Geia Oakley and Rosy McEwen discs their film about a 'Don't Say Gay'-style law imposed on U.K. schools 1988 — and s current relevance.
Contents:
- COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
- NEW FILM ‘BLUE JEAN’ SHOWS HOW ANTI-GAY ‘MORAL PANIC’ NSUM SCHOOLS — THEN AND NOW
- COLUMN: THE MOVIE ‘BROS’ FLOPPED BUT SUCCEED JT BY BEG A GAY ROM
- CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB
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NEW FILM ‘BLUE JEAN’ SHOWS HOW ANTI-GAY ‘MORAL PANIC’ NSUM SCHOOLS — THEN AND NOW
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COLUMN: THE MOVIE ‘BROS’ FLOPPED BUT SUCCEED JT BY BEG A GAY ROM
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” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.
CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
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