New HIV fectns the Uned Stat have dropped recent years, driven largely by creas among young gay and bisexual men, acrdg to a new report om the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventn.
Contents:
- KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
- VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
- IS YOUNG THUG GAY? RAPPER ADDRS MOURS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
- ‘YOUNG GAY PEOPLE BEG OUT AND HAPPY? IT’S REVOLUTNARY!’ MEET THE HEARTSTOPPER GENERATN
- NEW HIV FECTNS ARE TRENDG DOWN THE US, PECIALLY AMONG YOUNG GAY MEN, CDC TIMAT
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- IS YOUNG THUG GAY? THE TTH ABOUT THE RUMORS
- FIVE YEARS OLD AND GAY RURAL, WTERN KANSAS
- YOUNG THUG ADDRS RUMORS ABOUT HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN“I’M THE FIRST RAPPER THAT THEY KD OF LIKE ME AT HARD WH THIS.”{FONT:NORMAL 600 1.4REM/1.2 "SOEHNE",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#0A0A0A;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 600 1.4REM/1.2 "SOEHNE",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#0A0A0A;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;}MICBY DANIELLE RANSOMAUGT 21, 2019/5:18 {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:2000PX;WIDTH:3000PX;}(PHOTO: JOHNNY NUNEZ/WIREIMAGE)BY DANIELLE RANSOMAUGT 21, 2019 / 5:18 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"YOUNG THUG ADDRS RUMORS ABOUT HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN","SCRIPTN":"“I’M THE FIRST RAPPER THAT THEY ME AT HARD WH THIS.”","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-08-21T21:18:00.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-08-21T21:18:00.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"BET"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"BET","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"DANIELLE RANSOM","KEYWORDS":"MIC NEWS, YOUNG THUG","ARTICLESECTN":"MIC"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}YOUNG THUG GRACED VETERAN RAD SHOW HOST BIG BOY WH A RARE TERVIEW. THE TRAP IN SWUNG BY BIG BOY’S NEIGHBORHOOD FOR AN TERVIEW ON THE REAL WHERE THE TWO CHOPPED UP ABOUT THE UPG RELEASE OF HIS LLABORATIVE PROJECT, SUPER SLIMEY {MARG:0;MARG-BOTTOM:18PX;PADDG:0;LIST-STYLE:NONE;} LI{LIST-STYLE-POSN:SI;}{FONT:NORMAL 700 2.0REM/1.2 "SOEHNE",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;MARG:0;MARG-BOTTOM:18PX;PADDG:0;LIST-STYLE:NONE;}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:660PX){{FONT-SIZE:2.4REM;}} LI{LIST-STYLE-POSN:SI;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0;MARG-TOP:42PX;MAX-WIDTH:100VW;} TWTER-WIDGET{MARG:0 !IMPORTANT;} {MAX-WIDTH:100%;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.25%;MARG:0 TO;} [DATA-OEMBED-URL*='YOUTU']{HEIGHT:0;MAX-WIDTH:100%;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.25%;POSN:RELATIVE;} [DATA-OEMBED-URL*='YOUTU'] EMBED{BOTTOM:0;HEIGHT:100%;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;TOP:0;WIDTH:100%;} STAGRAM-MEDIA{WIDTH:LC(100% - 24PX) !IMPORTANT;M-WIDTH:UNSET !IMPORTANT;MARG-BOTTOM:0 !IMPORTANT;PADDG:0 12PX !IMPORTANT;MAX-WIDTH:516PX !IMPORTANT;}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:660PX){ STAGRAM-MEDIA{PADDG:0 !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}}{DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;MARG-BOTTOM:18PX;}{MARG:0 TO;MARG-TOP:42PX;}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:660PX){{WIDTH:LC((((100% - 11 * 24PX) / 12) * 10) + (24PX * 9));}}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:980PX){{PADDG-LEFT:24PX;PADDG-RIGHT:24PX;WIDTH:TO;}}{FONT:NORMAL 400 1.6REM/1.5 "SOEHNE",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;MARG:0 TO;MARG-TOP:42PX;}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:660PX){{WIDTH:LC((((100% - 11 * 24PX) / 12) * 10) + (24PX * 9));}}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:980PX){{PADDG-LEFT:24PX;PADDG-RIGHT:24PX;WIDTH:TO;}}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#0A0A0A;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE NVERSATN BRIEFLY TOUCHED ON HIS FALLOUT WH YOUNG MONEY HONCHO LIL WAYNE OVER CARTER V AND THE TRAPATEER’S LONG-STANDG BEEF WH RICH HOMIE QUAN BEFORE VEERED TOWARD THE MORS REGARDG THUGGER’S SEXUALY. WHILE THUGGER’S INTY, OR ANYONE ELSE’S, FOR THAT MATTER, IS NOBODY’S BS EXCEPT THEIRS, THE TRAP IN’S GENR-FLUID FASHN CHOIC HAVE RULTED SOME PEOPLE SPEWG HOMOPHOBIA ONLE TOWARD HIM. {FONT:NORMAL 700 2.0REM/1.2 "SOEHNE",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;MARG-BOTTOM:18PX;}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:660PX){{FONT-SIZE:2.4REM;}}FAMOLY, THUG SENT SHOCKWAV THROUGHOUT THE HIP-HOP MUNY..... HE DONNED A BLUE DRS ON THE VER OF HIS 2016 JEFEY MIXTAPE. DPE THE BIGOTRY, THUGGER HASN’T LET HIS TRACTORS STOP HIM OM LIVG HIS LIFE UNAPOLOGETILLY.SPEAKG WH BIG BOY ON WEDNDAY (AUG. 21), THUGGER ADDRSED THE SPECULATN DIRECTLY. “PEOPLE JUDGE ME AND SAY ‘GAY.’ IF PEOPLE THK THAT I’M GAY, THEY’VE ALREADY MISJUDGED,” THE 28-YEAR-OLD ATLIEN BREEZILY REPLIED. “I’M THE STRAIGHTT MAN THE WORLD.”WHILE HE HAD THUGGER THE HOT SEAT, BIG BOY HAD THE ATLANTA NATIVE RE-HASH HIS RECENT MENTS PERTAG TO LIL NAS X. DURG AN TERVIEW WH NO JUMPER JULY, THE SO MUCH FUN RAPPER SAID THAT HE WISHED LIL NAS HAD NOT PUBLICLY E OUT TO THE WORLD AT LARGE. THE TRAP MIC WUNRKD REERATED HIS STANCE ON BIG BOY’S RAD SHOW, ELABORATG THAT HIP-HOP N BE HOSTILE AGAST THE LGBTQ MEMBERS S RANKS. “I GOT STYLISTS AROUND ME. I GOT GAY PEOPLE AROUND ME THAT’S ALWAYS AROUND ME. I DON’T JUDGE,” THUGGER BEGAN BEFORE LVG TO THE BLOW BACK LIL NAS WILL EVABLY FACE. “HE’S A KID, SO I DON’T KNOW IF HE GON’ BE ABLE TO TAKE WHAT . I’M THE FIRST RAPPER THAT THEY KD OF LIKE ME AT HARD WH THIS. THEY ME AT MICHAEL JACKSON AND PRCE, [TOO]. BUT, I’M TALKG HIP-HOP. I KNOW HOW STRONG I HAD TO BE.” {MARG-TOP:54PX;MARG-BOTTOM:12PX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;WIDTH:100%;}{MARG:0 TO;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:NONE;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;} + .E1IATVX90{DISPLAY:NONE;}(:EMPTY){DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;}(:EMPTY) + .E1IATVX90{DISPLAY:BLOCK;}“YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIM I WANTED TO SPAZ?” THUG ASKED.“I DON’T KNOW IF HE GON’ BE ABLE TO DO . HE’S STILL A TEENAGER. THAT’S THE ONLY THG, I WAS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF HE SHOULD’VE DID ,” HE ELABORATED. THE TRAP WUNRKD PPED OFF HIS MENTS BY SAYG THAT HE FOUND “KD OF OL” LIL NAS IS PROUDLY LIVG HIS TTH AS AN OPENLY QUEER HIP-HOP ARTIST. THUG SIGNED OFF SAYG THAT HE FEELS LIL NAS WILL BE ULTIMATELY FE AND LOOKED AT THE BRIGHT SI OF THGS. “BUT ME JT SEEG HOW EVERYTHG IS AND HOW HE’S DON’T GIVE A F**K. HE ALWAYS SAID HE LOOKED UP TO ME TOO SO I KNOW HE DON’T RE. IT’S LIKE, ‘OH, WHATEVER,’” THUGGER SAID, BEFORE POTG OUT THE SILVER LG OF THE SUATN. “IT’S KD OF OL HE DID . IT KEPT HIS SONG NUMBER ONE.” {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MIC NEWSYOUNG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG-TOP:24PX;}{MARG-BOTTOM:12PX;}{FONT:NORMAL 600 1.4REM/1.2 "SOEHNE",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;MARG-BOTTOM:12PX;}TRENDG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:660PX){{DISPLAY:GRID;GRID-TEMPLATE-LUMNS:50% 50%;GRID-LUMN-GAP:12PX;}}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:980PX){{DISPLAY:BLOCK;}} > DIV{HEIGHT:133PX;BOX-SHADOW:0 4PX 8PX 0 RGBA(0,0,0,0.18);MARG-BOTTOM:12PX;-WEBK-TRANSFORM:PERSPECTIVE(1PX) TRANSLATEZ(0);-MS-TRANSFORM:PERSPECTIVE(1PX) TRANSLATEZ(0);TRANSFORM:PERSPECTIVE(1PX) TRANSLATEZ(0);-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S;}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:980PX){ > DIV{WIDTH:100%;}} > DIV A{-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;-MS-FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;FLEX-DIRECTN:ROW;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} > DIV A > DIV:NTH-CHILD(1) > DIV{BORR-TOP-RIGHT-RADI:0PX;BORR-BOTTOM-LEFT-RADI:VAR(--BORR-RADI);HEIGHT:133PX;WIDTH:133PX;PADDG-TOP:100%;} > DIV A > DIV:NTH-CHILD(1) > DIV > DIV:NTH-CHILD(1){BORR-TOP-RIGHT-RADI:0PX;BORR-BOTTOM-LEFT-RADI:VAR(--BORR-RADI);} > DIV A DIV:NTH-LAST-OF-TYPE(1){OVERFLOW:HIDN;} > DIV A DIV:NTH-LAST-OF-TYPE(1) > *{-WEBK-ALIGN-SELF:FLEX-START;-MS-FLEX-EM-ALIGN:START;ALIGN-SELF:FLEX-START;} > DIV A DIV:NTH-LAST-OF-TYPE(1) DIV:NTH-LAST-OF-TYPE(2){MARG-BOTTOM:LC(VAR(--SPACER) * 2);} > DIV A DIV:NTH-LAST-OF-TYPE(1) DIV:NTH-CHILD(2){DISPLAY:NONE;} > DIV A DIV:NTH-LAST-OF-TYPE(1) DIV:NTH-CHILD(3){MARG:6PX 0 0 0;PADDG:0;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV A DIV:NTH-LAST-OF-TYPE(1) DIV:NTH-CHILD(3) SPAN{-WEBK-LE-CLAMP:1;} > DIV A DIV:NTH-LAST-OF-TYPE(1) SPAN{-WEBK-BOX-ORIENT:VERTIL;-WEBK-LE-CLAMP:4;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;FONT:NORMAL 600 1.2REM/1.25 "SOEHNE",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;OVERFLOW:HIDN;}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:660PX){ > DIV A DIV:NTH-LAST-OF-TYPE(1) SPAN{FONT-SIZE:1.4REM;}}{-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S;-WEBK-TRANSFORM:SLE(1) TRANSLATEZ(0) PERSPECTIVE(1PX);-MS-TRANSFORM:SLE(1) TRANSLATEZ(0) PERSPECTIVE(1PX);TRANSFORM:SLE(1) TRANSLATEZ(0) PERSPECTIVE(1PX);}{BOX-SHADOW:0 8PX 22PX -6PX RGBA(0,0,0,0.3);-WEBK-TRANSFORM:SLE(1.01) TRANSLATEZ(0) PERSPECTIVE(1PX);-MS-TRANSFORM:SLE(1.01) TRANSLATEZ(0) PERSPECTIVE(1PX);TRANSFORM:SLE(1.01) TRANSLATEZ(0) PERSPECTIVE(1PX);} > *:NTH-LAST-OF-TYPE(2){MARG-BOTTOM:LC(VAR(--SPACER) * 6);}TIFFANY HADDISH REFLECTS ON BREAKUP WH COMMON, 'IT WASN'T MUTUAL'IT WAS “THE HEALTHIT, THE FUNNT RELATNSHIP I’VE EVER HAD,” SHE SHARED. ‘I WENT TO HELL AND BACK’: JAMIE FOXX SPEAKS OUT ABOUT MEDIL SRETHE BELOVED ACTOR SAYS THAT HE DIDN’T WANT HIS FANS TO SEE HIM STGGLG. DA BRAT SHAR SWEET UPDATE ABOUT MOTHERHOOD: ‘ECSTATIC TO HAVE A BOY’THE RAPPER AND WIFE JSE HARRIS-DUPART WELED A SON, TE LEGEND EARLIER THIS MONTHJAZME SULLIVAN MOURNS DEATH OF HER MOTHER PAM SULLIVANTHE SGER MA A HEARTFELT INSTAGRAM POST ABOUT HER MOM THE WAKE OF HER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;HEIGHT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;TOP:306PX;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
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VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
A 2017 vio of late rapper Kg Von rurfac onle wh the rapper sayg he's "gay" to get reloted jail. * yung gay *
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By the time – episo eight – the two ma characters had tly fallen for each other, teenage Blackpool FC footballer Jake Daniels had e out; he was the first gay male profsnal footballer to do so sce Jt Fashanu 1990.
IS YOUNG THUG GAY? RAPPER ADDRS MOURS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
The hband of Transportatn Secretary and former a2020 printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg is speakg about the young adult adaptatn of his memoir, cludg his experience g out as gay. * yung gay *
A week after Fashanu me out more than three s ago, his own brother – fellow footballer John – all but disowned him: “John Fashanu: My gay brother is an outst” read a headle The Voice.
‘YOUNG GAY PEOPLE BEG OUT AND HAPPY? IT’S REVOLUTNARY!’ MEET THE HEARTSTOPPER GENERATN
Atlanta rapper Young Thug rponds to claims that "he's gay" an -pth terview. The rapper has opened up about his sexualy." name="scriptn * yung gay *
When I left school, jt over a ago, LGBTQ+ societi were credibly unmon: my sendary tn began only a year after sectn 28 was repealed, legislatn which banned lol thori and schools om “promotg homosexualy” any form.
Wh mut, one sixth-former, Ada, is tellg me how a heteronormative society, spac n by and for queer people – such as their school’s active Gay Straight Alliance – are important plac for self-exprsn and personal stunt shar reflectns on their own experienc: 18-year-old Greg reunts his disfort his prev tn settg, a fah school, while holdg hands wh his now boyiend; Milo, a non-bary sixth-former, was readily accepted by most rners of the school muny wh ltle send Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian“I had a really posive experience of beg queer when I was younger, ” says Amy, a fal year pupil.
Havg spent 14 years workg at the club var paci, she has seen huge shifts the way clivy at the club is implemented: at every level, players and staff have attend Football v Homophobia ssns and trag, and 2018, Leeds Uned was the primary sponsor for the cy’s Pri events.
NEW HIV FECTNS ARE TRENDG DOWN THE US, PECIALLY AMONG YOUNG GAY MEN, CDC TIMAT
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In the same way, shows like Heartstopper take the dialogue further: the mentorship picted between an out gay teacher and a gay pupil feels firmly new terrory; as Sex Edutn, young gay male characters are fally shown to foster close iendships wh their heterosexual male peers. Unr Tony Blair’s Labour ernment, sectn 28 was scrapped, the Equali Act troduced, the age of nsent was equalised, and out gay men and lbians uld for the first time serve the armed forc. New HIV fectns the Uned Stat have dropped recent years, driven largely by creas among young gay and bisexual men, acrdg to a new report om the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventn.
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AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
Is Young Thug gay? That's been the qutn on everyone's md sce the rapper released a mic vio which he's seen kissg another man. But this isn't the first time the mors have been circulatg about him. * yung gay *
Var labels have been ascribed to tergeneratnal upl, whether straight, gay or bisexual: tergeneratnal, age-gap, age-discrepant, or, more often than not, “May-December” relatnships.
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IS YOUNG THUG GAY? THE TTH ABOUT THE RUMORS
A gay man fondly rells his first homosexual experience ral, wtern Kansas at five years old which end wh unhappy effects. * yung gay *
Though he had prevly scribed his sexualy as “more straight” (but “very fluid about ”), the South Yorkshire-born artist ed the opportuny beg honored by a gay publitn to officially e out as pansexual for the first time. While Thugger’s inty, or anyone else’s, for that matter, is nobody’s bs except theirs, the trap in’s genr-fluid fashn choic have rulted some people spewg homophobia onle toward him. This 2018 romantic edy-drama follows Simon, a 17-year-old who has not yet e out to his iends or fay and fds himself nversatg onle wh an anonymo gay stunt who go by the name "Blue.
FIVE YEARS OLD AND GAY RURAL, WTERN KANSAS
Adolcence n be a ighteng perd for young gay men, who are sudnly faced wh new sexual feelgs that n often nflict wh social prsur placed on them by fay, iends, and the media. Mike Curato explor this tumultuo perd his new Godw Books graphic novel, Flamer, a semi-tobgraphil… * yung gay *
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WHILE THUGGER’S INTY, OR ANYONE ELSE’S, FOR THAT MATTER, IS NOBODY’S BS EXCEPT THEIRS, THE TRAP IN’S GENR-FLUID FASHN CHOIC HAVE RULTED SOME PEOPLE SPEWG HOMOPHOBIA ONLE TOWARD HIM. {FONT:NORMAL 700 2.0REM/1.2 "SOEHNE",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;MARG-BOTTOM:18PX;}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:660PX){{FONT-SIZE:2.4REM;}}FAMOLY, THUG SENT SHOCKWAV THROUGHOUT THE HIP-HOP MUNY..... HE DONNED A BLUE DRS ON THE VER OF HIS 2016 JEFEY MIXTAPE. DPE THE BIGOTRY, THUGGER HASN’T LET HIS TRACTORS STOP HIM OM LIVG HIS LIFE UNAPOLOGETILLY.SPEAKG WH BIG BOY ON WEDNDAY (AUG. 21), THUGGER ADDRSED THE SPECULATN DIRECTLY. “PEOPLE JUDGE ME AND SAY ‘GAY.’ IF PEOPLE THK THAT I’M GAY, THEY’VE ALREADY MISJUDGED,” THE 28-YEAR-OLD ATLIEN BREEZILY REPLIED. “I’M THE STRAIGHTT MAN THE WORLD.”WHILE HE HAD THUGGER THE HOT SEAT, BIG BOY HAD THE ATLANTA NATIVE RE-HASH HIS RECENT MENTS PERTAG TO LIL NAS X. DURG AN TERVIEW WH NO JUMPER JULY, THE SO MUCH FUN RAPPER SAID THAT HE WISHED LIL NAS HAD NOT PUBLICLY E OUT TO THE WORLD AT LARGE. THE TRAP MIC WUNRKD REERATED HIS STANCE ON BIG BOY’S RAD SHOW, ELABORATG THAT HIP-HOP N BE HOSTILE AGAST THE LGBTQ MEMBERS S RANKS. “I GOT STYLISTS AROUND ME. I GOT GAY PEOPLE AROUND ME THAT’S ALWAYS AROUND ME. I DON’T JUDGE,” THUGGER BEGAN BEFORE LVG TO THE BLOW BACK LIL NAS WILL EVABLY FACE. “HE’S A KID, SO I DON’T KNOW IF HE GON’ BE ABLE TO TAKE WHAT . I’M THE FIRST RAPPER THAT THEY KD OF LIKE ME AT HARD WH THIS. THEY ME AT MICHAEL JACKSON AND PRCE, [TOO]. BUT, I’M TALKG HIP-HOP. I KNOW HOW STRONG I HAD TO BE.” {MARG-TOP:54PX;MARG-BOTTOM:12PX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;WIDTH:100%;}{MARG:0 TO;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:NONE;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;} + .E1IATVX90{DISPLAY:NONE;}(:EMPTY){DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;}(:EMPTY) + .E1IATVX90{DISPLAY:BLOCK;}“YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIM I WANTED TO SPAZ?” THUG ASKED.“I DON’T KNOW IF HE GON’ BE ABLE TO DO . HE’S STILL A TEENAGER. THAT’S THE ONLY THG, I WAS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF HE SHOULD’VE DID ,” HE ELABORATED. THE TRAP WUNRKD PPED OFF HIS MENTS BY SAYG THAT HE FOUND “KD OF OL” LIL NAS IS PROUDLY LIVG HIS TTH AS AN OPENLY QUEER HIP-HOP ARTIST. THUG SIGNED OFF SAYG THAT HE FEELS LIL NAS WILL BE ULTIMATELY FE AND LOOKED AT THE BRIGHT SI OF THGS. “BUT ME JT SEEG HOW EVERYTHG IS AND HOW HE’S DON’T GIVE A F**K. HE ALWAYS SAID HE LOOKED UP TO ME TOO SO I KNOW HE DON’T RE. IT’S LIKE, ‘OH, WHATEVER,’” THUGGER SAID, BEFORE POTG OUT THE SILVER LG OF THE SUATN. “IT’S KD OF OL HE DID . 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DA BRAT SHAR SWEET UPDATE ABOUT MOTHERHOOD: ‘ECSTATIC TO HAVE A BOY’THE RAPPER AND WIFE JSE HARRIS-DUPART WELED A SON, TE LEGEND EARLIER THIS MONTHJAZME SULLIVAN MOURNS DEATH OF HER MOTHER PAM SULLIVANTHE SGER MA A HEARTFELT INSTAGRAM POST ABOUT HER MOM THE WAKE OF HER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;HEIGHT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;TOP:306PX;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
Gay men are the most likely to go back to the closet when they start work, acrdg to a new report. * yung gay *
Parents also need to stay lm, so that the kids feel fortable g back to them if they ever end up a bad suatn, like if a sry stranger won’t stop a society, we have failed to create enough spac for gay youth to thrive, phg them onle and unrground. Greg Whg, a fifteen-year-old wh red curly hair and blue fgernails, has e out as gay three tim: once to his parents, once to his school and once to a natnal televisn dience on 48 Hours.
A GAY TEEN DISVERS HIMSELF AT SUMMER MP THIS FLAMER FIRST LOOK
In the 1990s, more and more gay teenagers are g out of the closet. A natnwi report on their stggle for acceptance. * yung gay *
Every gay teenager I speak wh has one: For many of them, g out was the most charged few hours of their liv, the moment the theoretil part of homosexualy end, when beg gay was no longer somethg over there, was you.
About a month after Tara told her mother she was gay, the Catholic school that Tara attend lled her parents and explaed that they weren’t fortable havg a lbian nth-grar their stutn. It’s a watershed time: As adolcents have their first sexual experienc at younger ag (fifteen is the average), gay teens are addrsg their sexualy earlier and earlier.
YOUNG GAY MEN IN THE UK ARE MOST LIKELY TO GO BACK IN CLOSET WHEN THEY START WORK
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Gay adults, like high school teacher Doug Wortham of Salt Lake Cy, spoke of havg had very different childhoods om those of gay kids now – of beg teenagers hidg. … [It’s] sad to me that this vibrant black gay muny is still pretty much visible to the Hampton Roads whe muny, and that they didn’t get to know Teddy through the story. At my school, the very place that I first observed queer cursy, I was sred to e out, fearg my own physil and emotnal wasn’t jt the school locker room where I heard homophobic remarks.
Perhaps was the support of iends, nts, and those around me that ma me not want to feel ashamed about myself anymore, even if that meant God damng me to the begng of senr year, I went om “I’m gay” to whoever asked, to “Can you stop sayg faggot please? A month later, I cid to no longer participate the mentorship program, and every time I was asked why, I ma exc about beg too time, I retreated to my fantasy world, where I was not sixteen and gay a homophobic environment, but a world where I was olr, the future, when I would arrive to a betiful home om a long day at work, and be weled by a hband who lov me and bears my burns on his shoulrs.
I was thrilled to be leavg and movg on, but I uld see that many of my fellow graduat were facg siar hurdl, on that I had enuntered, and had only masked their tth wh homophobia.
THE DIGAL SEX LIV OF YOUNG GAY TEENAGERS
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1992 — Billy Douglas (Ryan Phillippe), One Life to Live (ABC) Ryan Phillippe, One Life to Live | Network TV's first gay high schooler (played by a teenage Ryan Phillippe), me out to dispel mors that he was beg molted by the town's Cred: ABC Network TV's first gay high schooler (played by a teenage Ryan Phillippe) me out to dispel mors that he was beg molted by the town's passnate pastor.
'' Advertisement Advertisement 1994 — Rickie Vasquez (Wilson Cz), My So-Called Life (ABC) My So-Called Life | ''I still receive emails and msag om people disverg the show, '' says Cz, who played primetime's first gay teenager on My So-Called Life 17 years Cred: ABC/Getty Imag ''I still receive emails and msag om people disverg the show, '' said Wilson Cz, who played primetime's first gay teenager on My So-Called Life 1994.
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TO BE YOUNG & GAY
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Advertisement 2017 — Kev Keller (Casey Cott) Riverdale (The CW) riverdalechapter16 Cred: The CW Archie Comics' first openly gay character me to life on The CW's teen supernatural drama based on said ics. Advertisement 2018 — Anr Muñoz (Arón Piper) and Omar Shanaa (Omar Ayo) Éle (Netflix) Ele S4 Cred: NIETE/NETFLIX What started out as a low-profile dg al beme the sexy fan-favore relatnship between upper-class Anr (Arón Piper) and ternally homophobic Omar (Omar Ayo)—son of unpromisg Mlim parents—which was an on-aga-off-aga seaw that rocked the star-crossed pair through multiple burns.
Otis' (Asa Butterfield) gay bt iend may by himself wh dicey suatns—like hookg up wh his homophobic bully Adam (Connor Swlls)—but his unabashed spir and celebratn for all aspects of his queer and Black inty are so val to see reprented on teen TV.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
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YOUNG, GAY, AND BLACK A SOUTHERN TOWN
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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. Photo: Connie Kurtew Although technilly not illegal, gay prostutn remas cloaked secrecy, and a new film reveals the ‘boys’ themselv often have no ia about the health risks they are takg Published: 12:33pm, 7 Jan, 2018 Updated: 12:32pm, 7 Jan, 2018 Several ‘urisen’ parlours operate Tokyo’s 2-chome gay district offerg prostutn, the subject of a new, award-wng documentary. No, this is about the ballero — my word for him — I met and what he reprented to a lonely gay kid Southern California 1984, a kid who had never before met another gay person.
Shortly after “Not Our Fate” premiered, Jt Peck, Cy Ballet’s rint choreographer, further challenged ballet’s genr norms when he adapted the woman’s role the pas ux at the heart of his 2017 “The Tim Are Racg, ” pairg Stanley wh Daniel Applebm, a 32-year-old gay soloist wh the you didn’t know much about classil ballet, you might thk ’s an obv home for queer artists and narrativ, but ’s more plited than that: Ballet, of urse, has always had gay dancers and choreographers and homoeroticism, but ’s an artistic disciple shaped by tradn. Masc Femme Butch KweenThere’s a hashtag for everythg on Instagram; when you type #gayballet, you will e across men tights and trag shorts, and eventually you might fd Jam Whi, most likely bare-chted wh a large scratch tattooed on his ribs.
For the choreographer Lar Lubovch’s 2015 productn of “Othello, ” Whi didn’t want to waste the opportuny of workg wh a gay llaborator — his Iago was fed wh what he lls “queer rage. ReprentHarper Watters, 26, is many thgs: acclaimed Hoton Ballet soloist; son of two former llege profsors; host of a backstage chat show lled “The Pre Show” on his YouTube channel; a black gay man om New Hampshire now livg Texas; a lean, ventive artist who danc wh the eedom that om knowg who you are; a vourer of pop culture. Drsed as a swan hunter, Watters talks to the mera a butch tone and says he and Stark are about to go out and do “boy thgs” like scg women and fightg, but then they lgh and return to their natural voic — distctly, unapologetilly gay — and clarify, “a different kd of boy thg.
GAY TEENS ON TV: A TIMELE
Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step.
“Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed, ” he said. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.
“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.
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“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.
Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Based on the assumptn that sexual mory dividuals are particularly sensive to the possible rejectn of others, the prent study examed the occurrence and rrelat of social anxiety symptomatology gay and heterosexual men. Eighty-seven heterosexual and 87 gay unrgraduate men between the ag of 18 and 24 pleted mon measur of social anxiety, self-teem, boyhood genr nformy, and a modified S-R Inventory of Anxns.
Childhood Genr Nonnformy and Relled Perceived Parental and Peer Acceptance Thereof, Internalized Homophobia, and Psychologil Well-Beg Out Heterosexual and Gay Men om Poland. German Chavez was 14 years old when he first started g a gay datg app lled Grdr to fd adult men to pay him for need to help his troubled sgle mother pay the bills, he said, and had no trouble fdg men to purchase him on the popular lotn-based mobile 25 and years away om the sex tra, Chavez is warng other mors to stay away om Grdr, one of the most popular apps the untry for gay and bisexual men.
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The pany touts s mobile platform as “The World’s Largt Social Networkg App for Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer People” and says s ers have to be 18 years old and the app is teemg wh unrage gay, bisexual and qutng boys, acrdg to rearchers, child exploatn specialists and ers like Chavez who say they n easily lie about their age to ga accs to the LGBTQ teens are seekg nnectn a world that provis few safe spac, rearchers say. More than half of sexually active gay and bisexual boys between the ag of 14 and 17 fd sexual partners on Grdr and other siar apps, acrdg to a 2018 study by Northwtern Universy rearchers. Turban recently -published an article the Journal of the Amerin Amy of Child and Adolcent Psychiatry timatg that about one quarter of all gay and bisexual adolcent mal are g Grdr and siar apps — likely hundreds of thoands of youth natnwi.
He’s seen gay teens end up at an emergency room Boston — where he worked until last year — crisis after beg sexually exploed by men they met on Grdr yet too ashamed to seek help om other adults. Kathryn Mapagal, a rearch profsor at Northwtern Universy, says she first asked teens about hook-up apps 2016 when she was preparg a sex tn program for gay and bisexual boys. Kimberly Nelson, a profsor of Communy Health Scienc at the Boston Universy School of Public Health, says s natural for gay teens to head to Grdr to explore their sexualy.
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