Casidys gays

“Not Homosexual like gay. Queer appreciate, escaping definition. Queer appreciate some sort of fluidity and limitlessness at once. Queer like a liberty too strange to be conquered. Queer like the fearlessness to imagine what love can look enjoy … and pursue it.’’—Brandon Wint

Tens of thousands of Pride parades and LGBTQ+-friendly events are celebrated every year in the month of June to honor a bar full of gay men and female homosexual women who decided to fight the cops and riot in the streets for the right to love whoever they wanted. That’s what happened in the wee hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village—a neighborhood gay lock fed up with police harassment—and the five days of protests proved to be a decisive compel for LGBTQ+ activism, inspiring such organizations as the Gay Liberation Front, Human Rights Campaign, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

Such defiance and uncertainty is usually what it takes to change the world.

Today’s dynamic LGBTQ+ movement is scarcely recognizable from

Tom Cassidy

Tom Cassidy on the set at CNN, mid-1980s. Credit: Courtesy of Whit Raymond.

Episode Notes

CNN business anchor Tom Cassidy kept his private life strictly separate from his public being. Three decades ago he had to. But then he was diagnosed with AIDS.

Episode first published May 4, 2017.

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For the first decade and a half of the AIDS epidemic, before there were powerful treatments, AIDS rewrote the unwritten rules of the closet.  Because AIDS was inextricably tied to same-sex attracted men—the vast majority of those who were struck down by the disease in the United States during this time were gay men—tens of thousands were forced out of the closet as they sickened and died.

Tom Cassidy knew the rules of the closet. As he built his career from local TV reporter to CNN business news anchor and host of that network’s Pinnacle series, Tom kept his gay existence and his professional existence strictly separate. And then he found out he was going to die.

Unlike some gay men diagnosed with AIDS whose high-profile careers led them to disappear from public when they became seriously ill, Tom Cassidy chose the opposite course.  He decided to bring his life into the living rooms

Cassidy first transgender hero?

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if blizz wants to make the entire lineup gay/trans/non binary etc move for it,but what im saying is that there is always such a “big deal” over stuff like this in a videogame. ie hundreds of forums posts about this stuff,and the same when they said that soldier and tracer were gay,it was a huge deal,either people hated it or the loved it,im just saying where are those days when people actually just played games to chill and have fun,instead of venting on game forums about stuff that really doesn’t matter in a videogame perspective?

or is this just for the people that enjoy lore? i myself have always hated lore in games,i hate when i can’t skip cutscenes,i play a game because i need to play the game,others enjoy emersing themselves into each character,knowing the backstory etc. because ingame you wouldn’t know that soldier/tracer is gay unless they made the story for it. and i receive it,awarness and all that is good,either it is for sexuality,gender,race,beliefs or whatever it might be.

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There wouldn’t have to be a ‘big deal’ if people weren’t homophobic/transphobic It’s not like Blizz put those rev

Lavender Scare: U.S. Fired 5,000 Gays in 1953 'Witch Hunt'

March 5, 2012— -- Joan Cassidy, 84, has the U.S. Navy in her blood. Her father and mother, a proud Yeomanette, served active duty in World War I. Her brother and sister were in World War II.

By 1953, Lt. j.g. Cassidy, then 26, was head of a Navy intelligence division with highest-level security clearances.

But while serving in Pearl Harbor, she resigned from a promising career and unified the Navy Reserve, forced to cast away her dreams because she was a lesbian.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower that year declared homosexuals a threat to national security and ordered the immediate firing of every gay man and lesbian working for the U.S. government.

The State Department fired hundreds of queer men and women, calling them sexual "perverts" who would be vulnerable to blackmail; 5,000 government workers, including secret contractors, were publicly exposed and sent packing.

"It was a witch hunt," said Cassidy, who lives in a senior housing complex in Centreville, Md.

"I consideration to myself, what if somebody goes digging around and finds out, I would lose everything," she said. "