The anti-equaly movement is based alrgely on sre tactics. Sre tactics are wily ed to still fear the public wh regards to homosexualy and gay rights. It is often claimed by anti-equaly activists that is the goal of the gay rights movement to eher stroy the stutn...
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THREAD: GAY PETA GUY ON 'SRE TACTICS'
The documentary, The Lavenr Sre, chronicl the anti-gay purg of the 1950s a special screeng Palm Sprgs followed by a panel discsn. * scare tactics gay guy *
There are many gay men who say "I'm not part of the scene" -- men who hate gay bars and, prumably, crowds of queer people general. Internalized homophobia -- self-shamg, self-hatred -- leads many gay men, and many queer people general, to recreate their closets long after they're "out" by shunng others, particularly those they nsir "flamboyant.
But you mt spend time wh others, whether that means havg a group of gay movie iends or queer gamers or playg on a gay sports team. This parable piece by lbian wrer Sarah Prager go through the lp of great gays who changed the world -- om ventor Alan Turg to Tchaikovsky, the poser, to the Renaissance pater and ventor Leonardo da Vci. Read the numbers: In four years, more than 5, 596 people the Uned Stat had died of AIDS, many of them gay men and transgenr women.
Fd a gay elr who's been where you are and r for your well-beg, someone who unrstands you and never pass judgment, someone who lets you make the mistak you need to make. There would be no ternalized self-hatred if no one had ever told you that beg gay is wrong, or that gay sex is disgtg, or that gay men n't feel real love, or that beg transgenr is fake, or that beg nonbary is a mental illns or a ll for attentn.
10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
If you thk a word like "gay" or "queer" works for you right now (aga, don't have to work for you forever -- labels do not e wh lifetime ntracts) and you're not ready to tell everyone, simply say out loud to yourself.
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY DEZART PERFORMS The documentary, The Lavenr Sre, ptur a time Ameri when gay men and lbians were harassed, huiated, and hound om their jobs the name of natnal secury. A panel discsn will follow the screeng featurg Michael Green, founr/artistic director, Palm Sprgs Cultural Center; Jean-Marie Navetta, director of Learng & Incln for PFLAG; Alexis Ortega, director of Communy Engagement, LGBTQ Communy Center of the Dert, and morated by David Perry, founr, Rabow Honor Walk/ 10% Joseph McCarthy's anti-munist mpaign paralleled the pursu of homosexual men and women as secury screeng’s timg is not a cince.