Ned Price jt beme the first out-gay spokperson for the State Department. Tim Teeman surveys his reer telligence—and how g out helped unlock a powerful gay voice.
Contents:
- NED CALLS A CABLE COMPANY ABOUT THE GAY CHANNEL
- NED PRANK CALLS RETIREMENT CENTER ABOUT GAYS
- THREAD: NED CALLS RETIREMENT HOME ABOUT GAY NEEDS.
- NED CALLS ABOUT GAY CHANNEL
NED CALLS A CABLE COMPANY ABOUT THE GAY CHANNEL
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Ned fac "discrimatn" when he lls the retirement home about beg gay.
NED PRANK CALLS RETIREMENT CENTER ABOUT GAYS
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gay. The story begs 1981 as wrer Ned Weeks arriv on Fire Island and greets his iends Bce Nil and Mickey Marc, though many other guts are ls pleased to see him bee of a sthg satiril novel he wrote about gay culture. Bce's boyiend Craig celebrat a birthday, and on the way home Ned reads the newspaper about a strange "gay ncer.
She urg Ned to e his "big mouth" to tell gay men to absta, though he dismiss the ia of beg a lear.
THREAD: NED CALLS RETIREMENT HOME ABOUT GAY NEEDS.
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The much more likable Bce is elected print of their group, the Gay Men's Health Crisis, and they send out vatns for a fundraisg dance.
" Bce and the other group members are angered that he is speakg for them such a manner, particularly when he c the mon mor that Mayor Koch is also gay. Ben tells Ned that the gay muny has "a terrible image problem, " and Ned is fur to realize that his brother still believ him to be "sick" and rag that they will not speak aga until Ben regards him as an equal.
NED CALLS ABOUT GAY CHANNEL
* ned calls gay tv station *
Ned heads to Yale alone, sadly observg the stunts celebratg Gay Week.
Part of the procs of applyg for the job volved unrgog a polygraph tt, which Price thought might reveal that he was gay.
The workplace Price entered seemed fairly progrsive, but still took him some time to e weeks ago, Price ma history when he was appoted the first out-gay spokperson at the State Department unr s newly appoted Bin-era chief, Antony J. Some of those iends are also gay, and as an adult Price realized they were gog through siar experienc at the same time maniftg different ways. There were a uple of kids at school other pupils assumed to be gay bee of how they spoke, acted, or what they wore.
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It was a procs for his parents, as n be for so many, but they—ed all the most important people Price’s life—were acceptg and police officer asked Price: “You’re not gay, are you? He was aaid of beg disvered to be gay, He didn’t know what was and what wasn’t nsired disqualifyg when me to a reer at the CIA and natnal secury.
Johnson’s brilliant book, The Lavenr Sre, powerfully scribed the persecutn of lbians and gay men the feral ernment the 1950’s. “‘Sexual perversn, ’ for homosexualy, was nsired a fireable offense, ” as Shane Harris wrote a 2015 Daily Beast article, tailg the history of LGBTQ people workg the secury 1995, then Print Clton issued an executive orr, effectively reversg that.
The first out gay man to serve as State Department spokman talks about diplomacy, strategy, and the power of reprentatn. * ned calls gay tv station *
’s historilly gay officer asked Price: “You’re not gay, are you? Feelg timidated and sred as was jt the two of them there, and the officer seemed possibly homophobic, Price said no, he was not.
After Price had his cuffs removed, and as the p was sayg goodbye, Price told him he was gay and had taken offense at his remarks. “I don’t re if you’re gay, ” the officer told him.
)There were other cints of people at work makg homophobic jok or g anti-gay ephets his prence not knowg Price himself was gay.