Sentences with phrase «gay activist at»

«I was a man who was perfectly content with being gay — and a vehement gay activist at that.

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King's (lack of) support for gay rights at that time is very similar to the way that gay marriage activists refuse to comment when asked if they support plural marriage.
He is, according to National Journal, «perhaps the most extreme» of a network of U.S. evangelicals who, having failed in their crusade against all things gay at home, travel abroad to connect with anti-gay activists and arm them with arguments that, for example, homosexuals will seduce their children, corrupt all of society, and eventually take over the country.
At Rife's suggestion the group invited 52 - year - old former gay activist Guy Charles to hold a series of meetings.
For years, gay activists have contended that AIDS puts everybody, homosexual and heterosexual alike, at risk.
Then some radical group of gay activists fussed, whined, and complained to officials at Indiana University South Bend.
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Activists at the protest said the remarks are hurtful and could lead some gay Mormons to suicide.
If I'm wrong about this, Rauch should be able to produce earlier statements in which hundreds of self - identified «lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including notable scholars at top academic institutions and leaders of respected organizations, endorsed sexual arrangements involving three or more conjugal partners.
The order was placed at its Belfast shop by gay rights activist Gareth Lee.
Nixon is actually bisexual and currently married to Christine Marinoni — also an education and LGBTQ rights activist — whom she met at a gay - rights rally.
I am especially proud of Allen Roskoff's role in this, whom I knew from years back in Gay Activists Alliance — I think we were both about 10 at the time!
RIP Edith Windsor, the gay - rights activist whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same - sex married couples federal recognition for the first time and rights to myriad federal benefits, who died today in Manhattan at the age of 88.
A featured guest at the 2014 parade was Panti Bliss, an Irish gay activist and drag Queen who has received significant attention for a recent speech on LGBT equality.
Gay Democratic party activist Allen Roskoff dressed up as Quinn at his annual holiday party with a mask, a red wig, a dress and pearls, while activist Michael Colosi played Mayor Bloomberg with a crown.
When the session broke up around midnight last night without a vote on marriage equality, the News» Ken Lovett reported that gay activists actually hissed at senators.
Astoria resident and gay rights activist Brendan Fay, who helps organize the St. Pat's for All parade in Sunnyside each year, said he was angered by Monserrate, who showed support for the gay and lesbian community at the Queens Pride Parade, but «when the chips were down, he voted no.»
Journalist David Bridle could not find a single Tory activist at the Manchester Party Conference who opposed «David Cameron's hand of friendship to his gay supporters.»
Activist and Author David Mixner Freedom to Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation President Jarrett Barrios Board Chair of the Empire State Pride Agenda Frank Selvaggi Human Rights Campaign New York Marriage Director Brian Ellner Former Chief of Staff to Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and Deputy Campaign Manager to John Kerry for President Steve Elmendorf Senior Vice President for External Affairs at the Center for American Progress Winnie Stachelberg Democratic National Committee Treasurer Andy Tobias Former Clinton White House Advisor Richard Socarides Academy Award Winning Producer and AFER Board Member Bruce Cohen Gill Action Fund Executive Director Patrick Guerrero Gill Action Fund Deputy Executive Director Bill Smith
Some gay bars in North America have refused to stock Russian vodka as a sign of protest at the law, and the legislation has attracted calls from activists around the world to boycott Russia's first Winter Olympics.
Other gay rights activists have defended the administration, while at the same time pushing Congress to act on broader issues such as passage of an employment non-discrimination act and an end to the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
Giuliani is a beloved figure in the Republican Party, but a bruising primary campaign in which he is forced to either defend or change his previous positions in support of gay marriage and abortion rights could quickly erase that goodwill, at least among party activists in key primary states.
As the prominent gay rights activist neared her home, she said, boys from the neighborhood threw stones at the gate and chanted, «You are a homo.»
Gay activist Corey Johnson and Allen Roskoff, the openly gay president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, have led demonstrations at Kruger's hoGay activist Corey Johnson and Allen Roskoff, the openly gay president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, have led demonstrations at Kruger's hogay president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, have led demonstrations at Kruger's home.
At a debate on Thursday night in Queens between anti-gay former state senator Hiram Monserrate and the challenger for his seat, Jose Peralta, several gay activists slashed their faces with lipstick, referencing Monserrate's broken glass attack on... Read
Gay rights activist Jon Winkleman targeted potential NY Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. at a Brooklyn luncheon for Assemblyman Vito Lopez on Friday, shouting, «Anti-choice, anti-gay, snake oil Harry go away» before being escorted out of th... Read
At this point, it becomes obvious that Michael may not have always had the best intentions while he was a gay activist; he just wants others in the LGBT community to do as he does, to Be Like Mike, which now means that everyone who isn't hetero must deny their sexuality and see the light.
Filmmaker Joseph Lovett, himself a gay activist who produced one of the first major investigative stories on AIDS to be broadcast on American television, interviewed a number of men who survived the»70s for his documentary Gay Sex in the»70s, which offers a sometimes witty and sometimes rueful look back at the discos, bathhouses, underground clubs, and gay - friendly resorts which dominated the social and sexual scene of the day, as well as the stories of the men who sought to declare their new identities through sgay activist who produced one of the first major investigative stories on AIDS to be broadcast on American television, interviewed a number of men who survived the»70s for his documentary Gay Sex in the»70s, which offers a sometimes witty and sometimes rueful look back at the discos, bathhouses, underground clubs, and gay - friendly resorts which dominated the social and sexual scene of the day, as well as the stories of the men who sought to declare their new identities through sGay Sex in the»70s, which offers a sometimes witty and sometimes rueful look back at the discos, bathhouses, underground clubs, and gay - friendly resorts which dominated the social and sexual scene of the day, as well as the stories of the men who sought to declare their new identities through sgay - friendly resorts which dominated the social and sexual scene of the day, as well as the stories of the men who sought to declare their new identities through sex.
«Star Trek» alums Zachary Quinto and George Takei have joined the ranks of LGBT activists condemning Kevin Spacey's decision to come out as gay at the same time he apologized to «Star Trek: Discovery» star Anthony Rapp, who accuses Spacey of making a sexual advance on him when he was 14.
The trouble with that is even in their attempt at genuine kindness, the National Union of Mineworkers are reluctant to accept the LGSM's support because they don't want to be associated with the gay community, so the activist group instead decides that they'll bring their donations directly to a small mining village in Wales named Onllwyn and it's here where the forging of communities makes its memorable punch.
Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Wendy (Kate Graham), promises to remain loyal while away at school, only to fall in love with a gay, activist classmate, Micki (Allyson Sereboff).
In Richard Laxton's An Englishman in New York, Quentin Crisp (John Hurt)-- the notable makeup - wearing gay activist who was raised in the brutal, prejudice - filled streets of Sutton, England and brought over, at the tender age of 70, to the slightly more welcoming boroughs of New York City — is filled with generous, perceptive philosophies regarding the nature of human beings and relationships, gay and straight.
In this double feature, I looked at the impact of film historian and gay rights activist Vito Russo.
In the opening moments of «Pride,» activist Mark (Ben Schnetzer) makes the case at the 1984 London Gay Pride parade that the LGBT community and the coal miners on strike, seemingly disparate, actually share common enemies: Margaret Thatcher, the police and the tabloid press.
«When Another Country was published — at the very peak of Baldwin's public stature as a civil rights activist — it was taken as a document of a very small slice of the present: the Greenwich Village and Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, where interracial couples and gay people were able to live openly, mostly but not entirely out of the omnipresent shadow of violence.
Journalist Talks of Time at «Straight Camp» Harvard Crimson, April 29, 2011 «Ted Cox, a journalist and activist, described what he views as the absurdity of religious camps aimed at turning gay people straight to a full room at the Graduate School of Education yesterday.»
Curated by artist and AIDS / HIV activist Avram Finkelstein, the ambitious exhibition is one of the first exhibition projects presented at Leslie - Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art's newly - designed gallery space that opened its doors earlier in 2007.
The sixth in a series of cross-cultural symposia organized by Lucy Lippard, the four artists interviewed here — gay activist and self portrait artist Lyle Ashton Harris, Chicano photographer and tourist Robert Buitron, Cherokee writer, curator, and video creator Rayna Green, photography critic and professor at University of California - Irvine Catherine Lord, and Chinese - American video artist Valerie Soe — discuss the role of photography and creation of culture.
Another was when I represented the Gay Activists Alliance in their efforts to be recognized as a student organization at the University of Oklahoma.
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