Slate’s new history podst vers 1977: a year when gay rights hung the balance, Roots domated the airwav, and J appeared on a tortilla.
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MEET OUR NEW GAY SHIP ON THE CWS ‘LEGACI’
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On top of great chemistry, Phillips hop this love story will fight the “fundamental fear” actors have towards gay rol. Meet Our New Gay Ship on The CWs ‘Legaci’. Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist.
The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend. Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn.
The overwhelmg support that Colls has received the NBA and elsewhere reveals that homophobia is on the wane the Uned Stat. In this age of ls-overt prejudice, anti-gay bias has taken a peculiar new form. ” WFAN’s Mike Franca agreed, tellg his rad dience, “It means ls than nothg to me that there is a gay player now out the NBA.
JOSH GAY
Gay athlet have always been stigmatized, forced to live fear that they’d be ostracized by their teammat or outed on someone else’s terms.
When someone like Franca or Samuel says he jt don’t want to hear , he’s rercg the attus that led NBA player John Amaechi to hi his te self until he retired, that had gby star Gareth Thomas ntemplatg suici, and that prevent lots of gay men om tryg sports the first place. And I’m also gusg he’s looked up at the stadium Kiss Cam, which enurag straight upl to smooch while wrgg gay-panicky ys out of the possibily that prumably straight football players might lock lips.
ANA BRYANT’S WAR ON GAY RIGHTS
If Jason Colls choos to “flnt” his sexualy, then, the 12-year NBA veteran won’t exactly turn the sports world gay. His urageo act brgs closer to makg Rh Limbgh’s dream e te: Hopefully, a generatn, gay athlet will be so monplace that a player’s sexual orientatn don’t warrant any attentn.
The first season of One Year foc on 1977, a year when gay rights hung the balance, Roots domated the airwav, and J appeared on a tortilla. In between, there are thoands of bad gay jok (Leonidas’ battle plan: “I’m gog to take them the rear”), thoands of even-worse gay jok (“It looks like backstage at an Elton John ncert”), and “fake” -movie mercials for Gatora and Dentyne Ice. A natnal battle over gay rights kicked off Miami 1977.
The bety queen and orange-juice spokwoman was Ameri’s leadg anti-gay csar. The Ana Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Natn’s Fai and the Threat of Milant Homosexualy, Spire Books, 1977.