The Patrts told anti-gay menters there’s "no room for hate."
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GAYPATRT
The Inter home for Amerin gay nservativ. * gay patriot blog *
” This is a ncept as old as edy self, and has a special place the history of gay rights and gay acceptance generally, which we should not want to be erased. But s rurgence was also met wh ntroversy over the *gasp* problematic jok, pecially sensive gay jok that peppered s -long n. Pants were too big, hair was out of ntrol, and most of the untry thought gay relatnships (not marriage, relatnships) should be illegal.
1996 Congrs sought “to exprs moral disapproval of homosexualy” by passg the Defense of Marriage Act by 342-67 the Hoe and 85-14 the Senate.
And the midst of a natnal ntroversy about gay people and civil rights shows like Friends and Will and Grace flourished.
FAREWELL, GAY PATRT
A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. * gay patriot blog *
No one had satisfactory answers about how much the ernment should be volved dictatg gay rights. Bce Carroll, the Gay Patrt, was one of the most entertag voic on Twter. But Gay Patrt is no more: not on Twter, anyway, which was his natural home.
Gay Patrt was never hateful. I do know that banng Gay Patrt, Twter prived –all of , not jt nservativ–of one of the wtit and most sensible voic our public life. Vcent to overturn anti-gay laws om the lonial era that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
Homosexualy ntu to be crimalized the former Brish lony after many hundreds of years, leavg LGBTQ dividuals wh ltle if any legal protectns while vlent crim were beg mted wh impuny, the report said. Standg crimal s on the island put nsensual gay sex the same tegory as crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt, although there have been no recent nvictns unr the law. Gay people have been targeted by fay members, neighbors, -workers, classmat and teachers -- as well as police officers, the report said.