Jason Gay: A Manager and His Cats - WSJ

Contents:

• AS GAY MANAGER RETIR, SF LGBTQ AGG PLAN GETS REVIEWED
• BOOSIE BADAZZ SHAR VIO OF HIS GAY TOUR MANAGER, INSISTS HE’S NOT HOMOPHOBIC
• HERE'S WHY TWICE'S SANA IS GAY ACRDG TO HER FANS
• BOOSIE BADAZZ CLAIMS A GAY MANAGER REFED HIM AFTER TRANSPHOBIC COMMENTS
• LEATHERHEAD FC MANAGER LE TUFFS: ‘I’M SHOWG YOUNG PEOPLE YOU N BE GAY AND A SUCCS’
• GABE KAPLER’S REACTN TO EX-GIANTS PCHER SOLOMON BAT G OUT AS GAY
• THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK
• DOLLY PARTON ON HER 'BT GAY BUD' SANDY GALL: 'I REALLY OWE HIM SO MUCH'
• THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO PLAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
• MAN CRISIS LLS GAY BOOKSTORE, AND MANAGER AND PATRONS ANSWER
• LEATHERHEAD FC MANAGER LE TUFFS: ‘I’M SHOWG YOUNG PEOPLE YOU N BE GAY AND A SUCCS’
• AS GAY MANAGER RETIR, SF LGBTQ AGG PLAN GETS REVIEWED
• HERE'S WHY TWICE'S SANA IS GAY ACRDG TO HER FANS
• CHARLTON WHE QUTNS HOW WACK 100 KNOWS 'ALL THE GAY SECRETS' IN HIP HOP
• BLM WEL JASON GAY AS MANAGER OF HIGH DERT DISTRICT
• THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO PLAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
• JOSé AUREL GAY
• HAWKS SEND USMAN GABA, TYTY WASHGTON, RUDY GAY, AND SEND-ROUND PICK TO THUNR FOR PATTY MILLS
• HAWKS SEND USMAN GABA, TYTY WASHGTON, RUDY GAY, AND SEND-ROUND PICK TO THUNR FOR PATTY MILLS
• HAWKS SEND USMAN GABA, TYTY WASHGTON, RUDY GAY, AND SEND-ROUND PICK TO THUNR FOR PATTY MILLS

AS GAY MANAGER RETIR, SF LGBTQ AGG PLAN GETS REVIEWED

Don't worry, everyone: The Beatl are OK wh gay by Para magaze about their manager, Brian Epste, Rgo had nothg but supportive thgs to say.

BOOSIE BADAZZ SHAR VIO OF HIS GAY TOUR MANAGER, INSISTS HE’S NOT HOMOPHOBIC

"I had known a lot of gay men, " he told the magaze. Epste's homosexualy was an open secret for most of his reer. In 2016, he ncelled a ncert North Carola prott of the state's recently-passed homophobic 's ftg that Starr would speak wh Para, as they're approximately the same age: Rgo was born 1940, and Para was found a year later 1941.

HERE'S WHY TWICE'S SANA IS GAY ACRDG TO HER FANS

The muny-led panel issued s report to Cy Hall Augt 1, a day prr to the retirement of a gay man who helped shepherd the ial report's creatn then implementatn. Gay former cy supervisor and state lawmaker Mark Leno, who served on the mtee that reviewed the LGBTQ agg report, praised Nolan, who the 1980s beme the first LGBTQ person elected to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors. It is vey imprsive what they have achieved and how thoughtful they have been over the last 10 years, " said Bill Ambnn, a gay man who chaired the LGBTQ agg task force and helped assemble the mtee members who reviewed s report.

"I really hope they keep listeng to the voic of many people, pecially what I have been talkg about: clients who really need to receive servic the muny, " said review mtee member J Guillen, a gay man and long-term HIV survivor who has advised the cy's health partment on HIV and agg issu. Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman is expected to ll for another hearg this fall on SOGI data efforts the cy.

BOOSIE BADAZZ CLAIMS A GAY MANAGER REFED HIM AFTER TRANSPHOBIC COMMENTS

Boosie BadazzBoosie Badazz an effort to fend himself agast claims that he is homophobic is showg off his tour manager, who he says is gay, which he has no problem Baton Rouge rapper me unr fire recent days for his ments which many say are homophobic, transphobic, and pla misogynistic.

The rapper has held a strong anti-gay stance ments and terviews over the years and even fend DaBaby over his recent ments at Rollg Loud Miami, which were homophobic.

However, Boosie Badazz is holdg out that he isn’t homophobic and that his ments are “misunrstood” bee he has nothg agast people who are gay.

LEATHERHEAD FC MANAGER LE TUFFS: ‘I’M SHOWG YOUNG PEOPLE YOU N BE GAY AND A SUCCS’

People don’t unrstand, Jay, that I have nothg agast gay people or nothg like that. You’re gay. I’m jt misunrstood sometim, ” he says rponse to the issue of homophobia g up.

[Gay people] be misunrstood. I got fay members [that are] gay, like, gay people have better hearts than regular n***as, ” he rapper ntu to talk about beg misunrstood, albe to the blunt he was rapper’s words and actns have not matched up, though, as recent ments he ma about Lil Nas X, who is gay, have has also said disgtg thgs about other gays like Zaya Wa- the transgenr dghter of Dwyane Wa and Gabrielle Unn, and other LGBTQIA reference to Lil Nas X, Boosie had prevly said he would “drag his a** offstage and beat his a**” if Lil Nas X were to perform naked at the MTV Vio Mic ments were reactn to Lil Nas X jokgly sayg July that he and Jack Harlow would perform their llab “Indtry Baby” nu at the MTV Mic Awards.

GABE KAPLER’S REACTN TO EX-GIANTS PCHER SOLOMON BAT G OUT AS GAY

Go to gaybros. Managerial Advice- Gay manager vs gay employee.

I have 4 people unr me at the moment, one of whom is also gay.

THE GAY ARCHECTS OF ROCK

She exhibs big gay energy and ntu to prove why "No Sana, no life! If you don't thk the first 3 were valid enough reasons for thkg that Sana is gay then maybe searchg some vios of her starg fondly at other artists might nvce you.

" If that isn't gay then we don't know what is! In the ptn, Boosie even shared the exact addrs of that specific gym, rantg more about how he thks the tablishment is racist and beltlg one of the branch’s employe for supposedly beg gay. “Manager who was gay refed to let me n Pla Fns bee of my past actns on social media about genr etc…They racist, they have roach, n they shower water don’t get hot!!

Get out ya feelgs lil b***h… B***h u want a gay child but don’t nobody want to have a baby for yo sissy ass now u mad. Even wh outsirs tellg Boosie how wrong he is and beg ni service for his words, he ntu to e homophobic slurs and still misgenrs Zaya–so ’s unlikely that he’ll try to te himself on this subject anytime soon.

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Is there any way to force a player to e out as gay?

So I was simmg along and I got a msage my box that my star Dutch wonr kid Dick van Wijk had e out as gay. “They would have thought: ‘Why is a gay person tellg me what to do on a football pch?

”Tuffs is an openly gay man who is also a football manager.

THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO PLAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

“It means a lot to me to be out there bee I know ’s showg young people that you n be gay, be good at sport and still be a succs, ” he says. “Or my se you n be gay, terrible at sport and still be a succs.

Tuffs’s experience serv to be amplified as football attempts to change the long-standg stigma around homosexualy wh the game. A man who n’t stop crackg jok and troduc himself as a “massive gayer non-league football” says he and enurag banter the drsg room to addrs the fact of his sexualy. Image source, Andy Trigg/BBCImage ptn, The mural took the graffi artist eight hours to pleteA mural of Jt Fashanu, the first profsnal football player to e out as gay, has been pated on the si of a pub Norwich.

Fashanu grew up Norfolk and signed for Norwich the late source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Former Norwich Cy striker Jt Fashanu me out as gay 1990 while still playg profsnal football"He means a lot to a lot of people, pecially Norfolk, " said Christian Hodgkson, landlord of the Fat Cat and Canary on Thorpe Road, close to the cy centre stadium. "Beg the first player to e out as gay, and obvly beg black as well, he faced a lot of adversy. After gettg released by the San Francis Giants anizatn Tuday, pcher Solomon Bat has grabbed headl by publicly announcg that he is gay via his Instagram acunt.

MAN CRISIS LLS GAY BOOKSTORE, AND MANAGER AND PATRONS ANSWER

I thk he’s, many ways, pavg the way for other gay athlet to be willg to e out and be themselv. “Beg gay this sport you don't know what at you!

I'm still gog to open up doors for gay athlet like me. Gay men n play a manly sport if you give a chance to.

LEATHERHEAD FC MANAGER LE TUFFS: ‘I’M SHOWG YOUNG PEOPLE YOU N BE GAY AND A SUCCS’

Consir the gay image makers of the day, like Brian Epste and Jann Beatl wh their manager Brian Epste, right, October Archiv/Redferns, via Getty ImagOct. Managers groomed them and shaped them, and the classic rock era those managers were often gay s, the close relatnships between the managers and the predomantly straight micians they advised were not discsed much. “The Fifth Beatle, ” a recent graphic novel that foc on the personal life of the Fab Four’s gay manager, Brian Epste, was a New York Tim bt seller and is now velopment as a six-part mi-seri, wh the approval of the Beatl’ tate.

And the documentary film “Lambert & Stamp” ma clear the important role played by K Lambert, the gay -manager of the Who, shapg the band’s inty. “Beg gay gave me a fer appreciatn of the sexualy of the guys up there, ” Mr. “It was all great until Harry said, ‘The only thg is, I don’t thk I uld be managed by a gay man.

Up until 1967, beg gay was illegal Bra, and long after that law changed, gay men remaed a target of police entrapment, blackmail and beatgs. As managers of some of the era’s most potent Brish rock bands, they stood at the foreont of sounds, sensibili and styl that would molish and remake pop gay managers of that era were forthright about their sexualy, if only among iends and lleagu. Napier-Bell, part of the reason Brish gay men of his era gravated to the mic bs was bee was one of the few areas “where you uld be out amongst yourselv.

AS GAY MANAGER RETIR, SF LGBTQ AGG PLAN GETS REVIEWED

You’d go to Robert Stigwood’s hoe and was like a gay pub. “As gay men, we have to remake ourselv orr to survive, ” he said.

HERE'S WHY TWICE'S SANA IS GAY ACRDG TO HER FANS

”Mart Aston, the thor of “Breakg Down the Walls of Heartache: How Mic Came Out, ” said the nnectn between rock’s gay managers and image moldg stems om the fact that “gay men at the time would be judged almost entirely on how they looked. Aston said, gay men veloped a fort wh the art of beg seen, “as opposed to straight men, who, before the phenomenon of the ‘metrosexual, ’ were threatened by the notn of beg looked at, of beg an object. That beme the foreont rock ’n’ roll, enuraged by the gay managers.

”Straight rock stars also found that appropriatg the sensual awarens of gay men paid off sexual opportuni.

’”Still, given the vilifitn of homosexualy at the time, one might expect the rockers to have some disfort wh the gay men who advised them. Lambert (an upper-class, privileged gay man) and his partner management, Chris Stamp (a straight street kid) imprsed them eply. Napier-Bell se the entire notn of rock ’n’ roll rebelln as an extensn of “gay anger.

CHARLTON WHE QUTNS HOW WACK 100 KNOWS 'ALL THE GAY SECRETS' IN HIP HOP

”At the same time, many of the gay men me om more refed backgrounds than the rockers, an experience they transferred to their charg. ”If the young rockers benefed om the taste and ambn of their gay advisers, turn the managers got a sense of nnectn they otherwise uldn’t achieve.

“It’s not like a gay man at the time uld marry or enjoy a fay, ” Mr. ”At the same time, the gay men volved wh the bands found a route to power. ”And an era when gay sexual exprsn was btally supprsed, the men were able to exprs themselv through the most fluential sex symbols of the day, creatg a kd of erotic ventriloquism.

It is “Breakg Down the Walls of Heartache: How Mic Came Out, ” not “Breakg Down the Walls of Heartache: How Mic Beme Gay.

BLM WEL JASON GAY AS MANAGER OF HIGH DERT DISTRICT

”How we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn D, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Classic Rock ’n’ Roll and Its Gay Archects. The new print and general manager at the number one-rated televisn statn the natn is an out gay man. I asked Matthews to take a moment to nsir that by beg the first and only openly gay general manager of a major market televisn statn, he is proof of that mment.

“He was like my bt gay bud.... Orville Peck, who is gay, won near-unanimo praise for his 2019 but album, “Pony, ” and teamed up wh Shania Twa for the dreamy duet “Legends Never Die” this summer. In 1974, The Advote wrote letters to Major League Baseball teams askg to terview players “livg a gay liftyle.

THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO PLAY MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

” The requt “was meant to jolt the baseball tablishment to acknowledgg that there were ed gay men playg the game, ” Andrew Maraniss wr his new book, Sgled Out: The Te Story of Glenn Burke. Along wh beg the first openly gay man to have played the MLB — he me out 1982, after leavg the league — Burke and his teammate Dty Baker are often creded wh ventg the high five. Yet his acplishments were largely fotten or tentnally obscured, whether by a homophobic society that had no e for a gay athlete or by a baseball anchise that wanted to claim cred for the thgs Burke had done for the team whout acknowledgg the prence of an out gay man their Sgled Out, Maraniss do his bt to pture the tragedy and weight of Burke’s story.

He signed a Mor League ntract wh the Los Angel Dodgers his first uple of years the mors, Burke didn’t yet know that he was gay, jt that he was “different” om his teammat. Eventually, Burke unrstood himself to be gay, which me as a relief. He also spent the off-season prowlg the gay bars of the Castro San Francis, across the Bay om his hometown of Maraniss explas his book, was unheard of for profsnal male athlet to be gay at that time.

The other players were so far removed om gay culture, and so unspectg that one of their teammat might possibly be gay, that many of them simply missed the ample evince of Burke’s inty.

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The fact that he didn’t fulfill the prevailg effemate stereotype of a gay man helped him rema illegible to his peers. His teammat were fur and, after he was gone, the team traer nfirmed Burke had been trad bee Campanis and manager Tommy Losarda didn’t want any gay men the Oakland, Burke stggled to fd his groove after an jury.

Followg one 1979 game at the Oakland Colism when A’s fans were yellg homophobic slurs at Burke the outfield, he chased down the heckler the nurse and grabbed him around the neck.

Unbeknownst to Burke, however, manager Billy Mart was vilently homophobic and sent him down to the mors so he wouldn’t “ntamate” the rt of the team. He would never aga play a major league game, nor would he hold a regular beg forced out of the A’s, Burke remaed his Bay Area home and relished the opportuny to live an openly gay life whout worryg about whether would get back to the prs or jeopardize his baseball reer.

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But he had a ntrollg and emotnally abive partner who spent most of the money Burke had ma— a partner who had also prsured Burke for years to e out publicly as gay, even when might have st him his partner, Michael Smh, fally nvced Burke to e out a 1982 article the magaze Insi Sports. In 2021, there still has never been a sgle openly gay, active player the major leagu. The homophobia of men’s sports is well-documented, spe the fact that many anchis now hold Pri Nights and clare themselv LGBTQ+ alli.

Burke’s story is an example of the ways which sports have failed gay athlet. Burke was a proud Black, gay man, so the -group language and cultural referenc he ed sound awkward om the voice of an thor who shar neher inty wh his subject.

Even the gay and Black history portns of the text, which are fold for ntext about the world that Burke habed, read like the Spark Not versn of gay and Black history— the basics you uld get om readg a Wikipedia page. Sgled Out also spends very ltle time lookg to the iendship between Burke and Dodgers manager Losarda’s gay son, Tommy Losarda, Jr. The elr Losarda’s homophobic treatment of Burke had larger implitns: the longtime Dodgers manager nied that his own son was gay, even after he died of AIDS, and remaed silent about HIV, the vis that killed both Burke and Losarda, Jr.

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Hopefully, one day, Burke’s story will be told by a wrer who is Black and/or gay, who n brg necsary texture and perspective to his important story.

“Oh God I n’t even tell this story and not cry, ” wrote the ex-manager, a gay man om Chigo who go by the Twter handle workg at the bookstore one night, he said he received a ll om a man who said he might be gay and was “nsirg self-harm. ”Gays and lbians are among the U.

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And a study published earlier this year the Journal of Adolcent Health found lbian, gay and bisexual youth aged 12 to 14 are much more likely to die by suici than their heterosexual Wong, head of munitns at The Trevor Project, a natnal crisis terventn and suici preventn anizatn, said stori like @TweetChizone’s unrsre the importance of support systems for LGBTQ youth. That eveng one of our prenters said, on air, that he didn’t thk was a hate crime toward gay people.

Some pani have programs for alli, who m to llg out homophobia or transphobia, and n be intified by rabow lanyards or sayg “I’m an ally” their email signature. Sometim an employee won’t be able to move as easily to a foreign untry if gay rights or trans rights are far ls veloped there. If gay male employe are fdg satisfactn new chang but lbian or trans staff aren’t, then you need to rensir your urse of actn.