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- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- HELSKI MEN FNISH FIRST IN NEW ISSUE OF GAY TRAVEL MAGAZE"I FOUND THE FNS TO BE EXTREMELY SHY,” SAYS "ELSKA" EDOR LIAM {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY DAN AVERYSEPTEMBER 7, 2017/1:06 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}LIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKABY DAN AVERYSEPTEMBER 7, 2017 / 1:06 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"HELSKI MEN FNISH FIRST IN NEW ISSUE OF GAY TRAVEL MAGAZE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-09-07T17:06:01.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-09-07T17:06:01.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"TRAVEL, STYLE, ART","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EACH ISSUE OF ELSKA MAGAZE IS SET A DIFFERENT TERNATNAL STATN, GIVG REARS A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE ON THAT CY’S LGBT SCENE—AND S GAY MEN. THE LATT IS SET HELSKI, WH EDOR-PHOTOGRAPHER LIAM CAMPBELL PROFILG 13 FNS BOTH SUAL AND TIMATE SETTGS.LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE 164-PAGE SEPTEMBER ISSUE ALSO LV TO TOPICS LIKE RELATNSHIP BURNOUT, EMBRACG FEMY, DIFFICULTY BEG MONSTRATIVE, AND EVEN HOW MENTAL ILLNS N AFFECT A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ELSKA H ANOTHER NORDIC PAL, REYKJAVíK, 2016, BUT CAMPBELL SAYS THE TWO CI ULDN’T BE MORE DIFFERENT.LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I FOUND THE FNS TO BE EXTREMELY SHY AND DIFFICULT TO WARM UP, EVEN DURG THE PEAK OF SUMMER,” HE REVEALED. “DPE BEG FAMO FOR SNA CULTURE, WHERE IS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDN TO NOT BE NAKED, THEY WERE THE MOST TIMID PEOPLE I’VE ENUNTERED ANY ELSKA CY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE LLS THE HELSKI ISSUE THE MAGAZE'S "MOST TRIUMPHANT"—"BEE WE MANAGED TO GET THE LOLS TO PARTICIPATE AT ALL, OPENG THEMSELV UP THEIR TEXTS AND BARG ALL THEIR PHOTO SHOOTS.”LIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALSO CLUD THE MAGAZE IS ELSKA DEHORS, A SPECIAL SERT WH TWO MORE MEN PHOTOGRAPHED ON A SI TRIP TO SZCZEC, POLAND. THEIR VIL-MAY-RE ATTU GIV AN TERTG NTRAST TO THE MORE BUTTONED-UP FNS, SPE POLAND’S HISTORY OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CAMPBELL SAYS HE'S NSIRG SETTG AN UPG ISSUE OF ELSKA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ORR THE LATT ISSUE OF ELSKA ONLE.LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- GAY HELSKI: A GAY GUI TO FLAND’S PAL
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay on finnish *
An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak. But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post. Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri. * gay on finnish *
The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6. “Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle, ” Hodson told The Post.
“When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add.
HELSKI MEN FNISH FIRST IN NEW ISSUE OF GAY TRAVEL MAGAZE"I FOUND THE FNS TO BE EXTREMELY SHY,” SAYS "ELSKA" EDOR LIAM {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY DAN AVERYSEPTEMBER 7, 2017/1:06 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}LIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKABY DAN AVERYSEPTEMBER 7, 2017 / 1:06 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"HELSKI MEN FNISH FIRST IN NEW ISSUE OF GAY TRAVEL MAGAZE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-09-07T17:06:01.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-09-07T17:06:01.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"TRAVEL, STYLE, ART","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EACH ISSUE OF ELSKA MAGAZE IS SET A DIFFERENT TERNATNAL STATN, GIVG REARS A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE ON THAT CY’S LGBT SCENE—AND S GAY MEN. THE LATT IS SET HELSKI, WH EDOR-PHOTOGRAPHER LIAM CAMPBELL PROFILG 13 FNS BOTH SUAL AND TIMATE SETTGS.LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE 164-PAGE SEPTEMBER ISSUE ALSO LV TO TOPICS LIKE RELATNSHIP BURNOUT, EMBRACG FEMY, DIFFICULTY BEG MONSTRATIVE, AND EVEN HOW MENTAL ILLNS N AFFECT A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ELSKA H ANOTHER NORDIC PAL, REYKJAVíK, 2016, BUT CAMPBELL SAYS THE TWO CI ULDN’T BE MORE DIFFERENT.LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I FOUND THE FNS TO BE EXTREMELY SHY AND DIFFICULT TO WARM UP, EVEN DURG THE PEAK OF SUMMER,” HE REVEALED. “DPE BEG FAMO FOR SNA CULTURE, WHERE IS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDN TO NOT BE NAKED, THEY WERE THE MOST TIMID PEOPLE I’VE ENUNTERED ANY ELSKA CY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE LLS THE HELSKI ISSUE THE MAGAZE'S "MOST TRIUMPHANT"—"BEE WE MANAGED TO GET THE LOLS TO PARTICIPATE AT ALL, OPENG THEMSELV UP THEIR TEXTS AND BARG ALL THEIR PHOTO SHOOTS.”LIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/ELSKALIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALSO CLUD THE MAGAZE IS ELSKA DEHORS, A SPECIAL SERT WH TWO MORE MEN PHOTOGRAPHED ON A SI TRIP TO SZCZEC, POLAND. THEIR VIL-MAY-RE ATTU GIV AN TERTG NTRAST TO THE MORE BUTTONED-UP FNS, SPE POLAND’S HISTORY OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CAMPBELL SAYS HE'S NSIRG SETTG AN UPG ISSUE OF ELSKA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ORR THE LATT ISSUE OF ELSKA ONLE.LIAM CAMPBELL/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
* gay on finnish *
Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.
Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg. “Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month, ” he said.
GAY HELSKI: A GAY GUI TO FLAND’S PAL
The other day I was lookg over a travel gui om Germany and found a special sectn: a list of remend plac that are gay iendly. Sce * gay on finnish *
He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party. 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. 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.
Kennedy has claimed that fluoridated water is “dggg” children, HIV do not e Aids and chemils the water are makg people gay or transgenr as well as phg nonsensil nspiracy theori about wifi and 5G cellular the son of former attorney general Robert Kennedy, and nephew of former print John F Kennedy, Kennedy has ed anguish to one of Ameri’s most storied polil dynasti wh his toxic 2019 three relativ wrote an opn lumn for the Poli webse nmng his anti-vacce advocy, which they held partially rponsible for a measl Congrsnal Integry Project ntends that Kennedy is a “Republin stooge” who is beg embraced by the far right an attempt to damage Bin. Lehtikuva/Antti Aimo-Koivisto/via REUTERS/File PhotoHELSINKI, Jan 24 (Rters) - A Fnish Christian mocrat MP and former mister of the terr went on trial on Monday for agatn agast gay people over ments which she scribed homosexualy as a velopmental disorr and a s.In the unprecented se over eedom of speech, the Helski district urt mt also ci whether cg the Bible n be nsired a crime some s Fland.Paivi Rasanen, a medil doctor and MP for a small Christian-mocratic party sce 1995, lled homosexualy "a velopmental disorr" an onle opn letter published 2004 and "a shame and a s" on Twter 2019, the prosecutor said.In a programme broadst by Fnish public rad statn Yle 2019, Rasanen scribed homosexualy as a form of "geic generatn", the prosecutor add, chargg her wh three unts of agatn agast gay people.Rasanen has nied any wrongdog and said the prosecutor's claims were unfound."I feel great rponsibily bee I am aware that this se is historic for eedom of speech and eedom of relign," she told Rters an email ahead of the trial."Obvly, Christians stickg to the Bible's teachgs have the right to participate public bate," she said.In her 2004 opn piece, Rasanen claimed that scientific evince proved unniably that homosexualy was a disorr a person's psychosexual velopment and she suggted that gay relatnships early life uld lead to sexual abe by adult men.In her 2019 ment on Twter, Rasanen qutned the Fnish Evangelil Lutheran state church's cisn to partner wh a leadg LGBTI rights associatn to anise a Pri event, and posted a picture of a quote om the Bible nmng gay relatns.The prosecutor says Rasanen should be fed and the public broadster orred to remove parts of the rad programme.The urt will le on the matter on a later date.Reportg by Anne Kranen and Essi Lehto; Edg by Hugh LawsonOur Standards: The Thomson Rters Tst Prcipl. Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay on finnish *
Four were among the first natns to legalise gay marriage (Fland took a ltle longer, fally jog the club 2017), and Iceland beme the first untry to have an openly gay head of ernment (Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, 2009). Swedish melodrama The Wgs (1916), more than half of which has been sadly lost, is one of the first films to feature a gay storyle.
Bergman’s pictn of female homosexualy was seldom flatterg – see the predatory lbian Three Strange Lov (1949) or the possible readg of lbianism lkg to mental illns Persona (1966). The lite melancholy of the film, and s bleak pictn of a sad, possibly gay girl, make for a disquietg if rewardg viewg experience.
Daddy and the Mcle Amy (1991)The erotic gay drawgs of Too Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Fland, are one of the Sndavian pensula’s most famo queer exports, and this documentary, the only film to feature the man himself, is a handy entry to his work and reer. While the terviews wh New York leather daddi and S&M enthiasts show his fluence on gay inty, ’s the revealg ments of the artist himself that are the ma reason for watchg. Gay and lbian characters were among the mune dwellers the warm-hearted Together (2000), while the terr monologue of a trans woman was the foc of Contaer (2006), one of his most difficult films.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
Although the film do not shy away om the ugls of homophobic and transphobic society, the relatnship self is betifully leated, and featur a very touchg sex scene. A Moment the Reeds (2017)Leevi (Janne Puten), a young, gay Fnish man, meets Tareq (Boodi Kabbani), a Syrian immigrant worker employed to rtore the former’s fay lake hoe. Now as a gay male I was wonrg how LGBT acceptance is Fland, if there’s anythg I should take to acunt when makg the cisn, et cetera.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
Elska, the up-and-g seri of gay photography and culture bookaz, has ma s latt edn Helski, pal of Fland and world's northernmost metropolis. Known for s hont portrayal of diverse gay, queer, and allied men, a newt edn Elska sh a light on the people of what is perhaps the most unr-disvered Nordic pal. Each issue of Elska magaze is set a different ternatnal statn, givg rears a unique perspective on that cy’s LGBT scene—and s gay men.
Their vil-may-re attu giv an tertg ntrast to the more buttoned-up Fns, spe Poland’s history of homophobia.