15 (surprisg) untri where ’s illegal to be gay

Contents:

• CISG PTSBURGH: THE STORY OF CLANSTE GAY SEX, OM THE F LOOP TO GRDR
• HE CAPTURED A CLANSTE GAY CULTURE AMID THE DERELICT PIERS
• TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS
• 15 (SURPRISG) UNTRI WHERE ’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• THE BT ISRAELI LGBT FILMS YOU SHOULD WATCH GAY PRI PARA COURTY OF FLICKR | U.S. EMBASSY TEL AVIV DEBORAH MOHER 14 JULY 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE CELEBRATED GAY SCENE ISRAEL WH AN ECLECTIC VARIETY OF SOME OF THE MOST NTROVERSIAL AND CELEBRATED LGBT FILMS WRTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED THE UNTRY. VIEW ALL TRIPS DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP MOROC ECUADOR THAILAND SOUTH AI GREECE JAPAN CROATIA ICELAND SPA INDIA MEXI TURKEY BALI EGYPT ORIENTED (2012) ORIENTED IS A FASCATG DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THREE GAY PALTIAN IENDS THEIR 20S LIVG LIFE TEL AVIV. IT WAS IALLY RELEASED JUNE 2015 AT THE SHEFFIELD DOCUMENTARY FTIVAL, AND WAS DIRECTED BY JAKE WZENFELD AS HIS FEATURE BUT. THE FILM IS NOT ONLY A MORN TALE OF THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF BEG GAY SOCIETY, ALSO DOCUMENTS THE DIFFICULTI OF BEG GAY FOR PALTIAN MEN AND HOW THE ISSUE CLASH WH ISLAMIC DOCTRE. THE THREE BT IENDS CI TO FORM A GROUP LLED ‘QAMBUTA,’ HOPG TO BRG ABOUT CHANGE THROUGH EXPOSURE TO THEIR UNIQUE SEXUAL AND NATNAL INTI. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP YOSSI & JAGGER (2002) YOSSI AND JAGGER WAS RELEASED 2002 AND HAS SCE BEE A CULT MT-SEE. DIRECTED BY EYTAN FOX, THIS ROMANTIC FILM FOLLOWS TWO GAY SOLDIERS THE ISRAELI ARY AS THEY AL WH DAILY LIFE AT THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORR. YOSSI IS A MANR AND IS VOLVED A SECRET, PASSNATE LOVE AFFAIR WH HIS SEND--MAND (WHO IS NICKNAMED JAGGER). THE TWO OFTEN SNEAK OFF OM THE OUTPOST TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER. AN AMBH LEAV JAGGER WOUND, AND PLITNS ENSUE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. OUT THE DARK (2013) ANOTHER POLILLY PROVOTIVE TALE, OUT THE DARK TELLS THE STORY OF AN ISRAELI LAWYER WHO FALLS FOR A PALTIAN PSYCHOLOGY STUNT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AT THE INTERNATNAL HAIFA FILM FTIVAL. THE FILM, A DIRECTORIAL BUT FOR MICHAEL MAYER, PORTRAYS THE POLIL PLITNS OF AN ISRAELI FALLG LOVE WH A PALTIAN THE WT BANK AND THE EVABLE PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALY A NSERVATIVE MLIM SOCIETY. - AME - CUPK (2013) IN A DIFFERENT GENRE OM THE CELEBRATED EYTAN FOX, DIRECTOR OF YOSSI AND JAGGER, CUPK IS A SWEET EDY OF A GROUP OF FIVE IENDS TEL AVIV WHO ENTER THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT AS A JOKE. THEY ARE SHOCKED TO FD OUT THAT THEIR ENTRY WAS ACCEPTED. THE FILM FOLLOWS THE LGBT-IENDLY GROUP AS THEY GO FORWARD WH THE IAL JOKE THAT IS NOW TAKEN SERLY BY EACH MEMBER FOR DIFFERENT PERSONAL REASONS. - AME - PAPER DOLLS (2006) PAPER DOLLS IS A CHARMG DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWG THE LIV OF TRANSGENR FILIPOS WHO HAVE E TO ISRAEL TO WORK AS RE-WORKERS FOR ELRLY JEWISH ORTHODOX MEN. THE DOCUMENTARY PAPER DOLLS ( HEBREW BOOBOT NIYAR) WAS RELEASED 2006 BY DIRECTOR TOMER HEYMANN. THE DOCUMENTARY WAS SHOT OVER A LONG FIVE-YEAR PERD AND WAS FEATURED A VARIETY OF TERNATNAL FILM FTIVALS TO A POSIVE RECEPTN. - AME - YOSSI (2012) A SEQUEL TO EYTAN FOX’S YOSSI AND JAGGER, THE FILM YOSSI FOLLOWS THE TLE CHARACTER’S LIFE FOLLOWG HIS ENUNTER WH JAGGER TEN YEARS EARLIER. YOSSI IS A 34-YEAR-OLD RDLOGIST TRYG TO PE WH HIS TRMATIC PAST AND HIS PRENT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AND IS FOX’S FIFTH FEATURE FILM. - AME - VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• CLANSTE NETWORKS AND CLOSETED BURECRATS: AIDS AND THE FORMG OF A GAY POLICY NETWORK CALIFORNIA
• RSIA'S LGBT 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS': PRISONS FOR GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY
• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
• BT GAY HOOKUP S AND APPS
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• RSIA ‘HAS SECRETLY OPENED NAZI-STYLE PRISONS WHERE HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN ARE HELD AND SOME MURRED,’ LOL REPORTS CLAIM
• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023

CISG PTSBURGH: THE STORY OF CLANSTE GAY SEX, OM THE F LOOP TO GRDR

Dpe livg so close to the F Loop, Stt spent the ‘80s too aaid of ntractg HIV/AIDS to pursue his own sir — to allow himself the surprise of nnectn and pleasure wh strangers — so stead he got too dnk at gay bars (once smashg the glass behd the bar at the Hoe of Tiln), and lived virly through his roommate’s stori. Stt’s anecdote swiftly illtrat somethg of the range of men who seek sex wh men, a range which, when nsired wh any serns, challeng popular ias about who might or might not have gay sex.

HE CAPTURED A CLANSTE GAY CULTURE AMID THE DERELICT PIERS

In the last few years, the closg of gay bars and adult bookstor, as well as a clearer unrstandg of the profoundly limed benefs of visibily and assiatn a stcturally homophobic and transphobic culture, have reigned a robt tert cisg, and s history, pecially among younger queer people. Case pot: 2008, a school prcipal seekg gay sex at Harrison Hills Park Natrona Heights was entrapped by a police officer which, after the man lost his job, was reported the lol paper.

TOP 13 COUNTRI WH BIGGT GAY POPULATNS

Click to enlarge Photo: Courty of the Hez History Center Fold-out wallet map of gay Ptsburgh, misspelled and sponsored by the Arena Health Club and the Schume Turkish Baths, mid-1980s.

For reasons of both safety and neglect, historil rmatn on cisg beyond out-of-date listgs on old web pag is difficult to e by, though ’s worth rememberg that many more people have gay sex at night than live gay liv durg the day. Cisg, historilly, clus not jt gay men seekg sex wh other gay men for pleasure, but also straight-intifyg men lookg for gay sex, sex for pay both straight and gay, and trans women, often misreprented as men newspaper verage. Click to enlarge Photo: Courty of Three-article spread on gay life Ptsburgh by Jerry Byrd and Douglas Root for the Ptsburgh Prs, October 24, 1977, followg the murrs of David Fields and Kim Rogers September of that year.

” Over an eight-day perd, 24 men were arrted, though, acrdg to Randall Forrter, founr of the LGBTQ mental health facily Persad Center, and the only gay man who appears to have been willg to speak on-rerd about the arrts, “No one was arrted who was actually participatg illegal acts... One htler, who worked Mellon Square near the William Penn Hotel, scribed for the Prs how sex workers protect each other, at work and their private life: “A ltle htlg for money Downtown, homosexual activy Uptown... In this same era, people seekg gay sex uld, creasgly, fd for cheap or ee the vio ars of adult bookstor and porn theaters, whose gdy marque illumated the streets of Downtown Ptsburgh, and at social venu like gay bars, bathho, and after-hours clubs.

15 (SURPRISG) UNTRI WHERE ’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

In 1979, a gay man lookg for sex Ptsburgh was likely to fd succs at any of the three bath ho around the cy, or at the Crossover Lounge, a leather bar jt down the street om where Central Outreach is today.

In 1977 the Holiday Bar Oakland advertised s “new, odorized men’s room” and “pletely sanized cise bar” a special issue of Gay Life magaze, whose ver story was a first-person acunt of a vis to the baths.

click to enlarge Photo: Courty of the Hez History Center Front ver of Gay Life magaze advertisg ver story on visg Ptsburgh's gay bathho and advertisement for the Club Baths of Ptsburgh ("three exhilaratg floors") on the back ver of Gay Life, September 1977.

THE BT ISRAELI LGBT FILMS YOU SHOULD WATCH GAY PRI PARA COURTY OF FLICKR | U.S. EMBASSY TEL AVIV DEBORAH MOHER 14 JULY 2023 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE CELEBRATED GAY SCENE ISRAEL WH AN ECLECTIC VARIETY OF SOME OF THE MOST NTROVERSIAL AND CELEBRATED LGBT FILMS WRTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED THE UNTRY. VIEW ALL TRIPS DID YOU KNOW – CULTURE TRIP NOW DO BOOKABLE, SMALL-GROUP TRIPS? PICK OM THENTIC, IMMERSIVE EPIC TRIPS, PACT AND ACTN-PACKED MI TRIPS AND SPARKLG, EXPANSIVE SAILG TRIPS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP MOROC ECUADOR THAILAND SOUTH AI GREECE JAPAN CROATIA ICELAND SPA INDIA MEXI TURKEY BALI EGYPT ORIENTED (2012) ORIENTED IS A FASCATG DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THREE GAY PALTIAN IENDS THEIR 20S LIVG LIFE TEL AVIV. IT WAS IALLY RELEASED JUNE 2015 AT THE SHEFFIELD DOCUMENTARY FTIVAL, AND WAS DIRECTED BY JAKE WZENFELD AS HIS FEATURE BUT. THE FILM IS NOT ONLY A MORN TALE OF THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS OF BEG GAY SOCIETY, ALSO DOCUMENTS THE DIFFICULTI OF BEG GAY FOR PALTIAN MEN AND HOW THE ISSUE CLASH WH ISLAMIC DOCTRE. THE THREE BT IENDS CI TO FORM A GROUP LLED ‘QAMBUTA,’ HOPG TO BRG ABOUT CHANGE THROUGH EXPOSURE TO THEIR UNIQUE SEXUAL AND NATNAL INTI. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP YOSSI & JAGGER (2002) YOSSI AND JAGGER WAS RELEASED 2002 AND HAS SCE BEE A CULT MT-SEE. DIRECTED BY EYTAN FOX, THIS ROMANTIC FILM FOLLOWS TWO GAY SOLDIERS THE ISRAELI ARY AS THEY AL WH DAILY LIFE AT THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORR. YOSSI IS A MANR AND IS VOLVED A SECRET, PASSNATE LOVE AFFAIR WH HIS SEND--MAND (WHO IS NICKNAMED JAGGER). THE TWO OFTEN SNEAK OFF OM THE OUTPOST TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER. AN AMBH LEAV JAGGER WOUND, AND PLITNS ENSUE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. OUT THE DARK (2013) ANOTHER POLILLY PROVOTIVE TALE, OUT THE DARK TELLS THE STORY OF AN ISRAELI LAWYER WHO FALLS FOR A PALTIAN PSYCHOLOGY STUNT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AT THE INTERNATNAL HAIFA FILM FTIVAL. THE FILM, A DIRECTORIAL BUT FOR MICHAEL MAYER, PORTRAYS THE POLIL PLITNS OF AN ISRAELI FALLG LOVE WH A PALTIAN THE WT BANK AND THE EVABLE PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALY A NSERVATIVE MLIM SOCIETY. - AME - CUPK (2013) IN A DIFFERENT GENRE OM THE CELEBRATED EYTAN FOX, DIRECTOR OF YOSSI AND JAGGER, CUPK IS A SWEET EDY OF A GROUP OF FIVE IENDS TEL AVIV WHO ENTER THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT AS A JOKE. THEY ARE SHOCKED TO FD OUT THAT THEIR ENTRY WAS ACCEPTED. THE FILM FOLLOWS THE LGBT-IENDLY GROUP AS THEY GO FORWARD WH THE IAL JOKE THAT IS NOW TAKEN SERLY BY EACH MEMBER FOR DIFFERENT PERSONAL REASONS. - AME - PAPER DOLLS (2006) PAPER DOLLS IS A CHARMG DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWG THE LIV OF TRANSGENR FILIPOS WHO HAVE E TO ISRAEL TO WORK AS RE-WORKERS FOR ELRLY JEWISH ORTHODOX MEN. THE DOCUMENTARY PAPER DOLLS ( HEBREW BOOBOT NIYAR) WAS RELEASED 2006 BY DIRECTOR TOMER HEYMANN. THE DOCUMENTARY WAS SHOT OVER A LONG FIVE-YEAR PERD AND WAS FEATURED A VARIETY OF TERNATNAL FILM FTIVALS TO A POSIVE RECEPTN. - AME - YOSSI (2012) A SEQUEL TO EYTAN FOX’S YOSSI AND JAGGER, THE FILM YOSSI FOLLOWS THE TLE CHARACTER’S LIFE FOLLOWG HIS ENUNTER WH JAGGER TEN YEARS EARLIER. YOSSI IS A 34-YEAR-OLD RDLOGIST TRYG TO PE WH HIS TRMATIC PAST AND HIS PRENT. THE FILM WAS RELEASED 2012 AND IS FOX’S FIFTH FEATURE FILM. - AME - VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

Ptsburgh’s notorly lively cisg scene the 1970s and 1980s was also reported to be a racist boys’ club for whe men who jt happened to be gay, though Ptsburgh’s first, ls-documented queer nightlife scene preced the gay bars n by Lucky and his work. Top 13 Countri wh Biggt Gay Populatns Fance Watchlists My Portfol Markets Optns: Hight Open Intert Optns: Hight Implied Volatily News Vios Yahoo Fance Pl Screeners Personal Fance High-yield savgs acunt rat Crypto Indtri Contact Us U. Markets close 2 hours 55 mutS&P 500 Dow 30 Nasdaq Rsell 2000 C Oil Gold Silver EUR/USD 10-Yr Bond GBP/USD USD/JPY B USD CMC Crypto 200 FTSE 100 Nikkei 225 Top 13 Countri wh Biggt Gay PopulatnsThe top 13 untri wh the biggt gay populatns are surprisgly very rarely the list of untri where gay marriage is legal.

Click to skip ahead and jump to the top 5 untri wh the biggt gay gay populatns has e a long way om beg persecuted for simply existg across the world, to beg able to safely marry over 20 untri. However, there is still a very long way to go, pecially many untri where beg gay is equivalent to mtg a ser crime, even though the former hurts no one, except perhaps some people's the Uned Stat is known for claimg champns human rights, we all know that only champns the rights of whe mal.

In 1969, the Stonewall Inn New York Cy was raid by police, a sanctuary for homosexuals, triggerg outrage across the untry and is said to be a landmark moment the progrs of gay rights. Most of the untri are prent the 15 most dangero untri for gay homosexualy is a naturally occurrg event (no matter what your relign tells you) that is not affected by race, culture or any other discrimatory factor, every untry should have a siar percentage of gay people.

CLANSTE NETWORKS AND CLOSETED BURECRATS: AIDS AND THE FORMG OF A GAY POLICY NETWORK CALIFORNIA

Bee of the limatns, there are very few studi, but we found a relevant one om the US Natnal Center for Btechnology Informatn, which lculated the number of gay and bisexual men each untry om UNAIDs timat and social media.

UkraeWhile homosexualy is not officially illegal Ukrae as is most untri we've already mentned, the prevalent attu is extremely negative towards homosexuals who face extreme discrimatn.

RSIA'S LGBT 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS': PRISONS FOR GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY

Speculatn as to why this populatn is hidn clus the ntroversial nature of homosexualy, relig extremism, perceived iologil differenc sexual practic, armed nflict and even Kashmir, notns of “gay” or “homosexual” are different om those of the mastream India or wt.

” The tegorizatn of someone as “homosexual” equently do not refer to a physil act wh someone of the same genr but tak to s amb the behavr or the attu of an dividual which is termed largely by the hetero-patriarchal society.

Wh Kashmiri Culture, there are different classifitns of “gay, ” even wh the LGBT muny, there are diverse nnotatns for the “passive (moorat)” vers the “active (poatch)” partner; and only the ‘moorat’ (passive) partner is nsired homosexual. Moreover, this psdo-tegorizatn, which is prevalent Kashmir, clus gays, Male to Female (MTF) transgenr, male bisexuals and pletely ni a space to the least talked about sectns -lbians, female bisexuals and Female to Male (FTM) transgenr. Islam is terpreted differently by different followers, but generally s teachgs regardg sexualy (homosexual or heterosexual) n be rced to the importance of procreatn and formalized ameworks for sexual activy.

WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET

The film, a directorial but for Michael Mayer, portrays the polil plitns of an Israeli fallg love wh a Paltian the Wt Bank and the evable problems of homosexualy a nservative Mlim society. In the sprg of 1981, exhsted after spendg several years participatg the San Francis gay rights movement, Stan Hadn head for Sacramento, tent on pursug a reer as an rmatn technology (IT) nsultant. Hopg to solidify their relatnship wh the gay movement, Democratic and Republin lawmakers alike turned to the gay activists for their personal nnectns and expertise, hirg them as office assistants, policy nsultants, and muny liaisons.

Backed by a bipartisan group of policians—cludg the Speaker of the Assembly and the Print of the Senate—gay appote gaed unprecented fluence Sacramento durg the 1980s, propellg the Goln State toward the most far-reachg ernment rponse to AIDS the Uned Stat.

BT GAY HOOKUP S AND APPS

3 Legislative bat over antibody ttg, bmedil rearch, and preventn tn provid a rich opportuny for gay activists to assert their polil clout, fe allianc wh powerful lawmakers, and ga a seat at the policy-makg table. 7 By ntrast, a rich and volumo body of work exists on the early history of AIDS activism, and s tersectns wh, among other thgs, gay liberatn, radil polics, and the “long civil rights movement.

8 Other historians, meanwhile, have explored how the search for the first fected se of AIDS, popularly known as “patient zero, ” dovetailed wh and rerced homophobic rpons to the disease. 19 In a somewhat paradoxil fashn, they privately ed the closet as a tool to unrme homophobic parts of the state burecracy but publicly asserted that “g out” was cril to creasg the gay movement’s polil clout. 21 As gay men and lbians slowly emerged as a legimate nstuency statewi polics, they blazed ahead wh mpaigns to broan legal protectns for sexual mori, cludg a s-long ph to add sexual orientatn to the state’s antidiscrimatn laws.

As the AIDS crisis unfold, an fluential group of state lawmakers played a pivotal role formulatg a proactive policy rponse, often relyg on their preexistg ti wh the gay movement and a terie of newly employed gay legislative staffers. Havg tablished a close relatnship wh his gay nstuents the 1970s, Roberti, whose senate seat enpassed the gay urban enclave of Wt Hollywood, hired Hadn 1982 to signal his mment to tacklg the disease. While Democrats stood at the foreont of the efforts to hire gay legislative assistants, the emergence of California’s gay policy work transcend the left–right bary of electoral polics.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

39 Hopg to turn the GOP to a viable ont the battle for gay rights, Decker tablished Concerned Amerins for Individual Rights 1984, a polil anizatn formed of “morate to nservative Gays and Lbians, ” uneasy wh the fluence of “the Relig Right … on the Reagan Admistratn and the Republin Party. Durg his tenure as chair of the AIDS Advisory Commtee, Decker cultivated a close relatnship wh Bh and Hadn, workg wh them to end homophobic bias the state burecracy, to amplify the gay movement’s voice statewi polics, and to strengthen the legislature’s rponse to AIDS.

On April 30, 1980—over a year after Brown issued the orr—the agency hired Leroy Walker, an attorney based Los Angel, to liaise wh lol gay activists, root out homophobia the burecracy’s recment procs, and te the state civil service about the specific needs of gay employe.

RSIA ‘HAS SECRETLY OPENED NAZI-STYLE PRISONS WHERE HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN ARE HELD AND SOME MURRED,’ LOL REPORTS CLAIM

Brown’s Executive Orr was utterly effective at preventg antigay discrimatn, and stanc of stutnalized homophobia persisted, as officials wh the burecracy wily ignored discrimatn plats ma by gay employe.

Some letter wrers protted that the state was slow to release funds to AIDS service anizatns and actively discrimated agast gay-n groups; others wonred why state officials cled to ordate their efforts across different agenci. 57 Exampl of obstctnism proliferated the early 1980s; one particularly egreg cint, officials whdrew fundg om an AIDS-preventn tn film only after learng that had been veloped by a gay productn pany. 77 In the late 1960s and early 1970s, gay liberatnists had proclaimed that g out was an important marker of gay polil strength; they popularized the notn that disclosg one’s homosexualy was an sential element of gay polics and inty.

THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023

80 In the tumn of 1988, the Natnal Gay Rights Advot, a gay rights law firm, anized the first Natnal Comg Out Day (NCOD), an event signed to illumate the gay movement’s growg polil clout.

The two most powerful California state legislators—the Speaker of the Assembly and the Print of the Senate (Brown and Roberti, rpectively)—both had solid liberal crentials and relied heavily on gay appote when me to formulatg policy. Although Dkmejian won the ernorship 1982 and 1986, Democrats ntrolled both chambers of the legislature throughout the 1980s, and gay policy el uld rely on long-tablished relatnships wh liberal, reform-md lawmakers.