Palo Alto to pay $500K anti-gay bias plat :: Bay Area Reporter

Contents:

• IS THE FRED CHARACTER SUPPOSED TO BE GAY?
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS PALO ALTO
• PALO ALTO TO PAY $500K ANTI-GAY BIAS PLAT

IS THE FRED CHARACTER SUPPOSED TO BE GAY?

From both, the scene wh how his dad acted wh Teddy and when Teddy told Fred about Fred replied "my dad's not gay", as well as the scene towards the end wh Fred rantg at the dg aler about why beg the guy is not necsarily better than beg the girl durg sex... In the mid-1970s, beg openly gay often meant facg prejudic facets of everyday life, om hog to employment. Regrettably, passage of those ordanc plac like Miami, Florida Da County created a backlash, leadg to the rise of the Moral Majory, a nservative relig polil anizatn, and setbacks for the emergg gay rights movement.

Eyerly and Wherspoon claimed there was no pellg need for such a law Palo Alto, the Daily later reported October, cg that “only 100 gay dividuals reported experienc of discrimatn Palo Alto, a cy of 56, 000 wh an employment base of 100, 000. “I thk ’s a lot more wispread than the 100 who reported , ” said Rh Hiersch, a spokperson at the time for Stanford’s Gay People’s Unn. “You have to nsir gay people who don’t want to go public what the fact that they’ve had trouble bee they’re gay.

As gay lears found wh Measur A and B, opponents were able to anize people to attend public heargs and then to llect signatur to prevent legislatn om beg law, months before the actual mpaign even began.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS PALO ALTO

One ndidate was Doug Wslow, a gay man who served on the Palo Alto Human Rights Commissn durg the heargs of the proposed ordance. The Santa Clara Valley for Human Rights ntributed $2, 500 om leftover funds om the Y on A and B mpaign, and the Watergarn, a gay bathhoe San Jose, ma a substantial donatn of $3, 000. On electn night, Measure B went down to feat as had so many other gay rights ordanc across the untry: 58% to 42%.

Gay activists partially blame the rults on low voter turnout: 36% Nov. Given the creasg anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments that are emergg across the untry, this is an important polil lson to remember: No polil mographic is immune to an anti-gay backlash. Jam Fran’s story llectn Palo Alto, upon which the film is based, clus a lot more bullyg, homophobia, misogyny, socenomic equaly, and racism to motivate the characters’ ragg.

We get the imprsn he might be gay and wish he wasn’t.

PALO ALTO TO PAY $500K ANTI-GAY BIAS PLAT

The dreamy ialism of the aforementned Prot epigraph is strongly rebuffed by the first sentence of the book: “Ten years ago, my sophomore year high school, I killed a woman on Halloween.

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