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.

GAY PRI

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.

GAY RIGHTS

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.

BLUE GAY MEN FLAG

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. 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 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.