No Pla, No Pri: GAY TIMES Magaze dit issue to climate crisis

This month's GAY TIMES issue, No Pla, No Pri, exam the tersectn of queer liberatn and advocy for a staable pla. * gay times covers *

In this month’s GAY TIMES issue, we’re puttg the climate nversatn ont and centre. That’s why GAY TIMES has dited an issue solely focg on the climate e and what we n do to support . I want everyone to e what brgs them joy to advote for what they believe , ” the drag queen tells GAY TIMES.

In this special issue of GAY TIMES Magaze, we’re puttg the climate nversatn ont and centre. — GAY TIMES (@gaytim) Febary 18, 2022.

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G Kenworthy reflects on the "privilege" of beg an out gay athlete as he prepar to reprent Team GB at his fal Wter Olympics. * gay times covers *

GAY TIMES also steps to a creative dimensn wh CATTYTAY; a queer non-bary digal sign artist rernatg regnisable high fashn ems.

Speakg to GAY TIMES, they share their missn of changg the fashn landspe and phg the boundari of queer possibily and reprentatn.

G KENWORTHY SAYS FEARS OF BEG AN OUT ATHLETE WERE “UNFOUND” AS HE VERS GAY TIMES

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You n read GAY TIMES’ No Pla, No Pri issue full om 18 Febary via the GAY TIMES app, Apple News+, Readly, and Flipster. In his send ver terview wh GAY TIMES, G Kenworthy reflects on the “privilege” of beg an openly gay athlete as he prepar to reprent Team GB at his third – and fal – Wter Olympics.

The 30-year-old etyle skier memorably ma history 2015 when he beme the first actn sports star to e out as gay.

HOW TIME’S REPORTG ON GAY LIFE AMERI SHAPED—AND SKEWED—A GENERATN’S ATTUS

The mol and actor vers Gay Tim magaze's Augt issue alongsi Aquaria, Lizzo, Hannah Gadsby, and more. * gay times covers *

“It was the visual reprentatn of my gam: gettg to be one of the first openly gay athlet to pete at the Wter Olympics for the US, ” he tells GAY TIMES. Kenworthy says beg an openly gay athlete is a “privilege” that wh certa rponsibili, and that he supports Tom Daley’s ll to ban untri where people are persecuted for beg LGBTQ+ om the Olympics – not jt as a pot of prciple, but as a “talyst for change”.

In our terview, Kenworthy also speaks passnately about beg an ally to trans athlet – strsg that solid allyship volv “tryg to amplify their voic and not speakg on behalf of them” – and the lack of openly gay profsnal football players. Wh youth soccer the most played sport on the pla, Kenworthy says any high-profile footballer who out would be “helpg a lot of queer kids”, addg: “I played soccer high school and I remember feelg like was kd of homophobic, so image the impact that person uld have? In time, Kenworthy says g out uld benef a gay footballer’s reer.

You n read G Kenworthy’s ver terview wh GAY TIMES full om 21 January via the GAY TIMES app, Apple News+, Readly, and Flipster. In that spir, TIME is publishg this article by Eric Marc, thor of Makg Gay History. Over lunch one afternoon at our kchen table, wh the latt issue of TIME turned to an article about Ana Bryant’s succsful mpaign to repeal a gay-rights bill Da County, Fla., I raged over the jtice of both Bryant’s assertn that gay people were a danger to children and the wardly legislators who ved to prejudice and ignorance.

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Unknowgly, my red-faced outrage offered another clue to my mother that there was more than a ltle self-tert at stake for me the fate of the gay civil-rights movement. Weeks later, she would ask me if I was gay. June 20, 1997 TIME article about Ana Bryant’s mpaign to repeal a gay-rights bill Da County, Fla.

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It wasn’t until more than a later, when I began rearchg an oral-history book on what was then lled the gay and lbian civil-rights movement, that I realized that TIME magaze had also played a role shapg how my mother thought of homosexuals — and how she’d e to view her teenaged gay son. In my rearch, as I stggled to ga an unrstandg of why people saw homosexuals as sick, sful and crimal, I stumbled on a 1966 say TIME that jt about burned the sk off my face as I read . I thk was meant as a medatn on what to make of the then-growg visibily of gay life Ameri.

The media those years, as is most often the se today, reflected society’s prevailg views about homosexuals.

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Back then, homosexualy was still nsired a treatable mental illns, sexual relatns between two people of the same sex uld get you arrted almost every state, and thoands — perhaps tens of thoands — of gay men and lbians had been hound out of feral employment sce Print Eisenhower signed an executive orr 1953 banng them om ernment jobs. In New York, a state law about “disorrly” nduct was terpreted as makg illegal to serve known homosexuals alhol, and the police routely raid gay bars. The now-celebrated 1969 Stonewall uprisg — triggered by a police raid of the Stonewall Inn gay bar — which is beg marked this month by 50th anniversary celebratns, march and protts, got a particularly pungent headle the New York Daily News: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad.

” The Village Voice, an alternative downtown newspaper, published an article the immediate aftermath of the first night of rtg which the reporter ed a slur to refer to the uprisg’s participants, earng the Voice, jt days after the start of the uprisg, one of the first public protts that would e to characterize the newly ant era of “gay liberatn. 31, 1969, ver story was headled “The Homosexual: Newly Visible, Newly Unrstood. And yet the picture the article pated of the “newly unrstood” homosexual was still drippg wh sarsm and ntempt.

One sectn of the report noted several “typ” of homosexuals: “The Blatant Homosexual, ” “The Secret Lifer, ” “The Dperate, ” “The Adjted, ” “The Bisexual, ” “The Suatnal-Experimental. ” After scribg the different tegori, the wrer not: “The homosexual subculture, a semi-public world, is, whout qutn, shallow and unstable. ” Although that ver story also said some paratively nice thgs about homosexuals, is any wonr members of the newly formed Gay Liberatn Front and the Dghters of Bilis (an anizatn for lbians found 1955 San Francis) picketed the Time-Life buildg after s publitn?

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