Shade: Literacy Narratives at Black Gay Pride

On a sweltering day in early July 2006 two events took place that would seemingly have little relationship to one another. England lost the World-Cup game against Portugal that would seal their fate for that season and EuroPride was celebrated throughout London's West End. On this particular day these two events did come together, violently. A third happening also took place that night, an event that had been planned months before and yet seemed to take both events into account in its critique of sexual citizenship and nationality. EuroShame, a night of instillations and satire held at a large Vauxhall warehouse, was intended to critique the codification and corporatization of the GLBTI community.

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New Arrivals in a Multilingual Secondary School: Literacy Narratives about Texts and Practices

Literacy and the Bilingual Learner ◽

10.1057/9781137317636_5 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 126-156

Author(s):

Catherine Wallace

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Literacy Narratives

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Eugene Days

The Journalist of Castro Street ◽

10.5622/illinois/9780252042485.003.0003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 21-34

Author(s):

Andrew E. Stoner

Keyword(s):

Gay Liberation ◽

Student Body ◽

Liberation Movement ◽

Gay Pride ◽

Student Politics ◽

Gays And Lesbians ◽

Gay Liberation Movement

Shilts enrols at University of Oregon and quickly engages with the Eugene Gay People’s Alliance. Early attempts to start a gay liberation movement among Oregon students, including the university’s first-ever Gay Pride Week. He loses a later bid for Student Body President under a theme of “Come Out for Shilts.” Shilts embraces a “gay centric” approach to schoolwork and his life, living fully out despite some miscues, convinced heterosexuals are unaccepting of homosexuals because they lack understanding or knowledge of gays and lesbians. Oregon classmates recall Shilts’s transition from student politics to journalism. Shilts finds being “out” in conflict with his dreams of a career in mainstream journalism. Shilts writes about a summer job at a gay bathhouse.

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