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Gay Hero's - Who would you vote for?

My choices:

Betty Berzon: pioneering psychotherapist who helped persuade the APA to drop homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses

Barney Frank: openly gay politician who has been an influential presence in the House of Representatives for over 25 years

Mitchell Gold: furniture company chairman who founded Faith in America, which battles religious bigotry

Mitch Grobeson: first openly gay officer in the LAPD, whose lawsuit convinced the city to end discrimination against LGBT officers

Larry Kramer: founder of ACT UP and Gay Men's Health Crisis, author (The Normal Heart, Faggots), and activist

Leonard Matlovich: Purple Heart recipient who fought his homophobic discharge from the Air Force during the 1970s

Harvey Milk: slain gay rights activist and San Francisco politician

Reverend Mel White: clergyman, author, founder of Soulforce

Pedro Zamora: AIDS educator who reached a large audience through his tenure as a cast member of The Real World
 
Edward Albee.... I met him once. I think he was the first real gay legend that I ever met personally. He was a landmark Playwright and he represented us with class, dignity and undeniable talent. Who's afraid of virginia woolf... who can deny its inspiration... a bunch of bitter gay men with too much time and booze to know better...

Ellen Degeneres.... the first person to make the cover of time and life for coming out as a lesbian while starring in a top ten sitcom. She was also one half of the first gay couple to be invited as a couple to an official white house dinner. For that she will be in the american history books as well as ours and thats the first time our histories have combined that way.

Harvey Fierstein.... what can I say. One of the olny true elder statesmen that the gay community has. He is engaged in our wellbeing as a group and makes no apopogies for being gay, acting gay, sounding gay, and reaching out to the straight community WITH all those traits instead of hiding them to fit in. Hes an incredible talent that although undeniably gay is so powerfull a performer that no one in the straight community seems to mind.

CHristopher Isherwood.... heady stuff and so rellevant to us in this age of american military huperactivity. He reminds us all of what we cant forget. His sexuality was second to his message of universal humanity. In his work, the lonely man, a story of a middle aged gay man whose partner died he wrote this soul touching passage about being a widower and the daily prospect of life with out the love he once knew.....He crosses the front room, which he calls his study, and comes down the staircase. The stairs turn a corner; they are narrow and steep. You can touch both handrails with your elbows, and you have to bend your head, even if, like George, you are only five eight. This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely.

Sally Bowles was his brainchild in one of his books as well that eventually became the foundation of the hit play and film Cabaret

Harvey Milk... he was the first and the greatest of american gay politicians. Like him or not.... he made us valid for the first time as a block of voters. He put us on the political map.
 
Some of the people on the list are famous, NOT heros.

Rosie? not a hero. She came out WAY after she was a hetero favorite.

Ellen? She is a hero because she made a BIG splash about coming out on national TV.


My List:

Mark Bingham. Helped prevent Flight 93 from hitting a target in Washington DC. Now thats' a hero!

Ellen Degeneres See previous comment.

Harvey Milk A legend. Died a proud gay politician at the hands of a hetero homophobe.

Harvey Fierstein Was a proud gay actor long before it was popular to be a gay actor.

Larry Kramer. If it wasn't for gay activists like him, AIDS would be swept under the rug and perhaps the advances we've had in treatment would have been delayed.
 
That was tough, there were some I never heard of. Anyway, I tried to spread it out amoung different venues and voted for:

Pedro Almodouar
Rita Mae Brown
Armistead Maupin
Matthew Shepard
Andy Warhol
 
While I'm happy these people are getting recognition, what's with the nomination/voting thing? Do we have to figure out which of these people is the MOST heroic? Which one did the MOST for "our people"? "Thank you, runners-up, for doing what you could, but THESE people..."

Yes, I know. Having a list and making people vote gets people involved and arguing and talking about it and angry and kicks circulation up.

But better to simply devote a page to each, me thinks.

Lex
 
That's true.

I just wish the list was better.

Maya Keyes is an activist my age who speaks out about homeless LGBT teens. She was known as the daughter of Alan Keyes, the Republican political bigot who accused Mary Cheney of selfish hedonism for being a lesbian. He kicked Maya out of the family and she managed to go to brown via scholarship, but spent time on the streets with other homeless teens.

Ruth Ellis founded the Ruth Ellis Center by taking in homeless and runaway LGBT youth. The center still exists today in Detroit and is one of only 4 centers in the United States that deal specifically with LGBT runaways/abandoned youth.

Those are heroes to me...more so than celebrities.

Matthew Shepard is an icon, but is he a hero? His death inspired activism and visibility, but I don't think his death was "heroic" just tragic. No disrespect, though.
 
pride::thewave:pride:
Rep. Barney Frank
Harry Hay
Larry Kramer
Sgt. Leonard Matlovich
Harvey Milk
Rep. Gerry Studds
Tom Waddell
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Edward Albee

Elizabeth Birch

Rep. Barney Frank

Mitch Grobeson

Christopher Isherwood

Greg Louganis

Sir Ian McKellen

Randy Shilts

Matthew Shepard

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Rep. Barbara Jordan​

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Pedro Almodouar
Ellen DeGenerous
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Milk
Ian Mckellen
 
I don't know many on the list, but I would vote for Elton John, he more than anyone says I am gay and I'm proud! He is successful and open. He appears to get on with his life what ever anyone else thinks, and while he is a bit more flamboyant than my person taste, he lives his life the way he wants to live it and does not care what others think.
 
Gay heroes... why was I thinking of Batman in pink?

This being a U.S.-centred poll, I don't know most of the names on it... still, I tried to make a choice. Didn't work though. There's only one person on the list I admire, and that's Sir Ian McKellen. I am not only an admirer of his work, I also like the fact that he tries to live life as normally as possible, while also fighting for gay rights.
The others on that list I know (like Rosie, Ellen, Matthew Shepard etc) I can't call heroes.
 
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