"He set a new standard for what the image of what a gay porn star should look like."
Contents:
- DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
- 1000S WHO DIED ANTI-GAY, ANTI-TRANS ATTACKS (UPDAT)
DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
Jam Bidgood, the filmmaker behd the unrground gay classic Pk Narciss, died January at age 88.
It picted the fantasi of a young gay sex worker, played by Bobby Kendall, Bidgood’s roommate. In 1980, Maison was the top legal fenr of gay men arrted for "public lewdns" a police stg the prev year at Village Statn.
Kantrowz was “an early champn of gay rights and an fatigable mpaigner for fairer treatment of gay people by the media, ” the Tim not.
1000S WHO DIED ANTI-GAY, ANTI-TRANS ATTACKS (UPDAT)
Mass, a founr of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, lled Kantrowz “a te sage and champn. ”He beme vice print of the Gay Activists Alliance, one of the first groups found the wake of the Stonewall rts, 1970.
That was also the year he me to terms wh beg gay, acrdg to the Tim. He helped found GLAAD, then known as the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, was a profsor the English partment at the Cy Universy of New York’s College of Staten Island om 1965 to 2006, and while there he created one of the first gay studi urs the natn.
He promoted the work of Walt Whman and other gay 1977 he published a memoir, Unr the Rabow: Growg Up Gay, which he chronicled the difficulti he and other gay people faced mid-century Ameri. He also scribed events the gay rights movement, cludg New York Cy’s first Pri march. Much later, 2009, he was grand marshal of the Staten Island Gay Pri was a ntemporary and iend of many fellow activists, cludg Vo Rso, thor of The Celluloid Closet.