Former Illois U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock has e out as gay social media and web posts, sayg he would do more if he were Congrs today to support LGBTQ rights.
Contents:
- FALSELY CLAIMG SOMEONE IS GAY IS NO LONGER FAMATN PER SE, N.Y. URT L
- 29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
- FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SAYS HE’S GAY, REGRETS ANTI-GAY STANC
- KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
- 14 CELEBRY MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY
- TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
FALSELY CLAIMG SOMEONE IS GAY IS NO LONGER FAMATN PER SE, N.Y. URT L
Tim ntue to change Hollywood and around the untry. Over the past uple years, more and more celebri have e out of the closet as gay. * accused of being gay *
Falsely accg someone of beg gay is no longer nsired famatn per se, a New York appeals urt led recently.
” Falsely claimg that someone is homosexual had also been lumped . "Eric Lh, LGBT Bar Associatn of New YorkIn late December, however, the Supreme Court of the State of New York’s Send Department — one urt below the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s hight urt — overturned that s-old precent when led that a false claim of homosexualy is no longer famatn per se. Mrice, began 2017, when Jean Renald Mrice, a pastor at the Gethsemane Seventh Day Adventist Church Brooklyn, publicly claimed at a church meetg of 300 people that a church elr, Pierre Delor Laguerre, “was a homosexual” and that he “disrpected the church by viewg gay pornography on the church’s puter, ” acrdg to the urt opn.
Mlla, a 2012 lg by the Supreme Court’s Third Department that found that prev cisns labelg false claims of homosexualy as famatn per se were "nsistent wh current public policy and should no longer be followed. " That cisn also led that “ nnot be said that current public opn supports a le that would equate statements imputg homosexualy wh accatns of ser crimal nduct or suatns that an dividual has a loathsome disease. Texas, which found that laws crimalizg homosexual nduct were unnstutnal, and the urt’s 2015 cisn Obergefell v.
29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
* accused of being gay *
“Based on the foregog, we nclu that the false imputatn of homosexualy do not nstute famatn per se, ” the Send Department wrote s Dec. When given the opportuny, Lh said they will likely le the same way the Send and Third Departments the Uned Stat, whether false claims of homosexualy are nsired famatory per se is pennt on the state and, often, on the urt. Historilly, many stat nsired false accatns of homosexualy to be famatn per se, bee their state law crimalized homosexual nduct.
Defamatn lawsus rultg om false accatns of beg LGBTQ — like the one brought before New York’s Send Department — are ls mon than they once were due to creasg acceptance of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people, acrdg to Brad Sears, executive director of the Williams Instute at UCLA School of Law. Accg LGBTQ people of "groomg" or "recg" children to bee gay or transgenr is an age-old trope that feeds off fear. "This is a classic trope of humanizatn and fear that has been ed agast gay people after after ....
Thk about the lumny agast gay people throughout most of our lifetim: that gay people somehow are moltg kids, or after kids, or predatory. " That ia propelled anti-gay activist and sger Ana Bryant's Save Our Children mpaign the 1970s. And led to a 1978 California ballot measure to ban gays and lbians om workg public schools, an iative spearhead by state Sen.
FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SAYS HE’S GAY, REGRETS ANTI-GAY STANC
John Briggs, who promised, "We are gog to rtore moraly to the classroom and remove openly and blatant homosexuals om fluencg and teachg our young.
But the homophobic attacks ntued, fuelg a moral panic.
KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
Proposn 6, lled the Briggs Iniative, sought to ban gays and lbians om workg California public schools. "If somebody tried to mpaign today on endg gay marriage, they would get so ltle tractn outsi the most ge elements, and yet, even five years ago, that wasn't an extreme posn....
I thk this is a stupid, stupid argument to be makg, bee every day, more and more people know someone who is gay or transgenr. Neil Rafferty, the only openly gay member of his state's legislature, remas optimistic, even the face of Alabama passg some of the untry's harsht anti-LGBTQ laws. "When we showed gay people, " he says, "when we elevated the voic of gay people as part of the nversatn — and I say this as someone who is gay — we wanted to show the gay people as part of a fay, the gay people as part of a workplace, the gay people this se as part of a classroom.
14 CELEBRY MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY
How many of you were/are acced of beg gay bee people thought you weren't manly enough? Tim ntue to change Hollywood and around the the past uple years, more and more celebri have e out of the closet as plenty of other celebri have been acced of beg gay.
TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
That Oprah is a lbian and has been datg bt iend Gayle Kg for years. The talk show host says this simply isn’t te and she’d never hi her sexualy if she were gay.
Said Damon once: “I never nied those mors bee I was offend and didn’t want to offend my iends who were gay.