Why are gays more e-iendly? | Grist

Contents:

• WHY ARE GAYS MORE E-IENDLY?
• IS JALEN GREEN GAY? VIRAL VIO LEADS THE NBA WORLD TO QUTN HOTON ROCKETS STAR’S SEXUALY
• DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN—BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS
• GREEN GAY
• GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’

WHY ARE GAYS MORE E-IENDLY?

It was created 1977 by Gilbert Baker, an artist, activist, and openly gay ary veteran. As the mand for the flag started to rise after the assassatn of gay San Francis Cy Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978.

The addn of black and brown strip to the tradnal pri flag symbolized people of lor, who historilly were not always clud aspects of the mastream gay rights movement.

The way that bisexual people n blend to the straight muny and the gay muny.

IS JALEN GREEN GAY? VIRAL VIO LEADS THE NBA WORLD TO QUTN HOTON ROCKETS STAR’S SEXUALY

For example, someone uld be gay one day, then be asexual the next, then polysexual the next. Gay Men’s Pri Flag.

DC FALLY STS GAY GREEN LANTERN—BUT RAIS NEW QUTNS

The Gay Men’s Pri Flag is another lser known pri flag. This morn gay men’s pri flag is a revamp of an earlier gay men’s pri flag that featured a range of blue ton.

The updated flag is meant to be clive of a much wi range of gay men, cludg but not limed to transgenr, tersex, and genr nonnformg men. The term is scribed as a rponse to gay pri adopted by var groups (later uned unr the moniker LGBT) the early 1970s, or to the acmodatns provid to gay pri iativ.

The Straight Ally flag is g the black-whe "lors" of the heterosexual flag as a field, adds a large rabow lored "A" (for "Ally") to dite straight support for the Gay Pri/Equal Marriage movement.

GREEN GAY

A straight ally or heterosexual ally is a heterosexual and/or cisgenr person who supports equal civil rights, genr equaly, LGBT social movements, and challeng homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. Out and about to save the Jason PierA recent poll says gays and lbians are more likely to support the environment, pecially when votg or shoppg, and a bigger percentage say they re about staabily. Echelon Magaze reported siar fdgs 2009: 33 percent of LGBT adults had seen or read An Innvenient Tth, pared to 20 percent of heterosexuals, and 75 percent of gays believe global warmg is happeng right now (vers 53 percent of straight adults).

So why are the gays greener?

For starters, gay rights and climate change are both human rights issu. Kathleen Connell wr San Diego Gay & Lbian News, “Our own hampered civil and personal liv mirrors [sic] a disregard for our home pla, which is crisis om a century of abe.

GREEN LANTERN COM OUT AS GAY ‘EARTH TWO’

The Advote Senr Edor Neal Broverman says, “Gay and lbian people vote progrsively, so seems natural that they would live progrsively — like beg ‘green, ’ for example. Krist Rso of Everyone Is Gay told Grist, “Dpe the fact that ‘gog green’ may not be directly related to issu of sexualy, advotg for change is somethg wh which many the LGBTQ muny have experience.

Michael Jensen, edor of After Elton, says, “Growg up gay folks to look at the world om the perspective of … beg an outsir. We realize how thoughtls actns — like droppg a homophobic remark whout thkg about — n hurt a person. Green and Gay, a brand-new se highlightg green products om pani supportg LGBT rights.

8% of gay, lbian, and bisexual adolcents serly ntemplated attemptg suici. After the former Mayor of San Francis Dan Whe shot and murred Harvey Milk—who served as one of the first openly gay members of the San Francis Board of Supervisors—Baker set out to rate the Gay Freedom Day Para 1978 wh as many rabow flags as possible to brg attentn to that and several other tragedi. SALT LAKE CITY — Troy Williams, the head of Equaly Utah and once dubbed the unofficial “gay mayor of Salt Lake Cy, ” was still absorbg the news as he ma his way downtown to the opulent Grand Ameri hotel.