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ISSN: 2372-2207
June 2016 Suggested Retail Price $2.95
Photo Credit: Laila Ibrahim
Author of “Living Right”
Laila Ibrahim
Exposing the Lies of Gay Conversion Therapy
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Inside This Issue (partial listing) A PTSD Memoir ............................................. Page 3 Living Right ..................................................... Page 4 Passtion In Our Hearts ..................................... Page 6 Moving Beyond Duality ................................... Page 8 Pride Celebrations Listing ................................ Page 10 Amazon Trail .................................................... Page 11 So Happy .......................................................... Page 16 Royal Caribbean Coming Out .......................... Page 17 Resources and Diversions .................................. Page 22
Welcome to the June issue of Di-versity Rules Magazine. It’s hard to believe June is upon us and with it comes pride season! It’s always exciting to see the many differnt pride celebrations happening all across New York, the country and the world!
There is a rather disturbing trend beginning with many pride cel-ebrations in that many are being subverted by corporate run queer media and advocacy organizations that seem to want to filter the cel-ebrations in a very antiseptic fash-ion with an attempt to squelch and hide the more colorful elements of our big queer tent.
We must resist that effort, and maintain and enhance our indi-viduality and reject this artificial control by the corporate run queer media and advocacy agencies. We must celebrate our vitality and di-versity, as well as respect the whole range of individuals under this big
rainbow tent of ours. Do not allow the corporate media and PC rid-den advocacy groups to shove the more colorful people of our com-munity into the shadows. They are the ones that took charge on that hot summer night in 1969 and catapulted the modern gay rights movement into existence.
Being the Editor/Publisher of an independent gay press I say shame on those that have allowed, and actually have supported the co-opting of the gay rights movement by this artificial vision of who we are and have succumbed to the sanitizing of the gay culture that once was the true lifeblood -- the fire -- of the gay rights movement. We must never abandon pride cel-ebrations.
Given the many advancements that have occurred over the years and the greater acceptance of
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David-Elijah Nahmod is a film critic and re-porter in San Francis-co. His articles appear regularly in The Bay Area Reporter and SF
Weekly. You can also find him on Facebook and Twitter.
David developed Post Traumatic Syndrome Disor-der (PTSD) after surviving gay conversion therapy as a child and has found that many in the LGBT community suffer from severe, often untreated emotional disorders due to the extreme anti-gay traumas they endured. This column chronicles his journey.
Hollywood is perhaps the most evil place on Earth. Its a town run by an industry that chews people up, spits them out, skins them alive, then walks away laugh-ing.
Few Hollywood horror stories were more disturbing than that of Barbara Payton. As I recounted in an ear-lier edition of this column, Payton (1927-1967) was a rising Hollywood star in 1950, co-starring with screen
legend James Cagney in the film noir classic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. She made Murder Is My Beat, her last film, a mere five years later, after which she was blacklisted from the indus-try. During the 1960s she was a low rent prostitute charging five dollars a trick. Shortly before she died from alcohol abuse at age 39, Payton made headlines one
final time when she was found sleeping in a dumpster in Los Angeles.
Many have said that Payton’s rapid and spectacular fall was of her own making--her hard partying lifestyle and homewrecking affairs, which she flaunted publicly,
didn’t sit well with movie moguls or with the public during the conservative 1950s.
In 1963 Payton published a partially ghost written auto-biography titled I Am Not Ashamed--she was paid $2000 for the book and reportedly spent the money on cheap booze. That long out of print book is again available in a brand new edition courtesy of Spurl Editions. As legend has it, Payton told her story to press agent/gossip colum-nist Leo Guild, who recorded her somewhat rambling words and put them together in as coherent a fashion as he could. It’s believed that Guild embellished many of the more lurid elements of Payton’s sad tale in order to make the book more “marketable.”
What emerges is a portrait of a deeply unstable wom-an in turmoil. Throughout the book, Payton speaks openly of her many sexual liaisons, freely admitting that she used her body to get what she wanted--she had no qualms about dating married men and says so. She rambles quite a bit--her thoughts jump from one topic to another and she’s rarely consistent. Early on she claims to never watch television or go to the mov-ies--she later says that one afternoon she spent her last dollar to go watch herself in a theatrical revival of Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. She also claims to have turned down a film offer from the acclaimed character actor Burgess Meredith. Payton would have her readers be-lieve that she felt “sorry” for Meredith and that she preferred to turn five dollar tricks in her filthy, roach infested apartment.
It’s hard to tell which anecdotes are true and which were created in the dark recesses of Barbara Payton’s deeply troubled mind. What becomes clear through-out I Am Not Ashamed is the obvious fact that Barba
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If You Could Read My MindBarbara Payton’s I Am Not Ashamed
By David-Elijah Nahmod
