The Castro: The Rise of a Gay Communy - FoundSF

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Rsian-speakg Christian fundamentalists, mostly immigrants om the former Soviet Unn, have formed a feroc anti-gay movement the wtern U.S.

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GAY MEN OF AIN DCENT (GMAD) (1986- )

Informatn and statistil data about HIV and Ain Amerin gay and bisexual men, cludg a fact sheet that visually displays this rmatn. * descent gay *

To mark the ocsn, the Schomburg Center for Rearch Black Culture at the New York Public Library held an exhibn throughout the year of 2012 honorg GMAD as the olst social servic anizatn servg black gay men the cy. While 2020 data on HIV diagnos and preventn and re out are available, we are not updatg this web ntent wh data om the Amerina gay, bisexual, and other men who reported male-to-male sexual ntactb, c are more affected by HIV than any other groups the Uned Stat (US) and pennt areas.

HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

The rerds here reprent a samplg of programs and events held durg 1986 - 1998, the totaly of which provis valuable sight to the var issu engagg black gay men, cludg relatnships, HIV/AIDS, lerature, and the arts. Notable black LGBTQ anizatns clu ADODI (New York chapter), Ain Anctral Lbian Uned for Societal Change, Audre Lor Project, Black Lbian and Gay Centre Project, Caribbean-Intified Lbian and Gay Alliance, Jacks of Colour, Natnal Black Gay and Lbian Learship Fom, Natnal Black Lbian and Gay Conference and Instute, Other Countri, People of Color Crisis, and S. Learn more about the human rights challeng facg lbian, gay, bi, trans and tersex (LGBTI) people everywhere and the actns that n be taken to tackle vlence and discrimatn and protect the rights of LGBT people everywhere.

Known as Accs, the group opened the Natnal Mm 2005 to promote Arab-Amerin June 2016, the mm examed the subject of gay discrimatn wh the Lebane band Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead sger, Hamed Sno, intifi as queer. Zar add that even among cultural stutns the Uned Stat that feature artists of Arab scent, “the tenncy is to do survey exhibns that lump artists together” by natnaly but rarely explore issu of sexual the Arab world, openly gay, lbian and transgenr people face persecutn. ”The Los Angel County Mm of Art, the New Mm and the Metropolan Mm of Art say they have exhibed the work of Arab and Mlim artists who are gay but choose not to rporate their inty to their art, or make their sexualy known Wagstaff, head of the partment of morn and ntemporary art at the Met, said she prefers the work speaks for self.

LATVIAN ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SPILLS OVER TO U.S.

” Laws crimalizg homosexual acts are still effect, wh arbrary stallatn, “The Man Who Waed for a Kiss, ” nsisted of murky, surveillance-style photographs of himself teractg wh men he met the Uned Stat, through Craigslist, Grdr and Scff. Ja Hellu, 41, an artist there, was born Brazil to a Syrian father and Paraguayan mother, movg to the Uned Stat has merged his gay and Arab inti provotive, sexually-charged art rporatg a sgle stereotype: the bear, a large, sometim overweight, hirsute man. Many were Sacramento gay activists who didn't know Sgh personally, but who saw his ath as the tragic but evable rult of what they scribe as the growg threat of large numbers of Slavic anti-gay extremists, most of them first- or send-generatn immigrants om Rsia, the Ukrae and other untri of the former Soviet Unn, their cy and others the wtern Uned Stat.

In recent months, as energetic Rsian-speakg "Rsian Baptists" and Pentestals the stat have anized to brg thoands to anti-gay protts, gay rights activists Sacramento have picketed Slavic anti-gay church, requted more police patrols gay neighborhoods and distributed rmatn rds warng gays and lbians about the hostile Slavic evangelils who they say have roughed up participants at gay pri events. "After a uple years of fundamentalist and Slavic Christian vilent anti-gay protts at almost every Sacramento gay event the regn, " said lol gay rights activist Michael Gorman, "what the gay muny has feared for some time has fally happened. Vlad Kak, the host of a Rsian-language anti-gay rad show Sacramento and the publisher of a Rsian-language newspaper Seattle, told The Seattle Tim January that God has "ma an jectn" of high numbers of anti-gay Slavic evangelils to tradnally liberal Wt Coast ci.

HOW DID A GAY SCIENTIST OF JEWISH DCENT THRIVE UNR THE NAZIS?

Branch of the Watchmen movement are jt as c and even more physilly abive than Fred Phelps' famo Wtboro Baptist Church, and they're rooted gay-bashg theology that's even more hardre than the late Jerry Falwell's.

Slavic anti-gay talk rad hosts and fundamentalist preachers routely liver hateful screeds on the airwav and om the pulp their native tongue that, were they livered English, would be a source of natnwi ntroversy.

Dennis Mangers, a gay former California state senator who now lobbi for the ble dtry, said that when he met a proment lear of Sacramento's Slavic muny at a 2006 weekend renciliatn retreat, the Slavic lear told him: "You have to unrstand, we equate homosexuals wh thiev, adulterers and murrers.

RON DESANTIS’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW HAS ALREADY MA FLORIDA SCHOOLS DYSTOPIAN HELLSPWH THE ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAW OFFICIALLY EFFECT, TEACHERS ARE SRED TO WEAR RABOWS, HAVE PICTUR OF THEIR SAME-SEX SPO, AND SOME PLAC HAVE TO NOTIFY PARENTS UPON THE “TERMATN” OF AN “OPEN” LGBTQ+ STUNT THE CLASS.BY BS LEVJULY 1, 2022MIAMI, FLORIDA - APRIL 08: FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS SPEAKS TO THE MEDIA ABOUT THE CISE DTRY DURG A PRS NFERENCE AT PORTMIAMI ON APRIL 08, 2021 MIAMI, FLORIDA. THE GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED THAT THE STATE IS SUG THE FERAL ERNMENT TO ALLOW CIS TO RUME FLORIDA. (PHOTO BY JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAG)JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN TO AMERI’S SCENT TO A DYSTOPIAN HELLSPE, MOST PEOPLE HAVE PROBABLY SPENT THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS FOCED ON THGS LIKE THE ONGOG REVELATNS OM THE JANUARY 6 MTEE REGARDG DONALD TMP’S ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN MOCRACY, AND CISNS OM THE SUPREME COURT LG THAT THERE’S NO MORE SEPARATN OF CHURCH AND STATE, WOMEN DON’T HAVE RIGHTS, AND AL PANI N KILL ALL. (TO SAY NOTHG OF THE FACT THAT, NEXT TERM, THEY MAY MAKE LEGAL FOR REPUBLINS TO STEAL ELECTNS.) BUT ’S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT TMP AND THE HIGH URT’S CHRISTOFASCISTS AREN’T THE ONLY PEOPLE WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT. THERE ARE ALSO ELECTED OFFICIALS LIKE RON DESANTIS, WHO HAS A NOT-SIGNIFINT CHANCE OF BEG PRINT 2024. LIKE TMP, THE FLORIDA ERNOR TAK IMMENSE PRI BEG A BULLY; HE BULLIED THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS, HE BULLIED DISNEY, HE BULLI ANYONE WHO DISAGRE WH HIM, AND THE WORDS OF ONE OF HIS LLEGE TEAMMAT TO THE NEW YORKER: “RON IS THE MOST SELFISH PERSON I HAVE EVER TERACTED WH. HE HAS ALWAYS LOVED EMBARRASSG AND HUIATG PEOPLE. I’M SPEAKG FOR OTHERS—HE WAS THE BIGGT DICK WE KNEW.”WHAT MIGHT THE UNTRY LOOK LIKE SHOULD DESANTIS ASCEND TO THE WHE HOE? IN A WORD: SRY. IN THREE WORDS: REALLY FUCKG SRY. IN 20 WORDS: IT’LL BE THE KD OF PLACE WHERE TEACHERS ARE WARNED NOT TO DISPLAY RABOW FLAGS FOR FEAR OF BEG PROSECUTED.Y, ON FRIDAY, DANTIS’S PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN ACT, A.K.A. THE “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, WENT TO EFFECT FLORIDA, AND ’S HARD TO OVERSTATE HOW TERRIFYG THIS WHOLE THG IS. IN ADDN TO BANNG ANY TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN KRGARTEN THROUGH THIRD GRA, ALSO PROHIBS SUCH DISCSNS ALL THE WAY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL, SAYG THAT SUCH TOPICS NNOT BE DISCSED ANY GRA A MANNER THAT IS NOT “AGE-APPROPRIATE OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE.” (NATURALLY, THE LAW DO NOT SPECIFY WHAT IS NSIRED “APPROPRIATE”; THAT FN MAY NOT E OM THE STATE’S DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN UNTIL NEXT SUMMER.) CRICS BELIEVE THE LAW WAS WRTEN AN TENTNALLY BROAD MANNER TO SRE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, WHICH PARENTS N SUE IF THEY BELIEVE THE MEASURE HAS BEEN VLATED. “WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CULTURE OF FEAR THAT THIS BILL HAS CREATED AND THE CHILLG EFFECT, WE’RE TALKG ABOUT THE FACT THAT TORS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE SRED TO APPROACH ANYTHG RELATED TO LGBTQ PEOPLE OR ISSU OUT OF FEAR OF LAWSUS AND PROFSNAL ,” FLORIDA REPRENTATIVE CARLOS GUILLERMO SMH TOLD THE HILL.FOR STANCE, THE ORANGE COUNTY CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATN ACCED SCHOOL OFFICIALS THIS WEEK OF TELLG TEACHERS NOT TO WEAR CLOTHG WH RABOWS ON THEM AND TO GET RID OF “SAFE SPACE” STICKERS AND PHOTOS OF THEIR SAME-SEX SPO, ACRDG TO NBC NEWS. LAST MONTH, ACRDG TO PALM BEACH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SPECIAL TN TEACHER MICHAEL WOODS, THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT “SENT OUT A QUTNNAIRE ASKG S TEACHERS TO REVIEW ALL URSE MATERIAL AND FLAG ANY BOOKS WH REFERENC TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN, GENR INTY OR RACE.” (ACRDG TO WOODS, SEVERAL WEEKS PRR, THE DISTRICT REMOVED THE BOOKS I AM JAZZ AND CALL ME MAX, FOR SEEMGLY REFERENCG GENR INTY.) AND ON TUDAY, ACRDG TO NBC, THE LEON COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD APPROVED A “LGBTQ INCLIVE GUI,” WHICH CLUS A CLSE THAT SAYS PARENTS MT BE RMED IF A STUNT WHO IS “OPEN ABOUT THEIR GENR INTY” IS THEIR CHILD’S GYM CLASS OR WH THEM ON AN OVERNIGHT SCHOOL TRIP. “UPON NOTIFITN OR TERMATN OF A STUNT WHO IS OPEN ABOUT THEIR GENR INTY, PARENTS OF THE AFFECTED STUNTS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF REASONABLE ACMODATN OPTNS AVAILABLE,” THE GUIL STATE. “PARENTS OR STUNTS WHO HAVE NCERNS ABOUT ROOMG ASSIGNMENTS FOR THEIR STUNT’S UPG OVERNIGHT EVENT BASED ON RELIG OR PRIVACY NCERNS MAY REQUT AN ACMODATN.”MEANWHILE, AS NBC NOT, DESANTIS HAS SUGGTED THIS IS ONLY THE BEGNG, SAYG AN TERVIEW WH FOX NEWS APRIL THAT “THGS LIKE WOKE GENR IOLOGY HAVE NO PLACE THE SCHOOLS, PERD.” BRANDON WOLF, PRS SECRETARY FOR EQUALY FLORIDA—ONE OF THE GROUPS SUG THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN OVER THE LAW—TOLD THE HILL: “WE’VE ALWAYS UNRSTOOD WHAT WE’RE UP AGAST THE STATE OF FLORIDA. WE KNOW THE LAWMAKERS, WE KNOW THE RIGHTWARD SHIFT THAT HAS HAPPENED UNR GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS.” HE ADD THAT HE FEARS THE MEASURE WILL ONLY CREASE ANTI-LGBTQ+ VLENCE, WHICH CREASED OM 2020 TO 2021 AND IS ON TRACK TO BE WORSE 2022, ACRDG TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOTN & EVENT DATA PROJECT. “IT FEELS VERY OMO THAT A STATE THAT SAW THE ADLIT ATTACK ON LGBTQ PEOPLE THIS NATN’S HISTORY…THAT WE WOULD BE HAVG NVERSATNS ABOUT ERASG OUR HISTORY, OUR LIV, OUR LIVED EXPERIENC OM CLASSROOMS,” WOLF SAID.MEANWHILE, TEXAS…A GROUP OF “TORS” REPORTEDLY PROPOSED TO THE STATE’S BOARD OF TN THAT SLAVERY SHOULD BE LLED “VOLUNTARY RELOTN.” Y, REALLY! OPPOSN TO THE SUGGTED CHANGE, WHICH WOULD SORT OF BE LIKE LLG HLER’S SYSTEMIC MURR OF 6 LN JEWS “POPULATN DOWNSIZG,” APPARENTLY ME UP DURG A JUNE 15 MEETG, AT WHICH A DEMOCRAT WHO REPRENTS DALLAS AND FORT WORTH NOTED THAT THE NEW WORDG WOULD NOT BE A “FAIR REPRENTATN” OF THE SLAVE TRA. BOARD MEMBERS, ACRDG TO THE TEXAS TRIBUNE, HAVE ASKED THE GROUP “TO RENSIR THE PHRASG,” WRG: “FOR K–2, REFULLY EXAME THE LANGUAGE ED TO SCRIBE EVENTS, SPECIFILLY THE TERM ‘VOLUNTARY RELOTN.’” BEE APPARENTLY “ARE YOU FUCKG KIDDG ME?” OR “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WH YOU?” IS NSIRED APPROPRIATE.WHILE MICHIGAN…TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLWHEN “PRO-LIFE” MEANS LETTG PEOPLE YOU DON’T LIKE DIETWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ELSEWHERE!“I CANNOT THK OF MANY THGS MORE FRIGHTENG”: THE SUPREME COURT HAS DECLARED WAR ON GOVERNG (V.F.)E.P.A. RULG IS A MILTONE THE PHBACK AGAST REGULATG BS (NYT)THE PATTERN TMP WORLD FOLLOWS TO PRSURE WNS TO NY POSSIBLE WRONGDOG (THE WASHGTON POST)DEMOCRATS MT REFORM THE SUPREME COURT TO SAVE IT (INTELLIGENCER)WHO WILL HELP CARE FOR TEXAS’ POST-ROE BABI? (NYT)WASHGTON STATE POLICE WILL NOT PLY WH OUT-OF-STATE AGENCY REQUTS FOR ABORTN-RELATED RMATN, ERNOR SAYS (CNN)NEW YORK POISED TO LIM NCEALED RRY GUNS AFTER SCOTUS LG (POLI)NEW ZEALAND DIGNAT THE PROUD BOYS A TERRORIST GROUP (NYT)FORMER U.S. DEFENSE CHIEF: “WE’RE WATCHG RSIA WHER BEFORE OUR EY” (CNN)FISH FALLG FROM THE SKY S.F.? THERE’S AN EXPLANATN (NBC BAY AREA)ABANDONED BURGER KG FOUND BEHD WALL AT DELAWARE MALL (UPI)MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMER25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)BS LEV

It was the largt anti-gay prott to take place Oregon's sleepy pal cy sce 1992, when the anti-gay Oregon Cizens Alliance (OCA) phed a ballot iative that me wh a few percentage pots of rewordg the state nstutn to clare gay people "abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse" and requirg the state to fire all openly gay or lbian public school teachers.

Lively also is the former director of the California chapter of the anti-gay Amerin Fay Associatn and the founr of both Defend the Fay Mistri and the Pro-Fay Law Center, which claims to be the untry's "only legal anizatn voted exclively to opposg the homosexual polil agenda.

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