Geni Pictur has optned Emmett Monterey’s memoir about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London for TV adaptatn.
Contents:
- DISABILY: 'PEOPLE ASSUME I N'T BE GAY BEE I'M DISABLED'
- GAY AND DISABLED: I’M PROUD OF WHO I AM
- KENTUCKY: DISABLED GAY COUPLE EJECTED FROM POOL
- WAR ON BLOGY: WHO DEEMS SGLE PEOPLE, GAYS 'DISABLED.' BEE 'INFERTILY'!?
- THISABILY #39: GAY AND DISABLED CANADA? BACK THE CLOSET FOR YOU
- GAY COUPLE WH FOUR ADOPTED SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS HAVE HOME TRANSFORMED
DISABILY: 'PEOPLE ASSUME I N'T BE GAY BEE I'M DISABLED'
Julia Blackwell, who is disabled and gay, talks about people's reactns to her beg gay and disabled, and how disabily is often seen more negatively * disabled gay couple *
Charlie Willis was dancg a gay club wh a man he had jt met when the man tried to put his hands down Willis's troers.
"I me out first as bisexual and thought, No I'm probably, fely gay, and then later thought, Hang on, no, the bisexual label fs. "Personally, the experienc I've had g out have been very posive, " he prenceptns around bisexualy and disabily perva, and, says Willis, the gay scene is no ls full of unhelpful attus.
GAY AND DISABLED: I’M PROUD OF WHO I AM
A gay uple Hazard, Ky., was ejected om a public recreatn facily, sparkg outrage om lol LGBT anizatns and alli. * disabled gay couple *
A prev partner, he says, once told him, "I reckon you're probably gay or bisexual bee of your disabily.
" He scrib a recent night out at Legends, the Brighton gay club, when a circle of men formed around him and a iend, cisg them. Media ptn, "I am a gay! Stephen, who has cerebral palsy, is a disabily and gay rights mpaigner and Tik Tok as a way to raise awarens on the he adms sometim he don't feel like he's part of the LGBT muny bee he often up agast "ableism" - discrimatn agast people wh disabili.
"But I'm also gay but they don't accept me.
KENTUCKY: DISABLED GAY COUPLE EJECTED FROM POOL
* disabled gay couple *
"Image source, HandoutImage ptn, Stephen says he's been nied accs to clubs due to his disabilyWhen Stephen he told his fay he was gay, he says wasn't really a big thg as he has two olr sisters who are lbians.
WAR ON BLOGY: WHO DEEMS SGLE PEOPLE, GAYS 'DISABLED.' BEE 'INFERTILY'!?
"I don't thk people ually thk, 'Oh this disabled person is gay or straight or they want to teract or they have sir'.
THISABILY #39: GAY AND DISABLED CANADA? BACK THE CLOSET FOR YOU
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GAY COUPLE WH FOUR ADOPTED SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS HAVE HOME TRANSFORMED
And a young gay artist wh cerebral palsy pats his way to self-acceptance. Nor is stayg out of both closets — livg proudly as gay and disabled, all the time — as easy as you might thk. Beg openly gay hasn’t been a cure of lonels, though at least now I’m lookg for love the right plac.
There is also homophobia to al wh among people wh disabili, as well as ableism among LGBTQIA. When I’m around gay people I’ve met sce g out,. David Wul pats to brg some posivy to an otherwise dreary year and procs his feelgs around beg a gay person wh cerebral palsy.