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• GAY HISTORY: JUNE 14, 2004 – THE GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF CORAL SEA ISLANDS IS FOUND OFF THE COAST OF ATRALIA
• GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS
• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
• SHARED WORKPLACE EXPERIENC OF LBIAN AND GAY POLICE OFFICERS THE UNED KGDOM
• THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM

GAY HISTORY: JUNE 14, 2004 – THE GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF CORAL SEA ISLANDS IS FOUND OFF THE COAST OF ATRALIA

Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L. She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance.

GAY & LBIAN KGDOM OF THE CORAL SEA ISLANDS

In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s.

Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy. Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr.

Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic. It was Washgton — not Bethda, Md., where is we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the New York edn wh the headle: Lilli Vcenz, a Trailblazer the Gay Rights Movement, Di at 85.

GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

Most famoly the UK, this harmful rhetoric was prent Sectn 28 the 1988 Lol Government Act which stated, ‘a lol thory shall not … promote the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy’ (Department of Edutn and Science.

‘The kids were like, ‘oh, wow, wow, ’ you know, and then I'll be hont wh you like a lot of the kids kd of turned agast me … I would get ments like ‘fuck off, you lbian’ … so I went there [to the headteacher] and I basilly told her what happened and all she said to me was, ‘have you told them you're gay’ and I looked at her and I went, ‘do that matter’ and she said, ‘if you're gonna broadst that, then obvly you're gog to have to expect that’. I like to thk that he probably wasn't super on-board wh gay people, he got to know me as a b of a weird teacher but kd of a nice kd of person, he found out later and I hope that that ma a posive impact on him rather than someone beg like, "Oh 's okay to be gay. *Government lays ban for five years*Prsure on Sunak to act*LGBTQ+ activists fear loophol*Campaigners divid over trans rightsBy Lucy MiddletonLONDON, July 20 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - When Alex me out as gay, the 15-year-old’s parents issued a stark ultimatum: unrgo nversn therapy or clear out of the fay home the northern English cy of chose optn one and unrwent multiple ssns wh elrs om the fay’s Jehovah’s Wns ngregatn, seekg a ‘cure’ for homosexualy.

SHARED WORKPLACE EXPERIENC OF LBIAN AND GAY POLICE OFFICERS THE UNED KGDOM

A ernment survey showed that more than half of Brons who had tried nversn therapy were offered through a relig group, almost 12% were signposted by a health re Ozanne, a gay evangelil her 50s who chairs the UK’s Ban Conversn Therapy Coaln, sought treatment her 20s and 30s, after fallg love wh a procs led to hospal admissn for a nervo breakdown. 6 was circulated, the ernment said the rmatn would provi evince about equali to tackle discrimatn and improve cisns ma about health re, tn, employment, hog and social servic for lbian, gay and bisexual people.

However, prev surveys found 16-24-year-olds are more likely to intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, and recent years there has been a small gradual cle the number of people intifyg as exclively straight. An outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, Abetz suggted that the flags of anti-gay groups like the Marriage Alliance should also hang alongsi the rabow flag, which he scribed as an activist symbol of a "polil mpaign.

"By way of some slight humor on this issue, this particular flag, you will realize, is the flag of the Gay and Lbian Kgdom of the Coral Sea Islands, " said Abetz, smirkg as he shuffled a stack of papers. "The senator was referrg to a ragtag troupe of radil gay activists who, June 2004, claimed an archipelago of ty unhabed islands as their newly formed kgdom—a vast, 300, 000-square-e external terrory of Atralia that's jt off the ast of by their emperor, Dale Parker Anrson, they set out on a ship dubbed the "Gayflower" and sailed for 200 ntil to the Coral Sea Islands Terrory. Upon landfall, Anrson and his ras planted the rabow flag, their chosen natnal emblem, on ty Cato Island, where they set up a post office, erected a monument and selected Gloria Gaynor's "I Am What I Am" as the natnal anthem.

THE GAY AND LBIAN KGDOM

Even so, the Gay and Lbian Kgdom may fact reprent the first terrorial claim of sovereignty by an LGBTQ group for an pennt gay 'd be easy to wre this seemgly absurd pennce movement off as a creative brand of direct-actn prott—a silly stunt to garner prs for the e. Yet 's a le of thought that has existed LGBTQ liberatn sce s earlit days, maniftg everythg om a radil proposal to take over a California unty to lbian-only mun to ltle-known groups prently lobbyg for an pennt gay as longstandg tensn wh the LGBTQ muny between social assiatn and separatism—that is, the bate over whether queer people should try to blend wh the rt of society or reject society outright—ntu to churn, the roots and history of queer natnalism seem as relevant as of the rnerstone exampl of a queer natnalist state is known rmally as Stonewall Natn, a 1970 plan to tablish a separatist gay muny Alpe County, a mountao and ral rner of northern California, which, at the time, had 384 registered voters. Historian Lillian Farman, thor of the prehensive gay liberatn overview The Gay Revolutn, told me that some supporters genuely yearned for a sort of gay natn wh a natn; others saw as a prs ploy to monstrate that the gay and lbian movement had teeth.

As the Cologne, Germany-based executive officer of the Gay Homeland Foundatn, which he scrib as a "thk tank" for queer natnalism, he's ma headl of his own for promotg the ia of an pennt gay precisely would such a state look like? Thankfully, there's a proven PR method the queer natnalist's bag of tricks: board the Gayflower, blast Gloria Gaynor and sail straight to the Sunday pag while beltg out the words of the anthem: "Why not try to see thgs om a different angle?

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments.

Most people who uld nventnally be regard as beg on an ‘ageg trajectory’ (aged 50+), if not ‘olr’ per se, were born at a time where male homosexualy was, effect, crimalised, and where social and legislative ndns permted discrimatn across a wi spectm of domas for men and women om sexual mori. For LGBT people, and gay men particular, a theory of ‘accelerated ageg’ ntends that olr age is perceived as beg reached at a much younger pot than for heterosexual men (Schope, Reference Schope2005), and some studi of ‘olr’ gay men follow su, imposg relatively young thrholds on studi of olr gay men (Hugh and Dtsch, Reference Hugh and Dtsch2010). Gay men aged over 40 are ls likely than younger gay men to take re of their sexual health (Williamson et al., Reference Williamson, Flowers, Knsen and Hart2009), ls likely to have been tted for HIV/AIDS (Williamson and Hart, Reference Williamson and Hart2007; Knsen et al., Reference Knsen, Flowers and McDaid2014) and ls willg to take a tt (Munro et al., Reference Munro, Lowns, Daniels, Sullivan and Robson2007).

Figure 1 monstrat that earlier lerature foced on gay men and HIV/AIDS, before movg to clu exploratns of olr lbian liv; more recent lerature has foced on inty and muny and the relatnship wh health, as well as the way which age-related transns such as bereavement n terpt the relatnships.

Siarly, several acunts Clover (Reference Clover2006: 46) reflected hostile experienc that olr gay men faced their teractns wh health-re provirs, wh one man scribg a vis to his GP after a bereavement of a partner: ‘He simply told me that if I don't feel life's worth livg that's up to me what I do, which mak you feel you're worth about half a farthg, que hontly’. Two of the studi emphasised that gay and bisexual men rema at risk of ntractg HIV/AIDS even at olr age, nfoundg earlier clil wisdom (Hargreav et al., Reference Hargreav, Fuller and Gazzard1988), wh Elford et al. Several studi reported that olr people anticipated or experienced active homophobia re settgs (Smh, Reference Smh1992; Heaphy et al., Reference Heaphy, Yip and Thompson2004; Almack et al., Reference Almack, Seymour and Bellamy2010; Phillips and Knocker, Reference Phillips and Knocker2010; Guasp, Reference Guasp2011; Lawrence and Cross, Reference Lawrence and Cross2013; Wtwood, Reference Wtwood2016, Reference Wtwood2017b, Reference Wtwood2017c; Willis et al., Reference Willis, Maegu-Hewett, Rahby and Mil2016; Kg and Stoneman, Reference Kg and Stoneman2017; McParland and Camic, Reference McParland and Camic2018).

Some studi suggted that the social works of olr lbian and gay people were stctured differently pared to those of non-LGBT people which may crease the risk of requirg formal, as opposed to rmal, re (Heaphy and Yip, Reference Heaphy and Yip2003; Almack et al., Reference Almack, Seymour and Bellamy2010; Kg and Stoneman, Reference Kg and Stoneman2017; Wtwood, Reference Wtwood2017b). Lawrence and Cross (Reference Lawrence and Cross2013) found this to be a mon aspiratn among olr HIV-posive gay men; meanwhile Trai (Reference Trai2016) found that the overwhelmg majory of olr lbian women her rearch (posed of a large sample of 350+) were posive about lbian-only re hom, ntrast to the highly negative ratgs given for mixed hom. Studi nsirg the provisn of home re also suggted that genr and sexual inty of visg rers was important for many olr LGBT people, although this differed across the spectm, wh olr gay men likely to place more importance on the sexualy of their rer than their genr, while olr lbian women placed greater importance on the genr of their rer than sexualy (Kg and Stoneman, Reference Kg and Stoneman2017).