How Gayns Changed Durg My Lifetime | The Natn

Contents:

• GAY SEX IS STILL ILLEGAL THIS CARIBBEAN ISLAND; HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH WANTS BAN REPEALED
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• WHY THE INTER HAT GAY PEOPLEWHY THE INTER HAT GAY PEOPLE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• LEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORYLEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS
• HOW GAYNS CHANGED DURG MY LIFETIMEHOW GAYNS CHANGED DURG MY LIFETIME
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

GAY SEX IS STILL ILLEGAL THIS CARIBBEAN ISLAND; HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH WANTS BAN REPEALED

Vcent and the Grenad is known for s volnic terra, spectacular ral reefs and yacht-filled the ty Eastern Caribbean untry loted the Lser Antill also has a dub reputatn when to the treatment of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people: Its lonial-era gay sex ban.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

Vcent and the Grenad, the level of homophobia the untry and ntued effect of s archaic law on rights of LGBT dividuals warranted report’s release while there is currently a trial si St. “Every LGBT person terviewed said they wished to leave the untry and envisned their future abroad due, part, to the homophobic or transphobic vlence and discrimatn the untry, ” the report said. González said the crimalizatn of gay sex giv “tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams.

WHY THE INTER HAT GAY PEOPLEWHY THE INTER HAT GAY PEOPLE

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still crimalized.From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100,000 people says is unr nstant threat.“Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad,” the report stated.In St. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean regn.While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.“The laws still have an impact,” said Jhua Bardoo, an ternatnal human rights lawyer om St. “The (LGTBQ) muny the untry is very, very margalized and vulnerable.”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.A 58-year-old bisexual man relled how someone h him the head wh a bottle an attack that cracked his skull and put him a a.

One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici.Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.

SocietyJune 5, 2023Why the Inter Hat Gay PeopleA nversatn wh Alexanr Monea about his recent book on the history of search eng, ntent moratn, AI, and the ways they form bias agast queerns. Th, while certaly disadvantag the LGBTQ+ muny as a whole, particularly targets those whose inti and munitns disobey homonormative social scripts, as well as those who might have tersectnal inti that are multiply margalized. For example, Pete Buttigieg, a married, whe, cisgenr gay man who served the ary, worked at McKsey to help stroy the pla and the workg class, and posts some of the most quetoast ntent available on the Inter, suffers mimally unr the ndns.

THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS

Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.

She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Rumors are swirlg that tensns between Jamai and the Uned Stat are risg after the former refed to grant accredatn to the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat – whose inty has not been ma public – sce same-sex marriage is not legal the Caribbean natn. Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports.

Q&AOctober 26, 2022Learng From the “Bad Gays” of HistoryA nversatn wh Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller about queer crooks, villas, and anti-heros, and what we might learn om the sister si of gay polics.

LEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORYLEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY

In each of their refully rearched chapters, they adopt one or more of the tular “bad gays” as an opportuny for a plited discsn of certa unsavory characters who neverthels left cisive marks on the shape of ntemporary sexual and genr inti, or whose experience provis a eful reference pot agast which to measure their change. The “bad gay” is a venerable slur, gleefully ployed agast Nazis or other figur of evil to distance their acts om implicly straight nocence by the further charge of sexual viance or, better, self-hatred. One is the gree to which the whe gay man benefed om and evolved out of European lonizatn of the Global South—ias about lonized people circulated metropolan pals and served as the foundatn for gay activists’ claims about themselv, their histori, and their inti.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Meanwhile, those gays were often plic the lonial project—some, like Cecil Rhos, were lears of that project—and too many whe gay movements have ignored or actively opprsed queer-of-lor anizg. MF: The gamb of thkg about “bad gays” is a way to move agast a certa figure of the homosexual as an eternally and ply opprsed inty, which was central to bids for rights on the basis of s rpectabily. So terms of gay polics, there may be ever more visibily for gay people, but the pth of that reprentatn is shallow; the ia of what sexualy uld mean, how uld challenge and strengthen , is limed.

Yet when those same groups started advotg for accs to emergency health re and vacc, addn to the ual ernment foot-draggg and ristance, we also saw a phback om other LGBTQ people claimg that targetg gay men for vacce programs was “stigmatizg” homosexualy and would label monkeypox as a “gay plague. I thk that’s an important polil project; when other gays acce , as they have, of “airg our dirty len public, ” I’m OK wh that, bee means we’ve given up censorg our nversatns for the sake of straight people.

It led, for example, to the popularizatn of triumph narrativ about civil rights achievements the mid-2010s that helped ntue mobilizg gay movements; now, only a few years later, new far-right moral panics about “groomers” and trans kids monstrate how short-sighted that mobilizatn was.

TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS

My ncln om wrg the book is that much of the ep sexual anxiety we’re seeg Europe and the US at the moment, om gay as well as straight people, om an epochal shift wh our current sex-genr system that is very nfg for people who have e to thk of their sexualy as a transhistoril tth, somethg unchanged through the centuri that has only, the past century, been allowed to flower.

HOW GAYNS CHANGED DURG MY LIFETIMEHOW GAYNS CHANGED DURG MY LIFETIME

Johnson sure did thk of themselv as women and as people whose social inti were profoundly shaped by genr transgrsn, even if they lived some of their liv at a moment when inty tegori were sliced somewhat differently and a word like “gay” was more pac than is now. Post-Fouuldian gay and lbian history has learned some of the wrong lsons: As Helmut Puff wrote a few years back, “A generatn of rearchers translated a somewhat paradoxil [argument], pecially the standard English translatn, to a road map on how to do rearch on the history of homosexualy.

” If our terventn to public history is to urge people to be more precise and specific and unrstand queer history more plited ways, then I thk we’re also thumbg our nose a b at certa strands of amic history that get bogged down termologil bat that n often—as the se of the gay men who object to the remembrance of the Nazi persecutn of trans people and lbians, or the gay men who sist that Marsha and Sylvia weren’t actually meangfully trans––bee reactnary. In recent s, the ia that homosexual tolerance, and ed homosexualy, was the logil nsequence of the Wtern liberal project has bee monplace, utilized to nscript gay rights to that project, to exclu LGBTQ Mlims, and to monize brown people general.

Any gay person who has argued agast Wtern terventnist policy, or for the rights of the Paltian people, will regnize this—as well as the evable wi-eyed, salivatg, and gleeful rponse om a straight person that “they’d throw you off the top of a buildg over there. One of my favore stori that ncln om Allan Bébé and Aaron Lecklir’s rearch to the pro-gay, anti-racist Communist Mare Cooks and Stewards unn that worked on the Pacific Merchant Mare fleet the 1930s.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

MF: Your last profile is of Pim Fortuyn, who synthiz some of the worst stras of masculism wh the liberal appeals to tolerance that prerve the ia of homosexualy as bad but whens as good bee n whstand . BM: This is the more psimistic part of our ncln: that the center-right acceptance of certa elements of the liberal rights nsens about gays and lbians will lead to more Fortuyns and Sullivans. HL: While was possible, even personally profable, for certa typ of gay men—pecially men like , whe cis gay men—to adopt an approach that valorized marriage, the ary, whens, and the natn-state a ago, ’s harr to valorize what next: not jt the accatn of beg groomers, of perversn and subversn, but also the implitn among former alli that there’s at least some basis to those accatns; that there’s no smoke whout fire; that you mt adm this queer stuff has gone too far.

Hong Kong is safe to vis, Gay Gam team tells foreigners worryg about natnal secury lawHong Kong anisers of the Gay Gam are unr prsure om some foreign officials and participants who say they will stay away om the November event to avoid “accintally” breachg the cy’s strict natnal secury ncerns have e on top of recent lls by some LGBTQ activists Hong Kong for the event to be ncelled, and protts by nservative only four months to go, the anisers have pledged to prs on, hopg to h their target of 3, 000 participants for the first edn of the gam to be held Gam ambassadors pose for a photo March. Unpackg Hong Kong’s natnal secury law, 3 years onTaiwan’s gam affiliate said earlier that would not take part the Hong Kong event, wh Kev Yang Chih-chun, print of the Taiwan Gay Sports and Movement Associatn, also cg worri about the natnal secury secury mister Rega Ip, nvenor of the cy’s key cisn-makg body, the Executive Council, dismissed the ncerns raised by those refg to travel to Hong Kong. The last edn was held Paris 2018, attractg 10, 000 Hong Kong event was meant to be held last year, but was postponed bee of the Covid-19 panmic, and the targeted number of participants was entire st would be fund by sponsorship, private donatns and participant fe, the anisers one-year untdown to the Gay Gam is held November.