Serial killer doceri 'Last Call' reckons wh NYC's history of anti-gay vlence

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• SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
• ‘BOOK OF QUEER’ CREATOR ERIC CERVI TEACH LGBTQ HISTORY, LIKE HOW ABRAHAM LLN MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY

SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE

It has also, perhaps most importantly, been a platform to tell stori that have ma gay, lbian, bisexual, trans, queer, tersex, and more people feel ls alone the world – to know there is a big and varied muny to which they belong. They did so by beg the first work superhero TV show wh an LGBTQ+ lead (actrs and character), as is the se of the CW’s Batwoman, or featurg some of the earlit recurrg gay characters on Amerin TV, like Vcent Schiavelli’s Peter Panama on the short-lived The Corner Bar, or Billy Crystal’s Jodie Dallas on Soap. In this sectn you’ll also fd the first Disney Channel show to feature a gay ma character (Andi Mack), the first animated show to feature a same-sex marriage proposal (Steven Universe), and Pose, which broke ground wh s diverse, largely transgenr st, and for beg the seri on which Ja Mock beme the first transgenr woman of lor to direct and wre an episo of televisn.

Season two of the seri (which featur a gay character named Lizzy, Nadia's bt iend played by out actrs Rebec Henrson) will see Nadia and Alan as they enunter another time portal and go on "an ever-expandg, era-spanng, tergeneratnal adventure. The highly-anticipated, live-actn adaptatn of Alice Oseman's beloved romantic, gay teen g-of-age graphic novel seri of the same name tells the story of "gentle Charlie and gby-lovg Nick" who "meet at sendary school and quickly disver that their unlikely iendship is blossomg to an unexpected romance. More than three s after a serial killer began preyg upon gay and bisexual men at bars New York Cy, the victims and their fai, as well as the activists who fought to brg the elive murrer to jtice, are the subjects of a four-part doceri that premier Sunday on HBO and Max.

Rogers was acquted a nonjury trial a few months leadg their own vtigatn to the victims wh sensivy, the creative team wanted to “peel back the onn of homophobia” by creatg the faiar feelg of most te-crime documentari — and then addg a queer twist, Caronna said. "By the time we get to 1973, I hope we set up enough so that the dience go, ‘Oh, my God, this is jt another example of extreme homophobia that allowed the murrs to keep happeng, ’” he said.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

Gertler said one of the big them of “Last Call” is “the way that stutnalized homophobia and transphobia works, and that was one of the most horrifyg thgs [they disvered] when we were dog our own diggg and reportg to the circumstanc around the 1973 murr and trial and the 1988 asslt and trial. Anthony Corbett Sullivan, a gay man and Atralian cizen livg the Uned Stat the early 1970s, challenged the Immigratn and Naturalizatn Service’s (INS) efforts to port him, first based on his claim that he would be persecuted for his sexualy Atralia; and later based on his same-sex marriage to his partner Richard Frank Adams, which was performed 1975 Colorado, a state that issued marriage licens to gay upl at the time. Includ here are photopi of approximately 2, 200 documents om FBI Headquarters and var regnal offic, relatg primarily to the Dghters of Bilis, Gay Activists Alliance, Gay Liberatn Front, and the Mattache Society, addn to x, summari, and var statistil analys of the documents.

One highlight is the extensive selectn of natnal and lol newsletters om Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG), the largt support group for fai, iends, and alli of LGBT people. A few exampl of the ntent this archive offers clus newsletters that document the Gay Gam, an Olympic-style athletic event; newsletters om profsnal groups like the Bay Area Network of Gay and Lbian Edutors (BANGLE), Bay Area Career Women, and the Goln Gate Bs Associatn; newsletters om the Metropolan Communy Church (MCC) San Francis, the first church wh a primary, posive mistry to the LGBT muny. Groups like Lavenr Senrs of the East Bay, SAGE (Senrs Active a Gay Environment), and the Prime Timers (an ternatnal anizatn for homosexual men over 40) reprent the effects of mographic shifts and agg on the LGBT populatn.

‘BOOK OF QUEER’ CREATOR ERIC CERVI TEACH LGBTQ HISTORY, LIKE HOW ABRAHAM LLN MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY

Documents the llectn prent rearch and statistics that track levels of discrimatn agast people wh a homosexual orientatn, LGBTQ muni' awarens of their rights, the numbers of same-sex upl, fai/parents, sexual behavr patterns, and much more. Policy and legislative documents ver ccial legislatn to drive the Gay Rights Movement forward, cludg the legalizatn of male and female homosexualy; implementatn of same-sex marriage legislatn; approach to tacklg sexualy-based discrimatn and harassment; and monorg LGBTQ rights, particularly for asylum seekers jurisdictns where the tradn or relig beliefs rult the persecutn of the muni. Jim Kepner (1923–1997) was a wrer, historian, and activist who found the Wtern Gay Archiv (later renamed the Natnal Gay Archiv and then the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Archiv).

Rearchers will also fd Kepner’s extensive rrponnce fil, class material for urs he tght gay and lbian studi, and mut and anizatnal material for the many anizatns which he participated throughout his life.