Contents:
- GAY MAN REFLECTS ON 'SRY' LIFE BEFORE NEW ZEALAND'S HOMOSEXUAL LAW REFORM
- PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
- NYPD UNVEILS RABOW-THEMED VEHICLE BEFORE CY'S GAY PRI MARCH
GAY MAN REFLECTS ON 'SRY' LIFE BEFORE NEW ZEALAND'S HOMOSEXUAL LAW REFORM
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Gaybros is a work built for gay men who aren't nfed to a media stereotype. Friday marks 35 years sce the Homosexual Law Reform Bill was passed New Zealand. Former Gay Task Force member Bill Logan, who was part of the ph to legalise , says life as a gay person before the reform was "pretty sry" given you uldn't expect to have a public life or get many secure jobs.
"On the whole, gay people had to hi and they were send-class cizens, even their fai ually. As the reform mpaign began, verage newspapers and on televisn helped change the mds of New Zealanrs, but so did the many people who me out as gay. "Early on the mpaign, people would say, 'well 's not such a big problem, I don't know anyone who's gay, there's no one my fay who's gay', " Logan says.
PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
"And of urse by the end of the mpaign, everyone knew that there was at least a , most people knew they had a workmate who was gay. "They were aaid to associate wh gay men bee they thought they might get AIDS through associatg wh them. "You're not gog to be able to have gay men discs what they need to discs to prevent the spread of AIDS wh their doctors, wh health profsnal workers unls they n be open about their sexual practic.
” On a rooftop at the end of the day, after some drks, he lled home and told his father that he was gay.
So I uld see the Herage of Pri para as this thg for whe gay men, mcly, glter. “Gay liberatn, ” she said, “meant revolutn. ” The monstrators left angry but clash between protters and police fillg social media, prsure rose on Herage of Pri to rce police volvement, cludg banng the Gay Officers Actn League, which routely receiv effive cheers durg the Pri march.
NYPD UNVEILS RABOW-THEMED VEHICLE BEFORE CY'S GAY PRI MARCH
” The board did not tell members about the cisn or ask for a the Gay Officers Actn League learned about the g policy, pre-empted Herage of Pri wh s own statement llg the ban “shameful. “My God, what a bate over this, ” said Andy Humm, a longtime -host of “Gay USA, ” a TV news program. In the past week, he told them, he had received onle msag of hate nsistently om whe gay men, to the extent that his fay feared for his safety.
Fisher, who had lled for the vote of no Downey, print of the gay officers group, said he felt “betrayed” by the ban, pecially bee the officers “put so much of themselv on the choppg block” by workg to change practic and attus wh their partments.