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Roxane Gay: The Portable Feminist Reader
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The Last Deployment: How a Queer , Hammer-swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq
Bronson Lemer. Univ. of Wisconsin, $24.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-299-28213-4
In a chronicle of angst and self-discovery, Lemer, a member of the National Guard, describes leaving his lover and civilian life behind to serve as a gay man in uniform under the federal "Don't Inquire, Don't Tell" mandate. Lemer, whose writing has appeared in literary journals and the anthology Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, recalls feeling like an outsider, fearful that "I'm about to be discovered, taunted, ridiculed, and kicked out." Lemer, who served in Kosovo and Iraq, tells with sensitivity and boldness of his band of unlikely brothers pining after wives and girlfriends at home and single men getting drunk from loneliness. Lemer does not gloss over the vicious nature of war and death in Baghdad, highlighting the valor of the men and women risking their lives. He survived seven years of service with honor and resolve, but his silence about his sexual orientation, with a touch of feasible fear, is a bitter testimony to what gays encounter in service to the nation. However, Lemer also emphasizes
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A 21-year-old bloke was bashed with a hammer and thrown onto the subway tracks in an anti-gay assault Friday morning in the Bronx, police said.
It happened at around 1:10 a.m. at the Tremont Avenue D trains stop in Mount Hope.
Police said the victim was on the platform when the suspect approached him, yelled an anti-gay slur and hit him with the hammer.
The victim was hit in the armpit. The suspect then threw the victim onto the tracks. The victim was competent to climb support up to the platform before the train arrived. The suspect ran off.
The victim was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital with small injuries including a cut to his eyebrow.
The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.
The attack comes as part of a spate of stormy incidents in the subway system since Wednesday. Thursday afternooon, there was a slashing in the subway in Morningside Heights. Thursday morning, water was thrown in the deal with of a conductor in Brooklyn and two 15-year-olds were stabbed the Bronx. A conductor was slapped in Brooklyn Wednesday night and Wednesday afternoon a couple was attacked in Jamaica.
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Gay Hammer
(Ellen) Gay Goodpaster Davis Hammer, age 82, passed away in the care of Hospice on December 23, 2021, in Grand Junction, Colorado, after a hard-fought battle with cancer.
Born on August 12, 1939, Same-sex attracted was the daughter of the late Clarence Goodpaster and Edna Goodpaster Sanders, in Lexington, Kentucky. Male lover graduated from Manual Upper School in Louisville, Kentucky, and attended Anderson College in Illinois.
As a young woman she was inspired by the civil rights movement and marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. during his visits to Kentucky in the late 1950s. A one-time meeting with Eleanor Roosevelt, also cast an indelible mark on her life’s purpose and advice.
In 1960 she married Harry Thomas (Tom) Davis, Jr. After the birth of their son, Michael, the family moved west to Denver, Colorado, and also lived for a short time in Montana. In 1967 they moved to Boise, Idaho, where daughter Linda was born.
Shortly afterward, Gay began the adventure of her lifetime by serving as the plan coordinator for an ambitious new public lands venture, known as the Boise River Greenbelt. Gay fondly told the story of th