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Contents:
- WHY IS THE CONVICTED MURRER OF A GAY MAN BEG CELEBRATED AT A MAJOR METAL FTIVAL?
- GAAHL SAYS EMPEROR'S FST WAS HIS FIRST SUPPORTER WHEN HE CAME OUT AS GAY
- ‘LOVE & HIP HOP’ STAR MIMI FST IS DATG A WOMAN BUT DON’T LL HER GAY
WHY IS THE CONVICTED MURRER OF A GAY MAN BEG CELEBRATED AT A MAJOR METAL FTIVAL?
Jan Gay was ahead of her time--an openly queer woman who spearhead some of the first studi of lbians. She's largely been fotten. Until now. * jan faust gay *
Des before a formalized queer activist movement popped up, a rearcher named Jan Gay cid to seek liberatn a different way. For Gay, the rearch was a sort of Trojan horse. Gay saw her study as a subtler type of activism—a way to document the many shas of queer inty, but also to show the world that queer people were far more like the rt of society than they had been given cred.
What ma her rearch all the more radil is that Gay herself was openly a lbian. Today, we have many ways to remember Gay: as a picture-book thor, a nudist lear, and the one-time roommate of Andy Warhol. In honor of the 100th anniversary of her birth this year, I have renstcted parts of Gay’s life through material held at the Library of Congrs and the Johns Hopks Medil Archiv, as well as om letters sent to me om a fay member of Gay’s.
The glimps of Gay’s legacy highlight how early queer people envisned rearch as a way to advote for their muny—and how they were nohels erased om that From Harper's BAZAARFour upl of women pose for a photo, . 1910 (Photo by Kirn Vtage Stock/Corbis via Getty Imag)Kirn Vtage Stock//Getty ImagJan Gay was born wh the name Helen Reman on Febary 14, 1902 Leipzig, Germany. Gay’s father, Ben Reman, was a proment doctor and anarchist activist, who also had a hab of womanizg.
GAAHL SAYS EMPEROR'S FST WAS HIS FIRST SUPPORTER WHEN HE CAME OUT AS GAY
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Gay was born while her mother revered om mental health Gay moved to the Uned Stat, she studied at Northwtern Universy. In 1927, to distance herself om her father, she changed her name to Jan Gay—eher as a nod to the dual meang of the word gay, or, more likely, as a reference to her mother’s fay.
‘LOVE & HIP HOP’ STAR MIMI FST IS DATG A WOMAN BUT DON’T LL HER GAY
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(Gay was her maternal grandfather’s middle name. ) Around the same time, she met Eleanor Byrn, an illtrator who eventually took on the psdonym Zhenya Gay.
Gay also beme an early figure the nudism movement: She served as the director of the Out-of-Door Club, a nudist lony of 50 people Highland, New York, where she enuraged rearchers to study the psychologil differenc between nudists and people who wore cloth. In 1932, she published On Gog Naked, a book that blends Gay’s own experience of nudism wh a larger history of the nudism movement.
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When the book was adapted to a documentary lled This Nu World, Gay wrote the script. ”What ma her rearch all the more radil is that Gay herself was openly a lbian. At Hirschfeld’s Instute for Sexual Science, a proment rearch clic, Gay read Hirschfeld’s “books and not and rerds ncerng homosexuals, seeg somethg of the treatment acrd them, ” she wrote later.
In one seri of letters 1939, Gay sent a prted qutnnaire to universi like Barnard College. Her qutns mt have sound peculiar to a school admistrator the 1930s: What was, Gay asked, the faculty’s attu toward csh or “passnate iendships” among same-genr stunts? “Homosexualy among stunts of Barnard College is not a problem of any magnu, ” Alsop said.