawful sex, "’s been a long time g, " bee really has been a long time g.

POETIC JTICE : MICHAEL NAVA’S MYSTERI ABOUT A GAY GUMSHOE ARE POPULATED BY A CAST OF FAIAR CHARACTERS

Recently, that "fle" rulted long overdue protectn for gay and transgenr employe.

GAY MAN DELIVERS IMMEDIATE JTICE TO HOMOPHOB WHO SCREAMED A NASTY GAY SLUR AT HIM

”Openly gay, a third-generatn Mexin-Amerin raised the Sacramento barr of Garnland and a graduate of Stanford Universy School of Law--”I’m nobody’s stereotype, ” he says--Nava was toxited wh “the seeds of the job, the romance of beg a trial lawyer, the sense that I was dog somethg that had social utily.

”But like Henry Rs, the tough but sensive gay Lato protagonist and narrator of Nava’s spense novels, Nava burned out.

IRS WHISTLEBLOWER X IS JOE ZIEGLER, A GAY DEMOCRAT

“The Ltle Death” (1986) and “Golnboy” (1988) were published by Alyson Publitns, a small gay-owned prs Boston, after beg rejected by 13 mastream ho. Forrt attribut the boomlet gay spense fictn--other top practners clu Joseph Hansen, Mary Wgs and Barbara Wilson--to the fact that “gay men and lbians, ially at least, are so often mysteri to themselv.

” Until then, he acknowledg that, given “society’s unrelentg hostily” toward homosexuals, he is makg a polil statement by wrg about a posive and affirmg gay figure like Henry “How Town, ” the fictnal attorney unrsr his outsir’s perspective when he bluntly rms his client, the heterosexual child molter: “I tell my gay clients the same thg I’ve jt told you, and my black and Lato clients, too, for that matter. “As assiated as I am, I have never for one day fotten who I am and what I am: a homosexual Lato, ” never fully at ease eher Nava has no regrets. Like a lot of gay men, I’ve lived secrecy for so long has bee send nature to me.

“I knew by the time I was 12 that I was gay”--Henry Rs scrib the feelg as “a kd of wild lonels and a ep, sry sense of beg different”--”but the only word I had for was queer. )But was Nava’s homosexualy that prompted him to leave.

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Poetic Jtice : Michael Nava's Mysteri About a Gay Gumshoe Are Populated by a Cast of Faiar Characters - Los Angel Tim .

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