What It's Like To Be a Black, Gay, Profsnal Jew – The Forward

Contents:

• JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?
• HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE MY BIG GAY JEWISH HAIR
• ON BEG BLACK, GAY, AND JEWISH—AND FDG RADIL SELF-LOVE
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• THE GREAT GAY-JEWISH POETRY BRAWL OF 1829
• WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A BLACK, GAY, PROFSNAL JEW
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?

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The Variety article was born of Rosenfeld’s epeng belief that ’s possible to merge his Orthodox and gay inti more publicly — somethg that he has long done as a ngregant and sometim-ntor at the Morn Orthodox synagogue he attends the East Village.

HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE MY BIG GAY JEWISH HAIR

And somehow, gays have been attracted to e to this synagogue, ” he said.

“We have a whole group of gay people and we have a whole group of trans people wele. For Rosenfeld, there’s no tensn between Jewish observance and beg gay — although his articulatn of why reveals an awarens of the pa that others might feel tryg.

ON BEG BLACK, GAY, AND JEWISH—AND FDG RADIL SELF-LOVE

“Beg gay, you n keep Shabbos, you n keep kosher, you n keep anythg you want to do, ” he said.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

When Rosenfeld shared the Variety article on his Instagram page, the vast majory of the nearly 800 ments left by fans and iends showed support for his public embrace of his gay inty. “It’s amazg that you announce that you are gay, ” one fan wrote. “You are an example to all the Jews stgglg wh their gayns.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

“I n’t believe you are gay, ” wrote one person. Sce he has started addg gay material to his repertoire, his dienc have been creasgly LGBTQ, like at some of the “Holidazed” shows he performed December at Sony Hall New York. Still, he noted, “onstage, I’m more Jewish than I am gay.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

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I thk that a lot of the kids uld kd of sense that I might be gay. When I me out of the closet my twenti, I saw myself as a Jewish gay man.

THE GREAT GAY-JEWISH POETRY BRAWL OF 1829

And wasn't until recently that I had to e to terms wh beg a Black, gay, Jewish man Ameri. Today, I n fally embrace all the var parts of myself I nta: my Jewish inty, my gay inty, and my Black inty. Major profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay.

Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward.

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A BLACK, GAY, PROFSNAL JEW

The five-foot-four, gay Jewish man wh red, wavy hair was a nstant character the glory days of my mother before I was born, before she met my father. The three of them—Neil, Karl, and my mother—would go out every weekend and dance at Boston’s then ebbg diss, buzzg wh the tun of the Gloria Gaynor, Grace Jon, and Lou Rawls and waftg wh the smell of sweaty chemil-drenched polyter. My mother would tell me how they’d both lgh and reil at the open vasele ntaers the pharmacy aisl across the street om Boston’s Mass General, a hub for gay cisg back then.

Neil’s onle prence was almost nonexistent, except he did have one prt onle, of Duane Michals, another gay photographer (only a famo one). The prt was on display at New York’s Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art. This was a time when gay men were battlg agast the AIDS crisis, when bodi would wher away and, the midst of everythg, gym culture was boomg.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

“I was gay Jewish kid Sprgfield, Mass—one of the very few, ” Neil said. He arrived New York Cy the summer of 1981, around a month after the New York Tim published a ty article on July 3 on Page A20, tled “Rare Cancer Seen 41 Homosexuals.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

” The article talks about the early panic of the AIDS epimic and s spread gay hubs like San Francis and New York Cy. There was talk about the appearance among homosexual men of s of Kaposi’s sara, a rare sk ncer that rears self spots and lns that typilly only affected olr men of Jewish or Mederranean scent. “When I moved here, people would ask, ‘Did you hear about this gay ncer thg?

“The gay men are startg to die off, and no one knows why.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

An image of two men holdg hands wh bandanas, Courty of Neil Mallm RobertsNeil kicked off his reer shootg for lol newspapers, like the gay magaze Christopher Street and the New York Native, a biweekly gay newspaper. He also photographed lots of famo people wh the gay muny.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Neil hasn’t taken a picture years; he had to sell his photography are no statistics currently on how many elr gay homels people there are New York or the Uned Stat.

Many the olr baby boomer gay muny who have survived the AIDS epimic lead a lonely existence. He wrote rponse to lls at the time to ncel the sodomy law (which was ultimately ncelled only 1988, thanks to Shulam Aloni) I, as an Orthodox Rabbi, Support Legalizg Same-sex Marriage We Sharpened the Assailant's Knife In Their Own Words Livneh was neher ultra-Orthodox nor Orthodox, but rather a Jewish natnalist, yet his ma argument was that homosexualy is foreign to Judaism, nstut a foreign fluence by generate Wtern culture and should be the op-ed he claimed that for hundreds of years Jews the Diaspora succeed prervg their muni om those “sexual perversns, ” or as he phrased : “It is totally absurd to have suffered for many generatns the Diaspora, while strictly prervg, nurturg and refg the heterosexual prciple, only to return to the Land of Israel and renew the ‘gentil’ abomatn’ here.