Read about key moments the history of the LGBTQ fight for rights Ameri, om the first gay rights group to prent day.
Contents:
- TOP 10 UNTENTNALLY GAY MOMENTS
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- NFL ACH OUT AS GAY HISTORIC MOMENT AMERIN SPORTS
- 'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
- THE GAY MOMENT
- LDSEY GRAHAM’S 10 GAYT MOMENTS
TOP 10 UNTENTNALLY GAY MOMENTS
It's Friday and we're a gay mood, our gayety buoyed by the fact that we jt got wd that "the gays" might be g back to South Beach. Hooray! And we also n't help snickerg at those NBA don't-e-the-word-gay mercials although NBA players let loose wh gay ephets faster... * gay moments *
It seems even the most ttosterone filled, ass-kickg, “guy movi” n be turned to a homosexual love-ft wh a ltle edg and a touch of soft mic. Thanks go out to Sttie for lendg his favoure gay moment to the list (#6) and the always spirg Bill Simmons over at Sports Guy’s World for his thoughts on #7, which eventually led to the ia for this lumn. As if SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER wasn’t gay enough, Tony Manero (John Travolta) jumps out of the dis scene to the greatt homo-erotic mil ever created.
It don’t help that Johnny (Patrick Swayze) immediately backs this up by twirlg around for a uple mut and then do some sort of uber-homosexual leap of fah off the stage and bts to a solo le dance down the middle of the aisle. Soon, other gay outsts jo behd him a perfectly choreographed march for their rights as the crowd n’t help but start to boogie.
Participants march through New York Cy for the send annual Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day, later lled Gay Pri Day, 1971. The phrase “gay pri” was also brand-new that year, ed by activists as a shorthand to une the events planned as part of the fledglg movement.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Kev Maxen, a strength ach for the NFL anchise the Jacksonville Jaguars, has publicly e out as gay a landmark moment Amerin men's profsnal sports * gay moments *
Gilbert Baker, who scribed himself as the “gay Betsy Ross, ” created the first pri flag om strips of fabric dyed trash ns the attic of San Francis’s Gay Communy Center before the cy’s 1978 pri para.
It's Friday and we're a gay mood, our gayety buoyed by the fact that we jt got wd that "the gays" might be g back to South Beach. And we also n't help snickerg at those NBA don't-e-the-word-gay mercials although NBA players let loose wh gay ephets faster... And we also n't help snickerg at those NBA don't-e-the-word-gay mercials although NBA players let loose wh gay ephets faster than the Heat blew that lead last night.
Wh the weekend upon and wh so much gay the air, Cultist though we should palize on all this gayns by remendg some films that uld help bridge the gap for those morons who still have problems wh our gay brothers and sisters. In an effort to brg the gay and straight muny together, we've piled a list of very macho movi wh some very homoerotic scen.
NFL ACH OUT AS GAY HISTORIC MOMENT AMERIN SPORTS
“The new Barbie movie fets s re dience of fai and children while terg to nostalgic adults and phg lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr character stori, ” the staff-thored article reads, plete wh the alarmist headle “WARNING: DON’T TAKE YOUR DAUGHTER TO BARBIE. Last month, a vio of Christian pastor nmng Barbie for beg full of “transsexual and transgenr and homosexualy” went viral on that sounds like a pretty great Barbie movie, that’s not really what’s gog on Gerwig’s versn.
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U. Kev Maxen, a strength ach for the NFL anchise the Jacksonville Jaguars, has publicly e out as gay a landmark moment Amerin men's profsnal sportsJacksonville Jaguars strength ach Kev Maxen (R) has publicly e out as gayJacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen has ma history by beg the first active NFL ach to publicly e out as gay. The handheld phantasmagoria of The Last of EnglandG Van Sant, director of My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Huntg, To Die For, MilkDerek Jarman’s The Last of England is an amazg barrage of memori, obssns, taclysmic visns, where Derek plays a gay memoirist wrg his thoughts down.
An amazg soundtrack by the geni Simon ’n’roll blar, as England falls, a fairy danc, betiful soldiers drk vodka and have gay sex. Halfway through the film, on a hot summer night, the two teenage boys sneak off to a gay pub for the first time their liv. Omar and Johnny’s hedonistic, forbidn soapy sex the lnrette was a slap the face to Conservativ g the Aids epimic to further monise gay people.
'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
Here was another woman – like me – gleefully takg ntrol of her own passn VictimTerence Davi, director of Distant Voic, Still Liv, The Long Day Clos, The Hoe of Mirth, A Quiet PassnIn Victim, Dirk Bogar plays a closet homosexual barrister who risks both his reer and marriage to break a blackmailg gang when his young iend kills himself rather than implite is a small scene towards the end of the film when Bogar lls for his clerk to jo him. But, for the generatn of young gay men watchg the early 90s, somethg more explosive than a kiss – or even full-on sex – had already happened. Unls, that is, you’re a 13-year-old boy, secretly attracted to other boys, and you’re watchg at home 1984 wh your parents, not expectg to be nonted by a man a donkey jacket, armed wh a guar and a sneer, sgg about how glad he is to be gay.
Listen to the ceptively soothg way he livers the openg l: “Brish police are the bt the world / I don’t believe one of the stori I’ve heard / ’Bout them raidg gay bars for no reason at all / Lg the ctomers up by the wall …” Then he halts the song. He talked the package about how as a boy he was ridiculed for wantg to be a dancer bee as a “Gay, fat kid” he didn’t f the ual dancg profile.
And gay activist Torie Osborne looked at those fac and then up and beyond them, to the field of bodi stretched out down the Mall. Here were the women who were beg drawn to re for the men, drawn out of their separate world and to anizatns that uned gay men and lbians for the first time. " Whether you support gay rights or not, whether you are gay or you nsir homosexualy a perversn, is pable that today is the gay moment.
THE GAY MOMENT
Gossip lumns no longer ment on the fact that Marta Navratilova is gay -- she has bee jt one more celebry whose romantic life is chronicled wh adpan attentivens. A new ant group, the AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), had staged a prott; Peter Staley, a gay man who had known for two years that he was HIV-posive but had told almost nobody, certaly nobody who worked on the Street, saw a small group of people s down and refe to move.
LDSEY GRAHAM’S 10 GAYT MOMENTS
And so perhaps the only survivg wrten rerd appears the gay newsletter Tangents: "Wh rirs visibly tense, the rs pulled to formatn down Cahuenga Boulevard, past the Hollywood Bowl, to head east on Sunset Blvd....
She was standg there, next to FBI Director William Ssns, at the first anniversary celebratn of the passage of the 1990 Hate Crim Statistics Act, which clud the tegory of gay-bashg, and she uldn't believe . " The story pated a largely bleak portra of a subculture of self-loathg misfs ("homosexualy is a ser and sometim cripplg maladjtment... As the gay rights movement found s voice, the historian and playwright left his therapist and began to foc on the history of gay men and lbians.
" As the amic world began to foc on what lled the margalized muni, history's victims, gay studi went om beg a subject of risn at faculty meetgs to an amic trend. It was 1974, and Roger Wilks, the civil rights pneer who was wrg for the New York Tim edorial page, thought he should do some reportg about the gay rights movement. "We talked about prison reform and New York polics and Gamblers Anonymo, until I uld fally rev up my urage to say, 'Would you be offend if I probed a ltle about gay polics and how me about you cid to e out?