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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. 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.
HEY LTLE RICKEY -- WHERE DID MY LTLE GAY BOY GET LOST?
* gay guy lost *
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.
Socializatn among gay men and gay-centric works, particularly gay neighborhoods, has myriad polil and social benefs.
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I LOST MY VIRGY TO MY GAY NEIGHBOR. I SORTA REGRET .
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“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.
Avoidg anti-LGBTQ discrimatn and homophobia remas pecially hard for queer people who, like Jordan, are ls straight-prentg, which n give people centiv to supprs aspects of their inty.