A rource for gay people.
Contents:
- FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
- GAY CEMETERY
- LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’
- GAY CEMETERY
- GAY CEMETERY
- GAY CEMETERY
FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
The right to a ary burial for gay spo was guaranteed natnwi wh the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015, but only a handful of known same-sex ary upl are buried across US natnal cemeteri. For most, the right to such an honor has been hard won. * gay cemetery *
The cemetery also has a feature that, acrdg to the admistratn, is unique among cemeteri around the world: a “Gay Corner. On March 8 of that year, he sent a letter to his superr officer nfirmg that he was, ed, homosexual. Milary regulatns at the time clearly stated that “homosexualy is not tolerated the Air Force.
GAY CEMETERY
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One of the great legaci of this fight, and the foundatn of the Gay Corner, is Matlovich’s tombstone.
Hoover, the first and longtime director of the FBI, waged an anti-gay war durg the 1950s and ’60s, spyg on spected gay employe of the ernment and referrg to them as “sexual viat. He placed pk triangl on and, stead of emblazong wh his own name, ed the more clive phrase “A Gay Vietnam Veteran.
The footstone that reads “Gay is good” memorializ Frank Kameny, who 1957 was dismissed om his posn as an astronomer the U. Army Map Service bee of his homosexualy.
LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’
Gay Cemetery is a cemetery Connecticut. Gay Cemetery is suated nearby to Bolton and Andover. Maprta, the open map. * gay cemetery *
Chapter of the Mattache Society, which sent pro-gay lerature and mpaign letters to high-rankg policians—all the way up to Print Lyndon B.
GAY CEMETERY
Gay Cemetery is a cemetery Connecticut. Gay Cemetery is suated nearby to Unsville and Gal Ferry. Maprta, the open map. * gay cemetery *
Kameny ed the phrase “gay is good” 1966. Durg the 1970s, Gtgs, who died 2007, mpaigned tirelsly to have homosexualy stck om the list of mental illns.
The headstone the shape of a prerly balanced, jnty black cube belongs to Ken Drser, a gay graphic signer who worked on Disneyland’s Ma Street Electric Para.
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Gay Cemetery is an Establishment, loted at: Loop Road, Clayton, NC 27527 * gay cemetery *
And there is a weddg or two among the funerals— 2011, gay Iraq veteran Stephen Hill married his partner Josh Snyr—legally— ont of Matlovich’s memorial.
GAY CEMETERY
The acronym LGBTQ+ refers to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and Two Spir peopl, as well as those who intify as Pansexual, Qutng, Non-Bary, and other genr and sexualy mori.