Atherton stunts walk out of class to prott 'Don't Say Gay/Trans' bills

Contents:

• DID WILLIAM ATHERTON ACTUALLY CLAIM TO BE AN EX-GAY?
• GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L – A GOG OUT MEMOIR
• ATHERTON STUNTS WALK OUT OF CLASS TO PROTT 'DON'T SAY GAY/TRANS' BILLS
• 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
• GAY SPORT BAR ATHERTON
• GAY BAR: A TALK BY JEREMY ATHERTON L
• GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L
• GAY ATHERTON
• GAY BAR

DID WILLIAM ATHERTON ACTUALLY CLAIM TO BE AN EX-GAY?

Is actually te that he claimed to be an ex-homosexual on The David Sskd Show the '80s?

Am pretty sure he once announced gay nversn therapy and / or "Athetic Realism" worked for him - around the time of "The Sugarland Exprs? The Sskd episo was lled "We Used to Be Gay" and aired May 8, 1983.

It featured Atherton and other "former homosexuals" discsg Eli Siegel's "athetic realism" philosophy, which claimed homosexualy was a way of seeg the world that uld be studied and changed. Atherton tellg people, cludg a dub Vo, at the 1976 Theatre World Awards that Athetic Realism had cured him of homosexualy.

GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L – A GOG OUT MEMOIR

He'll ostensibly live out his days his hoe LA wh his , ocsnally jackg to gay porn and maybe cisg public bathrooms. I nfid to a iend who was a knots fanatic and he uldn't believe Kev Dobson was gay and kept sistg that uldn't have been him. The Elrgays here all remember this, at least generally.

On Irish televisn news, the headl rmed the natn that Panti Bliss, a brilliantly articulate mpaigner, had arrived at Dubl Castle, as ed she gay was all the rage jt then.

ATHERTON STUNTS WALK OUT OF CLASS TO PROTT 'DON'T SAY GAY/TRANS' BILLS

Leo Varadkar, mister for health, soon to be taoiseach, had announced that he was gay, as did a former mister om the other ma party, as did a well-known TV news journalist. That day would not have been surprisg had all the bishops of Ireland arrived their fery to let know that they, too, wanted to jo our Gay Bar, a brilliantly wrten and cisive acunt of gay life Los Angel, San Francis and London, Jeremy Atherton L quot the cric Ben Walters on gay history that is “agile om fear and fettg, too often wrten whispers and saved scraps”.

'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE

I imaged a walk that two men of my generatn – I me to Dubl 1972 – might do to revis the gay plac that have gone, such as The Gym, a sna jt a stone’s throw om Dubl Castle, or Ingno, another sna, much favoured by prits. Photograph: Clodagh Kilyne/Getty ImagThe arrival of the big, loud gay venu Dubl me at the same time as other eedoms.

In Barcelona 1975, when Fran died, there was not a sgle bar that was clearly signated as gay the cy. The explosn of gay bars both ci me wh mocracy.

” In gay bars, he beme someone on whom nothg was lost. “Gays, ” he wr, “n relax a gay bar, people will say, but I went out for the tensn the room. ”His book is also hnted by the dotted le the gay story, the gaps the narrative.

GAY SPORT BAR ATHERTON

He wr about a DJ his 40s lled B Statn John who “played ecstatic sets of arne dis … He was there to bear wns, to ttify, g rare tracks om what he lled ‘the goln age of gay’, the perd between Stonewall and Aids. We were nsc the discs on the turntable may have e om the llectns of ceased gay men.

”But the ghosts his book are also those who created gay San Francis self, where there were 18 gay bars 1964 and “an timated hundred and eighteen wh a ”. Atherton L registers the nostalgia that me wh all this change, quotg Fouult: “I actually liked the scene before gay liberatn, when everythg was more vert.

Some thgs give him the creeps, like a gay thrift shop: “I crged when I passed , imagg the store to be filled wh stuff svenged om the hom of ad queens … I hadn’t found a way to nsir the multifar story of my people – and to read wh, but not through, the disease. When they stop shavg, their beards “were perverted, their bristl perfumed wh the sudor of scrotum” gay group, observed San Francis, “uld be tected om a distance by the stk … Each of them seemed to have a magnificent ass and be wrg a book.

GAY BAR: A TALK BY JEREMY ATHERTON L

”Atherton L wants to reimage a nnectn between “the goln age of gay” and the future. There were three bars that he and his partner lled the Triangle: “jolly Gee and Dragon, sordid Joers Arms and laid-back Nelson’s Head – a rpective five-, ten- and fifteen-mute walk om our buildg” wr well about another hntg the London years, the spectre of gay-bashg, quotg Neil Bartlett: “Those nights out were spirg – but the solary walks home were foolish.

London, 1986, was not a safe place for a visibly gay man like my twenty-eight-year-old self to be out alone after dark – or even by daylight for that matter. ”The closg of Atherton L’s favoure gay venu London seems to make the cy e alive for him. Stunts at Atherton High School walked out of class Tuday afternoon prott of Kentucky's wave of "Don't Say Gay/Trans" 200 stunts, many donng trans and Pri flags and signs cryg anti-LGBTQ legislatn the Kentucky General Assembly, gathered on the school lawn.

Elltt Kozarovich, a sophomore at Atherton who helped anize the prott, said he wanted to anize a gatherg support of other stunts. It's a wonrful time out here, " at Atherton High School was part of a prott agast the new “Kentucky Don’t Say Gay/Trans” bill by walkg out of school. "Stunts at Atherton High School held a prott agast the new “Kentucky Don’t Say Gay/Trans” bill by walkg out of school.

GAY BAR BY JEREMY ATHERTON L

Several stunts said that they fear passg bills like Hoe Bill 120 would take away their opportuny for genr-affirmg re or to medilly transn, treatments that rearch suggts n be Walker, a sophomore, said he experienc symptoms of prsn, some of which stem om his feelgs of genr dysphoria, and a treatment like hormone replacement therapy uld help. "Stunts at Atherton High School was part of a prott agast the new “Kentucky Don’t Say Gay/Trans” bill by walkg out of school.

Contact reporter Rae Johnson at Follow them on Twter at article origally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Atherton stunts walk out over Kentucky "Don't Say Gay/Trans" bills.

GAY ATHERTON

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Jeremy Atherton L. "We go out to get some, " wr Jeremy Atherton L his new book, Gay Bar. Gay Bar b memoir, history and cricism; 's a difficult book to p down, but that's what mak so readable and so endlsly fascatg.

Atherton L's book starts off a crowd room a gay bar where he's gone cisg wh his partner, whom he refers to throughout the book wh the Leonard Cohen-spired nickname Famo Blue Raat. That kd of gay bar — all kds of gay bars, really — are danger of closg, Atherton L wr, due to the populary of datg apps and risg property sts. He's ambivalent about the velopment, wrg, "I had to nsir whether gay bars promised a sense of belongg then lured to a trap.

GAY BAR

In a gay bar, am I penned to mory stat, swallowg drks that nourish my opprsn — have gay bars kept me my place?

" The prospect of losg gay bars leads him to reflect on their prence his life. He wr betifully about his llege days Los Angel, where he went to his first one, though he n't rell the name, wryly notg, "Of urse I n't remember my first gay bar — I was dnk. " He's also spired to dig to the past: "Enough time has passed that gay bars, once a surge, have bee monumental their own way.