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Calgary mayor: GSA bill would have made us glance like “hillbillies”
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi praised Alberta’s premier Dec 11 for stopping a bill that would have forced students to go to court to make their schools permit them to start gay-straight alliances. “Well, folks, that would be the Scopes Monkey Trial of Alberta,” he said. “We would end up having international attention toward what gentle of hillbillies we are. None of us desire that.” The Alberta legislature has spent weeks debating two competing bills, one Liberal bill that would give students the right to start GSAs and one government-supported bill that would leave discretion up to schools unless students went to court.
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“In the predominantly working-class and sometimes rural spaces where Powell’s straight and gay characters cavort together, shoot the shit, or knock each other to the earth, homophobia can exist alongside friendliness and hospitality toward gays, and anti-homophobia can reinforce patriarchy.”
Padgett Powell has a habit of saying provocative things, and one such line that struck me was, “I am gay in every way except the sex.” While an undergraduate at the University of Florida, where Powell teaches creative writing, I thought he was trying to charm people like his colleague David Leavitt and myself (we are both gay, including the sex). Powell’s being and fiction are hyper-masculine and southern, and it is reasonable to debate that they are not considered paragons of queer culture. At the university, he is known for filling stews with the squirrels and raccoons that try to infiltrate his chicken pen. Typical, his first story collection, is built on references to dogfighting, whorehouses, chewing tobacco, trucking pulpwood, “miscegenational pimps,” guys drinking
Onlyoneopenly gay individual has moved on from the set of “The Beverly Hillbillies” to build an outstanding political career in Sacramento, establishing some of the first protections for California’s LGBT collective. Founder and CEO, Rich Valenza, is honored to give this insightful interview in this distinct Huffington Post Homosexual Voices / “Let Love Define Family®” series for National Adoption Month, with the iconic activist and accomplished politician, Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl.
Rich: I understood that you had a big career as a child thespian playing Zelda on the television series “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” But until I looked at your page, I had no idea the success of your acting career. “Petticoat Junction” and “The Beverly Hillbillies” were family favorites at our house. How did you earn your start in acting?
Supervisor Kuehl: It was quite accidental. One daytime a guy came around trying to sign up neighborhood kids for tap dancing and singing lessons at the Meglin Studios. A number of kid stars like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney h
JD Vance once wrote that he 'convinced myself that I was gay' when he was a kid
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- JD Vance wrote in "Hillbilly Elegy" that he once became convinced he was gay when he was a kid.
- "The only thing I knew about gay men was that they preferred men to women," he wrote.
- His grandmother quickly set that notion to rest, asking him: "JD, do you want to suck dicks?"
According to Sen. JD Vance's best-selling "Hillbilly Elegy," the Ohio senator once told his grandmother that he thought he might be gay.
Vance, now former President Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee, recounted the tale in his autobiography as he discussed his grandmother's relatively tolerant approach when it came to Christian teachings.
In Vance's telling, the episode occurred when he was just a kid. As he wrote:
"I'll never forget the time I convinced myself that I was gay. I was