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Contents:

• WILLIAM RUF KG: FIRST GAY U.S. VICE PRINT?
• RUF WAWRIGHT ON JUDY GARLAND AT 100 AND WHY SHE’S THE ULTIMATE GAY IN
• RUF GAY
• RUF PICKS HIS GAY INS
• RUF LEHMAN GAY
• RUF WAWRIGHT: GAY SGER-SONGWRER UNFOLLOWS THE L

WILLIAM RUF KG: FIRST GAY U.S. VICE PRINT?

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RUF WAWRIGHT ON JUDY GARLAND AT 100 AND WHY SHE’S THE ULTIMATE GAY IN

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›Gay Man Ruf Gifford Confirmed as State Department Protol Chief ›. Google Jam Buchanan and you evably disver the assertn that Amerin history has clared him to be the first gay print.

RUF GAY

It don’t take much longer to disver that the popular unrstandg of Jam Buchanan as our natn’s first gay print riv om his relatnship wh one man particular: William Ruf DeVane Kg of Alabama. Was each man “gay, ” or somethg else?

And why do Amerins seem fixated on makg Buchanan our first gay print?

In the sh to make new meang of the past, I have e to unrstand why today has bee rigr to nsir Buchanan our first gay print. But by then, an unrstandg of homosexualy as a sexual inty and orientatn had begun to take hold among the general public. The media soon ught wd of the ia that we may have had a “gay print.

RUF PICKS HIS GAY INS

” In the November 1987 issue of Penthoe Magaze, New York gossip lumnist Sharon Churcher noted the fdg an article headled “Our First Gay Print, Out of the Closet, Fally. Updike creatively imaged the boardghoe life of Buchanan and Kg, but he admted to fdg few “trac of homosexual passn. This leav today wh the popular nceptn of Jam Buchanan as our first gay print.

Centuri of reprsn of homosexualy the Uned Stat has erased untls number of Amerins om the story of LGBT history.

RUF LEHMAN GAY

More than anythg else, this impulse explas why Amerins have transformed Jam Buchanan to our first gay print.

Worse still, movg Buchanan and Kg om iends to lovers blocks the way for a person today to assume the proper mantle of beg our first gay print. The State Department’s openly gay chief of protol on Monday announced he is leavg his post. Jsi Stern reerated nmnatn of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexualy Act.

She once aga nmned Uganda’s Anti-Homosexualy Act that Print Yoweri Meveni signed May. The bill ntas a ath penalty provisn for “aggravated homosexualy” and crimaliz the “promotn of homosexualy” wh up to 20 years prison.

RUF WAWRIGHT: GAY SGER-SONGWRER UNFOLLOWS THE L

“One might argue that a meetg like this uld be labelled promotn of homosexualy and we uld all be held crimally liable for beg this nference room today, ” said Stern. “[The Anti-Homosexualy Act] clus a duty to report clse that would require doctors, landlords and even fay members to report anyone that they have reason to spect is homosexual and that basilly creat a surveillance state for all LGBTQI+ persons jt for beg, ” she add.

Stern said the Anti-Homosexualy Act and siar laws around the world nta provisns that “are tentnally and explicly vague bee the goal is not to keep anyone safe om LGBTQI+ people. Has imposed visa rtrictns agast Ugandan officials after Meveni signed their untry’s Anti-Homosexualy Act. Country’s print on May 29 signed Anti-Homosexualy Act.

Has imposed visa rtrictns agast Ugandan officials after the untry’s print signed the Anti-Homosexualy Act. The statement, however, noted Ugandan “dividuals believed to be rponsible for, or plic , unrmg the mocratic procs Uganda” and specifilly referenced human rights ab agast LGBTQ and tersex people and the Anti-Homosexualy Act. Ugandan Print Yoweri Meveni on May 29 signed the Anti-Homosexualy Act, which ntas a ath penalty provisn for “aggravated homosexualy.

April 25 letter c need to asss Anti-Homosexualy Act impacts.

Officials have postponed a Uganda PEPFAR meetg orr to asss the Anti-Homosexualy Act's impact on the program.

Amerin officials have postponed a meetg on the Print’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief’s work Uganda orr to asss the potential impact the untry’s Anti-Homosexualy Act will have on .

“In light of the recent velopments wh the potential signg of the Anti-Homosexualy Act (AHA) and how that uld impact our abily to provi servic and assistance, I have ma the cisn to postpone the Fal COP Prentatn meetg prevly schled for April 28, ” he wrote. Ugandan MPs March passed the Anti-Homosexualy Act. The bill, among other thgs, would impose the ath penalty upon anyone nvicted of “aggrevated homosexualy.

Noted the Anti-Homosexualy Act “will hamper the already stgglg efforts terms of eraditg HIV. Expert on LGBTQ and tersex issu, are among those who have sharply cricized the Anti-Homosexualy Act.

Envoy for the promotn of LGBTQ and tersex rights abroad, last month durg a panel wh four Ugandan activists the Center for Strategic and Internatnal Studi hosted said the Bin-Harris admistratn is “vtg the potential impact of the Anti-Homosexualy Act on U. Tra Reprentative Kathere Tai and Secretary of State Antony Blken on April 25 asked them to rensir Uganda’s participatn the Ain Growth and Opportuny Act if the Anti-Homosexualy Act be law.