Living a gay life
Born to Run: The Gay Migration Away from Home
I knew I had to leave. I had to get out. I couldn&#;t explain it, and I didn&#;t tell anyone else. I was only 16; I didn&#;t hold a plan. I didn’t recognize when, or how, but I knew that at some show, an opportunity would present itself, and I would take it – I would leave my hometown and my family behind. I love my family and New Orleans, but as I hit puberty and began to discover my (homo) sexuality, I knew that if I didn’t get away, I would never come back.
Growing up in Recent Orleans is a unique encounter (compared to others’ childhoods, or so I&#;m told). If you&#;ve never been, the city is never dull, and it isn&#;t uncommon for residents to praise about its &#;Big City&#; experience with small-town values.
Nothing moves speedily in New Orleans, except gossip. Don’t let the slow pace of life or lazy drawl accents fool you. Anything remotely interesting or considered &#;abnormal,&#; would zip its way through the kaffeeklatsch network of New Orleans like shit through a goose. For me, The Big Light wasn’t big enough.
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They lived a 'double life' for decades. Now, these gay elders are telling their stories.
In the s, when Ray Cunningham was just 19, he served in the Navy as secretary to the personnel officer aboard the USS Ranger. He was responsible for preparing discharge and reassignment paperwork, and sometimes he would have to dishonorably discharge men for being gay.
“It was difficult,” Cunningham, now 82, told NBC News. “At that time I realized that I was gay, and it was just hard to know that people were being discharged for the same thing that I was in my life.”
“What bothered me the most was having to talk to the guys that were being discharged, and they were not in a good declare of wellness anyway, because at that time, it was illegal or considered mental problems to be gay,” he said.
Cunningham spent the next four decades in the closet until he and his significant other of 30 years, Richard Prescott, 78, came out after retiring in their 50s.
The two men, who are now married, common their stories as part of “Not Another Second,” a new multimedia art exhibit in Brooklyn, Novel Yor
How can a sense of belonging be forged in a setting where one’s existence is forbidden? That is the question that LSE’s Dr Centner and his co-author Harvard’s Manoel Pereira Neto explore in their groundbreaking research into Dubai’s expatriate gay men’s nightlife.
But it was not an easy topic to research. Dr Centner explains: “It's an illegal, or criminalised, identity and arrange of behaviours and practices, so in a very general sense, it's a taboo. And taboo subjects are very often under-researched, sometimes because people own a hard time gaining access, gaining that confide in, but also because, even if people gain that access, there could be significant repercussions for themselves as researchers, or for the people who are the research participants.
“As two queer researchers, we were able to enter the worlds of relatively privileged Western gay expatriates. Secrecy is often the norm, but the field was familiar to us, through previous visits and investigate projects.”
These were indeed ‘parties’ [but] not bars identified as gay. Not a