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Contents:
- DAVID M. GAY, MD
- DAVID A. GAY, PH.D.
- DAVID GAY
- WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y
- HOW TO BE GAY
- REPUBLINS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT CRIMAL DIVISN WH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY
- I DISLIKE DAVID CAMERON, BUT HE WAS RIGHT ON GAY MARRIAGE
DAVID M. GAY, MD
David Archuleta has discsed g out as gay to his fay a recent Instagram post. He is not the first "Amerin Idol" nttant to discs stgglg wh his sexualy. * gay david *
In a lengthy Instagram post Saturday, Archuleta said he me out as gay to his fay 2014, but then had siar feelgs for both genrs, suggtg “a spectm of bisexual. Amerin Idol Season 7 nner-up David Archuleta has discsed the journey he went on wh his sexualy a recent social media Instagram June (aka Pri Month), the sger and Mormon revealed that he discsed g out as gay to his fay 2014, six years after beg on post scrib how Archuleta stggled to fd a better scriptn of his sexualy than simply "gay.
Amerin Idol had s first gay nttant way back s first season wh Jim Verraros, who ma the top his public life, he has sce said that Fox ma him lete an onle journal post where he talked about his sexualy, wh the work claimg he was not able to "self-promote" as a told The Advote: "Lookg back, [the work's policy] uld be terpreted a bunch of different ways. Shortly after his n on the show, Aiken told Rollg Stone: "One thg I've found of people the public eye, eher you're a womanizer or you've got to be gay. When 2 Samuel 1:25-27 says, “Your love to me was more wonrful than the love of women, ” is claimed that this prov Jonathan and David were gay.
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Further, sce the Bible overwhelmgly refers to homosexualy as a s and wants to not engage this s (Genis 19:1-26; Levic 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:22-28; 1 Corthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10), why would God select David to bee the kg of Israel? Donatello moled the heads of many of his sculptur and statu om Roman bts, and art historians now generally believe that David’s was based on Anto, Emperor Hadrian’s gay lover. Janson first posed that the artist himself was gay (or at least mored to be) 1957, and that Donatello’s personal bgraphy drove his homoerotic pictn of David.
Janson’s alln to Donatello’s homosexualy, and his suggtn that the artist’s inty might have played a part this masterpiece, put cril nos out of jot. Florence had such a reputatn for beg acceptg of homosexualy that the French lled gay sex the “Florente Vice, ” and Germany, Florenzer was slang for a sodome.
Conservative monks railed agast this acceptance for more than moral reasons, worryg that the growg trend of homosexual relatns between unmarried men would lead to a cy-wi populatn cle.
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Let take a brief look at the few vers that show that David and Jonathan were, ed, very close Bible giv some tail how close was the iendship between David and Kg Sl's son Jonathan and will help clarify whether they were gay (homosexuals) or not.... Clearly, there was nothg homosexual about Isaac's requt of his firstborn of DefnPerhaps the most important example of fg what ahab ually means n be found s relatnship to the Ten the Eternal gave his laws to the ancient Israel, he summed up how humans were to treat each other wh the followg admonn. If this admonn sounds faiar, is bee J quoted Matthew 5:43 when he gave his famo Sermon on the though Kg David and Jonathan's relatnship was not sexual (homosexual) nature, their nnectn was close and their ultimate separatn (due to Kg Sl) brought on ep sadns.
For some reason homophob like to larp and pretend they aren't homophobic, and any time a gay person is brought up they talk about how they aren't homophobic, they jt don't like "panrg", or 's jt "disgenuo". Bowie, 69, was not jt a pop idol but a the days sce his ath, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr fans have shared how the rocker fluenced their liv and helped brg queer culture to the mastream the 1960s and 1970s. “I’m gay, ” he said to the journalist Michael Watts 1972, “and always have been, even when I was David Jon, ” his name at years later, an article for Rollg Stone tled “Straight Time, ” Mr.
” And Season 7 top 12 falist David Hernanz, who me out as gay 2016 (and was the foc of a mor sndal durg his Idol n when was revealed that he'd worked as a nu dancer at a gay strip club), wrote, “Betiful words my iend.
WAS HE GAY, BISEXUAL OR BOWIE? Y
David Bowie’s genr-bendg performanc and cultural fluidy spired a generatn of gay, lbian and transgenr people. * gay david *
Clfield/WireImage)Read more om Yahoo Entertament:Tyler Glenn on his evolutn and the return of Neon Tre: ‘Comg out of the church was almost personally harr for me than g out as gay’David Archuleta opens up about his post-'Amerin Idol' mental health stgglImage Dragons’ Dan Reynolds talks privilege, LGBTQ rights, mental health, and why ‘society is broken’'Amerin Idol' hopeful Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon's brave g-out story: 'Everybody was a ltle jolted by how transparent I was beg'Country hmaker Shane McAnally on g out: ‘I was so aaid of what would mean to my reer’Queer rocker Bob Mould on g out late life: ‘Why didn't I do this a ltle sooner? No one rais an eyebrow if you suggt that a guy who arrang his furnure jt so, rolls his ey exaggerated disbelief, lik techno mic or show tun, and knows all of Bette Davis’s bt l by heart might, jt possibly, be gay. But if you assert that male homosexualy is a cultural practice, exprsive of a unique subjectivy and a distctive relatn to mastream society, people will immediately prott.
David Halper, a pneer of LGBTQ studi, dar to suggt that gayns is a specific way of beg that gay men mt learn om one another orr to bee who they are. Inspired by the notor unrgraduate urse of the same tle that Halper tght at the Universy of Michigan, provokg cri of outrage om both the right-wg media and the gay prs, How To Be Gay trac gay men’s cultural difference to the social meang of style. Far om beg terred by stereotyp, Halper nclus that the geni of gay culture ris some of s most spised featur: s atheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoratn of glamour, ritur of women, and obssn wh mothers.
“How To Be Gay is…wrten by a gifted thker and wrer who has e to see that there is not jt a polil and sexual gay culture (s foundatnal event the rtg outsi the Stonewall Inn 1969), based on gay inty rather than sensibily, but also a nonsexual gay culture, based on mos of feelg and exprsive artifacts.
HOW TO BE GAY
A pneer of LGBTQ studi dar to suggt that gayns is a way of beg that gay men mt learn om one another to bee who they are. The geni of gay culture ris some of s most spised stereotyp -- atheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, ritur of women, and obssn wh mothers -- and the social meang of style. * gay david *
“[Halper] provotively argu that when to fg what means to be a homosexual man, sex is overrated… Culture matters more… [How To Be Gay] is never a bore… [It] explor a fundamental kd of gay sensibily… Halper teas an enormo amount out of [a] scene [ Mildred Pierce], cludg the sense of ‘glamour and abjectn’ gay dienc fd [Joan] Crawford, and how the film packag the ‘transgrsive spectacle of female strength, tonomy, feists and power.
’ …He is excellent, too, on how classil tragedy is nearly always about men, or fathers and sons… Dozens of siar arguments are rehearsed How To Be Gay. “How To Be Gay celebrat[] the sharp-elbowed mp culture that many now nsir obsolete… How n someone be gay whout havg seen Mildred Pierce or The Wizard of Oz?
REPUBLINS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT CRIMAL DIVISN WH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY
In “How to Be Gay,” David M. Halper argu that when to fg what means to be a homosexual man, sex is overrated. * gay david *
As he pots out, sexualy is the area where gay men differ least om straight men… Gay taste is somethg more sgular, probably lked to cipient feelgs of dissiary om one’s peers… Halper is right to fend the old ruals and the lgo and body language that go wh them… So long live mp, and all the other cultural pursus that gay people have tradnally embraced. Perhaps the historic votn to theatre, opera, high fashn, and other venerable discipl will wher away, but seems likely that many gay kids will still feel the trma of difference and go on seekg refuge artier spher.
Halper speaks of a ‘tensn between egalarian ethics and hierarchil athetics’ gay taste; he se as a snobbery not of class but of knowledge, open to all who n hold their own. “[A] provotively tled cril cri r… To summarize Halper’s amb book is tricky, but thk of as an exploratn of the tensn between the official Pri Para, celebratg post-Stonewall gay inty, and the Drag March, celebratg pre-liberatn gay culture… Halper is at his bt when criqug the current assiatnist mol of gay-rights activism, wh s nial of any cultural terts or athetic pots-of-view that ht of femy or mps or of the ‘stereotypilly gay.
I DISLIKE DAVID CAMERON, BUT HE WAS RIGHT ON GAY MARRIAGE
’ His cultural history of how this attu emerged the 1970s will be surprisg to those who view the gay-rights movement as a nsistently posive progrsn; Halper argu nvcgly that as butch mascule styl beme ever more mandatory, both for attractg sexual/romantic partners (no femm, no fats! ’ …How To Be Gay is tellectually rigoro [and] entertag… Halper monstrat that those gays who do still intify wh Bette and Joan, drag and drap, Auntie Mame and Annie Lennox have somethg important to ntribute to our ever more homogeno world.
…Halper is plyg his own twist on the faiar ia that by aligng themselv wh certa forms—flamboyance, abject glamour, exaggerated femy—gay men implicly challenge the uptight s of a patriarchal culture… Gay culture, for Halper, isn’t really attached to any given person’s experience; rather, ’s a set of tactics, adopted behavrs, and strategi imbrited a much larger social field… Frivoly, irony, superficialy, thenticy, flamboyance, snobbishns, exquise taste: How To Be Gay works hard to unpack the stereotypil characteristics of gay male culture and succeeds monstratg how the tat of pathology and the rise of a post-Stonewall ethos of hypermascule self-termatn nspire to shut down a ank quiry to the persistence of such ‘faggy’ tras. “What is marvelo is Halper’s rich analysis of many aspects of this gay cultural life, showg the distctive ways mak e of straight culture… This is not meant to be a ffee-table book, encyclopedia or ‘how-to manual’: the already exist. Halper has wrten a monumental work… In tail, the book explor the emotnal and personalized subjectivy scribg what is at the re of gay culture and the nermost feelgs of what is to be ‘gay.
How To Be Gay is both enlighteng and rehg the personal disvery of self or for lack of a better phrase, the perfect way to unrstand the how, what, where and why ‘to turn your ner-gay on. Rather, Halper’s book is an terventn agast those who tmpet the ‘ath of gay culture’ (which he argu has been clared for over 40 years now) now that wing tolerance and greater visibily of gays the media should make Judy Garland, show tun, and drag queens obsolete… Halper’s h re-evaluatn of the theory and practice of mp is one of his most fascatg sights… Halper mak a se for mp as polilly subversive and a se study for the plited stcture of gay intifitn… One gets the sense that Halper anticipat his greatt tractors to not be social nservativ (though he has been their pariah the past), but stead to be other gay men who fear the sentialism of acknowledgg the role a distct gay culture plays shapg gay inty… Halper narrat the history of this mascule reactn agast gay culture, cullg om his own memori the 70s of how newly ‘liberated’ gay men appropriated the machismo of biker culture, mtach, and nstctn worker clothg to bat the stereotype of the pathetic queens and fairi of the prev generatn. This is a valuable history lson to rears om subsequent generatns given that the signifiers of ’70s gay masculy are now nsired the mpy light of The Village People, and th part of the gay culture om which today’s champns of machismo and normaly try to distance their selv.