Ten percent of Washgton rints intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr -- but on Friday, much of the cy cheered.
Contents:
- THE END OF GAY HISTORY?
- A GAY DAY AMERI’S GAY PAL
- MEET YAYO GRASSI, THE GAY MAN WHO IS IENDS WH POPE FRANCIS
- RABOW-LORED OREO A HARBGER OF MORE GAY ADVERTISG
- IN 2012, AIDS IS A DIFFERENT BEAST FOR GAY MEN D.C.
THE END OF GAY HISTORY?
Dan Zak fears young gays are fettg their forebears:For a mographic that was once so twed wh mortaly, the gays have gotten good (or have they always been good?
Today’s gays the gays of my generatn, the lennials, the 20-somethgs are post-gay, or New Gay, loosed om the closet, ee of the divg bell of AIDS-as-executner, left to skirmish over (or ignore) petty legislative battl on a state-by-state or school-by-school basis. The “end of gay culture” has been journaled for nearly a generatn now. What about gay history?
A GAY DAY AMERI’S GAY PAL
Will gay history end when Storme DeLarverie and her peers are ad?
Or when a gay man or woman is elected print of the Uned Stat?
On Friday morng, the untry’s gayt outpost, the pal of this adolcent empire, moved the Uned Stat another step toward adulthood, or damnatn, pendg on your dthers. Five Supreme Court jtic clared that marriage is a right protected by the Constutn, whether you’re gay or straight, whether you’re Massachetts or Mississippi.
MEET YAYO GRASSI, THE GAY MAN WHO IS IENDS WH POPE FRANCIS
There were all-you-n-drk specials at bars gay and straight. Washgton has had marriage equaly for years now, but now s lifelong tenants — the Suprem, as we refer to them lolly — had brought the rt of the stat le, Von Trapp style, wh a swoop of their Gay Men’s Chos of Washgton, D.
“I didn’t read his full dissent, but there didn’t seem to be a lot of legal analysis, ” said one middle-aged man holdg a glass of whe we on the pat of Cobalt on a street named after Frank Kameny, a Washgton pneer of gay rights.
RABOW-LORED OREO A HARBGER OF MORE GAY ADVERTISG
Regardls of who’s nng Congrs or sleepg the Whe Hoe, Washgton is a certa kd of town: 91 percent of District voters went for Print Obama 2012, and 10 percent of rints intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (higher than any of the 50 actual stat, acrdg to Gallup). “It Is Acplished, ” wrote Andrew Sullivan, who ma the nservative se for gay marriage 26 years ago the New, of urse, there is no such thg as gay print took to the Rose Garn for his send victory lap of the week.
God draws a le on gay marriage. “J never said a word about homosexualy the Gospels, ” said Savannah Gross, 20, a risg senr at Emory Universy Atlanta, reprentg the flock of Washgton’s unrpaid summer terns that had turned out to wns and discs. The gays have ma Ruth Bar Gsburg their queen — Notor RBG!
IN 2012, AIDS IS A DIFFERENT BEAST FOR GAY MEN D.C.
Not gay enough?