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Contents:

• WAS KAISER WILHELM II OF GERMANY GAY?
• FOR GAYS, CHEERS AND DOUBTS ABOUT MARRIAGE
• THE GAY METROPOLIS REVIEW: IF WE N SURVIVE AIDS, WE N SURVIVE TMP

WAS KAISER WILHELM II OF GERMANY GAY?

If you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or intify as a sexual and/or genr mory and are lookg for LGBTQ+ affirmg doctors, physicians, clicians, and healthre provirs, you have e to the right place. Kaiser Wilhelm II is Gay??!! Intertgly enough, some historians rearched to the Kaiser's personalistic life and claimed that he had a mor bra damage at birth and has unpredictable and irratnal behavur due to his "sense of ferry" and sufferg om "Attentn Deficiency Disorr" as a rult om his unlovg 's all brace ourselv for the next shockg revelatn:"Probg further, some historians have nclud that William was a reprsed homosexual who never me to terms wh his own personaly.

For a long time there was a stereotype that if you marched, you were eher gay, lbian or transgenr — but that's changed. “On Beg Different: What It Means to Be Homosexual” is an say the wrer Merle Miller published The New York Tim Magaze two years after the 1969 Stonewall Rts, a time when the newspaper ed the word gay, but only quotatn marks. The most ser misstep, though, is Savage’s troductn, which would have that Miller wrote the say some sort of staed state of anger and self-righteons brought about by a homophobic article which appeared a September 1970 issue of Harper’s magaze.

The thor of that article, one Joseph Epste, heoly nclud that “If I had the power to do so, I would wish homosexualy off the face of the earth. He wr, for stance, that “None of my homosexual iends are any too happy, but then, very few of my heterosexual iends—supposed iends, I should say—are exactly joyo, eher. His pot is that he (and his hband), unlike Miller (and his ntemporari), n be around children whout other adults worryg that said children will be nverted, by r myster and perverted, to homosexualy.

FOR GAYS, CHEERS AND DOUBTS ABOUT MARRIAGE

Kaiser may not e wh the name regnn of Dan Savage, but he is the thor of The Gay Metropolis and a former reporter for The New York Tim and The Wall Street Journal.

THE GAY METROPOLIS REVIEW: IF WE N SURVIVE AIDS, WE N SURVIVE TMP

And while the tone and style of his piece are perhaps too much like Miller’s, he performs the important task of relatg the importance of “On Beg Different” to himself, personally, as well as puttg “On Beg Different” a historil ntext, a plex, multi-faceted ntext that don’t jump forward too quickly time and seem to imply, probably rather naively, that gay marriage, and gay fay valu, are the culmatn of the fight for LGBT rights. Kameny was a leadg figure of the gay rights movement who, among other thgs, was stmental gettg the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn to remove homosexualy om s list of mental disorrs.

None of the cricisms, however, should keep anyone away om On Beg Different: What It Means to Be Homosexual, pecially not a time when might be too easy to fet what Miller and his ntemporari, our forbearers, endured, what they supprsed, or how a few, a very lucky few, me out. On Beg Different: What It Means to Be Homosexual.