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• A GAY UPLE FACED VULGAR HARASSMENT. A NEIGHBOR HELPED FD THE SPECT WH A HANDWRG SAMPLE.
• VILLAGERS RALLY AROUND GAY UPLE TARGETED BY HOMOPHOB MOVG DISPLAY OF SOLIDARY
• NEW LONGTON MUNY RALLY AFTER GAY UPLE SENT HOMOPHOBIC LETTERS
• POST OFFICE IN JACKSON HEIGHTS, QUEENS DEDITED TO LOL GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GAY POST OFFICE
• GAY POST OFFICE
• A 'TROUBLG RISE' BS OWNERS REFG GAY UPL, ADVOT SAY
• GAY UPL WELED AT THE ALTAR BUT NOT AT THE OFFICE
• GAY POST OFFICE GAY, GEIA
• FORT GAY POST OFFICE
• SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS
• HOW TO ADDRS AN VATN RRECTLY FOR MARRIED GAY UPLE

A GAY UPLE FACED VULGAR HARASSMENT. A NEIGHBOR HELPED FD THE SPECT WH A HANDWRG SAMPLE.

A muny Norfolk County, Mass., is rallyg around a gay married uple who has quietly endured homophobic harassment sce their son was a started when a subscriptn to Wired Magaze land on LeeMichael McLean and Bryan Furze’s doorstep five years ago. Instead was an obscene play on words and overtly homophobic.

They opened a file for , but unfortunately wh somethg like this, there’s very ltle to go on unls we get a handwrg sample, ” said McLean, who timated that over the past five years, the uple has received about 30 piec of mail addrsed to explic anti-gay nam, sometim wh sexual nuendo. “Wh everythg beg digal prr, we were not able to make much progrs on , but now, some old-fashned handwrg provid wh a break the se, and we’re hopg brgs some peace to the victims, ” O’Neil uple said they are relieved that the anonymo harasser has probably been intified, and that the strg of homophobic junk mail would fally cease.

Dozens of villagers rallied around a gay uple after they were sent vile homophobic abe. Nathan Jon and Daniel Cooper have been targeted wh disgtg homophobic abe and threats ever sce they bought their lol Post Office New Longton, Lanshire  January.

VILLAGERS RALLY AROUND GAY UPLE TARGETED BY HOMOPHOB MOVG DISPLAY OF SOLIDARY

“I knew I wanted to be volved tryg to rectify the hatred and blatant homophobia that had been aimed at Nathan and Daniel, ” he said.

“I’m not a polil person, I’m not a relig person but I am a person who r, I am a proud gay man, that will stand shoulr to shoulr wh anyone regardls of sexualy, genr, race or relign to show that love ws, love will always w. “This huge display of solidary wh Nathan and Daniel shows that there is no place for homophobia our muny.

NEW LONGTON MUNY RALLY AFTER GAY UPLE SENT HOMOPHOBIC LETTERS

Universy of South Florida historian and thor David Johnson knew how big of a step this was for the Postal Service — an agency whose precsor, the US Post Office, the 1950s and 1960s enforced very strict anti-gay obsceny laws. I talked wh Johnson, thor of The Lavenr Sre: The Cold War Persecutn of Gays and Lbians the Feral Government, by phone about the Post Office's anti-gay past.

POST OFFICE IN JACKSON HEIGHTS, QUEENS DEDITED TO LOL GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

GL: Based on my unrstandg, the obsceny issu culmated around gay men back then.

DJ: Gay publitns, gay magaz, and gay penpal clubs were of particular tert to postal spectors. They believed that any discsn of homosexualy and any pictns of male nudy were enuragg homosexualy Amerin society. But if the imag were any way about homosexualy, the Post Office nsired them obscene and a threat to the public.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

GL: So the Post Office felt the imag led people to be gay?

The Post Office thought the materials were enuragg people to be gay. Not lerally, but did create an openg society that allowed people to nnect and exprs homosexual sir. DJ: In 1958, the Supreme Court the se of ONE Magaze said that mere discsns of homosexualy are not obscene.

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The judg regnized that the magaz were beg read by gay people and targeted toward gay people, and they said 's fe.

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That opened the floodgat to all sorts of openly gay and erotic magaz.

Dozens of people a Lanshire village have rallied behd a gay uple who were sent a seri of homophobic letters plag about them flyg the Pri rabow flag. The owners, Daniel Cooper and Nathan Jon, said they have received four homophobic letters sce takg over the bs Febary.

A 'TROUBLG RISE' BS OWNERS REFG GAY UPL, ADVOT SAY

A homophobic letter sent to Nathan and Daniel. She said: “When the boys told me about the homophobic letters the villagers were disgted by . NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A special ceremony was held Saturday to dite the Jackson Heights, Queens post office to a lol uple who s ago stood up for their gay son and spired other parents to do the same.

GAY UPL WELED AT THE ALTAR BUT NOT AT THE OFFICE

Jeanne and Jul Manford formed the group now known as PFLAG, Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays, after their son, Morty, was btally beaten when he was arrted durg a peaceful prott, 1010 WINS Samantha Liebman reported.

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"The fact that a mother me out and regnized that her son was gay and that she loved him was big news among that muny at that time, " she told Liebman. Swan also relled when her mother took part the Gay Pri para 1972, rryg a sign that said, "Parents of gays une support of our children. "It's a great thg to have here the heart of Jackson Heights, where the send-largt Gay Pri para tak place and march by, " Crowley add.

Sl, two feral lawsus brought by survivg same-sex partners or Social Secury Admistratn now allows gay men and lbians to receive survivor’s benefs if they n show that they were a mted relatnship and would have married had that been possible.

FORT GAY POST OFFICE

“We both believed that as gay men we should have the same rights as anybody else, ” he said. They started hostg weddgs after their own venue told them — the week of their weddg — that would not acmodate a gay uple. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.

SUPREME COURT PROTECTS WEB SIGNER WHO WON’T DO GAY WEDDG WEBS

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.

He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

HOW TO ADDRS AN VATN RRECTLY FOR MARRIED GAY UPLE

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. 18685 Highway 85, Gay GA 30218.

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