Nate Berk and Jeremiah Brent on Gay Reprentatn

Contents:

• A WORLD OF PRI: GAY DIGNERS TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE AND CHALLENG
• NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH BRENT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG 'TWO GAY DADS' ON HOME MAKEOVER TV: 'WE BELIEVE OPENG UP THE DOORS'
• GAY-FRIENDLY MALE INTERR DIGNERS
• HOW GAY MEN FED 20TH-CENTURY TERR SIGN

A WORLD OF PRI: GAY DIGNERS TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE AND CHALLENG

It’s an old stereotype: the gay terr signer. Ltle data exists regardg how many gay men are out the sign dtry around the world, but ’s whout a doubt a iendlier dtry than, say, profsnal sports.

NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH BRENT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG 'TWO GAY DADS' ON HOME MAKEOVER TV: 'WE BELIEVE OPENG UP THE DOORS'

And no matter the profsn, clearly the experience of gay men tersects wh other forc—race and class power dynamics, ageism, health, geography—and differs om the experienc of other members of the muny, cludg lbians and trans/non-bary/genr nonnformg sign profsnals.

But on the ocsn of World Pri month, Interr Dign reached out to gay men around the physil and virtual worlds to get a sense of where thgs stand today, om Tulsa to Turkey.

GAY-FRIENDLY MALE INTERR DIGNERS

“There are que a lot of gay upl livg eely and accepted, ” he says, “but not mentned a lot by the neighbors.

HOW GAY MEN FED 20TH-CENTURY TERR SIGN

Homosexualy to them was a very big al.

They have a posive gay role mol around them as they’ve grown up, and that’s a powerful thg. They may even, like Saghian, e to see a gay inty as a benef. “The stereotype has always been that the bt signers are gay men, ” he says.

And Orlando, was supposed to be at the Pulse nightclub the night of the anti-gay terror massacre 2016. For years, swaths of the dtry were assigned the public nscns to gay men.