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Contents:
- THE NEW GENERATN OF GAY LATO POETS
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- GAY LATO POETS
- AWARD-WNG LATO POET AND GAY ACTIVIST TO SPEAK
THE NEW GENERATN OF GAY LATO POETS
Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's pro sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer. * gay latino poets *
Cavafy is a 20th century Greek poet, known for his highly homoerotic and sexually explic poetry.
While he remaed mostly obscure durg his lifetime, he's now e to be revered as one of the great gay poets of the past hundred years. Ifti Nasim was a gay Pakistani-Amerin poet who moved to the Stat to pe persecutn for his sexualy back his hometown. Baldw is known as one of the great, proud gay artists of all time.
Walt Whman is one of the great poets of all time, and a champn of homoeroticism the lerary form.
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Though many were aaid of persecutn and hid their sexual orientatn, others boldly me out a time when homosexualy was pletely nmned.
Here we take a look at 10 of the greatt gay or bisexual figur classic lerature. One which efficiently nstcts the unrpngs of masculy as we know —particularly Mexin masculy—and forc you to nont sire not only as a straight or gay or even a sexual thg, but as a human thg.
Even the facts that many of the patrons at the Stonewall Inn who participated the cint that sparked the gay liberatn movement were Puerto Rin and that the bar patron populatn was predomantly people of lor are ls often ced LGBT historil wrgs. LGBT muny is somewhat problematic, due part to the fact that many of the publitns produced by and for this populatn the first after the begngs of the gay liberatn movement at the Stonewall monstratns 1969 took the form of newsletters created by lol anizatns which had limed circulatn and often existed for only a few years. They clu Afuera (1972) New York Cy, the Bullet om the Comé Homosexual Latoamerino ( whose first issue appeared New York June 1978) and Hoton’s quarterly Paz y Liberacn, which began publishg May 1979.
GAY LATO POETS
The 1980s saw a group of new publitns ci as diverse as Los Angel (Unidad, 1982), Denver (S Fronteras, 1985), Hoton (Noticias l Gay Hispanic Cc, 1985-1990) and San Francis (S masras). In 1987, at the Natnal March for Lbian and Gay Rights Washgton, D. C., el Primer Encuentro Gais y Lbianas Latas was held, out of which me the Natnal Lato/a Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Organizatn (LLEGÓ), although the new anizatn did not beg publishg a regular perdil until 1994, Aqui llego.
AWARD-WNG LATO POET AND GAY ACTIVIST TO SPEAK
The 1990s saw an expansn of this genre of perdils- jog Aqui llego were De ambiente: revista lata bisexual, lbi y gay Los Angel, La Gente Unida Newsletter om Denver, La entrevista: newsletter of Latos en Acción om Atlanta, A la brava om San Francis, a send Los Angel tle, Revista alante, and Chigo’s En la vida, which lasted until the end of 2003 and merged wh another publitn, Black L, to create a new tle, Inty, which ntued to provi verage of the cy’s LGBT Lato muny. The anizatns created the 1970s by gay and lbian Hispanics such as San Francis’s Gay Lato Alliance brought addnal issu of opprsn related to race and class (such as equal accs to tnal opportuni and votg rights) to the more general civil rights agenda of the gay liberatn movement.