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class="Episo_photo-cred__kKutI">(Derek Abella for The Washgton Post)</span></div><div class="Episo_episo-scriptn__xjxJk"><p><span style="lor: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-lor: transparent;">In 2019, Doug Forb and his wife left their 6-year-old dghter, Roxie, at Summerkids Camp, an idyllic day mp the Los Angel area. Ls than an hour later, they got a phone ll om the mp director. Roxie was beg transported to a nearby hospal. The next day, Roxie was pronounced ad; she had drowned.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="lor: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-lor: transparent;">Forb would spend the next four years tryg to unrstand how his dghter’s tragic ath uld have happened. What he – and The Post’s rporate acuntabily reporter, Doug MacMillan, disvered – is a seri of loophol the Red Cross’s lifeguard trag program that allegedly allows lifeguard trae to go rogue and skip lifavg trag protols.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="lor: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-lor: transparent;">Today, Doug MacMillan tak si The Post’s vtigatn of the Red Cross, the story of a father who lost his dghter to drowng, and why one whistleblower om si the anizatn says he don’t tst lifeguards to protect his children.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="AddToPodstApp_podst-subscribe-ntaer__QjQCe"><div class="AddToPodstApp_podst-subscribe-tle__QKK_a">Add to a podst app</div><div class="unfed AddToPodstApp_podst-hear__VIWKA"><div class="AddToPodstApp_podst-standard-sub-wrapper__wZD9R"><div><div class="AddToPodstApp_subscribe-actn-ll__a_ZHO">Listen to new episos on your smartphone or other vice.</div><div class="AddToPodstApp_podst-sublks__d02mX"><div 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Which ear is the gay earrg? You might rell hearg that if a man wore an earrg on the right ear, that meant he was gay. At the same time, the left ear is straight.

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WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EARRG? WHICH EAR IS THE STRAIGHT EAR?

If you are a fashn enthiast, you have likely noticed an tertg trend – the populary of men’s earrgs, pecially danglg their turbulent history, due to associatns wh homosexual men and guys gangs who showed their affiliatn through wearg danglg earrgs, they have now been embraced popular culture by most the danglg earrgs risg populary are cross earrgs, which may make you wonr whether they have any special meangs attached to will lve to that this article, and answer any qutns you may have on men’s earrgs cross-earrg trendTo check out the roots of this trend, we have the pop star Gee Michael to thank for the risks he took men’s fashn the 1980s, although men had been wearg danglg earrgs for much longer than his 1987 album “Fah”, he wore a ccifix drop earrg on his left ear, and Rob Lowe also sported a ccifix earrg on his right ear for his role the 1985 film “St. Elmo’s Fire” the 1980s though, the mon notn of a “gay ear” do not exist, so men wear earrgs on both ears okay for guys to wear cross earrgs? Although there was a mon assumptn that only rebels or gay men wore cross earrgs or earrgs general, the notn do not exist anymore as societal norms have famo men wear the earrgs on the red rpet or special ocsns, as well as wearg them as sual wear – so there is no reason to refe to do so fashn stylists the celebry world agree wh this and see the growg acceptance of men’s earrgs, cludg cross on, as part of a broar change men’s fashn – also part of the “soft masculy” movement enurag men to experiment wh their looks and bee more fortable their is also not surprisg that the cross-earrg look has grown promence as platforms such as Instagram have grown their dienc bee the put the foc of a picture on the more attractive you look a photo, even wh jewelry, the more your social media post is shared and liked by others, which enurag this trend to cross earrgs offensive?

In the distant past of 1993, gay marriage wasn’t legal any state the untry. Sodomy laws all over Ameri attempted to outlaw gay sex by crimalizg any oral or anal erotic ntact. And Dan Savage, a sex-advice lumnist then only known to rears of a few pennt alt-newspapers around the untry, was pable of makg breakout news wh a sndalo revelatn: Mattel’s latt Ken doll, part of the Earrg Magic le of Barbie toys, was openly moled on gay fashn.

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