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Contents:

• WAS WALT WHMAN 'GAY'? NEW TEXTBOOK L SPARK LGBTQ HISTORY BATE
• FACT CHECK: IS WALT NTA GAY? GENR AND SEXUALY
• THIS CHILD ACTOR’S GAY DAYS AT DISNEY ST HIM HIS REER
• WAS WALT WHMAN 'GAY'?

WAS WALT WHMAN 'GAY'? NEW TEXTBOOK L SPARK LGBTQ HISTORY BATE

He lived om 1819 to 1892, a time when “gay” meant ltle more than “happy.

FACT CHECK: IS WALT NTA GAY? GENR AND SEXUALY

A study of poet Walt Whman, seen this undated fileAs California looks to implement the untry’s first LGBTQ-clive curriculum, state tn officials and textbook publishers are grapplg wh how to refer to figur like Whman, who were believed to have been gay, bisexual or transgenr but never me out: Should we label them as such? 9, 1977 fileHMH materials intify Harvey Milk, one of the untry’s first openly gay elected official, as gay, bee Milk publicly labeled himself as such. ”Nurse Florence NightgalePA / PA Wire via APAcrdg to scholars, the term “homosexual” did not enter mon age until the early 20th century, while “gay” beme popular the 1930s and ’40s, and “lbian” emerged the 1970s.

THIS CHILD ACTOR’S GAY DAYS AT DISNEY ST HIM HIS REER

"Polly Pagenhart, Our Fay CoalnMcGraw Hill also rejected the California missn’s remendatn to list the poet and Harlem Renaissance lear Langston Hugh as gay, sayg there is no evince to support the claim. “On some level, many of would argue that there were no gay people or lbians before the terms existed.

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WAS WALT WHMAN 'GAY'?

"Labels like gay, queer, or bisexual were nonexistent Whman's era.