California voters to be asked to affirm gay marriage on 2024 ballot - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• SEARCHG FOR SILVER LAKE: THE RADIL NEIGHBORHOOD THAT CHANGED GAY AMERI
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS LOS ANGEL

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.

” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe.

” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy. It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch.

SEARCHG FOR SILVER LAKE: THE RADIL NEIGHBORHOOD THAT CHANGED GAY AMERI

To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angel Tim) To the edor: I wonr if the LGBTQ+ muny realiz that the Supreme Court lg favor of a webse signer who didn’t want to create weddg s for gay upl n work our favor as well. (“How the ripple effect of the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative cisn uld swamp civil rights, ” Opn, July 12)As a gay man, I am always ncerned if the bs where I spend my money are supportive of my muny.

We are drivg up an almost vertil hill a hip Los Angel neighborhood, lookg for one of the birthplac of the gay civil rights movement.

At the wheel is Roland Palencia, a gay activist who has lived and anized here for Silver Lake Rervoir sh behd , the hills around crowd wh bungalows.

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”The plaque qutn memorat the Mattache Society, one of the first US “homophile” groups to openly advote for acceptance. We were standg on the hill where the Mattache Society was found 1950, and began to advote for homosexuals not as sners or perverts, but as an opprsed mory who served rights. Ls than two away is the Black Cat Tavern, the se of one of the first public gay rights monstratns, 1967, prottg the Los Angel police partment’s btal New Year’s Eve raid.

By the 80s, Silver Lake was a center of queer life, pecially queer Lato life, and, Palencia says, nearly every other storeont was a gay or lbian bar, a leather store, a bookstore, or a muny Aids anizatn. Today, spe the rabow flags flyg along Sunset Boulevard, Silver Lake is beg “-gayed and -Latized” queer history tour began at Silver Lake’s most famo gay landmark: the Black Cat Tavern.

The prott outsi the Black Cat took place 1967, two years before New York’s Stonewall rt, which is often scribed as the foundatnal event of the US gay rights movement.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

There’s no reference to the s when the Black Cat buildg transformed to a seri of different gay bars, cludg Le Barco, which offered drag performanc Spanish, and Club Fuck! At Basgo’s Dis, which was famo for s art-punk athetic and BDSM performance Sunset Boulevard, there are other holdouts om Silver Lake’s gayer past: Rough Tra, a leather and fetish shop, is a few doors down om the Black Cat.

But Circ of Books, once a famo purveyor of gay porn, is now a nnabis store, Palencia noted. Photograph: ONE Archiv at the USC LibrariOff Sunset Boulevard, the neighborhood streets that were once statns for gay cisg now have hardly any traffic, Palencia poted out as we drove through.

RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

“It’s right between East Los Angel, which has tradnally been Lato, and Wt Hollywood, which beme more gay, ” he said. ”Silver Lake, then a largely Lato neighborhood, beme a haven for Palencia and his iends, who -found Gay and Lbian Latos Unidos (GLLU), an advocy group foced on issu and people they felt whe gay anizatns and whe femist anizatns ignored. 33 Taps, at the former se of Crt, a meetg place for Gay and Lbian Latos Unidos.

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

While there were tensns at the time between gay and lbian anizers LA, the gay men who started GLLU reached out to lbian Latas to get them volved as lears the group, as documented Unidad, a new film about the group’s history.

Palencia said this was ccial: “Polilly, the lbians were much more evolved terms of their thkg of systems – like patriarchy, enomic systems, sexism, even racism, ” wh an agenda “that went beyond sexual polics” members supported Lato labor anizers and the Uned Farm Workers, and proment labor activists, cludg Dolor Huerta, marched alongsi them a 1983 Pri Wt Hollywood gay scene, ntrast, was sometim explicly racist and misogynistic: Stud One, a proment club, sparked protts for s excln of men of lor and of women, and s obv preference for wealthier whe male Silver Lake uld also be dangero, Palencia said: there were gay-bashg attacks rried out by lol Lato gang members. Photograph: Male Tolle/The GuardianTo addrs the tensns between gay and Lato rints whout turng to “mass rceratn, ” anizers started a ee lol mic ftival, the Sunset Junctn street fair, 1980, which had activi for kids and bands to appeal to a wi range of cultural terts. “A lot of people, pecially gay men who lived here, they died, ” Palencia said.

Photograph: Male Tolle/The GuardianGay anizatns led by whe activists Los Angel often neglected outreach to people of lor, cludg Lato muny members, failg even to offer ccial rmatn Spanish.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS LOS ANGEL

Palencia drove a few blocks off Sunset Boulevard to what he lled a “ltle oasis that’s still the same as what ’s been the past s” l Campo, an inic Mexin rtrant a bright pk buildg, has been a refuge for gay patrons sce s foundg 1962, and ’s still owned by the same Hollywood showbiz Del Campo, who started the rtrant, had been a dancer featured films like Wt Si Story, an Amerin Paris, and A Star is Born, and his old iends and lleagu beme his new patrons – cludg, of urse, many gay people.