"Freedom Fighters: The Ray," an animated seri wh a gay superhero as the leadg character, is g to digal channel CW Seed next year.
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- CW TRODUC FIRST SHOW WH A GAY SUPERHERO – FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY
- CW SEED TO LNCH ‘FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY’ WH FIRST GAY SUPERHERO LEAD
- GAY SUPERHERO SERI COMG TO CW SEED
- GAY SUPERHERO SHOW A GO AT CW SEED, ARROW-VERSE INTEGRATN EYED
CW TRODUC FIRST SHOW WH A GAY SUPERHERO – FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY
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The term “transgenr” wasn’t monly ed Marsha’s lifetime, but she intified as a “transvte, ” gay and a drag queen and ed she/her pronouns.
The clash wh the New York police marked a turng pot for the gay liberatn movement the US and spired Pri march around the world today.
Johnson worked as an activist participatg monstratns and march as part of the Gay Liberatn Front, which formed the wake of Stonewall. Harvey Milk was one of the first openly gay policians elected to office the Uned Stat, and the first openly gay official elected California. “We want gays to reprent gays, ” Milk told the San Francis Examer 1977, and his posn as an LGBTQ public official helped brg the muny’s issu to promence.
CW SEED TO LNCH ‘FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE RAY’ WH FIRST GAY SUPERHERO LEAD
While servg as a cy supervisor, he troduced legislatn to protect the gay muny, cludg a gay rights ordance 1978 to ban discrimatn agast LGBTQ hog or employment. He and other activists also succeed strikg down Proposn 6, which would have mandated the firg of any gay or lbian teachers California.
GAY SUPERHERO SERI COMG TO CW SEED
He was one of the first to sound the alarm for the HIV/AIDS crisis 1981 when the New York Tim wrote about a rare type of “ncer” affectg gay men. Kramer -found the advocy groups GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), which ed the inic SILENCE = DEATH logo that beme a symbol for the AIDS crisis.
GAY SUPERHERO SHOW A GO AT CW SEED, ARROW-VERSE INTEGRATN EYED
His ntributns to the LGBTQ muny boil down to the impact he ma as a pneer drag, and how “Drag Race” drastilly changed the way lns of Amerins view — and appreciate — a key facet of gay culture.