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Contents:
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
- YOU BETTER (SOCIAL) WORK: ON BEG A GAY SOCIAL WORKER*
- SOCIAL WORK, SCHOOLS, AND “DON’T SAY GAY”
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
* gay male social workers *
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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.
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JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
Would he, like so many fathers of gay sons, simply walk out of my life?
“Y-You know I’m gay?
YOU BETTER (SOCIAL) WORK: ON BEG A GAY SOCIAL WORKER*
My closet—the one whose rners were led wh stuffed animals for protectn, the one whose door I antilly repaired when cracks of adolcent boy csh appeared, the one that provid the only shelter I knew a world that hated gay sissy boys—that closet burst to splters of rabows. Sadly, such is not the se for many Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual+ (LGBTQIA+) children. On Beg a Gay Social Worker.
Wh this md, what do mean to be a gay social worker? There is more than one lived experience of beg gay, of urse.
SOCIAL WORK, SCHOOLS, AND “DON’T SAY GAY”
For example, as a gay sissy boy, my genr exprsn directly impacts my experience of the world sce nothg seems more threateng to men than a man who swish to the room. Send, this notn of beg a gay social worker ni the tersectnaly of how multiple inti (e.
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Havg noted the two important pots, however, I n unequivolly say that I LOVE beg a gay social worker! Reflectg my own valu and gay personhood, ’s what led me to the field. In my graduate studi, I rell sperately rearchg how to manage my gay inty when workg wh straight clients.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
How do I manage a homophobic client? Upon enterg the field—wh different velopmental experienc om my heterosexual peers—I approach practice om my own lived experience of beg a gay sissy boy. Swishg to my work, however, I regularly enunter homophobic clients, stunts, -workers, and supervisors.
For example, I rell stg a se nference about a gay male uple durg which a lleague turned to me and quipped, “I’d love to hear the homosexual perspective. ” Or when a lleague advised me to stop drsg so “gay.