Jonah Hill Gay Sndal: The Shockg Cocince of '22 Jump Street' - Variety

Contents:

• JOHN PLK FORMALLY RENOUNC, APOLOGIZ FOR HARMFUL 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
• JOHANN HARI : THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF THE GAY FASCISTS
• IS KARAN JOHAR GAY? [QUTNS SOLVED]
• THE SHOCKG COCINCE BETWEEN ‘22 JUMP STREET’ AND JONAH HILL’S GAY SLUR
• 5 MUT WH... SENR DMP ARTIST JOHAN GAY
• IS ANDY JOHAN GAY?

JOHN PLK FORMALLY RENOUNC, APOLOGIZ FOR HARMFUL 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT

“I have never ever talked about my orientatn or sexualy bee whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, is my ncern. ’ I get this on a daily basis and I’ve learned to lgh off…One man me up to me once very ckily at Heathrow airport and said, ‘Is te that you are a homo?

I’m sad, upset and disheartened wh the trollg that happens on social media… At the end of the day, this whole homophobia is so dishearteng and upsettg. John Plk, one of the most regnized former lears om the now-cmblg "ex-gay" movement, renounced his past and formally apologized for the harm he and the movement have ed a public statement Wednday. "For the better part of ten years, I was an advote and spokman for what's known as the 'ex-gay movement, '" said Plk, "where we clared that sexual orientatn uld be changed through a close-kn relatnship wh God, tensive therapy and strong termatn.

"Last week, Plk renounced his ex-gay past an terview wh a gay newspaper Oregon, but today's statement marks Plk's formal, public apology for his arnt volvement the movement that claims "reparative therapy" n "cure" people of homosexual attractn. " Plk said he "eagerly anticipate[s] givg back to the muny, " which he's been dog through donatns to AIDS advocy groups through his Portland-based terg pany lled was arguably the most regnizable figurehead for ex-gay anizatn Love Won Out, a project of the antigay Foc on the Fay. In 1999, John and Anne Plk wrote a book lled Love Won Out: How God's Love Helped Two People Leave Homosexualy and Fd Each Other.

JOHANN HARI : THE STRANGE, STRANGE STORY OF THE GAY FASCISTS

Plk left Foc on the Fay 2003, when he moved om Colorado to Oregon, found Mezzaluna, and was reportedly spotted at gay bars. A Formal Public Apology by John PlkFor the better part of ten years, I was an advote and spokman for what's known as the "ex-gay movement, " where we clared that sexual orientatn uld be changed through a close-kn relatnship wh God, tensive therapy and strong termatn. And while many thgs my life did change as a Christian, my sexual orientatn did 2003, I left the public mistry and gave up my role as a spokman for the "ex-gay movement.

Fally, I know there are still acunts of my "ex-gay" ttimony out there beg publicized by var groups, cludg two books that I wrote about my journey.

IS KARAN JOHAR GAY? [QUTNS SOLVED]

I disurage anyone om purchasg and sellg the books or promotg my "ex-gay" story bee they do not reflect who I am now or what I believe today. Not only are "mould" and "msel" homophono French, but "moule" also means "cunt", and when Broodthaers referenced Belgium's favore shellfish, he also evoked the female sex an, the orig of the world. The news that J Hair - the Atrian fascist lear - spent his fal few hours a gay bar wh a hot blond has shocked some people.

This is a taboo topic for a gay left-wg man like me to touch, but there has always been a weird, disproportnate overlap between homosexualy and fascism.

THE SHOCKG COCINCE BETWEEN ‘22 JUMP STREET’ AND JONAH HILL’S GAY SLUR

Yet when the Brish Natnal Party - our own home-grown Holot-nyg bigots - announced was fieldg an openly gay ndidate the European electns this June, dited followers of fascism didn't blk. The twisted tth is that gay men have been at the heart of every major fascist movement that ever was - cludg the gay-gassg, homo-cidal Third Reich. Hair's close gay iend Walter Kohler - who has been photographed showg off a holstered pistol while Hair chuckled - clared his opposn to outg policians.

Mart Lee, thor of a study of European fascism, explas, "For Kuhnen, there was somethg supermacho about beg a Nazi, as well as beg a homosexual, both of which enforced his sense of livg on the edge, of belongg to an ele that was sted to make an impact. He told a Wt German journalist that homosexuals were 'pecially well-sued for our task, bee they do not want ti to wife, children and fay.

They have tried to dispt gay paras, scribe gay people as "evil", and BNP lear Nick Griff reacted charmgly to the bombg of the Admiral Dunn pub 1999 wh a lumn sayg, "The TV footage of gay monstrators [outsi the scene of rnage] flntg their perversn ont of the world's journalists showed jt why so many ordary people fd the creatur repulsive.

5 MUT WH... SENR DMP ARTIST JOHAN GAY

Homosexualy is "extremely prevalent" the upper echelons of the Brish far right, and at one stage the 1980s nearly half of the movement's anisers were gay, he claims.

Gerry Gable, edor of the anti-fascist magaze 'Searchlight', explas, "I have looked at Bra's Nazi groups for s and this homophobic hypocrisy has been there all the time. I nnot thk of any anisatn on the extreme right that hasn't attacked people on the grounds of their sexual preference and at the same time ntaed many gay officers and activists.

Jt before he died 1986, he was allowed to steward a Gay Pri march London, even though he still said he was "proud to be a fascist.

IS ANDY JOHAN GAY?

The bber-soled ictn between gay fascists and progrsive Brish gay people sparked to anger 1985 when the Gay Skhead Movement anised a dis at London's Gay Centre. They felt that the cult of "real men" and hypermascule thugs was stirrg up the most base feelgs " the very place, the gay movement, where you would least expect them.