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Contents:

• THE 25 HOLLYWOOD STARS WHO WENT GAY FOR PAY
• IS “GAY FOR PAY” PASSé?
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• I’M NOT A LESBIAN!! GAY FOR PAY...
• GAY-FOR-PAY: STRAIGHT MEN AND THE MAKG OF GAY PORNOGRAPHY
• WHAT DO THE GAY WAGE GAP MEAN FOR LGBTQ+ FAI?
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+)
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
• THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR COMMUNY CENTER SALARI
• GAY FOR PAY STRAIGHT MEN
• VICTORY! EQUAL PAY FOR LBIAN AND GAY VETERANS

THE 25 HOLLYWOOD STARS WHO WENT GAY FOR PAY

Lbian / gay women earned approximately $962 a week – equivalent to that of Whe LGBTQ+ women, and higher than LGBTQ+ women as a whole. Though they still face a wage gap, earng 87 cents for every dollar earned by the average man, this wage gap is smaller than that seen for women as a whole, suggtg a potential protective effect of beg lbian or gay, relative to other sexual inti.

IS “GAY FOR PAY” PASSé?

The fdg that the wage gap was smallt for lbian/gay women persisted across race/ethnicy: for each racial/ethnic group, the wage gap experienced by lbian/gay women was smaller than that for same-race/ethnicy women of any other sexual inty. This was most apparent for AANHPI lbian/gay women, who were the only group to outearn men, earng $1200 a week–or $1.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

Whe lbian/gay women, though earng ls than the average man, still outearned LGBTQ+ women, reportg a median wage of $1000 – translatg to a smaller wage gap than LGBTQ+ women and U.

I’M NOT A LESBIAN!! GAY FOR PAY...

Black lbian/gay women also outearned LGBTQ+ women, though to a lser gree than Whe lbian/gay women, reportg a median wage of $950, or 86 cents for every dollar earned by a man.

Lata lbian/gay women were the only group to not outearn LGBTQ+ women, reportg a median wage of $720– 65 cents for every dollar earned by a man. As wh bisexual+ women, the racial/ethnic wage dispari seen for LGBTQ+ women overall persisted among queer, pan, mi, and omnisexual (QPDO) women, though wage gaps were much smaller than that seen for bisexual+ women (though not as small as gaps seen for lbian/gay women).

GAY-FOR-PAY: STRAIGHT MEN AND THE MAKG OF GAY PORNOGRAPHY

Man, a much larger wage gap than that observed for lbian or gay women (87 cents) and QPDO women (81 cents).

In parison, Black LGBTQ+ women’s wag ranged om $700/week (Black bisexual+ women) to $950/week (Black lbian/gay women). Intifyg as lbian/gay, on the other hand, was associated wh higher weekly earngs relative to LGBTQ+ women broadly, as well as both bisexual and QPDO women. For Whe lbian/gay women, the wage gap was even smaller, droppg to 90 cents on the dollar, highlightg how even wh LGBTQ+ women, tersectg spher of privilege ( this se, a majory racial/ethnic inty and, seemgly, a lbian/gay sexual inty) n nfer enomic secury.

QPDO woman, reportg a median weekly wage of $896, earned ls than workg lbian and gay women, but more than bisexual+ women, translatg to a wage gap of 81 cents for every dollar earned by the average U. There are many lbian/gay women livg poverty and facg high levels of stigma and discrimatn, even as lbian/gay women as a whole report higher wag than LGBTQ+ women of other sexual inti. PkNews has piled all a list of all the Hollywood stars who have gone “gay for pay” on the big screen.

WHAT DO THE GAY WAGE GAP MEAN FOR LGBTQ+ FAI?

Phoenix appears as gay htler Mike Waters, who suffers om narlepsy the loose adaptn of Shakpeare’s “Henry IV”. Hanks won the Amy Award for Bt Actor for his role “Philalphia” as Andrew Beckett, a closeted gay lawyer who ntracts AIDS.

It was one of the first mastream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV and AIDS and the impact had on homophobia and the LGBT muny. In this 1993 edy-drama, Smh plays Pl, a gay n-artist who works his way around the Upper East Si wh his charmg charisma. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays gay thor Tman Capote the bgraphil film about his time wrg the book ‘Cold Blood’.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+)

Cumberbatch plays Alan Turg the loose bgraphil film about the gay mathematician who ciphered the enigma durg the war. Luckily, we are livg a more open time and there are many wonrful actors and actrs embracg gay characters for the same reasons that we love them: They have important stori to tell.

Bee we see straight sex scen all the time, we’ve seen gay sex scen before, and I don’t know why a gay sex scene should be anymore shockg that a straight sex scene. Instead of seeg playg a gay character as a “challenge, ” actrs like Ldsey Shaw (Paige) and Shay Mchell (Ey) on Pretty Ltle Liars take great pri and rponsibily playg well-round characters, who happen to be gay. Recently, Shay Mchell spoke wh Teen Vogue about the fact that some people assume she’s gay bee she plays a lbian character.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Why is important to ask if Jennifer Beals if she is gay or not to know that we loved her performance as Bette Porter The L Word? I want our stori to be told wh tegry, and the actors who play those parts, gay or otherwise, to be treated wh rpect.

Rights Vcenz rryg a plard prottg the ary’s ban on gay people while picketg the Pentagon July 1965.

EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS

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. 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.

THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR COMMUNY CENTER SALARI

“Be wh gay people, help the movement, help unmask the li beg told about , rrect the notn of homosexualy as a sickns and prent as is, a betiful way to love. In 1969, she and another activist, Nancy Tucker, spun off a newspaper of their own, The Gay Bla, which beme the Washgton Bla, the untry’s olst L. 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. “The whole notn of gay people publicly exprsg their sentiments that fashn was beyond nceptualizatn until we started dog , ” the Mattache Society’s -founr, Frankl E.

GAY FOR PAY STRAIGHT MEN

”Her send film, “Gay and Proud, ” documented the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Para 1970, a memoratn of the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg Manhattan. The uprisg, after a police raid at Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village, was a turng pot the gay rights movement. “Gay and Proud” shows a much larger, and shaggier, gatherg of protters takg a more ant stance the para, chantg fiantly and wavg plards wh msag like “I am a lbian and I am betiful.

Vcenz’s films “gave visual documentatn of the astonishg distance that the gay movement had traveled between 1968 and 1970. “I fd a privilege to work wh gay people, ” she PrsLilli Marie Vcenz was born Hamburg, Germany, on Sept. J., Vcenz regnized her sexualy early on, she said a 2008 terview, and “ beme paful after a while to realize that I was gay and I didn’t know anyone else who was gay.

VICTORY! EQUAL PAY FOR LBIAN AND GAY VETERANS

But after a stt as an edor the book publishg dtry, she cid to jo the Army, part bee she had heard was “a hotbed of gay people, ” acrdg to Ms. Farman’s putative hotbed, however, had a policy banng gay people om service, and she was thrown out while trag as a nropsychiatric technician at the Walter Reed ary hospal the 1970s, Dr.

Vcenz ran a weekly discsn ssn lled the Gay Women’s Open Hoe, which functned as a marketplace of ias and sanctuary of sorts for lbians the Washgton area.

“I fd a privilege to work wh gay people who are, general, so much more urageo, novative and open to new ias than the average straight person, ” she told Gay Today. 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. ‘Oh no I got my parents to The Crowd Room and I’ve jt learned that one of my theori is rrect and we will ed be seeg Tom Holland a gay sex scene.