Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach, is the first male ach a major U.S. men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY OF L.A.
- UNRSTANDG LOS ANGEL (AND WT HOLLYWOOD) GAY HISTORY: CONTUY AND DISNTUY
- LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
- NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
GAY HISTORY OF L.A.
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#225 is the Disney Animatn Studs Burbank: "Created, among other gay animated fantasi, Bety and the Beast, one of the last sr wrten by Howard Ashman before he died of AIDS. The monstratn that’s memorated by the plaque stemmed om police raids that took place on New Year’s Eve 1967 at The Black Cat and other gay bars the area. Loted on the mp of the Universy of Southern California (USC), the ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archive is the world's largt rearch library dited to honor and archive LGBTQ+ history.
UNRSTANDG LOS ANGEL (AND WT HOLLYWOOD) GAY HISTORY: CONTUY AND DISNTUY
The two-story mm serv as a time psule for historic years of queer culture, and also functns as LA's Downtown gay muny center—hostg exhibns, art shows and cematic screengs for both the USC stunt populatn and Los Angel at large.
Playfully known as "Gger Rogers Beach, " Will Rogers wel hard bodi to play volleyball and mature men to relax and get a tan - gays of all shap and siz have been wele here sce the 1950s. If you don’t know what that is, watch the acclaimed 2008 movie Milk, starrg Sean Penn an Osr-wng performance as gay rights activist and polician, Harvey Milk. Opened 1923, the landmark Millennium Biltmore Hotel hosted a very gay-iendly bar through both World Wars and was the se of an early tone gay rights advancement.
LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
In 1971, the Biltmore hosted the Internatnal Psychologists & Psychiatrists nference, which was gog to clare electroshock therapy as the “cure” for homosexualy.
The meetg was dispted by the Gay Liberatn Front, which effectively forced one of the first dialogu between mental health profsnals and the gay muny. John Rechy, a noted chronicler of gay LA, wrote his book Cy of Night that this lotn of the Cooper doughnut cha on Ma Street was the se of a 1959 uprisg of transgenr women and street htlers.
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JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Especially toward the end of his reer, police created problems for him: At a show a Hollywood gay club, he was ma to do his act a tux stead of his gowns due to an anti-cross-drsg law.
LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
Pershg Square was the center of "The Run, " a circu of gay-iendly tablishments and cisg spots that served the 1920s through the 1960s as what the book Gay L.
NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
A sectn of this state beach is regnized as LA's unofficial gay beach, and has been referred to by the nickname Gger Rogers Beach sce the 1950s. Tom of Fland was name that Fnish artist Too Laaksonen ed when he first started submtg his homoerotic art to magaz popular among gay, male rears. This hoe Echo Park eventually beme his home, and his prence drew notable gay artists such as John Waters and Robert Maplethorpe to the home as well, which beme a gatherg place.
His work, showg strong, virile men, was nsired pecially important the 1980s, when the AIDS epimic meant that the prevailg image of gay men was the oppose of mcular and healthy. In a letter of support for the hoe receivg this signatn, the Wt Coast edor of Archectural Digt wrote that Laaksonen's artwork "one of the most important forc the evolutn of gay culture the 20th century.
Don Kilhefner, a chronicler and creator of gay history, explas how we got to where we are today and fantasiz about where we may move the future.