How to be gay

[Tiger]

Wow, Kevin. What a well-thought out response. We're mostly an unrecognized minority - citizens experiencing life's challenges, rewards and disappointments on a daily basis. The "Millenniums" are dealing with our minority status differently than the "Y" and "X" generations. And certainly on a whole other plane than my "Boomer" group.

 

Here's an short collage of photographs that was sent to me recently that's worth a reflective look. The male couples shown couldn't even begin to imagine where our/their sub-culture would progress over the past century. http://www.musicmisfit.com/affectionatemen/affectionate.html.

 

Jack

The video represents the struggles our predecessors had before the 1970's. For more information on this particular subject, I suggest watching Before Stonewall. Before Stonewall is a documentary about the struggles of being a homosexual before the Stonewall Riots. We may have a lot of work to do for civil rights, but we have made some amazing strides within the last 50 years. I think the young members should watch this documentary. I learned a lot from watching it on a stream from Netflix.

[Jack Scribe]

The video represents the struggles our predecessors had before the 1970's. For more information on this particular subject, I suggest watching Before Stonewall. Before Stonewall is a documentary about the struggles of being a homosexual before the Stonewall Riots. We may have a lot of work to do for civil rights, but we have made some amazing strides within the last 50 years. I think the young members should watch this documentary. I learned a lot from watching it on a stream from Netflix.

I'm really jazzed by the film project, Milk, that Gus Van Sant will direct. Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Sean Penn and James Franco are quite a cast. http://www.towleroad.com/2007/12/emile-hirsch-jo.html. This will be a February, 2009, release.

 

For younger and international GA members who might not be familiar with 70's San Francisco gay activist Harvey Milk, here's some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk.

 

Jack

[BeaStKid]

For younger and international GA members who might not be familiar with 70's San Francisco gay activist Harvey Milk, here's some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk.

 

Jack

quite a man. I wish something like this had happened in India as well. Not the assassination, but an openly gay man being elected into office.

[Tiger]

I'm really jazzed by the film project, Milk, that Gus Van Sant will direct. Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Sean Penn and James Franco are quite a cast. http://www.towleroad.com/2007/12/emile-hirsch-jo.html. This will be a February, 2009, release.

 

For younger and international GA members who might not be familiar with 70's San Francisco gay activist Harvey Milk, here's some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk.

 

Jack

Harvey Milk was the first openly gay member of San Francisco's city supervisor. He was murdered. I heard about him in After Stonewall, a documentary narrated by Melissa Ethridge.

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And FYI, Gus Van Sant is directing a movie about Harvey Milk with Sean Penn as Harvey Milk and Josh Brolin (from No Country for Old Men) as Dan White as Milk's assassin.

[Tiger]

And FYI, Gus Van Sant is directing a movie about Harvey Milk with Sean Penn as Harvey Milk and Josh Brolin (from No Country for Old Men) as Dan White as Milk's assassin.

That should be a most interesting film. I want to see the film. We all need to gather as much information as we can about our past, current, and future struggles as a community.