Younger gay men and women live a much different world than the Stonewall generatn did 40 years ago. Mark Harris lls the "gay generatn gap." For olr gay activists like Harris, the AIDS crisis and the Reagan are central them the stggle for civil rights. But, he tells host Guy Raz, gay men and women unr the age of 30 are tired of the Stonewall generatn prattlg on about the stggle.
Contents:
- UNRSTANDG GENERATN GAPS LGBTQ+ COMMUNI: PERSPECTIV ABOUT GAY NEIGHBORHOODS AMONG HETERONORMATIVE AND HOMONORMATIVE GENERATNAL COHORTS
- THE GAY GENERATN GAP
- 'GAY GENERATN GAP' EMERG
- THE GAY GENERATN GAP: REFLECTNS ON THE NATNAL EQUALY MARCH
- ARE 'THE GAP' STOR NAMED FOR 'GAY AND PROUD'?
UNRSTANDG GENERATN GAPS LGBTQ+ COMMUNI: PERSPECTIV ABOUT GAY NEIGHBORHOODS AMONG HETERONORMATIVE AND HOMONORMATIVE GENERATNAL COHORTS
Forty years after Stonewall, the gay movement has never been more uned. So why do olr gay men and younger on often seem so far apart? * generation gap gay *
The generatns often have different views on social, polil, pop culture and relig issu, and while the differenc are universal, they are also played out wh Gay Rights movement trac s begng to 1969 when New York Cy police stormed the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar, and rather than pacifilly be arrted, the bar’s patrons, led by black transgenr women, fought back.
THE GAY GENERATN GAP
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The chapter nclus wh five takeaway msag that clarify the relatnship between LGTBQ+ people, the generatnal horts to which they belong and wh which they intify, and the attus of var LGBTQ+ generatnal horts toward gay neighborhoods. Through this rehed unrstandg, we exame parative s that scribe the bgraphi, general behavrs, and generatnal loc of four well-known gay men as a means to explore how dividuals born a particular birth generatn may experience vastly different experienc life due to the LGBTQ + generatn wh which they intify.
'GAY GENERATN GAP' EMERG
This parison provis a basis for better unrstandg broar societal forc that shape the evolutn of gay neighborhoods throughout the twentieth century and to the twenty-first century along wh observatns about the perceived cle or plate of gay neighborhoods.
THE GAY GENERATN GAP: REFLECTNS ON THE NATNAL EQUALY MARCH
3, the homonormative experience is shaped as a summatn of the valu, experienc, and events that shape a birth generatn pl the valu, experienc, and events that impact that person relative to their g of age as an LGBTQ+ dividual.
ARE 'THE GAP' STOR NAMED FOR 'GAY AND PROUD'?
Explorg LGBTQ+ Generatns: Through the Ey of Warhol, Vidal, Capote & HudsonExamg the liv of celebri and well-known LGBTQ + dividuals offers a lens to summarize and illtrate typil behavrs and attus that have been formative shapg gay culture and the LGBTQ+ llective inty. In this se, the disntuy between the birth generatn to which each man belonged and the perd durg which their g of age wh regard to their LGBTQ+ inty occurred was shaped not only by the valu, behavrs, and mor of their birth generatn but also overlaid by the generatn to which they “me of age” as a gay man and a member of the LGBTQ+ muny.
His g of age occurred early life, which plac his behavr, the outward exprsn of genr inty, and sexual orientatn a much more ntemporary timeame closer behavr to a member of Generatn X (people born about fifty years after Capote) ntrast, Vidal did not publicly acknowledge his sexual orientatn or genr exprsn, and much later life vaguely intified first as bisexual (1999), and later as homosexual (Kaplan 2013). Their behavrs, outward exprsn of genr, and gree of fort wh intifyg as LGBTQ + varied pendg more on their LGBTQ + generatn than their birth wh Capote, Vidal, and Hudson, a sire or lack of sire to ngregate and be associated wh other LGBTQ + dividuals public impacted the emergence and subsequent velopment of gay neighborhoods.