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Home for the Golden Gays
2023 Photo Competition - Southeast Asia and Oceania - Stories
Hannah Reyes Morales
for The Recent York Times18 July, 2022
Al Enriquez (86) looks through a curtain in the the Golden Gays’ home in Manila, the Philippines.
The Golden Gays are a collective of older LGBTQI+ people from the Philippines who include lived together for decades, sharing a home, caring for each other as they age, and staging shows and pageants to create ends meet.
The Golden Gays people was founded in the 1970s by lawyer and activist Justo Justo, who opened his abode to shelter ‘lolas’ – a local word for ‘grandmothers’, an affectionate legal title members of the group have adopted. When Justo died in 2012, the community were evicted and some experienced homelessness until 2018, when they began renting a home in Manila.
A Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Phrase (SOGIE) Equality Bill has been languishing in the Philippine Congress for two decades, and although it progressed a step in 2022, has since suffered a setback after opposition from religious groups. Although the LGBTQI+ research resource E
The Gay Space Agency
2024 Photo Competition - North and Pivotal America - Open Format
Mackenzie Calle
A manipulated NASA image of the Mercury Seven astronauts being welcomed to Texas, United States, at the Sam Houston Coliseum on July 4, 1962. The seven selected were all US military examine pilots. To date, NASA astronauts train in Texas and launch from Florida, two states with historically strong anti-LGBTQI+ sentiments.
This project combines fiction with fact in command to confront the American space program’s historical exclusion of openly LGBTQI+ astronauts. After reviewing the NASA and United States National Archives, the photographer establish no documentation on the contributions of the homosexual community to the room program. This conspicuous absence inspired her to form The Gay Space Agency, a diverse, inclusive unreal institution that paradoxically commemorates and celebrates the very real history of gay astronauts.
Dr. Sally Commute , the first American female in space, said, "You can't be what you can't see,” a remark that took on brand-new meaning after her passing in 2012. Despite her groundbreaking achievements, Dr.
Written By: Ben Cosgrove
In delayed 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked the modern gay rights movement in America, and twelve months before LIFE ceased publishing as a weekly, the magazine featured an article on “gay liberation” that, encountered decades later, feels sensational, measured and somehow endearingly, deeply square all at the identical time.
Titled “Homosexuals in Revolt” and touted as “a major essay on America’s newest militants,” the piece elicited strong reactions from readers many of whom, of course, were less than happy that their beloved LIFE would devote a dozen pages to people whom one letter writer characterized as “psychic cripples.” Largely predictable responses from peeved readers that appeared in the Jan. 28, 1972, issue of LIFE included:
From Telford, Penn. There was plenty to lament in your year-end issue, but the thing that struck me as most sad was the fact that LIFE felt compelled to devote 11 pages to “Homosexuals in Revolt.”
From Chicago Essentially, it is absurd to agree as a mere “variant lifestyle” a practice which, if universal, would represent t