There are penis jok -- but there's also a heartfelt g-out story that might jt break Hollywood's unspoken ban on gay characters film.
Contents:
- GAY BLOCK
- PARENTAL CONTROLS, BLOCKG GAY WEBS?
- IS RUBY FROM ON MY BLOCK GAY? KNOW THE STAR’S REAL LIFE INTY
- BLOCKERS QUIETLY MAK GAY MOVIE HISTORY
- DONT WORRY GUYS I BLOCK THE GAY
- ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
- ‘HE BEME GAY LATER. I DIDN’T DO ! BUT HE’S FABULO’: WHAT A NEW KID ON THE BLOCK DID NEXT
- LARGE CRANE SHUTS DOWN A BLOCK OF GAY ST. DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE
- DID YOU KNOW THE 100 BLOCK OF GAY STREET WAS RAISED? TAKE AN UNRGROUND TOUR
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
- [WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- JONATHAN KNIGHT CONFIRMS HE’S GAY AFTER BEG OUTED ON BRAVO SHOW
- A GAY MICHIGAN COUPLE ARE FLIPPG HOM DETRO ON THEIR VERY OWN HGTV SHOW
- NKOTB'S JONATHAN KNIGHT CONFIRMS HE'S GAY'I HAVE LIVED MY LIFE VERY OPENLY AND HAVE NEVER HIDN THE FACT THAT I AM GAY,' '80S BOY-BAND MEMBER {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;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/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;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;}CELEBRIBY GIL KFMANJANUARY 31, 2011/9:11 {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;}BY GIL KFMANJANUARY 31, 2011 / 9:11 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"NKOTB'S JONATHAN KNIGHT CONFIRMS HE'S GAY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2011-01-31T14:11:38.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2011-01-31T14:11:38.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"GIL KFMAN","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}YOU N'T OUT NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK'S JONATHAN KNIGHT BEE HE ALREADY ME OUT, LIKE, A LONG TIME AGO. THE 1980S-BOY-BAND MEMBER WAS SEEMGLY PHED OUT OF THE CLOSET BY FELLOW '80S TEEN POP STAR TIFFANY RECENTLY WHEN SHE TOLD BRAVO'S "WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE" THAT SHE WAS A RELATNSHIP WH A MEMBER OF NKOTB AROUND 20 YEARS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THE QUIET ONE, THE SHY ONE," TIFFANY SAID REFERENCE TO KNIGHT. "[HE] BEME GAY LATER. I DIDN'T DO . I HAD ISSU WH THAT. I WAS THKG MAYBE I DID. NOW LOOKG BACK WHEN WE WERE DATG, HE WAS SO MUCH FUN. WE ED TO DO FACIALS TOGETHER. HE WAS SO EASY TO TALK TO."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER TIFFANY WAS SLAMMED ON SOME ONLE FOMS FOR THE MENTS, KNIGHT RELEASED A STATEMENT OVER THE WEEKEND NFIRMG THE NEWS, WHICH HE SAID WAS NOT REALLY NEWS. ACRDG TO THE WEBSE , THE STATEMENT POSTED ON THE FAN FOM ON THE NKOTB WEBSE, KNIGHT WROTE, "I HAVE NEVER BEEN OUTED BY ANYONE BUT MYSELF! I DID SO ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO. I NEVER KNEW THAT I WOULD HAVE TO DO ALL OVER AGA PUBLICLY JT BEE I RNED WH NKOTB! I HAVE LIVED MY LIFE VERY OPENLY AND HAVE NEVER HIDN THE FACT THAT I AM GAY! APPARENTLY THE PREREQUISE TO BEG A GAY PUBLIC FIGURE IS TO APPEAR ON THE VER OF A MAGAZE WH THE PTN 'I AM GAY.' I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT DOG SO IF THIS IS WHAT WAS EXPECTED! MY BELIEF IS THAT YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE BY EXAMPLE, AND NOT BY A PTN ON A MAGAZE! IF THERE EVER HAS BEEN ANY NFN ABOUT MY SEXUALY, THEN YOU ARE SOMEONE THAT DON'T EVEN KNOW ME!"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KNIGHT WILL TAKE PART THE UPG TOUR BY THE SUPERSTAR BOY-BAND PAIRG OF [ARTICLE ID="1652841"]NKOTB AND THE BACKSTREET BOYS[/ARTICLE]. HE ADD HIS MENTS THAT LIKE HIS BANDMAT, HE DON'T FEEL THAT HE HAS TO DISCS HIS PRIVATE LIFE PUBLIC. "I LOVE LIVG MY LIFE BEG OPEN AND HONT, BUT AT THIS TIME I CHOOSE NOT TO DISCS MY PRIVATE LIFE ANY FURTHER!" HE WROTE. "MY FELLOW BAND MEMBERS DON'T DISCS THEIR PRIVATE LIV WH THEIR LOVED ON AND I DON'T FEEL THAT JT BEE I AM GAY, I SHOULD HAVE TO DISCS ME!"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SHOWG THAT THERE ARE CLEARLY NO HARD FEELGS, KNIGHT ALSO ME TO TIFFANY'S FENSE WHEN THE SGER WAS ATTACKED BY ANGRY FANS, TWEETG, "I'D ALSO APPRECIATE IF THE PEOPLE TALKG TRASH ABOUT TIFFANY AND DEBORAH [GIBSON] KNOCK OFF AND STOP BEG NASTY!" HE ALSO TWEETED A PERSONAL MSAGE TO HIS EX, WRG, "@TIFFANYTUN TIFF, PLEASE DON'T LOSE ANY SLEEP OVER ! I KNOW YOU WEREN'T BEG MEAN AND I FOUND TO BE FUNNY!"{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 BLOCK
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When schools block pro-LGBT s but still allow accs to hate s that nmn LGBT people or urge them to try to “pray away the gay, ” ’s viewpot discrimatn and vlat stunts’ rights unr the First Amendment.
PARENTAL CONTROLS, BLOCKG GAY WEBS?
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Others are followg Florida’s lead – which passed a bill crics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” – and are eyeg rtrictns on teachg LGBTQ topics schools.
They were stunned at how quickly the culture had shifted support of gay marriage and were left to regroup.
“I feel like the whole gay marriage bate was a sham, ” Terry Schillg, print of the right-wg Amerin Prcipl Project, said an terview wh CNN.
IS RUBY FROM ON MY BLOCK GAY? KNOW THE STAR’S REAL LIFE INTY
Gay Block’s photography allowed her to explore surprisg facets of her subjects, om girls at summer mp to Holot survivors to her own mother. * block gay *
“When we were batg gay marriage as a untry, the opponents of gay marriage were sentially sayg this is gog to lead to the sexualizatn of children. “Essentially we went om Obergefell and gay marriage to now sex chang for gay mors, hormone treatments, puberty blockers. ” Siarly, Florida is facg a lawsu over s law – lled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by crics – that rtricts stctn related to certa LGBTQ topics.
Hardg noted that he is a lennial who grew up wh gay iends and attend llege Miami, addg, “It’s not like I’m this narrow-md right-wger. Still, he add: “The gay muny hontly has done a disservice by beg lumped wh this trans and genr movement bee ’s not their fight.
BLOCKERS QUIETLY MAK GAY MOVIE HISTORY
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Activists who long cried gay rights, often assailg them as a threat to nservative fay valu and procreatn, said they’ve found new alli, particularly their efforts to lim medil re and athletic opportuni for transgenr youth.
DONT WORRY GUYS I BLOCK THE GAY
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In the 1970s, Christian sger and anti-gay activist Ana Bryant lnched the “Save Our Children” mpaign to fight back agast a lol Da County, Florida, ordance that banned discrimatn based on sexual orientatn hog and employment. Last year was overwhelmgly terrible, and this year is even For example, Pizer is trackg a whole wave of pyt bills like the on signed Florida and Alabama that opponents ll don't say gay. Then me the trans sports bans and trans medil re Well, when to the so-lled don't say gay bills - the on that al wh classroom stctn - they've been amed by supporters, like, around parental rights.
‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
It's really homophobic and dangero language, and harkens back to a theme om the '70s, when the anti-gay-rights activist, the sger Ana Bryant, lnched a mpaign that she lled Save Our Children. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)ANITA BRYANT: Jt blogilly - that God ma mothers so that we uld reproduce - homosexuals nnot reproduce blogilly, but they have to reproduce by recg our And that throwback smear - the obvly false claim that LGBTQ people are predators or pedophil - that's gaed tractn as the bills advance. LONGWELL: I got married to my wife 2013, we had kids, and those fights that I was so engaged the early 2000s, all the way up to the Supreme Court makg the cisn to legalize gay marriage - they had started to bee kd of a Longwell told me, I thought we were past as a untry.
Hi, I have Eset Smart Secury 5 and I tried the new parental ntrols feature on the vis checker and I have noticed the teenage settg tends to block Gay and Lbian webs. My son is gay and I do not want Gay and Lbian unr adult ntent, only nudy and severe vlence.
‘HE BEME GAY LATER. I DIDN’T DO ! BUT HE’S FABULO’: WHAT A NEW KID ON THE BLOCK DID NEXT
Is there a way to remove certa tegori, such as Gay and Lbian om the "Adult Content". If I'm right assumg this, then means that a simple blog talkg about gay rights would be blocked, for stance? Or, is ESET sayg that jt bee some webse is hostg gay ntent, will irremediably fect a er's system or be a shockg thg to see, regardls of beg porn or not?
I dont believe s discrimatn as there are plenty of Gay/Lbian porn s which is why Im sure Eset is blockg . Jt bee 's gay or straight do not change the fact 's the same, so blocks most porn webs right off the bat; not bee gay porn is on . I don't re much for the discrimatn, nsirg anyone gay has to al wh everyday for the rt of their liv.
I do not want to take eher si but i n say i have some gay / lbian eds and i also own a pc bs and i FULLY unrstand there are leg gay webs but there are more that are normally malic, i am lled to remove vis' om people browsg gay / lbian webs VERY often. There's no nclive evince or proof that somethg me om a "gay" webse, 's jt pla wrong to ppot to that.
LARGE CRANE SHUTS DOWN A BLOCK OF GAY ST. DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE
They are eds of me they have no problem tellg me they went to a specific gay se (now please know im not speakg of say a gay fom or hotle im reff. It is highly doubtful that even if they went to the lol gay porn webse, they would be fected. It don't matter if 's gay or not, would be blocked regardls of sexualy if the parental ntrols exclud GLBT.
You're flat out lnal if you thk gay webs ject more vis and even if did is irrelevant bee Parental Controls is for parents, not protectn. If there's somethg that I learnt over the years, is that cyber crimals will attack g the most ed vector - In this hypothetil suatn, would be gay porn. Therefore, if% of heterosexual people is superr, the mand says that the straight porn supply would have to be superr to gay porn.
Warng: Blockers plot tails, Simon ma history this year by beg the first gay teen rom- released by a major stud, 20th Century Fox. Both stori end a triumphant while Love, Simon marketed self on s gay ntent -- a viral advertisg mpaign featured personalized g-out billboards for the rints of var ci as well as same-sex flirtatns wh social media fluencers -- Blockers has clud no mentn of this storyle s marketg materials. Several outlets have also remarked upon this "unexpected gay romance" -- cludg Vany Fair, which wonred if Hollywood "may have fally broken through a taboo big-budget stud filmmakers have been tryg hard to crack for the past few years.
DID YOU KNOW THE 100 BLOCK OF GAY STREET WAS RAISED? TAKE AN UNRGROUND TOUR
The origal script by Jim and Brian Kehoe did not clu a gay storyle, and was her put that changed that. There are some gay jok that may ffle some feathers, cludg a scene where John Cena has to overe an ick factor to grab a man's by cludg Sam's story a mastream edy that has already garnered over $20 ln at the U.
Moreover, dience members who may have avoid a "gay" film like Love, Simon will go, they'll lgh, and maybe they'll have a change of heart. Gay Block’s photography allowed her to explore surprisg facets of her subjects, om girls at summer mp to Holot survivors to her own mother. Knight, now 54, said that the band’s manager at the time knew that he was gay, but urged him to keep his sexualy a secret.
Bass, who beme a father to tws wh his hband, Michael Turch, 2021, also brought up changg attus to parenthood wh the gay muny. Knight said that “95%” of his and Rodriguez’s gay iends are now parents, but that the procs was not straightforward for them. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.
He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.
[WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY
” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.
On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe lg sid wh 20 state attorneys general who sued the Bin admistratn over guil on rights for gay and transgenr workers and Luis Magana/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagA feral judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Bin admistratn om enforcg directiv that extend civil rights protectns to L.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
Stunts and lg roughly one year after a group of 20 nservative state attorneys general filed a lawsu agast two feral agenci for their terpretatn of the 1972 landmark civil rights statute known as Tle IX, which prohibed sex-based discrimatn tnal programs and activi that receive feral fundg, and Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibed employers om discrimatg agast workers based on race, relign or year, those agenci, the Department of Edutn and the Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn, followg guidance om Print Bin, said the protectns afford unr Tle IX and Tle VII extend to gay and transgenr dividuals and would be enforced workplac and those directiv, the agenci said that pani and schools uld not ny a transgenr person accs to a bathroom that rrpond to that dividual’s genr inty. The attorneys general also said the admistratn vlated feral law bee did not follow proper procs implementg those Bin admistratn argued that the regulatns were nsistent wh a 2020 Supreme Court lg that said Tle VII prevented employers om firg someone for beg gay or transgenr.
Gorsuch, wrg for the majory, said that “ is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex. ”Before that cisn, was legal more than half of the stat to fire workers for beg gay, bisexual or state attorneys general had argued their se that the thory on the issu “properly belongs to Congrs, the Stat, and the people. ”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis.
JONATHAN KNIGHT CONFIRMS HE’S GAY AFTER BEG OUTED ON BRAVO SHOW
Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time. Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs.
A GAY MICHIGAN COUPLE ARE FLIPPG HOM DETRO ON THEIR VERY OWN HGTV SHOW
Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. Passg the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu bill would further rce eedoms a untry where gay sex is already punishable wh up to three years jail, crics and activists Odoi, an amic rearcher, filed a lawsu on July 7 challengg the bill's nstutnaly, sayg would impact donor aid and other forms of fancial support. Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednday led her arguments were not sufficiently nvcg to grant an lg cleared the way for the bill, one of the harsht towards the LGBTQ muny Ai, to go through a fal stage of parliamentary approval before beg signed to May, Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, which spelled out the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"'s bill, backed by relig and tradnal lears, clus jail sentenc of up to 10 years for advotg for LGBTQ rights.
He wasn’t closeted, but he also never clared on the ver of People magaze, “I’m gay! ” Rather, he was accintally outed the Natnal Enquirer, the news amplified by his fellow 1980s pop star Tiffany when she appeared on a talkshow 2011 and told the host that they’d dated and that “he beme gay later.
NKOTB'S JONATHAN KNIGHT CONFIRMS HE'S GAY'I HAVE LIVED MY LIFE VERY OPENLY AND HAVE NEVER HIDN THE FACT THAT I AM GAY,' '80S BOY-BAND MEMBER {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;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/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;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;}CELEBRIBY GIL KFMANJANUARY 31, 2011/9:11 {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;}BY GIL KFMANJANUARY 31, 2011 / 9:11 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"NKOTB'S JONATHAN KNIGHT CONFIRMS HE'S GAY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2011-01-31T14:11:38.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2011-01-31T14:11:38.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"GIL KFMAN","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}YOU N'T OUT NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK'S JONATHAN KNIGHT BEE HE ALREADY ME OUT, LIKE, A LONG TIME AGO. THE 1980S-BOY-BAND MEMBER WAS SEEMGLY PHED OUT OF THE CLOSET BY FELLOW '80S TEEN POP STAR TIFFANY RECENTLY WHEN SHE TOLD BRAVO'S "WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE" THAT SHE WAS A RELATNSHIP WH A MEMBER OF NKOTB AROUND 20 YEARS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THE QUIET ONE, THE SHY ONE," TIFFANY SAID REFERENCE TO KNIGHT. "[HE] BEME GAY LATER. I DIDN'T DO . I HAD ISSU WH THAT. I WAS THKG MAYBE I DID. NOW LOOKG BACK WHEN WE WERE DATG, HE WAS SO MUCH FUN. WE ED TO DO FACIALS TOGETHER. HE WAS SO EASY TO TALK TO."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER TIFFANY WAS SLAMMED ON SOME ONLE FOMS FOR THE MENTS, KNIGHT RELEASED A STATEMENT OVER THE WEEKEND NFIRMG THE NEWS, WHICH HE SAID WAS NOT REALLY NEWS. ACRDG TO THE WEBSE , THE STATEMENT POSTED ON THE FAN FOM ON THE NKOTB WEBSE, KNIGHT WROTE, "I HAVE NEVER BEEN OUTED BY ANYONE BUT MYSELF! I DID SO ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO. I NEVER KNEW THAT I WOULD HAVE TO DO ALL OVER AGA PUBLICLY JT BEE I RNED WH NKOTB! I HAVE LIVED MY LIFE VERY OPENLY AND HAVE NEVER HIDN THE FACT THAT I AM GAY! APPARENTLY THE PREREQUISE TO BEG A GAY PUBLIC FIGURE IS TO APPEAR ON THE VER OF A MAGAZE WH THE PTN 'I AM GAY.' I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT DOG SO IF THIS IS WHAT WAS EXPECTED! MY BELIEF IS THAT YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE BY EXAMPLE, AND NOT BY A PTN ON A MAGAZE! IF THERE EVER HAS BEEN ANY NFN ABOUT MY SEXUALY, THEN YOU ARE SOMEONE THAT DON'T EVEN KNOW ME!"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KNIGHT WILL TAKE PART THE UPG TOUR BY THE SUPERSTAR BOY-BAND PAIRG OF [ARTICLE ID="1652841"]NKOTB AND THE BACKSTREET BOYS[/ARTICLE]. HE ADD HIS MENTS THAT LIKE HIS BANDMAT, HE DON'T FEEL THAT HE HAS TO DISCS HIS PRIVATE LIFE PUBLIC. "I LOVE LIVG MY LIFE BEG OPEN AND HONT, BUT AT THIS TIME I CHOOSE NOT TO DISCS MY PRIVATE LIFE ANY FURTHER!" HE WROTE. "MY FELLOW BAND MEMBERS DON'T DISCS THEIR PRIVATE LIV WH THEIR LOVED ON AND I DON'T FEEL THAT JT BEE I AM GAY, I SHOULD HAVE TO DISCS ME!"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SHOWG THAT THERE ARE CLEARLY NO HARD FEELGS, KNIGHT ALSO ME TO TIFFANY'S FENSE WHEN THE SGER WAS ATTACKED BY ANGRY FANS, TWEETG, "I'D ALSO APPRECIATE IF THE PEOPLE TALKG TRASH ABOUT TIFFANY AND DEBORAH [GIBSON] KNOCK OFF AND STOP BEG NASTY!" HE ALSO TWEETED A PERSONAL MSAGE TO HIS EX, WRG, "@TIFFANYTUN TIFF, PLEASE DON'T LOSE ANY SLEEP OVER ! I KNOW YOU WEREN'T BEG MEAN AND I FOUND TO BE FUNNY!"{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
Storeonts are still visible the unrground tate velopers see an opportuny to re-purpose unrground the 100 block of the Gay Street we know today is the 100 block of yterday or, rather, ytercentury. Fixg 'the Death Dip' The 100 block of Gay Street was raised to rolve what lol historian Jack Neely referred to as "the Death Dip.
"As Gay Street grew and the railroad got by, acmodatg dozens of tras every day, the cy built bridg over the rail yards.