After years of progrs on gay rights, how did the US bee so anti-LGBTQ+? | US news | The Guardian

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• BILLY CRYSTAL: 'STOP SHOVG GAY SEX SCEN MY FACE'
• ‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
• WHY DO THEY HAVE TO SHOVE DOWN OUR THROATS?LACHLAN SMH·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THK QUEERLY·3 M READ·JUN 27, 2018--3LISTENSHAREPHOTO BY SHARON MCCUTCHEON ON UNSPLASHTHIS WEEKEND I HAD THE PLEASURE (OR NOT!) OF HAVG FOUR YOUNG STRAIGHT MEN CRAMMED TO MY R AS I FERRIED THEM TO A CRICKET MATCH. THE LADS, RANGG OM MID-TEENS TO EARLY TWENTI, ARE GENUELY LOVELY YOUNG MEN. SOME OF THEM I HAVE KNOWN FOR ABOUT FOUR YEARS AND I’VE WATCHED THEM GROW UP AND MATURE (A LTLE!), BEG MORE NFINT AS THEY GET OLR AND EMERGE TO ADULTHOOD.THEY ALL KNOW I AM GAY AND THEY ARE ALL SEEM PRETTY OL ABOUT . WHAT THIS MEANS REALY VARI A LTLE; SOME TREAT ME THE SAME AS BEFORE WHILE OTHERS WILL ASK ME ABOUT MY PARTNER, MY LIFE, AND OCSNALLY LGBT ISSU. I DON’T PH MY QUEERNS ONTO THEM BUT I ALWAYS TRY AND BE OPEN TO TALK TO THEM IF THEY HAVE QUTNS.ON THIS R JOURNEY, THE NVERSATN TURNED TO GIRLS.GIRLS THEY FANCIED, ON THEY WERE GOG OUT WH, WHICH ON WERE GOOD EYE NDY, WHICH WERE LS SO (I’LL LEAVE THAT ONE THERE….) AND WHICH ON THEY WANTED TO SHAG (FUCK, FOR THOSE NOT FAIAR WH THE TERM). MUCH OF THE NVERSATN WAS AROUND THE PHYSIL ATTRIBUT OF THE GIRLS ALTHOUGH, TO BE FAIR, SOMETIM THEY EVEN STRAYED TO TALKG ABOUT THEM AS PEOPLE AND MENTNED PERSONALI!NOW I DON’T WANT TO SH TO JUDGEMENT. I’M SURE WHEN I WAS THEIR AGE I THOUGHT OF OTHER LADS AS ‘F’ — OR WHATEVER THE RIGHT TERM WAS AT THAT TIME ATRALIA, AND I STILL DO NOW. WHO DON’T? BUT WAS REALLY JARRG TO ME, BEG OUTSI OF THAT SPHERE FOR SO LONG, JT SOUND CRASS AND VULGAR. I REMEMBER SOME OF THE LADS I WAS AT SCHOOL WH SPEAKG THE SAME WAY BUT I’M SURE WAS NEVER SO OVERT. THE REALY IS THOUGH PROBABLY WASN’T AS DIFFERENT AS I IMAGED AND I HAVE ROSE TTED GLASS.I WAS SUDNLY IMMERSED SUCH A HETERONORMATIVE ENVIRONMENT THAT I FELT A B UNFORTABLE.I WONRED TO MYSELF WHAT THEIR REACTN WOULD BE IF I TOLD THEM THAT A PARTICULAR MEMBER OF THE CRICKET CLUB WAS F? I’LL ADM, FELT WRONG TO THK, LET ALONE SAY SOMETHG LIKE THAT GIVEN I’M OLD ENOUGH TO BE THEIR DAD. BUT I STILL WONRED, PERHAPS A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT HOW PEOPLE MIGHT REACT? WHEN I’M WH OLR PLAYERS AT THE CLUB (LET’S SAY ANYONE OVER 30ISH!) MANY OF THEM WILL SEE AN ATTRACTIVE WOMAN AND TELL EVERYONE ABOUT . PERHAPS I SHOULD SPY A F GUY, TELL THEM AND THEN WATCH THEIR FAC?THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTED FOR ME HOW HETERONORMATIVE THE WORLD STILL IS.
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST
• CAN A STRAIGHT GUY ETHILLY ACCEPT ORAL SEX OM HIS GAY BUDDY?
• XL ANAL BUTT PLUG BIG DILDO DONG MONSTER FAT MASSIVE LARGE GAY ADULT SEX TOY
• [HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!

BILLY CRYSTAL: 'STOP SHOVG GAY SEX SCEN MY FACE'

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I’m not a homophobe, anti trans, or hateful anyway. As the only out young gay kid at my school, I took the advancement of my sexual experienc to my own hands and I did what we all do: I bought a fake ID and h the gay clubs. While I knew wouldn’t be like a gay llege eroti I’d read on (gay non, really), I rather naively wasn’t expectg the fall out.

WHY DO THEY HAVE TO SHOVE DOWN OUR THROATS?LACHLAN SMH·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THK QUEERLY·3 M READ·JUN 27, 2018--3LISTENSHAREPHOTO BY SHARON MCCUTCHEON ON UNSPLASHTHIS WEEKEND I HAD THE PLEASURE (OR NOT!) OF HAVG FOUR YOUNG STRAIGHT MEN CRAMMED TO MY R AS I FERRIED THEM TO A CRICKET MATCH. THE LADS, RANGG OM MID-TEENS TO EARLY TWENTI, ARE GENUELY LOVELY YOUNG MEN. SOME OF THEM I HAVE KNOWN FOR ABOUT FOUR YEARS AND I’VE WATCHED THEM GROW UP AND MATURE (A LTLE!), BEG MORE NFINT AS THEY GET OLR AND EMERGE TO ADULTHOOD.THEY ALL KNOW I AM GAY AND THEY ARE ALL SEEM PRETTY OL ABOUT . WHAT THIS MEANS REALY VARI A LTLE; SOME TREAT ME THE SAME AS BEFORE WHILE OTHERS WILL ASK ME ABOUT MY PARTNER, MY LIFE, AND OCSNALLY LGBT ISSU. I DON’T PH MY QUEERNS ONTO THEM BUT I ALWAYS TRY AND BE OPEN TO TALK TO THEM IF THEY HAVE QUTNS.ON THIS R JOURNEY, THE NVERSATN TURNED TO GIRLS.GIRLS THEY FANCIED, ON THEY WERE GOG OUT WH, WHICH ON WERE GOOD EYE NDY, WHICH WERE LS SO (I’LL LEAVE THAT ONE THERE….) AND WHICH ON THEY WANTED TO SHAG (FUCK, FOR THOSE NOT FAIAR WH THE TERM). MUCH OF THE NVERSATN WAS AROUND THE PHYSIL ATTRIBUT OF THE GIRLS ALTHOUGH, TO BE FAIR, SOMETIM THEY EVEN STRAYED TO TALKG ABOUT THEM AS PEOPLE AND MENTNED PERSONALI!NOW I DON’T WANT TO SH TO JUDGEMENT. I’M SURE WHEN I WAS THEIR AGE I THOUGHT OF OTHER LADS AS ‘F’ — OR WHATEVER THE RIGHT TERM WAS AT THAT TIME ATRALIA, AND I STILL DO NOW. WHO DON’T? BUT WAS REALLY JARRG TO ME, BEG OUTSI OF THAT SPHERE FOR SO LONG, JT SOUND CRASS AND VULGAR. I REMEMBER SOME OF THE LADS I WAS AT SCHOOL WH SPEAKG THE SAME WAY BUT I’M SURE WAS NEVER SO OVERT. THE REALY IS THOUGH PROBABLY WASN’T AS DIFFERENT AS I IMAGED AND I HAVE ROSE TTED GLASS.I WAS SUDNLY IMMERSED SUCH A HETERONORMATIVE ENVIRONMENT THAT I FELT A B UNFORTABLE.I WONRED TO MYSELF WHAT THEIR REACTN WOULD BE IF I TOLD THEM THAT A PARTICULAR MEMBER OF THE CRICKET CLUB WAS F? I’LL ADM, FELT WRONG TO THK, LET ALONE SAY SOMETHG LIKE THAT GIVEN I’M OLD ENOUGH TO BE THEIR DAD. BUT I STILL WONRED, PERHAPS A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT HOW PEOPLE MIGHT REACT? WHEN I’M WH OLR PLAYERS AT THE CLUB (LET’S SAY ANYONE OVER 30ISH!) MANY OF THEM WILL SEE AN ATTRACTIVE WOMAN AND TELL EVERYONE ABOUT . PERHAPS I SHOULD SPY A F GUY, TELL THEM AND THEN WATCH THEIR FAC?THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTED FOR ME HOW HETERONORMATIVE THE WORLD STILL IS.

I realize I fell to that old gay adage of placg my feelgs on a person who, for whatever reason, was never gog to vt them back me. Worst of all, though, the shame attached to the memori of those first tim marred how I would approach sex for was listeng to Years & Years’ new song “Sanctify, ” and seeg the band’s out gay sger Olly Alexanr talk about how the song was spired his sexual trysts wh straight men, that I realized that the feelgs are way more mon than people let on. Sure, I know all about gay guys havg sex wh straight guys, but felt reassurg to see him scribe the “sat and sner role” he embodied durg those experienc, and to hear the uncertaty and melancholy weaved to the than anythg though, was the repeated lyril mantra of “I won’t be ashamed.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

The sertn of foreign objects to the rectum ttum of Homo sapiens is nothg new. "I'm a straight man, too, and one who knows, unlike Xanr, that 's totally not gay to put thgs up your butt.

40, well… que ankly, I appld his do bother me, however, was Xanr's homophobic non-sequur at the prs nference as relayed by his lawyer. Everyone was so amed by the act self that Xanr's credibly ill-rmed and homophobic statement was sentially ignored, or maybe 's taken for granted that a 20-year-old bro hat gay our culture doomed?

TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST

Aga, I am not anti homosexual, and I do not hate anyone based on their genr or inty.

CAN A STRAIGHT GUY ETHILLY ACCEPT ORAL SEX OM HIS GAY BUDDY?

Anal sex is normal for some upl — straight or gay — and not for others. Unls you personally intify as LGBTQIA+ or love someone who do, there is a good chance you bee oversaturated by what you thk are too many stori about gay rights, transgenr kids, and pronoun e. You are fatigued om all of the “gay stuff” nstantly beg shoved your face; you are fe wh the “liftyle” but why n’t we jt live and let live?

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Tell me aga how tired you are of seeg another story about trans kids and gay people.

Do all gay men do this? But beg a gay man or Richard Gere Ameri means always havg to reassure people that you don’t have a gerbil your ass—at dner parti, durg fay rnns, at funerals, on CNN, at passport ntrol, wherever! For while gay men and, I assume, Richard Gere don’t put gerbils their ass, not a day go by that someone—ually a straight 13-year-old boy—don’t try to shove one , figuratively speakg.

Hundreds of thoands of men and women this untry, my fellow Amerins, leave high school nvced that gay men put gerbils their ass on a semiregular basis. Some background: Gerbil stuffg is a sexual practice that straight teenage boys general, and Howard Stern particular, spect gay men general, and Richard Gere (who is not gay) particular, of engagg . The type of straight person who believ that gay men engage “gerbilg” is likely to believe other gay stereotyp: we’re all prissy ltle swish, for stance, wh clean apartments and extensive llectns of origal Broadway st rerdgs.

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Yet the same person who believ gay men are prim sissi also believ we’re pable of holdg a stgglg ront one hand while rippg s lower jaw off wh the other, and then tearg s legs off (thk of the ms! There is nothg trsilly “gay” about gerbil stuffg. Some straight people have a peculiar need to believe certa sex acts—ually disgtg on—are practiced only by gay men, spe evince to the ntrary.

This cur impulse to cred gay men wh sex acts that anyone n perform extends to sex acts straight people themselv are the primary practners of. I’ve had nversatns wh hundreds of outrageoly kky people, gay and straight, who’ve told me the crazit sh: I once chatted for an hour wh a guy who married his horse. “I am not a homosexual, ” the hetero horse fucker rmed me.

If gay men and Richard Gere stuffed gerbils their butts, well, then the pet stor that serve the gay and Richard Gere muni would stock gerbils, right? I mean, everythg else that a perverse gay man needs is available your average gay neighborhood, om poppers to butt plugs to bullwhips to sofa sectnals.