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Category: Gay
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A Small Area of Diversity in a Hate Filled GOP State
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Arizona City Make Safe Places for LGBTQ People
Glendale on Tuesday became the third metro Phoenix city to add protections for LGBTQ people in the past two months. The Glendale City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that prohibits discrimination in public places, housing and many workplaces, and extends the protections to the LGBTQ community. Mesa and Scottsdale passed ordinances in March and April, respectively. 1
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Will Young – A Story of Hope
Ask anyone what Will Young’s story is and they’ll probably tell you he’s a singer who won Pop Idol in 2002, went on to release a string of multi-platinum albums, win two Brit awards and had countless other successes. They are unlikely to say that his story has been one of gay shame that has blighted his life. And yet, says the 42-year-old musician, whose new book To Be a Gay Man, has just come out in paperback, “gay shame was a part of my life from the age of six. It has clung on to me and literally stopped me truly flying in life”. 2
To be a Gay Man
To Be A Gay Man – by Will Young – Available from Amazon.com Million-selling pop star and co-host of influential podcast ‘Homo Sapiens’, Will Young is calling for an end to society’s legacy of gay shame, revealing the impact it had on his own life, how he learned to deal with it and how he can now truthfully say he is gay and happy. In To Be a Gay Man, Will Young speaks out about gay shame, revealing the impact it had on his own life, how he learned to deal with it, and how he can now truthfully say he is gay and happy. We know Will as a multi-platinum recording artist, Olivier-nominee, and the first winner of the Idol franchise. But his story began long before his first audition. Looking back on a world where growing up being called gay was the ultimate insult and coming out after a lifetime of hiding his sexuality, Will explores the long-lasting impact repressing his true self has had. As Will’s own story demonstrates, internalized shame in childhood increases the risk of developing low self-worth, and even self-disgust, leading to destructive behaviors in adult life. Will revisits the darkest extremes he has been to, sharing his vulnerabilities, his regrets, tracing his own navigation through it all and showing the way for others who might have felt alone in the same experience. Here you will find a friend, champion and mentor, breaking taboos with frank honesty, and offering invaluable practical advice on overcoming the difficult issues too often faced within the LGBTQ+ community.
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Lambda Legal LGBTQ Biden Checklist
10 Things LGBTQ People and People Living with HIV Need from the Biden-Harris Administration
In the last four years, Lambda Legal has filed 46 federal lawsuits against the Trump administration to beat back their efforts to harm LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV. When policies erased who we are and gave rise to discrimination against the most vulnerable among us, we fought for equal recognition and equal access. When the federal government tried to treat the children of married same-sex couples as less than the children of married different-sex couples, we fought back to demand marriage equality. When lawmakers pushed us out of workplaces, schools, and businesses, we fought to protect our rights—all the way to the Supreme Court. 3Lambda Legal, January 20, 2021 – 10 Things LGBTQ People and People Living with HIV Need from the Biden-Harris Administration[/efn_note
There are hundreds of policies from the last four years that need to be reversed, but below are ten actions the Biden-Harris administration can take starting day one to begin undoing the damage caused by the Trump administration:
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Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s
Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s by Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell – Available from Amazon.com Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850-1950 portrays the history of romantic love between men in hundreds of moving and tender vernacular photographs taken between the years 1850 and 1950. This visual narrative of astonishing sensitivity brings to light an until-now-unpublished collection of hundreds of snapshots, portraits, and group photos taken in the most varied of contexts, both private and public.
Taken when male partnerships were often illegal, the photos here were found at flea markets, in shoe boxes, family archives, old suitcases, and later online and at auctions. The collection now includes photos from all over the world: Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan, Greece, Latvia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Serbia. The subjects were identified as couples by that unmistakable look in the eyes of two people in love – impossible to manufacture or hide. They were also recognized by body language – evidence as subtle as one hand barely grazing another – and by inscriptions, often coded.
Included here are ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, glass negatives, tin types, cabinet cards, photo postcards, photo strips, photomatics, and snapshots – over 100 years of social history and the development of photography.
Loving will be produced to the highest standards in illustrated book publishing, The photographs – many fragile from age or handling – have been digitized using a technology derived from that used on surveillance satellites and available in only five places around the world. Paper and other materials are among the best available. And Loving will be manufactured at one of the world’s elite printers. Loving, the book, will be up to the measure of its message in every way.
In these delight-filled pages, couples in love tell their own story for the first time at a time when joy and hope – indeed human connectivity – are crucial lifelines to our better selves. Universal in reach and overwhelming in impact, Loving speaks to our spirit and resilience, our capacity for bliss, and our longing for the shared truths of love.