Contents:
- QUEEN MáXIMA VISS HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BAR: ‘PRETTY FABULO’
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS
- CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
QUEEN MáXIMA VISS HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BAR: ‘PRETTY FABULO’
Who were gay the group Queen? OK, so a Dutch queen and the mayor of San Francis walk to a gay Tuday the Castro, Her Majty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands—fashn in, slayer of dragons and a darlg of dos ntents (she origally hails om Argenta)—stepped to Tw Peaks Tavern to pay her rpects to a San Francis stutn while also listeng to ncerns om LGBTQ+ muny stakeholrs as part of her U.
“There have been lns of queens this bar, but today the queen me through and hung out wh other queens—and that ma pretty fabulo, ” said Aria Sa’id, executive director of the Transgenr Máxima of the Netherlands meets wh muny lears si of Tw Peaks, a historic gay bar the Castro District of San Francis, on Tuday, Sept. The gay bar ma history 50 years ago when proudly removed s wdow vergs, lettg the outsi world know there was no shame what was happeng Tuday, Tw Peaks once aga played the role of a ptivatg fishbowl as the crowd waved and waed for the queen to wrap up an rmatnal discsn wh a terie of lol LGBTQ+ lears. “It was a big al 1972, bee if you were seen a gay bar you uld lose your job.
Wasn't Queen a gay band?
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.
”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.
”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.
ADVOCY GROUPS: ETHPIAN ERNMENT’S ANTI-GAY RHETORIC SPURS ONLE ATTACKS
Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.
It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.
CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Advocy groups: Ethpian ernment’s anti-gay rhetoric spurs onle attacks.
Advocy groups Ethpia have sharply cricized ernment stutns for homophobic statements they say have spurred onle attacks agast LGBTQ and tersex people.