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Contents:
- QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
- HEY LTLE RICKEY -- WHERE DID MY LTLE GAY BOY GET LOST?
- I LOST MY VIRGY TO MY GAY NEIGHBOR. I SORTA REGRET .
QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
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The LGBTQ muny is reelg om the news of beloved gay in Llie Jordan’s ath.
Jordan — an effemate Southern gay actor who for s occupied his own special rner of queer culture — died Monday morng a r crash Hollywood. ” Jordan’s character eventually out as gay on the show, which self broke major barriers for s time s reprentatn of gay men, though mostly whe and cisgenr, on work televisn.
” For many, Jordan was a symbol of the joy of unqutnably visible queerns — of reclaimg and rejoicg long-held stereotyp about the feme affects of gay men. We apologize, this vio has was a teenager as the gay rights movement started to pick up steam.
HEY LTLE RICKEY -- WHERE DID MY LTLE GAY BOY GET LOST?
I was a nfed, horny, and prs teenager at the time. My gay neighbor was two olr than me. Eher the gay neighbor knew I w... * gay guy lost *
In the late ’60s and early ’70s, amid the Stonewall uprisg and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s removal of homosexualy om s official list of mental disorrs, he was g to terms wh his inty as Amerins’ ias about sexualy were also startg to change.
Gay men like Jordan, born om 1946 to 1964 and classified as baby boomers, were h the harst at the peak of the crisis, om the late ’80s and throughout the ’90s. 6 ln gay men ag 25 to 44 had died. ”The AIDS epimic, and the Reagan admistratn’s failed rponse to , played a role the rise to promence of already well-tablished LGBTQ enclav, which some referred to as “gayborhoods, ” larger urban areas the ’80s and ’90s.
I LOST MY VIRGY TO MY GAY NEIGHBOR. I SORTA REGRET .
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Socializatn among gay men and gay-centric works, particularly gay neighborhoods, has myriad polil and social benefs. His challeng wh substance abe, he admted, were directly related to his experience as a gay man those tim.
“I felt was a lot easier to be gay when I was load, ” he died more than 20 years sober, a fact that giv Vic Vela fort.
Vela, a gay man and the host of an award-wng Colorado Public Rad show about addictn, “Back From Broken, ” said that although has never been easy for anyone to e out, was particularly difficult the latter s of the last century. “For a lot of gay men om a certa generatn, that was really hard to do whout alhol, ” he said.