'Gay bars are supposed to be a safe space': Dan Savage on why LGBTQ muny will now 'fight until we're safe everywhere' - Raw Story - Celebratg 19 Years of Inpennt Journalism

Contents:

• MEDIA BASELSLY BLAM SAVAGE GAY CLUB ATTACK ON TUCKER CARLSON, CRICISM OF DRAG SHOWS FOR CHILDREN
• GAY PODSTER POWERFULLY BREAKS DOWN THE REAL REASON TARGETG A GAY BAR IS SO DEVASTATG
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• WHAT WE FD GAY BARS AND QUEER CLUBS

MEDIA BASELSLY BLAM SAVAGE GAY CLUB ATTACK ON TUCKER CARLSON, CRICISM OF DRAG SHOWS FOR CHILDREN

"Several patrons of a gay and lbian nightclub Colorado Sprgs are beg hailed as hero, as tails unfold about a mass shootg that happened mut before midnight Saturday at Club Q and left five people ad and 25 bystanrs jured, acrdg to thori, " The Gazettereported.

"It's not jt that gay bars are supposed to be a safe space, " Savage began. "And the doors of a gay bar are doors we keep behd. There are straight people gay bars and clubs.

The morn LGBT civil rights movement began wh an attack on a bunch of queer people—gay men, drag queens, trans women, butch dyk—beg themselv behd closed doors. And when they attacked a gay bar one time too many... Bee if we're not safe behd the closed doors of a gay bar — if they n't let have even that — then we're not safe anywhere.

GAY PODSTER POWERFULLY BREAKS DOWN THE REAL REASON TARGETG A GAY BAR IS SO DEVASTATG

I thk maybe The Boys In The Band, the film of the Mart Crowley play, which so many gay men over the years, and at the time, even plaed that all the gay men were so self-hatg, and that was part of the msage you uld play. ” But this is a big group of gay guys, a diverse group of gay guys livg Manhattan at a time when you uld get a ol apartment for cheap.

What I took away om , when I saw when I was really young, was like, “Oh, you uld be gay and have iends and lovers, but maybe I’ll try to have better iends than the guys.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

”But I thk the reason I would want to be transported to that universe, to that iendship circle, is that I never hated myself for beg gay. I always kd of divid the gay guys I met up to two groups when I first started g out.

There were the guys who thought there was somethg fundamentally wrong wh them and hated themselv and were so burned wh shame and ternalized homophobia. “It’s not jt that gay bars are supposed to be a safe space, ” Savage, thor of Savage Love, began.

WHAT WE FD GAY BARS AND QUEER CLUBS

And the doors of a gay bar are doors we keep behd. Bee if we're not safe behd the closed doors of a gay bar — if they n't let have even that — then we're not safe anywhere. Bee if we’re not safe behd the closed doors of a gay bar — if they n’t let have even that — then we’re not safe anywhere.

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