How to Cope When Your Spoe Is Gay

Contents:

• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• WHAT WILL GAY CULTURE LOOK LIKE 2035?
• WHICH RACEURSE WAS THE SCENE OF THE ‘GAY FUTURE AFFAIR’?
• GAY FUTURE
• HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY
• IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? DPE ASSURANC, THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN ROE V. WA ULD PORTEND FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.JOSEPH FONS HOLDS A PRI FLAG ONT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT BUILDG AFTER THE URT LED THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N NOT BE DISCIPLED OR FIRED BASED ON THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN JUNE 15, 2020 WASHGTON, DC. THE URT IS POISED TO STRIKE DOWN THE LANDMARK ABORTN LG ROE V. WA, A CISN THAT ULD SET THE STAGE FOR FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.(CHIP SOMOVILLA / GETTY IMAG)BY LREN MCGGHY7:00 AM ON MAY 4, 2022 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — A LEAKED DRAFT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S FORTHG OPN ON ABORTN SAYS THAT THE RIGHTS TO GAY MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY MAY BE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW.ON MONDAY, POLI RELEASED A DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE URT IS POISED TO OVERTURN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN CID THE 1973 LANDMARK TEXAS SE ROE V. WA. CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON TUDAY NFIRMED THE LEAKED DOCUMENT’S VERACY, BUT SAID DO NOT REPRENT THE URT’S CISN OR THE ULTIMATE POSN OF ANY JTICE.ADVERTISEMENTIF PROV TO BE THE FAL VERSN, OR CLOSE TO , THE OPN WOULD NOT ONLY UPHOLD A MISSISSIPPI BAN ON ABORTNS AT 15 WEEKS BUT ALSO OVERTURN ROE AND TRIGGER EVEN STRICTER BANS OTHER STAT, CLUDG TEXAS.ADVERTISEMENTCONSTUTNAL LAW EXPERTS BELIEVE THE DRAFT OPN ALSO SHEDS LIGHT ON THE FUTURE OF LGBT RIGHTS THIS STATE AND ACROSS THE UNTRY. IN THE DOCUMENT, JTICE SAMUEL ALO MAK CLEAR THAT THE CISN WOULD APPLY ONLY TO ABORTN AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE READ TO HAVE ANY EFFECT ON PREV LGS UPHOLDG GAY UNNS AND STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHIS SHOULD PROVI SOME FORT TO LGBT RIGHTS ADVOT, EXPERTS SAID. BUT THEY ADD THAT UCHED THIS ASSURANCE IS A WARNG.OVERTURNG ROE WOULD SHOW NO PRECENT IS SACRED. AND THE DRAFT DOCUMENT CIRCULATG, WHILE NARROWLY TAILORED TO THE ABORTN ISSUE, ALSO GIV ACTIVISTS A PLAYBOOK FOR HOW FUTURE TO TARGET OTHER RIGHTS ROOTED THE SAME PRCIPL, LIKE PRIVACY, TONOMY AND FAY CHOICE.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:ABORTN TEXAS WOULD SENTIALLY BE PROHIBED IF ROE VS. WA IS OVERTURNEDFOR THOSE LIVG STAT LIKE TEXAS — WHOSE LAWMAKERS NEVER AXED NSTUTNALLY UNENFORCEABLE LAWS BANNG SODOMY OR FG MARRIAGE AS STRICTLY A HETEROSEXUAL AFFAIR — ALO’S FERENCE TO THE WILL OF LOL LEGISLATUR SETS THE STATE CAPOL, AND NOT THE URTROOM, AS THE FAL BATTLEGROUND FOR THE QUTN OF LGBT RIGHTS.WH THEIR HOLY GRAIL ATTAED — STRIKG DOWN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN — WILL NSERVATIV GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE NEXT?ADVERTISEMENT“THOSE RIGHTS ARE SECURE FOR NOW,” DALE CARPENTER, NSTUTNAL LAW CHAIR AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW, SAID. “BUT BE ON GUARD.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DO THE LEAKED DRAFT SAY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS?THE DRAFT OPN ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS TWO DIFFERENT PLAC, CARPENTER SAID.IN A SECTN DISCSG PRECENT, ALO SAID THAT ABORTN IS DISTGUISHED OM OTHER DIVISIVE CULTURAL ISSU BEE VOLV “POTENTIAL LIFE.”ADVERTISEMENT“NONE OF THE OTHER CISNS CED BY ROE AND [PLANNED PARENTHOOD V.] CASEY VOLVED THE CRIL MORAL QUTN POSED BY ABORTN. THEY ARE THEREFORE APPOSE,” ALO WROTE.THE DRAFT REPEATS THIS DISTCTN LATER AND GO A STEP FURTHER TO EXPLICLY ALLAY THE FEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD READ THIS OPN AS A REJECTN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBT RIGHTS.“TO ENSURE THAT OUR CISN IS NOT MISUNRSTOOD OR MISCHARACTERIZED, WE EMPHASIZE THAT OUR CISN NCERNS THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND NO OTHER RIGHT. NOTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,” ALO WROTE.ADVERTISEMENTCARPENTER SAID THIS MEANS LGBT S ALREADY CID BY THE URT WON’T BE “IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY” IMPERILED.“HE’S OFFERG REASSURANCE ABOUT THE SECURY OF OTHER RIGHTS — FOR THE TIME BEG,” CARPENTER SAID. BUT HE ADD THAT THE ENTIRE OPN, AT LEAST THE DRAFT AS WRTEN, IS “HOSTILE” TOWARD RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFILLY NAMED THE U.S. CONSTUTN — CLUDG MARRIAGE, SEXUAL TIMACY AND EVEN NTRACEPTN.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY, SCRIBED THE ARRAY OF AMERIN RIGHTS AS A TAPTRY.“ONCE YOU PULL ONE STRG, THE OTHERS BEE MUCH MORE LOOSE. THE BDG IS REALLY THREATENED,” KREIS SAID. “ALL OF OUR RIGHTS, ALL OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTI, THEY RISE AND FALL TOGETHER. THEY’RE TERTWED.”ADVERTISEMENTWHILE THE FABRIC OF LGBT RIGHTS WOULD NOT UNRAVEL IMMEDIATELY, KREIS SAID WOULD BE MUCH EASER FOR ANTI-GAY ADVOT TO AY AROUND THE EDG AS ROE FALLS. IF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS LOST THE ABORTN SETTG, FOR EXAMPLE, STAT ULD ARGUE THEY HAVE AN TERT IMPOSG THEIR WILL ON OTHER PRIVATE MEDIL CISNS, LIKE TREATMENTS FOR TRANSGENR PATIENTS, PECIALLY CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS.“WE’RE FOR A VERY UGLY FEW MONTHS, FEW YEARS,” KREIS SAID.WHAT ULD THE LEAKED DRAFT MEAN FOR LGBT RIGHTS TEXAS?

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

But when I heard people ravg about the show, wrten by Rsell T Davi, I was stck by how many of them admted to knowg ltle about the epimic – and the stctn wreaked among the gay muny.

That’s bee, even today's much more acceptg society, the history of the gay and lbian muny is largely a fotten history.

WHAT WILL GAY CULTURE LOOK LIKE 2035?

For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans. It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years.

WHICH RACEURSE WAS THE SCENE OF THE ‘GAY FUTURE AFFAIR’?

My novel is ridg on a wave of tert that dat back the UK to 2017 and the 50th anniversary of the begng of crimalisatn of homosexualy. That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist.

Over on Instagram, The Aids Memorial shar photos and stori of people – predomantly gay men – who died of the disease, wrten by those who loved them. You’d not tch many queer al mers jottg down their memoirs – Crystal JeansHowever, 's fictn that’s very much drivg the phenomenon of brgg "lost" stori of gay life om the past to light.

Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End).

GAY FUTURE

In the theatre, Matthew Lopez's exploratn of gay male history The Inherance triumphed London before transferrg to New York, where opened the year after a well-received revival of Mart Crowley's semal 1968 play Boys the Band.

HOW TO COPE WHEN YOUR SPOE COM OUT AS GAY

Most recently, the ter explod wh behd-the-scen photos of Harry Styl om the shoot of new film My Policeman, an adaptatn of Bethan Roberts's 2012 novel starrg the pop superstar as a closeted gay man the 1950s.

However, as a way of explag the mystery surroundg why Harry left behd everythg he knew, Gale imaged a suatn which he was forced to leave as a rult of a gay affair beg exposed. Crystal Jeans's latt novel is The Inverts, which tells the story of two bt iends – one a lbian, the other a gay man – who enter to a fake marriage the 1920s. This was another reason I wrote The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle; I wanted to tell the story of one ordary young gay man tryg to exprs his love for another at a time when this would not have been accepted.

IF ROE V. WA FALLS, ARE LGBT RIGHTS NEXT? DPE ASSURANC, THE SUPREME COURT STRIKG DOWN ROE V. WA ULD PORTEND FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.JOSEPH FONS HOLDS A PRI FLAG ONT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT BUILDG AFTER THE URT LED THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N NOT BE DISCIPLED OR FIRED BASED ON THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN JUNE 15, 2020 WASHGTON, DC. THE URT IS POISED TO STRIKE DOWN THE LANDMARK ABORTN LG ROE V. WA, A CISN THAT ULD SET THE STAGE FOR FUTURE ATTACKS ON LGBT RIGHTS.(CHIP SOMOVILLA / GETTY IMAG)BY LREN MCGGHY7:00 AM ON MAY 4, 2022 CDTLISTENAUSTIN — A LEAKED DRAFT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S FORTHG OPN ON ABORTN SAYS THAT THE RIGHTS TO GAY MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX PARTNER TIMACY MAY BE SAFE — BUT ONLY FOR NOW.ON MONDAY, POLI RELEASED A DOCUMENT THAT SHOWS THE URT IS POISED TO OVERTURN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN CID THE 1973 LANDMARK TEXAS SE ROE V. WA. CHIEF JTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON TUDAY NFIRMED THE LEAKED DOCUMENT’S VERACY, BUT SAID DO NOT REPRENT THE URT’S CISN OR THE ULTIMATE POSN OF ANY JTICE.ADVERTISEMENTIF PROV TO BE THE FAL VERSN, OR CLOSE TO , THE OPN WOULD NOT ONLY UPHOLD A MISSISSIPPI BAN ON ABORTNS AT 15 WEEKS BUT ALSO OVERTURN ROE AND TRIGGER EVEN STRICTER BANS OTHER STAT, CLUDG TEXAS.ADVERTISEMENTCONSTUTNAL LAW EXPERTS BELIEVE THE DRAFT OPN ALSO SHEDS LIGHT ON THE FUTURE OF LGBT RIGHTS THIS STATE AND ACROSS THE UNTRY. IN THE DOCUMENT, JTICE SAMUEL ALO MAK CLEAR THAT THE CISN WOULD APPLY ONLY TO ABORTN AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE READ TO HAVE ANY EFFECT ON PREV LGS UPHOLDG GAY UNNS AND STRIKG DOWN BANS ON GAY SEX.BREAKG NEWSGET THE LATT BREAKG NEWS OM NORTH TEXAS AND BEYOND.EMAIL ADDRSBY SIGNG UP YOU AGREE TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICYSUBMITTHIS SHOULD PROVI SOME FORT TO LGBT RIGHTS ADVOT, EXPERTS SAID. BUT THEY ADD THAT UCHED THIS ASSURANCE IS A WARNG.OVERTURNG ROE WOULD SHOW NO PRECENT IS SACRED. AND THE DRAFT DOCUMENT CIRCULATG, WHILE NARROWLY TAILORED TO THE ABORTN ISSUE, ALSO GIV ACTIVISTS A PLAYBOOK FOR HOW FUTURE TO TARGET OTHER RIGHTS ROOTED THE SAME PRCIPL, LIKE PRIVACY, TONOMY AND FAY CHOICE.ADVERTISEMENTRELATED:ABORTN TEXAS WOULD SENTIALLY BE PROHIBED IF ROE VS. WA IS OVERTURNEDFOR THOSE LIVG STAT LIKE TEXAS — WHOSE LAWMAKERS NEVER AXED NSTUTNALLY UNENFORCEABLE LAWS BANNG SODOMY OR FG MARRIAGE AS STRICTLY A HETEROSEXUAL AFFAIR — ALO’S FERENCE TO THE WILL OF LOL LEGISLATUR SETS THE STATE CAPOL, AND NOT THE URTROOM, AS THE FAL BATTLEGROUND FOR THE QUTN OF LGBT RIGHTS.WH THEIR HOLY GRAIL ATTAED — STRIKG DOWN THE RIGHT TO ABORTN — WILL NSERVATIV GO AFTER GAY MARRIAGE NEXT?ADVERTISEMENT“THOSE RIGHTS ARE SECURE FOR NOW,” DALE CARPENTER, NSTUTNAL LAW CHAIR AT SMU’S DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW, SAID. “BUT BE ON GUARD.”ADVERTISEMENTWHAT DO THE LEAKED DRAFT SAY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS?THE DRAFT OPN ADDRS LGBT RIGHTS TWO DIFFERENT PLAC, CARPENTER SAID.IN A SECTN DISCSG PRECENT, ALO SAID THAT ABORTN IS DISTGUISHED OM OTHER DIVISIVE CULTURAL ISSU BEE VOLV “POTENTIAL LIFE.”ADVERTISEMENT“NONE OF THE OTHER CISNS CED BY ROE AND [PLANNED PARENTHOOD V.] CASEY VOLVED THE CRIL MORAL QUTN POSED BY ABORTN. THEY ARE THEREFORE APPOSE,” ALO WROTE.THE DRAFT REPEATS THIS DISTCTN LATER AND GO A STEP FURTHER TO EXPLICLY ALLAY THE FEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD READ THIS OPN AS A REJECTN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBT RIGHTS.“TO ENSURE THAT OUR CISN IS NOT MISUNRSTOOD OR MISCHARACTERIZED, WE EMPHASIZE THAT OUR CISN NCERNS THE NSTUTNAL RIGHT TO ABORTN AND NO OTHER RIGHT. NOTHG THIS OPN SHOULD BE UNRSTOOD TO ST DOUBT ON PRECENTS THAT DO NOT NCERN ABORTN,” ALO WROTE.ADVERTISEMENTCARPENTER SAID THIS MEANS LGBT S ALREADY CID BY THE URT WON’T BE “IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY” IMPERILED.“HE’S OFFERG REASSURANCE ABOUT THE SECURY OF OTHER RIGHTS — FOR THE TIME BEG,” CARPENTER SAID. BUT HE ADD THAT THE ENTIRE OPN, AT LEAST THE DRAFT AS WRTEN, IS “HOSTILE” TOWARD RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT SPECIFILLY NAMED THE U.S. CONSTUTN — CLUDG MARRIAGE, SEXUAL TIMACY AND EVEN NTRACEPTN.ANTHONY MICHAEL KREIS, A NSTUTNAL LAW PROFSOR AT GEIA STATE UNIVERSY, SCRIBED THE ARRAY OF AMERIN RIGHTS AS A TAPTRY.“ONCE YOU PULL ONE STRG, THE OTHERS BEE MUCH MORE LOOSE. THE BDG IS REALLY THREATENED,” KREIS SAID. “ALL OF OUR RIGHTS, ALL OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTI, THEY RISE AND FALL TOGETHER. THEY’RE TERTWED.”ADVERTISEMENTWHILE THE FABRIC OF LGBT RIGHTS WOULD NOT UNRAVEL IMMEDIATELY, KREIS SAID WOULD BE MUCH EASER FOR ANTI-GAY ADVOT TO AY AROUND THE EDG AS ROE FALLS. IF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IS LOST THE ABORTN SETTG, FOR EXAMPLE, STAT ULD ARGUE THEY HAVE AN TERT IMPOSG THEIR WILL ON OTHER PRIVATE MEDIL CISNS, LIKE TREATMENTS FOR TRANSGENR PATIENTS, PECIALLY CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS.“WE’RE FOR A VERY UGLY FEW MONTHS, FEW YEARS,” KREIS SAID.WHAT ULD THE LEAKED DRAFT MEAN FOR LGBT RIGHTS TEXAS?

But I also wanted to ntrast this disturbg, sometim horrifyg picture wh what life n be like for a gay man wh today’s much more acceptg society the UK – and celebrate how much progrs we’ve ma.

My spiratn was a seri of terviews I nducted wh olr gay men whilst I was Edor--Chief of Attu magaze, as part of our celebratn of the 50th anniversary of the start of crimalisatn.

In the play, Hornby has ferred that the men were what we'd now ll gay. And then, ccially, I've ma a homonormative assumptn and told my story om that posn. Pop star Harry Styl is starrg new film My Policeman as a closeted gay officer the 1950s (Cred: Getty Imag)"What we see all through history is that people are nied their past as part of a way to ntrol them, " says Hornby.