The olst LGBTQ newspaper the U.S. verg the latt gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr news Washgton, DC and around the world.
Contents:
- WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
- WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
- THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
* washington dc gay newspaper *
Gay son rentful after rg for ill parent.
Oft banned gay thor’s new kids’ book a fun treat.
The 1975’s Frontman May Face Legal Actn Over Gay Kiss. Esquire Nam Tra One of Ameri’s Bt Gay Bars for Send Year. Lv Says He’s ‘Gay’ But Also ‘Not Gay’.
WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
Gay Uned Stat News and Entertament * washington dc gay newspaper *
17-Year-Old Spect Arrted Killg of O'Shae Sibley, Vogug Gay Man. Gay Rom-Com 'Red, Whe, & Royal Blue' Gets Tantalizg New Clips. What Are the New Guil for Gay and Bi Men Donatg Blood?
A new book exam the unknown or barely known liv of gay people workg and livg our natn’s pal, a cy known for s mix of power and secrets. “Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, " by Jam Kirchick, is a 654-page tome that took years of rearch and an exhstive vtigatn to printial archiv, historil terviews and once-classified ernment rerds. "Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton" by Jam, Henry & Company, Inc.
THE GAYT PLACE AMERI?
Gone is the closeted, often tolerant Washgton; the pal is now perhaps the gayt place the natn. * washington dc gay newspaper *
“I realized that all the stori I was readg, and the personali and phenomena, whether was McCarthyism or the Reagans, FDR or JFK, that there were the gay stori lurkg the background, ” Kirchick said. Those stori lurked the background out of necsy: The st of g out as gay — or, more likely, beg outed agast one’s will — was enormo profsnally and socially.
Even beg associated wh a spected homosexual uld e the untry’s most powerful men to quiver. “It was the specter of homosexualy that provoked the first and only suici by a member of Congrs his Capol Hill office, ed Lyndon Johnson to et that his historil lead would evaporate, and seized the paranoid md of Richard Nixon send only to the plots of his ever-expandg enemi list, ” Kirchick wr. ” Rumors of homosexualy were tastrophic to those who were acced of , but Kirchick also asks the rear to nsir the broar human and societal impact of such wch hunts on gay Amerins workg ernment.
“To asss the full sle of the damage that the fear of homosexualy wrought on the Amerin polil landspe, one mt take to acunt not only the reers ed and the liv cut short, but somethg vaster and unquantifiable: the possibili thwarted, ” Kirchick wr.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
Although openly LGBTQ people have ma their way to the hight ranks of ernment today, was not long ago that spected homosexuals workg for the feral ernment were hunted down, publicly huiated and termated wh the full force of the ernment.