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Contents:
- BEG GAY A COUP: THE PLIGHT OF MYANMAR’S LGBTIQ COMMUNY
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- BEG GAY A COUP: THE PLIGHT OF MYANMAR’S LGBTIQ COMMUNY
- A VERY GAY COUP
BEG GAY A COUP: THE PLIGHT OF MYANMAR’S LGBTIQ COMMUNY
Many lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, or queer (LGBTIQ) people, who are still subject to official state persecutn and discrimatn, have joed the CDM, marchg openly wh rabow anti-up signs.
Neverthels, wh this documented public support for crimalisatn and the 2020 electn around the rner, which featured the natn’s first openly gay ndidate, human rights activists Myanmar were hopeful a new set of elected policymakers would dismantle lonial-era anti-sodomy laws that jtify the discrimatn and margalisatn of LGBTIQ people. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.
BEG GAY A COUP: THE PLIGHT OF MYANMAR’S LGBTIQ COMMUNY
He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.
A VERY GAY COUP
To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.
“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.