They lived a 'double life' for s. Now, the gay elrs are tellg their stori.

Contents:

• CLOSETEDGAY STORI
• THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.
• FEATURED ROMANCE STORI
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI

CLOSETEDGAY STORI

Funny and erotic, Benjam tells a memorable story on a mimal budget—one which will feel very te to life to many gay viewers.

We want to give a special shout-out to The Capote Tap, director Ebs Burnough’s documentary about Tman Capote’s lost fal novel; The Obuary of Tun Johnson, the story of an Ain-Amerin gay man relivg his own ath over and over; Breakg Fast, the Haaz Sleiman-led queer romantic edy (which jt picked up the prtig Audience Award at aGLIFF, no ls), and Cured, a fascatg new documentary about the queer activists who lobbied the APA to classify homosexualy as an illns. Ite so basilly I hate my town and I'm jt wrg bout da "hood" niggas dat I knw are gay on da low???. He was rponsible for preparg discharge and reassignment paperwork, and sometim he would have to dishonorably discharge men for beg gay.

“At that time I realized that I was gay, and was jt difficult to know that people were beg discharged for the same thg that I was my life.

THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.

”“What bothered me the most was havg to talk to the guys that were beg discharged, and they were not a good state of wellns anyway, bee at that time, was illegal or nsired mental problems to be gay, ” he Cunngham, 82, and Richard Prtt, 78, have llectively spent 115 years the closet. Godss Magora Kennedy, who participated the Stonewall uprisg, and Pl Barby, who ran for Congrs as an openly gay man 1996 and 1998. ”Livg a 'double life'Cunngham said he realized he was gay as a teenager, but he didn’t know the word “gay” at the time — he jt knew he was different.

Begng the late 1960s, many stat crimalized homosexualy through sodomy laws.

The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn also classified homosexualy as a mental disorr the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs until 1973, when that classifitn was replaced wh “sexual orientatn disturbance. ” Homosexualy was pletely removed om the manual 1987, but many stat still had sodomy laws on their books until 2003, when the Supreme Court led such laws unnstutnal.

FEATURED ROMANCE STORI

You'd have a lbian iend wh you, or they would have a gay man on their arm or somethg, and was a way of hidg.

”Cunngham and Prtt met the mid-'90s while workg for a b pany, but they still didn’t e out bee, acrdg to Cunngham, “If you were gay, you were not promoted. And then when you get olr you see the gay pri gog on and people totally enjoyg themselv....

Rearch published the journal The Gerontologist last fall found that lbian, gay and bisexual people have a higher risk of mentia and gnive cle than heterosexual people as they grow olr. The study’s thors found that the creased risk was partially due to higher rat of prsn that olr LGBTQ people experience due to workplace discrimatn, shame and other stigma associated wh their stigma still persists, but the elrs and producers behd “Not Another Send” hope their project n help, even if jt a small Cooper lived her whole life as an openly gay woman New York Cy.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Karsten ThormaehlenOne of the elrs featured the exhib, Lujira Cooper, 72, lived nearly her whole life as an openly gay woman. Somerville was a llege town, which meant was overn wh gays and open-md tellectuals that never qutned who I was.

My parents and I still have our ep, plited, and religly rooted issu around my gayns. Sce practilly fancy, I've been lled gay. This isn't to say that I'm not gay or that I felt forced to my sexualy.

I liked girlish activi, but I didn't know that meant I was gay. I image my iends watchg He-Man, and sudnly there's a flash of heavenly light, out of which appears a betiful faerie wh a msage om on high, "Gurl, you're gay! I remember even thkg at the time, "Oh this is gay.

SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI

Even a lot of the gay men I knew weren't exactly nice, and I wonred if I would ever fd . The wrer Christopher Isherwood once said, and I'm paraphrasg, but that homosexualy uldn't be narrowly fed around the sex act. Many people n have gay sex, whout seeg themselv as gay.

To tly be a homosexual, one had to fall love wh members of their own sex. Even there, I heard the "bi-now, gay-later" sort of ments, but I was tryg to be a ltle kr to myself.

I was for all tents and purpos a gay person, but I thk there was still a sense of hatn, still the smallt b of crge when I said those three words, "I am gay. I didn't know the terms "gay" or "queer. It was such a taboo subject that people would jt pretend homosexualy didn't even exist.