Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

Contents:

• NYT PANNED FOR MARA GAY FENSE FOLLOWG HER 'DISTURBG' AMERIN FLAGS REMARK: 'EVERY WORD HERE IS A LIE'
• GAY PRI
• GAY RIGHTS
• BLUE GAY MEN FLAG

NYT PANNED FOR MARA GAY FENSE FOLLOWG HER 'DISTURBG' AMERIN FLAGS REMARK: 'EVERY WORD HERE IS A LIE'

In late June, the Castro Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Cultural District (CQCD) San Francis voted to remend to the Castro Merchants, the bs associatn that has jurisdictn over the flagpol, that replace the origal Pri flag Harvey Milk Plaza wh a new versn of the flag that’s more clive of Black, brown, and transgenr members of the LGBTQ muny. “[I]t was mostly low-e street queens, aga many of them Black and brown, who fought the ps the streets outsi the Stonewall Inn three years later, ” they ntued, addg that most Whe lbian and gay activists at the time nmned any type of fightg back agast police favor of a more “rpectable” image.

“Some argue that the mastream gay movement sce the 1970s has bee more polilly reformist and assiatnist, ” Greene said. “Rather than challengg norms and laws around genr and sexualy, the gay movement has argued that gay people are ‘jt like everyone else’ and should have the same rights. The problem wh creatg this kd of hierarchy of rpectabily is that empowers the most privileged gay and lbian people at the expense of members of the queer muny who are still seen as ‘viant, ’ like trans people.

The rabow LGBTQ Pri flag n now fly over US embassi once aga, thanks to a directive om the State Department (AFP via Getty Imag)At Uned Stat embassi, the Pri rabow n now fly alongsi the stars and a nfintial memo obtaed by Foreign Policy, Secretary of State Antony Blken thorized all Amerin embassi and nsulat around the world to display the LGBTQ Pri flag on the same flagpole as the Amerin one – somethg the Tmp admistratn had change of policy time for Pri Month, June, and the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, on 17 memo did not make the display a requirement, however, and advised embassi to ci whether flyg the rabow was “appropriate light of lol ndns. Blken thorized diplomats to fly the pri flag before May 17, which is the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia, and to ntue their display at diplomatic outposts through the month of the ble, Mr.

GAY PRI

Blken told lawmakers he would support the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng people, cludg allowg the pri flag at U. Media top headl June 8 Alexandria Os-Cortez refg GoFundMe money for abuela, a judge orrg Chigo Mayor Lori Lightfoot to clarify policy that only granted terviews to journalists of lor, and MSNBC’s Nille Wallace agreeg that not passg Democratic votg bill would be like the ‘fall of the Roman empire’ round out today’s top media headlThe New York Tim issued a statement fendg s edorial board member Mara Gay after she went on televisn and exprsed the "disturbg" sight of Amerin flags she wnsed durg a vis to Long Island New York. NYT, MSNBC'S MARA GAY: ‘DISTURBING’ TO SEE ‘DOZENS OF AMERICAN FLAGS’ ON LONG ISLAND "I was on Long Island this weekend visg a really ar iend, and I was really disturbed, " Gay said.

GAY RIGHTS

’" Gay received swift backlash on social media for her nmnatn of the all the Amerin flags she saw, but acrdg to a statement released by her employer, her crics are off-base. NEW YORK TIMES' MARA GAY ROASTED FOR CLAIMING DAVE RUBIN'S SHOW ‘REGULARLY HOSTS WHITE SUPREMACISTS’"New York Tim edorial board member Mara Gay's ments on MSNBC have been irrponsibly taken out of ntext, " NYTim Communitns tweeted Tuday eveng. This isn't the first time Gay went viral for unflatterg reasons.

If approved by the full Congrs, the bill uld force Stonewall Natnal Monument, an NPS se New York dited to tellg the story of the gay rights movement, to take down s Pri flags. It memorat the se of the rts at the Stonewall Inn that kicked off the morn gay rights movement on June 28, 1969.

BLUE GAY MEN FLAG

As employe waved rabow flags, the drag queen — Wyn Wiley, gog by the name Pattie Gonia — joked that “gay people are lerally takg over the Natnal Park System. As the issue gas more polil tractn for gay rights opponents, the Human Rights Campaign rpond June by clarg s first “state of emergency.

Dpe the plats om Republins on Capol Hill, gay rights advot have been urgg more natnal parks to jo the Pri celebratns.

The new battl e at a key time for the gay rights movement. While a rerd high 71 percent of Amerins last year said they believed gay and lbian relatns were morally acceptable, that fell to 64 percent this year Gallup’s most recent Valu and Beliefs poll released June. Last month, his mpaign released a vio that cricized former Print Donald Tmp for his earlier ments on gay rights and Pri Month, llg him “the polician who did more than any other Republin to celebrate .