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Contents:

• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY
• TOM BRADY HAS TREATED GAY MEN WELL WHILE NEVER TALKG PUBLICLY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS OR OFFERG ANY SUPPORT
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• TOM HANKS SAYS THAT IF 1993'S 'PHILALPHIA' ME OUT NOW, HE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO PLAY THE GAY MALE LEAD: 'AND RIGHTLY SO'
• TOM HANKS: STRAIGHT ACTORS COULD NOT PLAY GAY ‘PHILALPHIA’ ROLE TODAY AND ‘RIGHTLY SO’
• TOM HOLLAND OPEN TO GAY ‘SPIR-MAN,’ AGRE MCU NEEDS MORE THAN JT ‘STRAIGHT WHE GUYS’
• GAY TOM
• IS TOM SELLECK GAY? FACTS REVEALED

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

Tom HollandFans of Brish actor Tom Holland have e to his fense after some social media ers were seemgly upset that the latt episo of his Apple TV+ seri The Crowd Room featured gay the scene, Holland’s character go to a club wh heavy black eyeler and all black. ”A lot of other ers, however, seemed very nfed over the backlash, pecially sce Spir-Man actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have also played gay person wrote, “Watchg agile cishet men have breakdowns over the reason Tom Holland is trendg is sweet we to me.

”“The fact that a sgle scene on an Apple Pl show featurg Tom Holland has brought out so much homophobia om the stupist people is... Tom Holland’s fans are fendg him agast homophobic backlash after he appeared a sex scene wh another man the latt episo of his Apple TV+ seri “The Crowd Room.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

”After the episo aired over the weekend, homophobic viewers h Twter to pla about the Marvel star’s scene, postg a lany of bigoted tweets wh the hashtag “NotMySpirman. — Theo Foxx (@FoxxDoThgs) July 14, 2023throwg love at tom holland, bee my man do not serve the homophobia that's beg thrown his way rn — pla ? || is gog to afhf & eras tour (@lilysdreamworld) July 15, 2023The homophobia directed at Tom Holland is sickeng, pathetic, and utterly unsurprisg. Pl Dawks (@Pl__Dawks) July 16, 2023The fact that a sgle scene on an Apple Pl show featurg Tom Holland has brought out so much homophobia om the stupist people is...

— Lee (@lee_g_b) July 17, 2023the homophobia towards tom holland’s role is very awful to see!! — ⑅ j (@purwntr) July 15, 2023Many of his fans also seemed perplexed over the backlash, nsirg that former “Spir-Man” actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have each portrayed gay characters as homophobia spewg om ic book fans bee Tom Holland played a character on TV while simultaneoly puttg the other two Spiys on a pestal as if they haven't done gay scen before too is somethg. — will (@lluoh) July 15, 2023Y'all realize every other spirman has done gay rol too, right?

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

TOM BRADY HAS TREATED GAY MEN WELL WHILE NEVER TALKG PUBLICLY ABOUT LGBT RIGHTS OR OFFERG ANY SUPPORT

Spir-man is Spir-man, Tom Holland playg gay man won't make Spir-Man gay.

Benedict Cumberbatch played two gay character and I have never seen someone say 'not my Dr. ”While others also noted Holland’s fellow Spir-Man actors, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, have played gay characters the Holland as Danny Sullivan The Crowd Room. Cred: Apple TVA fan wrote: “The people postg 'not my spirman' about tom holland bee of his gay scene like… honey i have some news for you.

”Someone else wrote: "I fd so funny that people are mad at Tom Holland for beg LGBT the crowd room and seeg the others who Spir-Man are better for that reason, when Andrew Garfield is an extreme ally and played gay characters, and Toby McGuire is siar [sic].

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

Homophob are up arms sayg, “Not my Spir-Man!

TOM HANKS SAYS THAT IF 1993'S 'PHILALPHIA' ME OUT NOW, HE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO PLAY THE GAY MALE LEAD: 'AND RIGHTLY SO'

”Bt known for starrg the new Spir-Man trilogy and brgg the Peter Parker character to life the Marvel Cematic Universe (MCU), Tom Holland is currently facg scty om homophob for playg the lead character of Billy Milligan the new limed seri The Crowd Room for Apple 1975, Milligan was arrted for armed robbery and rapg three people on the mp of Oh State Universy. The actor is straight and has been a relatnship wh Zendaya for many years, so his role on The Crowd Room is clearly jt a role that don’t affect his personal the topic of LGBTQ+ actors playg LGBTQ+ characters, ’s not like Billy Milligan is the most posive dividual out there for an actor to brg to life, so feels like ’s bis the pot for a non-LGBTQ+ actor to play this particular person on as seen on LGBTQ-clive shows like The Last of Us, homophob will clg to jt about any reason to pla about queer characters beg picted on mastream media.

TOM HANKS: STRAIGHT ACTORS COULD NOT PLAY GAY ‘PHILALPHIA’ ROLE TODAY AND ‘RIGHTLY SO’

Tom of Fland’s art beme an inic part of the gay visual vobulary durg s time. Homosexualy was illegal Fland until 1971.

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TOM HOLLAND OPEN TO GAY ‘SPIR-MAN,’ AGRE MCU NEEDS MORE THAN JT ‘STRAIGHT WHE GUYS’

The ia of the homosexual before the 1950s was only a highly effemate one.

While some gay men were (and rema) proudly effemate, others wanted to be gay on their own terms, whout havg their inty prcribed to them. In dog so, he created a visual language for gay men that had prevly been publicly unavailable to them, one where s actors were permted to be mascule, happy and sexually domant. “It then creat a siar kd of gatekeepg on the straight male that was hherto enclosed on the gay male.

GAY TOM

” It also creat the possibily of straight men aspirg to what Tom of Fland shows as homosexual prentatn. “He creat this proxy gay universe … a gay Olymp. Tom of Fland had ma his way to the Amerin visual market 1957, wh drawgs and on the ver of Physique Pictorial, a homoerotic magaze that displayed nu bodybuilrs unr the guise of athletic molg to avoid obsceny implitns.

The “Tom of Fland” look — boots, leather, mtach, tight jeans — beme vibrant the gay muny and eventually crossed over to the mastream via the artists spired. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTTom Ammiano, a well-known gay lear San Francis, believed his effemate mannerisms led his New Jersey high school to ny him his Hemm Klok for The New York TimPublished Feb.

IS TOM SELLECK GAY? FACTS REVEALED

He kept his distance om football players, who he said bullied him, but when his Catholic school New Jersey formed a track team, Tom Ammiano cid to Ammiano, who would grow up to bee one of the untry’s pneerg gay lears, an early openly gay edian and a proment California elected official, found that he loved nng long distance. Christie Hemm Klok for The New York TimIn 1959, the year he graduated, Amerin society largely rejected and was often hostile toward gay people an era that preced their movement for civil rights. Ammiano never publicly disclosed that he was gay when he was high school, but said many people knew.

“If was disvered you were a gay kid there were two alternativ: psychiatry bee they thought you were nuts, or the ps bee was illegal, ” Mr. Ammiano one talked about homosexualy school. “If you were gay, you were evil and gog to hell, ” Mr.