Eric Fanng, First Openly Gay Army Secretary, Confirmed by U.S. Senate

Contents:

• THE OFFICE’S GAY CARITURE
• AMERIN PHAROAH, TRIPLE CROWN WNG HORSE, OUT AS GAY
• MARIE GAY ALSANDRA ORN
• GAY SECRETARY
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY SENATE-NFIRMED CABET SECRETARY
• ERIC FANNG, FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY, CONFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE
• GAY RIGHTS
• THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS

THE OFFICE’S GAY CARITURE

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Anyone, that is, but the show’s token gay man, Osr, who has been margalized and mocked over seven seasons. Osr (Osr Nunez), one of the three acuntants, is a rtoon gay man.

AMERIN PHAROAH, TRIPLE CROWN WNG HORSE, OUT AS GAY

He’s fsy, prissy, athetic, and cel – a sketch of a certa type of homosexual drawn by wrers who seem to know the type at which they’re aimg.

MARIE GAY ALSANDRA ORN

Osr himself don’t rpond to his workers’ barbs, but the entire nversatn around him is about homosexualy. This was hard to take as anythg but a team effort agast the group’s most different member: Jim (John Krasski), that charmg rogue, bizarrely referred to Osr as a “smug gay Mexin. ” While Kelly n take her workers to a Diwali celebratn and still reta Kelly-ns, to be Osr is to be a double helix of other, a racial mory pound wh homosexualy, the strangt tra the Office wrers uld possibly image.

It was ever th: Osr, never a breakout character, did ltle, other than don wig and hoedrs for Halloween, until his homosexualy was revealed, the send season (like so much else about Osr, this stume is so clanggly obv, his drag so much a straight man’s notn of what a “smug gay Mexin” would do on Halloween). In the third-season premiere, entled “Gay Wch Hunt, ” Osr outs himself to the entire staff after filg a plat agast Michael for g a gay slur.

GAY SECRETARY

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The show was unwillg to wre for a gay character for a while, so Osr took a leave of absence; like Sal Romano (Bryan Batt) at Mad Men’s Sterlg Cooper, Osr at Dunr Miffl n be ma to disappear when nvenient.

When he returned, his skmate Kev asked after Osr’s “gaytn”: cute enough, if that had been where end. In season 5, when Michael, his boss, “roasted” each employee wh a one-ler, he tells Osr, “You’re gay. ” This is a good joke to Michael; a good joke to the wrers of The Office is when Michael tells Andy (Ed Helms), the effete Cornell grad, “You’re gayer than Osr.

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY SENATE-NFIRMED CABET SECRETARY

Dwight land the joke, as everyone knows gay men n’t, shouldn’t, have kids! A pair of Uggs: tailor-ma for a gay joke ma flh, and at least better than an sult.

Any man at Dunr Miffl who isn’t fed by heterosexual sex –- bee they are the show’s central figur, Michael and Dwight have sex wh women regularly, and Jim is the theoretilly pleasant, utterly straight maniftatn of cuddlg a bubble bath after watchg a Nancy Meyers movie –- may jt be gay. Michael spreads a mor that Andy is gay that even Andy believ, and the sexualy of new rporate overseer Gabe is nstantly st to qutn.

Gay panic greas the wheels of The Office’s edy: not sce Plan, Tras, and Automobil’s “Those aren’t pillows” moment has so much been ma of straight men’s fear of the unstraight. ” That Gabe is a relatnship wh a woman mak no difference -– llg someone gay is a fair prank that Jim n pull, like hidg Dwight’s stapler. On NBC’s Thursday schle alone, there are recurrg gay characters on 30 Rock (the would-be executive Devon Banks) and Parks and Recreatn (April’s hip gay boyiend, and his boyiend) -– and that’s leavg asi the master’s this that uld be wrten on Saturday Night Live’s treatment of gays.

ERIC FANNG, FIRST OPENLY GAY ARMY SECRETARY, CONFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE

But those other shows, to varyg gre, are absurdist –- the character of Devon Banks isn’t a realistic portrayal of a gay man, and he isn’t meant to be. He’s an often sntily-clad striver whose one weakns is Kenh the Page; he’s about as realistic as the (lerally) two-dimensnal origal gay man TV edy, The Simpsons’s Waylon Smhers. April’s boyiends don’t remble anyone’s ia of a gay uple, and -– aga -– they aren’t meant to.

And for all Seth Meyers’s barbs at Weekend Update’s gayish club promoter, Stefon always gets the last lgh.

As the Los Angel Tim recently noted, a moment which Michael and Dwight speculate as to where Osr has sex (“flowers shops, ” “the swamp”) is most ak to the much-maligned trailer for The Dilemma, which Vce Vghn lls environmentally iendly rs “gay. His attus are the show’s, and Osr –- whose character velopment further to stereotype rtraed both by his supercil “gay” nature and what the dience wants to see –- will never get his Kelly moment. Amerin Pharoah, the first horse to w racg's Triple Crown sce 1978, has e out as gay an exclive terview wh Outsports, sayg "I want to own my tth.

GAY RIGHTS

""I'm happy to announce that I am a proud gay lt, " Amerin Pharoah said via Skype om his stall on his farm Kentucky, three days after wng the Belmont. " The horse's owner, Ahmed Zayat, said that Amerin Pharoah was a champn and he supported him regardls if he was "gay, straight, bi or a geldg, as long as he keeps wng.

" His jockey, Victor Espoza, noted the historil signifince, sayg was ol that this was the first Triple Crown won by a Lato jockey and an openly gay horse. Amerin Pharoah, 3, is the first wner of a Triple Crown race to e out openly as gay.

THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS

There were mors about 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakns wner Smarty Jon, but he has long nied them, sayg "I'm not gay. He said he do not expect to lose any endorsements and hop to land a part a new DirecTV mercial where he plays oppose a male mol, not Hannah said he knew he was gay sce he was a foal and would lay his stall, suckg on a sugar cube and wishg his feelgs would go away.

Dpe beg a proud out gay horse, Amerin Pharoah said he will still go to stud. Marie Gay Alsandra leads the EITI’s work on anti-rptn, namely on beneficial ownership and ntract transparency.