Showing posts with label LGBT history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LGBT history. Show all posts

Sunday, November 16, 2014

"Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo" Flyer resurfaces

This mailer is reportedly from the 1982 gubernatorial campaign, but the discriminatory slogan actually dates back to the 1977 Democratic Party primary race for New York City mayor

For all of former Mayor Koch's internalised self-loathing as a closeted gay man, how much of former Mayor Koch's slow HIV/AIDS response should be attributable to the Cuomo campaign's fear-baiting tactics against former Mayor Koch ?

From Progress Queens :

A photograph was posted to Twitter of a flyer from the 1982 New York gubernatorial race bearing the slogan, "Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo," triggering remembrances and questions about the controversial campaign efforts by Andrew Cuomo to smear Ed Koch.

The offensive slogan originally dates back to the Democratic Party primary in the 1977 New York City mayoral race when the two were political rivals running for the same office, but the Cuomo camp used the slogan again during the lingering whisper campaign five years later, in the 1982 New York gubernatorial race, as evidenced by the photo of the handbill.

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Three decades later, "Vote For Cuomo, Not The Homo" mailer resurfaces (Progress Queens)

Friday, February 1, 2013

Ed Koch, 88, Dies - AIDS Controversy - Memorial Tweets

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Alan Turing Father Computer Science

One hundred years ago today, June 23, Alan Turing was born. He is widely credited with inventing the modern-day computer.

Mr. Turing was persecuted for being a gay man. He died under suspicious circumstances, which investigations show all these many year later may not have been as a result of a suicide.