CMI's LGBT Consumer Inx is a prehensive and mographilly reprentative LGBT nsumer study wh over 30,000 survey participants. This report explor motivatns, preferenc and sensivi, and tracks nsumer trends the gay and lbian market.
Contents:
- HOW ‘GREEN BOOK’ GIV SHORT SHRIFT TO A GAY LIFE
- GAY CLUB!
- GAY & LBIAN CONSUMER INX STUDY
- GAY AND LBIAN TOURISM STUDY
HOW ‘GREEN BOOK’ GIV SHORT SHRIFT TO A GAY LIFE
The film’s treatment of Don Shirley’s sexualy beli the difficult reali that gay men of lor like Jsie Smollett face to this day. * gay green book *
The scene as a shock: Shirley has been largely solo most of the film, and there is no ditn until then that he is eher gay (ed, there is mentn of a past marriage to a woman) or bisexual. Tony dit he’s acceptg of gay people om his time workg New York nightclubs. A few weeks ago Jsie Smollett, a star of the Fox show “Empire” and a sger-songwrer, was hospalized after he was attacked Chigo by two men shoutg racial and homophobic slurs at him, acrdg to a police statement.
(Ined other lbian, gay and trans people of lor face siar threats. And by not explorg Shirley’s lived experience, the film allows to move past the threat that he, Smollett and others aren’t many black and gay characters popular films and shows today.
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U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.” * gay green book *
Wh that drama wng the Amy Award for bt picture jt two years ago (and wh Ali wng bt supportg actor for his role as a sympathetic adult a gay black boy’s life), “Green Book” feels like a Shirley’s fay has been outspoken about how the film mischaracteriz him and his relatnship to them. The two had met 1980 and grew close 1995, when both were volved addrsg a divisive Smhsonian exhib of the Enola Gay, the plane that released Oppenheimer’s bomb over Hiroshima Augt of 1945.
Prime Mister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednday for the treatment of gay veterans, sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U. ”The apology me after an pennt review published Wednday timated that hundreds, if not thoands, of veterans were dismissed or suffered unr an official ban on homosexualy the U.
“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told Parliament. It documented the effects of what lled “an prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry our armed forc.
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Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said. Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holm, who had served the Brish army and who me out as gay last year, said meant “a huge amount” to hear the ernment apology.
“From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.
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