Lydia Polgreen, an Amerin journalist and executive edor has had a tumultuo marriage, om prervg the relatnship an unwelg culture to -terviewg an anti-gay Sudane warlord wh her creative spoe.
Contents:
- LYDIA POLGREEN MARRIED, HBAND, GAY, B, SALARY
- HUFFPOST CHIEF LYDIA POLGREEN'S GAY LOVE! MARRIED TAG IN B, KEEPG INTACT
- AT AXIS OF EPISPAL SPL, AN ANTI-GAY NIGERIAN
- LYDIA POLGREEN, HUFFPOST’S GAY LOVE! KEEPG INTACT WH THE MARRIED TAG IN MY B
- THE PLAY’S THE THG NEW BOOK ‘GAYS ON BROADWAY
LYDIA POLGREEN MARRIED, HBAND, GAY, B, SALARY
I went to Alabama to unrstand what our untry’s anti-gay backlash looks like on the ground — and what really means to fight back. * lydia polgreen gay *
"Polgreen lik to pot to her own backstory as a classic Amerin tale: "My mother is an Ain immigrant, my father is a disabled veteran, and my grandparents on my father's si were sort of WASPy Goldwater Republins who had a Catholic son, a gay son, and a son who married an Ain.
"I wrote an impassned edorial about acceptg gay people and was extremely exriated for by my homophobic classmat, " she says.
HUFFPOST CHIEF LYDIA POLGREEN'S GAY LOVE! MARRIED TAG IN B, KEEPG INTACT
Polgreen was only dimly aware of her sexual orientatn at the time, but her father's youngt brother was gay and a long-term relatnship. "And my parents had this role mol, far om the stereotype of the sperate, lonely homosexual, of a well-adjted uple who'd had a lovg, long-standg relatnship. "I always worried about her as a gay woman Wt Ai, " Callimachi says.
AT AXIS OF EPISPAL SPL, AN ANTI-GAY NIGERIAN
"Soon after she left, I did a story about this town of Thi Senegal where people were exhumg the bodi of spected gay men and draggg the rps through town. To this day I don't know how Lydia explaed who she and Candy were to the staff this credibly homophobic space.
LYDIA POLGREEN, HUFFPOST’S GAY LOVE! KEEPG INTACT WH THE MARRIED TAG IN MY B
"We were livg there at a time when gay people were beg murred Uganda and plac like that, and there were ont pag of newspapers outg people, so that was an eye-openg experience, " Polgreen says. "My last postg for The New York Tim was South Ai, where gay marriage is law but there are huge problems around homophobia and vlence, particularly agast queer Ain women, so was a tremendo relief to e back to the U.
THE PLAY’S THE THG NEW BOOK ‘GAYS ON BROADWAY
She is also a role mol for the Ain-Amerin and gay muni. 'Openly Gay Lydia's Married Life Wh Betiful WifeThe former journalist of The New York Tim, Lydia is openly gay. Durg the ial phase of their married life, they lived a low-key life Wt Ai bee of var homicis and vlence towards the people of the gay muny.