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Contents:

• DIVERSY AMONG ATHLET CLUDG GAY PETORS WELE - YANG YANG
• NYC MAYOR HOPEFUL ANDREW YANG SLAMMED BY LGBTQ GROUP FOR ‘CRGE’ MENTS CLAIMG GAY PEOPLE ARE A ‘SECRET WEAPON’
• ANDREW YANG, LOOKG FOR ENDORSEMENT, OFFENDS GAY DEMOCRATIC CLUB
• NEW 'SNL' CAST MEMBER BOWEN YANG IS BREAKG BARRIERS FOR BOTH ASIAN AND GAY COMEDIANS
• THE STRAIGHT GAY YG YANG
• 'SNL' STAR BOWEN YANG SCRIBED HIS EXPERIENCE WH GAY NVERSN THERAPY AS A TEENAGER
• APAKAH SAYA GAY? CARI TAHU MELALUI 5 CIRI-CIRI INI!
• BOWEN YANG'S NVERSN THERAPY EXPERIENCE SPOTLIGHTS PRSUR ON GAY ASIANS
• YANG TRI TO APPEAL TO GAY DEMOCRATIC GROUP, LOS ITS ENDORSEMENT
• IS MY CHILD TOO YOUNG TO LEARN ABOUT BEG GAY? | TIM RAMSEY | TEDXOXFORD
• 6 FILM GAY THAILAND REKOMENDASI 2023

DIVERSY AMONG ATHLET CLUDG GAY PETORS WELE - YANG YANG

One early sketch that would bee emblematic of Yang’s imprt on the show starred Harry Styl as a social media manager who accintally fills up Sara Lee’s Instagram acunt wh gay thirst ments. Although a lot of the homophobia YouTube vio ments or popular Redd threads related to him is blatant and easy to dismiss, ’s often drsed up as an annoyance about his lack of range.

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NYC MAYOR HOPEFUL ANDREW YANG SLAMMED BY LGBTQ GROUP FOR ‘CRGE’ MENTS CLAIMG GAY PEOPLE ARE A ‘SECRET WEAPON’

"We wele the reprentatn of different groups of people, " she said, rare ment on diversy at the Gam, when asked by the media if Cha would wele an openly gay athlete on s than 30 publicly out gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer, pansexual and non-bary athlet were vyg for gold at Beijg 2022, acrdg to a list piled by LGBT sports se of the 176 athlet that Cha sent to the Wter Olympics were on the is not illegal to be gay Cha, activists say nservative attus towards homosexualy some sectns of society have led to ocsnal ernment clamp-downs.

ANDREW YANG, LOOKG FOR ENDORSEMENT, OFFENDS GAY DEMOCRATIC CLUB

Risg to fame followg her special "Nate, " Gadsby has phed edy to new levels by weavg together personal stori, art history lsons, and sthg monologu — routely takg hs at men and the chronicl her childhood growg up as a lbian Tasmania, where homosexualy was illegal until 1997. Yang beme the first Che-Amerin and third openly gay st member on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" edian, who hosts a pop culture podst lled "Las Culturistas, " has proven his range on the "SNL, " masterfully portrayg characters om a Che tra reprentative ed as "Tra Daddy" to former Democratic printial ndidate Andrew Yang.

Amstell, who beme known for appearanc on "Pop World" and "Never Md The Buzzcks, " stand-up edy as a nfsnal, workg through issu like his parents' divorce, eatg meat, and timacy the Brish ic speaks openly about his sexualy durg sets, Amstell said he was "terrified" of beg gay before g out durg his Netflix special "Set Free. Cho, who grew up San Francis and had parents that owned a gay bookstore, has squashed the stereotypil tras placed on Asian-Amerin gaed populary by wrg and starrg a s lled "All Amerin Girl" and has bee a celebrated stand-up ic.

He often jok that he knew he was gay before he knew he was 's sce lnched a succsful stand-up reer — appearg on "The Late Late Show Wh Jam Corn, " "Late Night Wh Seth Meyers, " "CONAN, " and more.

NEW 'SNL' CAST MEMBER BOWEN YANG IS BREAKG BARRIERS FOR BOTH ASIAN AND GAY COMEDIANS

"It was like he never met a gay person his life, even though he kept remdg people on his staff were gay, " filmmaker Harris Doran, who attend the endorsement meetg told NBC. Instead, Doran said Yang characterized the gay muny as beg "so betiful and human", and exprsed "over and over" how exced he is to vis the storied New York lbian bar, Cubbyhole. Speakg at the meetg, Yang said: "Well, first, let me say that if I go to Cubbyhole, I thk I'm gog to be acpanied by at least one of my two mpaign managers who are both gay.

In a tweet, Doran wrote: "Oh man Andrew Yang at the Stonewall endorsement meetg was an experienced, ill-rmed joke who keep tellg his mpaign manager was gay over and over and namg one gay bar over and over. "It was like he never met a gay person his life, even though he kept remdg people on his staff were gay, " filmmaker Harris Doran, who attend the endorsement meetg as a member, said Thursday. Yang’s remarks as offensive, sayg that even as members of the club wanted to discs policy issu, he mentned gay McDermid/RtersPublished April 22, 2021Updated June 28, 2021[Live N.

Yang ced gay members of his staff as apparent evince of his openns to the club’s ncerns, and exprsed enthiasm about the prospect of visg Cubbyhole, a storied New York lbian bar, participants proactively talked about rurrectg the cy’s Pri March, but failed to pay sufficient heed to more substantive issu they were actually ncerned about, cludg homelsns and affordable hog, they club is arguably the leadg L. Yang’s two mpaign managers — both are gay — said she heard at least one other ndidate on the ll e the same term, and suggted that some members had gone to the terview procs wh their mds already ma up. To get to be all of those thgs and be gay mak Golnlo, well, the gold standard for the future of queer reprentatn , a gay man, is now beg the kd of reprentatn he lacked and need growg up for the next generatn.

THE STRAIGHT GAY YG YANG

In fact, was ially beg veloped for Disney, who reportedly took issue wh the queer love story (and, gasp, gay kiss) so the film languished then eventually was nceled when the stud creatg was shut down.

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'SNL' STAR BOWEN YANG SCRIBED HIS EXPERIENCE WH GAY NVERSN THERAPY AS A TEENAGER

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When they both later me out (separately), they didn't thk they would necsarily be iends jt bee they both happened to be gay, but here they are years later and are total BFFs. Yang was ved to appear Wednday at the Stonewall Democrats of NYC, the cy’s largt Democratic LGBTQ+ polil club, for the group’s endorsement screeng — and told members he’s now gettg his tn on gay bars, cg Stonewall and the nearby Cubbyhole. “Well, first, let me say that if I go to Cubbyhole, I thk I’m gog to be acpanied by at least one of my two mpaign managers who are both gay, ” the Hell’s Kchen rint lghed.

APAKAH SAYA GAY? CARI TAHU MELALUI 5 CIRI-CIRI INI!

People watchg the fom cricized Yang for potg to his gay lleagu and supporters on the basis of their genr and sexual inty, rather than why they are important to him.

Havg a moment, the late ’90s and early ghts, meant that, sudnly, a gay performer or character would appear a space that had been prevly domated by straight people — say, at the center of a TV s like “Will & Grace” or a stand-up special, or as the voice of reason to the leadg lady a romantic edy like “My Bt Friend’s Weddg” — and everyone uld appld and say, “We solved ! Gay edy isn’t niche ’s all changed so fast that at one pot, while he’s discsg a sketch about rporate sponsorship of gay pri paras that he did wh Lil Nas X last May, Yang, 31, tch himself and says, lghg, “Why am I talkg about this the past tense, like ’s another era? (The podst format, which gay obssns n be discsed and nstcted at length, or which the hetero world n be filtered through gay sensibili, as is on Sam Taggart and Gee Civeris’s “StraightLab, ” has bee fertile turf for emergg edy stars.

” says Rogers, who, like all of his lleagu, has many ncurrent projects; he spent an early month of the panmic hostg (hilarly) a pet-groomg realy show lled “Hte Dog” for HBO Max; he -created a short-form seri lled “Gayme Show” (“for Quibi, rt peace”), whose wrg room was “entirely stocked wh queer people”; and he will have a regular role on a new Showtime edy lled “I Love That for You, ” tentatively schled for this sprg, wh the “S. ” Lyn’s style of humor — bchy, suatg, spiked wh alhol, rancid wh self-mockery — was rarely overtly queer; was what would now be scribed as “queer-d” — other words, legibly gay to anybody, gay or straight, who knew what signifiers to look for but to the obliv, merely droll.

BOWEN YANG'S NVERSN THERAPY EXPERIENCE SPOTLIGHTS PRSUR ON GAY ASIANS

Lyn (who was self-protectively disparagg about gay men terviews) and ntemporari like Charl Nelson Reilly on “Match Game” (another game show) the 1970s were gay entertaers before that was a tegory; they are the first DNA strand ntemporary gay male edy’s triple send strand was the first generatn of out male edians — guys like the performance artist Frank Maya, who beme the first out gay man to get a spot on the early ’90s MTV seri “Half Hour Comedy Hour, ” and Bob Smh, the first to crack “The Tonight Show” durg the Jay Leno era, and Stt Thompson, the gay member of the Canadian edy qutet the Kids the Hall. They were pneers who had to walk a plited le, at once makg stand-up safe for gay performers and makg gay edy palatable for straight dienc that, 30 years ago, were still far more fortable lghg at queer people than wh them. And the third strand was drag — there all along, olr than pop culture self, the subject of angry ntentn the gay muny between those who embraced as an act of transgrsive fiance and genr subversn and those who nounced as mstrelsy or, worse, bad for the e; pop culture, was a s-long journey om “La Cage x Foll” on Broadway the 1980s to “RuPl’s Drag Race” the 2000s, at which pot the naysayers fally had to adm feat.

YANG TRI TO APPEAL TO GAY DEMOCRATIC GROUP, LOS ITS ENDORSEMENT

Source photos: Alex SchaeferOne thg that distguish the new wave of gay edy is that n draw om all the tradns and rebe them to somethg new — at once polil and mpy; cheerful and subversive; stumed and nfsnal; explic and mastream. It’s an approach that nnects gay edy to a long Amerin tradn of outsir humor — the humor of the opprsed — and an equally long tradn which those outsirs bee sirs.

In the scene, Styl plays a distracted, gay, sexually (hyper)active social media brand manager who’s ught advertently postg his own horny Instagram msag unr the pany acunt — cludg one to Shawn Mens, to whom he sends what he sheepishly adms to his boss ( a le that drew screams of lighted shock om the stud dience) was “a picture of my open throat. ”The sketch was an stant h, which was surprisg not jt bee Styl gamely threw himself to the role but bee the language ed — “still on a poppers high, ” “feelg really prsed after threome, ” “wreck me, daddy” — was for-, by- gay talk of a kd that was unprecented on “S.

IS MY CHILD TOO YOUNG TO LEARN ABOUT BEG GAY? | TIM RAMSEY | TEDXOXFORD

L., ” which had only the last , wh the rise of Kate McKnon and the stallatn of the gay -head wrer Chris Kelly, started to journey out of a long, vexed history of homophobia. Sce Ellen DeGener me out 1997, lbians and gay men have had, and ntue to have, separate and plited trajectori through edy, and one major and persistent difference is that the ia of sex between men still triggers a more vol, openly disgted type of homophobia om some dienc than do the ia of sex between women.

“Sara Lee” didn’t seem the least alarmed by that; wasn’t a sketch aimed at heterosexual drive-by gawkers but one unmistakably wrten straight-outta-Grdr language by gay men who weren’t pecially terted translatg their work for a wir dience.

VioThe edian shar an anecdote about g out to his LeeIn one way, that sensibily was nsistent wh Yang and Rogers’s unforced gay-bti vibe on “Las Culturistas, ” which is not gay as “We’re here, we’re queer, ” but gay as “We’re two adult men havg an extremely long and impassned discsn about Glenn Close — don’t expect to make fortable for you.

6 FILM GAY THAILAND REKOMENDASI 2023

The character, makg a tense and hghty appearance on “Weekend Update, ” exemplifi the ways which gay edy is now, so to speak, genre-fluid: It’s performed and -wrten by an out gay man; ’s not overtly gay but is, Yang’s words, “very much queer-d”; and ’s also drag.