Clive Coleman reports on the se of a gay man who has won the first pensatn award for discrimatn based entirely on homophobic gtur.
Contents:
- WHAT DO LIMP WRISTS HAVE TO DO WH GAY MEN?
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
- WHY 'GAY' GTUR ARE DISCRIMATN
- WHY 'GAY' GTUR ARE DISCRIMATN
- GAY HAND GTURE
WHAT DO LIMP WRISTS HAVE TO DO WH GAY MEN?
After enuragg fathers to “punch” sons who exhib stereotypilly gay behavr, North Carola pastor Sean Harris said on Tuday that he should... * gay hand gestures *
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
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Strewn across flags, banners, and ps, the rabow symboliz the diversy of gays and lbians around the world. The Internatnal Gay Rights Congrs Edburgh formally adopted the symbol as an in for gay and lbian rights 1974.
Tradnally, the symbol is drawn pla black, but more recent versns pict the double mars wh the rabow lors filled to symbolize the gays’ aterny or solidary wh other subsectors of the muny. The pk triangle symbol was first ed by the Nazis to intify homosexuals their ncentratn mps. Over the urse of the send world war, an timated 10, 000 to 15, 000 homosexuals were rcerated.
WHY 'GAY' GTUR ARE DISCRIMATN
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The symbol has sce been reclaimed as a symbol of Pri and remembrance of the horrors that gay men experienced Nazi Germany. Green was a mon lor to refer to homosexuals, back 19th-century England. This was a practice popularized by thor Osr Wil who was openly gay and would proudly wear a green rnatn at public events.
WHY 'GAY' GTUR ARE DISCRIMATN
Back the 20th century New York, gay men would wear a red necktie or bow tie or basilly any red accsory to subtly reprent their inti and help intify members of the same muny.
GAY HAND GTURE
Burke, who was believed to be gay, got chewed out often by his ach. Fortunately, after retirg at age 27, Burke ught a send wd and domated the Gay Softball World Seri where he kept the practice of givg high-fiv to his teammat. Smh lled the high five a “fiant symbol of gay pri”.
Boston artists Daniel Thaxton and Bernie Toale ed a lavenr rhoceros to symbolize the gay muny for their 1970s public ad mpaign led by Gay Media Actn Advertisg.
The ads were ed to enurage more visibily for members of the gay muny Boston at the time.