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Contents:

• WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
• ‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS
• GRENELL WAS THE FIRST GAY BET MEMBER—SO WHY DO MEDIA CLAIM BUTTIGIEG WILL BE?
• RICHARD GRENELL, FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SAYS TMP REJECTS ‘INTY POLICS’
• TMP APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR TO HIS ADMISTRATN
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS
• PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
• IS ROBERT RI'CHARD GAY?

WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?

My first acquatance wh the gay Richard meme me 1968, urty of a young English nurse om the medil centre at the pany where I worked. The four-part seri vtigat the stori surroundg a serial killer who targeted gay men a seri of btal murrs and dismemberments the 1990s. "Like his victims, who were bisexual and gay, Rogers is a gay man, per his trial ’s book go over some of his bgraphil tails: Rogers was the elst of five children born to a fay Plymouth, had had n-s wh the law before for siarly morbid allegatns.

A total of four murrs were brought up at his trial, but he was only charged Thomas Mulhy and Anthony Marrero’s four victims were middle-aged, gay or bisexual men, last seen at gay bars Manhattan. In July 1993, Michael Sakara, a gay man his 50s, left Five Oaks Piano Bar, where he was a regular, wh Rogers and was never seen aga. This se is also briefly discsed Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983), which adds a few tails.

‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS

The full texts of this se were also reprted an appendix to Louis Crompton, "Homosexuals and the Death Penalty Colonial Ameri, " Journal of Homosexualy, vol. Cornish's executn was the subject of an apparently fictnalized, undocumented acunt, published the gay prs, an ditn that gay history was of tert to a homosexual rights activist of the 1960s and 1970s: see Dick Lech, "Ameri's First Prott Movement: Gay Zap 1624, "Cay (N.

Mastream media was bi self wh joy over what they lled the first gay bet nomee, but the thg is, we already had an openly gay Cabet member, Richard @PeteButtigieg has tegry he will speak out and rrect this erasure of @RichardGrenell's legacy and historic achievements. LGBTQ Natn reported on this Febary 2020 wh the headle, "Donald Tmp appots the first gay person to a Cabet-level posn. "It appears the nuance between Grenell and Buttigeig, is as NBC News specified, "he would be the first openly gay Cabet secretary to be nfirmed by the Senate.

Print Donald Tmp's former actg director of natnal telligence, Richard Grenell, was the first openly gay lear of a Cabet-level agency.

GRENELL WAS THE FIRST GAY BET MEMBER—SO WHY DO MEDIA CLAIM BUTTIGIEG WILL BE?

" Demonstratg they know exactly what they are dog, they poted out that if Bin failed to nomate an LGBT person, specifilly Buttigieg, "It would also give Richard Grenell—who as actg director of natnal telligence the Tmp admistratn beme the first openly gay Cabet member US history—a reason to celebrate: Tmp would have achieved a first for the LGBTQ muny that Bin didn't even attempt. Tmp's stubborn sistence on appotg qualified ambassadors and judg who happened to also be gay was difficult enough for LGBT media, advocy and generally mastream media to regnize given their fixatn on accg him of beg anti-LGBT, but Grenell's appotment to DNI was too proment to ignore. Speakg to Brebart News on Saturday, Grenell, the first openly gay US bet member, said Tmp “don’t re about the typ of issu” when nsirg whom to appot for a posn.

Thank God we don’t hire people bee they e out of a box and say, ‘Here is a black, here is a Hispanic, here is a gay person, ’” he ntued. On Wednday, the Log Cab Republins, an anizatn dited to LGBT nservativ, unveiled a mpaign ad featurg Grenell which he lled Tmp “the strongt ally that gay Amerins have ever had the Whe Hoe.

Grenell said his remarks were jok that weren't as funny as he wanted them to be, and that he regretted sayg appoted by the Senate, Grenell would jo a list of ambassadors who have been openly gay the past. Q&A Wh Former Actg Director of Natnal Intelligence Richard Grenell on Pri 2020 On Febary 20, Richard Grenell was appoted Actg Director of Natnal Intelligence, beg the first openly gay DNI and bet member Amerin history.

RICHARD GRENELL, FIRST OPENLY GAY BET MEMBER, SAYS TMP REJECTS ‘INTY POLICS’

For s, feral law ma so that no amount of tn, experience, or tellect uld brighten the tarnish of homosexualy the secury clearance procs — the gateway to the Intelligence Communy. As a young kid growg up an Evangelil Christian home, I sometim felt like I was the only one gog through a crisis of fah brought on by the realizatn that I was gay. I have the bt fay the world — super lovg and supportive — but we didn’t know any gay people growg up and I didn’t know how to be gay and a Christian.

TMP APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR TO HIS ADMISTRATN

Ambassador to Germany, you have spoken out agast laws that discrimate agast members of the LGBTQ+ muny and worked to crimalize homosexualy. The Uned Stat is the bt untry the world for gays and lbians, and there are many people om around the world — cludg om the LGBTQ+ muny — who are sperate to e to Ameri.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

However, though Richard has been treated as somethg of a gay in for years, direct evince that he and Philip actually had a homosexual relatnship is snt.

RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS

Philip’s maral issu also earned him a reputatn for beg homosexual, though he had enough wiv and children to (perhaps) prove otherwise. Both of them ignored the sacred agreement to protect his lands while he was on God's first suggtns that Richard may have been gay appeared 1948.

Rchie Torr has won his Hoe race for New York’s 15th Congrsnal District, makg him the first gay Ao Lato person elected to was all but certa to w his ep-blue Hoe district. "Tonight we ma history, " Torr tweeted Tuday night, llg "the honor of a lifetime to reprent a borough filled wh sential workers who risked their liv so that New York Cy uld live" durg the uld be joed by Mondaire Jon, who's currently ahead his race for New York's 17th Congrsnal District, as the first gay Black members of, 32, a Bronx native, is the youngt member of the New York Cy Council, where he has advoted for better public hog and programs to addrs racially ncentrated poverty. ”Mulls sisted his now-leted ment was reference to Torr’ “dangero polici and worldview, ” not his out polician has also squared off agast fellow Cy Council member Ruben Diaz Sr., his opponent the, 77, a Pentestal mister, has referred to gay people as “cursed” and voted agast legalizg same-sex marriage 2009 and 2011 as a member of the New York State Senate.

Last year, Diaz scribed the New York Cy Council, which has five openly LGBTQ members, as beg "ntrolled by the homosexual muny. ”After the ment, Torr worked wh Cy Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who is also gay, to strip Diaz of mtee is the first openly gay elected official om the Bronx and blam Diaz for fosterg a “homophobic culture” the borough.

PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE

”A rerd 26 openly gay ndidat for the Hoe and Senate were on the ballot Tuday, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which advot for and tras out elected reprentativ.

Take the jump blu of Billy Wright, the “slow drag” vol style of Big Maybelle, or the “hip shak’ mama” Patsy Vidalia, the drag queen who MCed New Orleans club the Dew Drop Inn and threw the cy’s annual Gay Ball.

Edor's note:While Print Tmp’s appotment of Richard Grenell as actg director of natnal telligence n be cricized for other reasons, is a remarkable velopment given that the telligence muny nied employment to gay and lbian Amerins until relatively recently, argu Jam Kirchick. For the first time Amerin history, an openly LGBT person will lead the telligence muny, a remarkable velopment nsirg that, until relatively recently, not only nied employment to gay and lbian Amerins but thoroughly purged them om s ranks.

IS ROBERT RI'CHARD GAY?

Begng 1953, when Print Dwight Eisenhower signed an executive orr nyg work to those spected of “sexual perversn, ” thoands of gay men and women were forced out of the feral burecracy. Many gay and lbian workers quietly rigned rather than face huiatg secury terrogatns, others mted suici whout leavg an explanatn, and untold numbers never even applied for jobs due to the prohibn on their employment. Bee homosexualy was legally proscribed most stat until the 1970s and socially anathema, gays were nsired more sceptible targets for recment by hostile foreign telligence servic than heterosexuals.

So shameful was the homosexual’s secret, so o to his reputatn and livelihood were exposed, he would prumably do anythg, cludg betray his untry, to keep ncealed. A gay man and senr untertelligence official the Atro-Hungarian army, Redl was ught sellg secrets for a hefty sum to Rsia 1913. Redl’s motivatn was pure greed; his homosexualy was not even known to his Rsian handler, nor would s exposure necsarily have ed a ary reer late Belle Époque Vienna.

However, hopg to downplay the embarrassment of a mole at the very top of s untertelligence apparat, the ary leaked that Redl was gay and had been blackmailed by the Rsians over . Over time, the tale of the traoro, gay spy beme lore, pecially among telligence profsnals, dramatized onstage and film. Five s after Redl was hand a pistol and stcted to take his own life as punishment for treason, Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dull clud an acunt of the legend an anthology he eded and wrote elsewhere that the Atrian lonel suffered om “two weakns — homosexualy and overwhelmg venaly.