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- QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- TWO CHECHEN GAY MEN 'MORTAL DANGER' AFTER ARRT RSIA
QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
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His Southern drawl was as distctive a part of his résumé as his Jordan said he knew om early life that he was gay — he liked to say that he went directly om his mother’s womb to her high heels and had been “on the prance ever sce. Richard Perry/The New York TimAs he wrote his book “My Trip Down the Pk Carpet” (2008), he knew that beg gay might not help his prospects Hollywood.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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TWO CHECHEN GAY MEN 'MORTAL DANGER' AFTER ARRT RSIA
” For many, Jordan was a symbol of the joy of unqutnably visible queerns — of reclaimg and rejoicg long-held stereotyp about the feme affects of gay men. We apologize, this vio has was a teenager as the gay rights movement started to pick up steam. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, amid the Stonewall uprisg and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s removal of homosexualy om s official list of mental disorrs, he was g to terms wh his inty as Amerins’ ias about sexualy were also startg to change.
Gay men like Jordan, born om 1946 to 1964 and classified as baby boomers, were h the harst at the peak of the crisis, om the late ’80s and throughout the ’90s. 6 ln gay men ag 25 to 44 had died. ”The AIDS epimic, and the Reagan admistratn’s failed rponse to , played a role the rise to promence of already well-tablished LGBTQ enclav, which some referred to as “gayborhoods, ” larger urban areas the ’80s and ’90s.
Socializatn among gay men and gay-centric works, particularly gay neighborhoods, has myriad polil and social benefs.