[Two Pronged] Gay urtship

Contents:

• [TWO PRONGED] GAY URTSHIP
• RYAN LEE: MOURNG THE MYTHIL ‘GOLN ERA OF GAY URTSHIP’
• STAR TREK FANS ARE CONFED ABOUT HOW GAY KLGONS COURT EACH OTHER
• MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
• GAY PHILIPP: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??
• GAY COURTSHIP ON VIETNAM’S ‘THE BACHELOR’ TURNED HEADS ABROAD. BACK HOME? MEH.
• MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR CENTURY AHEAD
• EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS L RSIA MUST ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE, AS KREML SAYS MOVE WOULD BE ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ UNR NSTUTN
• MOSW URT UPHOLDS BAN ON ‘GAY PRI’ MARCH FOR NEXT HUNDRED YEARS
• ALL BIGHORN RAMS THAT MATE WH EW PARTICIPATE GAY URTG & PULATN MOST OF THE YEAR. (GENR SHOWSE, 9-12)
• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

[TWO PRONGED] GAY URTSHIP

He said that he has never been a gay relatnship bee he’s “walang suwerte” (or not luck that area, his words) and that he outed himself to fay and iends 5 years ago. ” It took a 35-year-old virg a few chats to figure out what an creasg number of gay men seem mted to ignorg: sex alternat wh food as the third most sential prry for many men, behd air and water.

What’s troublg is how many gay men suggt that this is an exclively homosexual shortg, as if they were unaware of the rnal mischief takg place via Plenty of Fish, Christian Mgle and Facebook. ” I’m always cur about which goln era of gay urtship the guys are mourng, when high school sweethearts shared root beer floats and celibate guys awaed fay approval of their suors before nsummatg the relatnship.

We are maybe a generatn removed om when almost every gay man’s bt iend was someone whom he had fucked, and where the very ncept of “datg” was ght wh the risk of beg outed or physilly attacked. I do not doubt the pacy of gay men to love eply and scerely, nor do I ignore how many gay relatnships thrived durg eras of ostracism, rceratn and plague. I believe bliss and fulfillment and te love are attaable for gay men, but ’s important for to librate our expectatns to take to acunt the unique dynamics of our relatnships and our history, lt many of our hearts go swimmg wh the fish.

RYAN LEE: MOURNG THE MYTHIL ‘GOLN ERA OF GAY URTSHIP’

While is generally safe to be gay the Philipp due to tolerance, there needs to be changed the viewpot of people to make the untry tly gay-iendly. Loted Bonifac Global Cy, Metro Gay Manila, this high-end club boasts of s hip and ol ambiance which served as a backdrop for regular drag shows and even datg gam.

But I recently disvered he has a secret gay bt iend, which he got partnered wh a few months ago - they regularly take breaks/lunch together and have been out together ually drkg every Friday for the past 6 weeks, always ually wh other lleagu prent - he even end up ncelg plans for our 2yr anniversary so he uld go night swimmg wh him and his lleagu, then nceled our movie date on a Sunday a few weeks ago and most recently ignored me for 48hrs this weekend after hangg out wh the guy aga. I do tly tst him wh all my heart, he don't seem to be a er and I know that past issu n e me to be weary, but he do jt ignore me or leave me the dark a lot of the time; but as a Br I fd really weird how he is regularly ncelg plans wh me to spend time wh this gay bt iend he has only known properly for a few months... At the same time, I know that the gay muny n be pretty close kn, jt feels a b weird he is spendg a majory of his time wh the same guy though and sacrificg a lot more time wh me (we normally only get weekends and some breaks/an hour aftershift together on weekdays).

STAR TREK FANS ARE CONFED ABOUT HOW GAY KLGONS COURT EACH OTHER

The week before, on the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shootg, the Tmp admistratn announced a le change rollg back healthre protectns for trans and genr-queer Amerins by refg sex as termed by “blogy, ” or birth genr, effectively allowg relig liberty advot medil facili “of fah” to discrimate agast the most vulnerable subgroup of the LGBTQ nservative lumnist Andrew Sullivan, the wake of the urt cisn, asked hypothetilly whether now might be a good time for the gay rights movement to clare victory, havg assiated gay and lbians to a society where they’ve supposedly ceased to be mori. And would be naïve for gays and lbians to thk that such terrogatns will end wh their Fons holds a Pri Flag as he walks back and forth ont of the U.

Forty-seven years ago today, on the night of June 24, 1973, fire stck a workg-class gay bar lled the Up Stairs Lounge on the ragged edge of New Orleans’ French Quarter. Intentnally set, was the adlit fire on rerd cy history and the worst mass killg of homosexuals 20th-century Ameri, claimg 32 liv and jurg 15 others.

MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE

It served as a forenner to morn queer spac that was racially tegrated, permtg Black and whe gay urtship, as well as a haven for trans patrons, then self-intifyg as “cross-drsers” an era when genr dysphoria was not well unrstood. Lol members of a radil, gay-affirmg Christian ngregatn lled the Metropolan Communy Church (MCC) found safe harbor at the Up Stairs Lounge, and their flock held Sunday servic the bar’s theater hall for several months.

GAY PHILIPP: QUEER CULTURE, LOL LIFE, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW! ??

How n 34% of LGBTQ elrs fear that they will have to hi their inty to accs suable hog and 40% of homels youth happen to be queer the same natn that Pete Buttigieg, a gay mayor, ns for print? Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagUp Stairs Lounge survivor Stewart Butler, who scend the ont stairse to the bar wh sends to spare, wnsed dispari such as the the aftermath of the fire, where straights and closeted el worked to smother a workg-class gay nscns – even if such reprsn meant nyg the ad their digny. He channeled his grief to beg a self-scribed “polil animal, ” a queer activist who worked more than a to secure anti-discrimatn protectns for homosexuals New Orleans, which fally passed Butler did not clare victory for himself.

“It amazed me that Stewart, a cisgenr gay man who had no sk the game, would take up our e, ” relled Stairs Lounge survivor Stewart Butler beme an outspoken activist for LGBT+ rights the wake of the DeSantiagoButler passed away this March at the age of 89. Even now, though, a great al of rearch on gay and lbian relatnship predomantly als wh the later stag of the relatnships, rather than the iatn stage of the relatnship. CredVio by "The Bachelor Vietnam" — Anh Chàng Độc ThânBut Vietnam, where the full episo was schled to air Tuday night, the rponse has been muted, and news media verage foced primarily on how the episo has been vered apparent reason: Acceptance of gay and lbian relatnships has bee so monplace the untry that they are no longer all that surprisg.

GAY COURTSHIP ON VIETNAM’S ‘THE BACHELOR’ TURNED HEADS ABROAD. BACK HOME? MEH.

”Vietnam is seen as a lear on gay rights Southeast Asia, a regn where social nservatism is mon and some ernments still enforce dranian laws that crimalize gay liberal reputatn on the issue dat to about 2012, when the ernment first said would nsir allowg same-sex upl to marry or legally register.

MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR CENTURY AHEAD

“Vietnam is not behd other untri on this issue, ” said Ngo Duc Thh, an expert on len dong, a Vietname shamanic dance tradn that has tradnally featured many gay performers.

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS L RSIA MUST ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE, AS KREML SAYS MOVE WOULD BE ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ UNR NSTUTN

”Luong Mh Ngoc, the director of iSEE, a Vietname rearch outf that advot human rights, said that while legislative progrs has been slow and the ernment often prriz other issu, she has found officials the Jtice Department and Health Mistry who are genuely terted improvg laws that affect the gay muny. “We thk the support is there, ” she said, addg that gay rights issu are generally viewed Vietnam wh a moral ntext, rather than a polil is notable bee Vietnam is an thorarian state, where hundreds of polil dissints have been jailed recent years and the lg Communist Party do not allow nonprofs or the news media to operate penntly.

Michael DiGregor, the Vietnam untry reprentative for the Asia Foundatn, said that gay rights issu were an “easy w” for the ernment, and a natural f for ternatnal donors who saw them as an important civil rights issue the Mr. DiGregor said recent chang to legislatn on genr, marriage and fai had only been possible bee they reflected a “live and let live” attu toward gay rights that is wispread among many Vietname. While much of the world gradually liberalised s attu to homosexualy through the send half of the 20th century, Soviet munism saw non-heterosexual orientatn as a bourgeois viatn.

(It’s also worth notg that this law is not exactly dissiar to the UK’s 1986 Sectn 28 law, which stated that lol thori “shall not tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy”. That regnal legislatn had already led to some bizarre s, cludg a nvictn of a St Petersburg human rights lawyer who May 2012 was orred to pay a 5, 000 rouble fe for holdg a plard sayg “Homosexualy is not a perversn. Perfilova’s arguments were faiar: some of her bt iends were gay, but one had to thk of the children, who may be somehow brought over to the dark si merely by hearg about gay people: and then the evable spectre of paedophilia was raised, as she old the story of an attempted asslt on a child.

MOSW URT UPHOLDS BAN ON ‘GAY PRI’ MARCH FOR NEXT HUNDRED YEARS

Earlier, three French LGBT associatns filed a plat wh the ICC agast Ramzan Kadyrov nnectn wh reports of the persecutn of gay people Chechnya. In early May, Put promised to discs the persecutn of homosexuals Chechnya wh Prosecutor General Yury Chaika and Interr Mister Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

Subsequently, US Ambassador to the Uned Natns Nikki Haley and German Chancellor Angela Merkel mand that the Rsian thori terfere wh the persecutn of gays Chechnya. Earlier, Tverskoy district urt led lawful the cisn of the Mosw municipal ernment to ban public events that n be qualified as gay paras om March 2012 till May 2112. Nikolay Alekseyev, one of the lears of the Rsian LGBT muny and anizer of gay pri events, told reporters that he tend to appeal the cisn the Mosw Cy Court Pridium, and that if the hight Rsian stance also l agast him, to addrs the European Court of Human Rights.

ALL BIGHORN RAMS THAT MATE WH EW PARTICIPATE GAY URTG & PULATN MOST OF THE YEAR. (GENR SHOWSE, 9-12)

Alekseyev explaed to the reporters that 2011, the activists found a loophole Rsian legislatn and submted requts for 102 gay pri paras to the Mosw Mayor’s office. But time do not stand still, we ask for a new event and aga they refe , ” the activist one ocsn, though, Mve gay rights activists found a way to the streets – after they quibbled the thori to get accs. About 70 people marched on one of Mosw’s quays unr rabow banners early June and managed to hold a two-hour rally llg for eedom of assembly and anizatn for sexual rally was not officially announced as a gay pri event, as the anizers ially applied for a perm to hold “a rally agast all typ of discrimatn.

Petersburg for displayg a poster readg “Beg gay is normal” the street near a bill has been wily cricized by Rsia's LGBT and human rights activists as well as ternatnal human rights groups. June 12, 2012 () – Mosw’s Cy Court has nfirmed a lower urt cisn permtg the nial of a requt for perms for “gay pri” march for the next hundred years, acrdg to Rsian and ternatnal media sourc. The cisn me as a rult of a legal tactic by Rsian homosexual activists, who asked for a century’s worth of perms g a loophole the law that plac no time lim on such requts.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

A poll nducted this year by state-n pollster VTsIOM, showed 86 percent of 1, 600 rponnts natnwi said they supported a ban on the promotn of homosexual relatnships. A 2010 poll found that 74 per cent of Rsians said homosexuals are “morally dissolute or ficient” and believe that homosexualy is “an amoral mental viatn.

Sometim, feels like there n't be anythg more ridiculo than some of morn society's views on homosexualy and gay marriage ('ll lead to polygamy! Beyond the simple view that "homosexualy is a s/wrong/whatever else, " other beliefs, l, and laws have llected around LGBT society history that have ma life as a gay person everythg om needlsly plited to ankly upsettg. One tradnal Che term for male homosexualy, roughly translatg as "the passn of the cut sleeve" (断袖之癖), om the alleged cint where Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty was so keen not to wake up his sleepg male partner, who was asleep on his robe, that he cut off s expensive sleeve stead.

And even societi where homosexualy was tolerated or celebrated, was often only allowed to be performed really select ways, volvg everythg om roosters to rual an era where the ia of "nversn therapy" for gay people may fally be seeg s end — Ccnati will bate today whether to ban entirely for mors — lookg back at the more ridiculo si of our beliefs about homosexualy n be tged wh a ltle more relief than before.