From Troye Sivan to Padam Padam: Atralia is s gay era and the world should thank | Mic | The Guardian

Contents:

• THE PRISON WHERE OSR WIL SERVED TIME FOR GAY SEX IS FOR SALE
• ‘YOU FEEL GOOSE BUMPS’: THE PH TO PRERVE WHERE WIL WAS JAILED FOR BEG GAY
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

THE PRISON WHERE OSR WIL SERVED TIME FOR GAY SEX IS FOR SALE

In 1895, celebrated wrer Osr Wil — thor of The Importance of Beg Earnt and The Picture of Dorian Gray -- was nvicted of homosexual activy and sentenced to two years, most of which he spent the famo Readg Gaol. In 1895, Wil was nvicted of homosexual activy and sentenced to serve two years. And his step seemed light and gay;.

‘YOU FEEL GOOSE BUMPS’: THE PH TO PRERVE WHERE WIL WAS JAILED FOR BEG GAY

And his step seemed light and gay,. Wh a step so light and gay,.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT‘You Feel Goose Bumps’: The Ph to Prerve Where Wil Was Jailed for Beg GayActivists are tryg to prerve the prison he was sent to after his nvictn for “cency, ” sayg his life is an important part of Bra’s Turner for The New York TimREADING, England — The metal stairway creaks and groans unrfoot on the way to cell C.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

3, a bare oblong room of pated brick behd a large and forbiddg prison was here that Osr Wil was rcerated for around 18 months the late 19th century bee of his homosexualy, and this was the spiratn for his grimly realistic portrayal of life behd bars, “The Ballad of Readg Gaol.

“It’s got tremendo potential, ” said Karen Rowland, a uncilor Readg wh special rponsibily for cultural issu, who is origally om New York and thks the lotn is of importance not only as an artistic and cultural Turner for The New York Tim“Doublg that wh LGBTQ+ tert, and havg e om livg right next to Stonewall New York Cy, I know the value and the importance of a natnal herage se for that muny, ” she said, referrg to the Greenwich Village bar New York creded as the startg place of the gay rights town of Readg proved to be an important place the life of Osr Wil, a celebrated lerary figure until 1895, when he was arrted at the Cadogan Hotel London and subsequently nvicted of “gross cency. “We are fascated by his rise and by his fall and, bee of the extraordary change attus to homosexualy over the century, he also has a place social history. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 8 of the New York edn wh the headle: In Jail That Once Held Osr Wil, Brish Town Se Gay Landmark.

IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN

“It mak me sad bee I thk somethg like 70% of the Amerin public supports gay marriage, ” she said. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.