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
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'
* 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.
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.
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 *
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.
"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. "I don't thk people ually thk, 'Oh this disabled person is gay or straight or they want to teract or they have sir'. 2 ln his vios, he sarsm and humour to raise awarens and addrs some of the misnceptns he experienc as a disabled gay person.
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KENTUCKY: DISABLED GAY COUPLE EJECTED FROM POOL
Geni Pictur has optned Emmett Monterey’s memoir about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London for TV adaptatn. * disabled gay couple *
Havg a Visible Disabily While Comg Out as Gay. Human Rights Campaign – “Through rearch, tnal efforts and outreach, HRC enurag lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Amerins to live their liv openly and seeks to change the hearts and mds of Amerins to the si of equaly.
The Trevor Project – “Found 1998 by the creators of the Amy Award®-wng short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leadg natnal anizatn providg crisis terventn and suici preventn servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer & qutng (LGBTQ) young people unr 25. 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,.
WAR ON BLOGY: WHO DEEMS SGLE PEOPLE, GAYS 'DISABLED.' BEE 'INFERTILY'!?
David Wul pats to brg some posivy to an otherwise dreary year and procs his feelgs around beg a gay person wh cerebral palsy. Also, patg giv him an pe om the more right-wg rints wh disabili his buildg who ll him homophobic slurs like “fairy” when they see him the halls. “It’s this subtle gay pri abstract patg, and both Prton and I have been tryg to embrace that si of ourselv, ” says Johnson.
THISABILY #39: GAY AND DISABLED CANADA? BACK THE CLOSET FOR YOU
“Both of are whe cis-genr men so we tend to pass a lot society, but we’ve been tryg to dig eper to our gay history, culture and stori and jt be a ltle more tentnal about our home. We don’t really have anythg that’s overtly gay and we’ve been tryg to reapproach that by reamg our stori a posive way and own our queerns. It’s jt unr one week until one of the ma events myself and my iends always go to kicks off – Manchter’s Big Weekend, otherwise known as Gay Pri.
When I e out as gay, a number of people said to me; “no you’re not, ” followed by tsive qutng.
GAY COUPLE WH FOUR ADOPTED SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS HAVE HOME TRANSFORMED
Beg h wh the unwanted quizzg is annoyg, but worse than that, I nsir a form of homophobia – suggts a lack of rpect for someone’s personal sexualy. Homophobic slurs and discrimatn were also proment my high school, but the difference was that whilst I was stgglg wh my sexualy, I was aware of support webs and gay pri events. I knew that there were gay people lovg relatnships, and that away om the high school environment, beg gay was somethg that uld be celebrated.