IRS Whistleblower X Is Joe Ziegler, a Gay Democrat |

Contents:

• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• IRS WHISTLEBLOWER X IS JOE ZIEGLER, A GAY DEMOCRAT
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL HEMORRHOIDS AND GAY HEALTH (HOMOSEXUALY)
• INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA AND RELATNSHIP QUALY AMONG LBIANS, GAY MEN, AND BISEXUALS
• AM I GAY?
• GAY PS VTIGATED FOR HOSTG ‘BREEDG’ SEX PARTI FOR TEENS
• DR. ROY GAY

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

“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. 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.

IRS WHISTLEBLOWER X IS JOE ZIEGLER, A GAY DEMOCRAT

“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. The prevly unnamed Internal Revenue Service "Whistleblower X" revealed himself durg public ttimony before three GOP-led Hoe mte Wednday, sayg he is a "gay Democrat married to a man" and wrongfully slanred as a partisan operative or a "traor" to his party. Homophobia, gay discrimatn and stigma, is monly seen certa segments of the populatn and n be seen acts of homosexual discrimatn, teasg, gay bullyg, gay bashg, anti-gay jokg and negative attus towards those who are not heterosexual.

It's cril to posively al wh ternalized homophobia as s prence n prevent people om seekg appropriate healthre, havg timate partners and livg full and happy liv, and crease their risk of velopg mental illns such as a substance e or an eatg disorr. As I’ve grown to unrstand om my iends, fellow LGBTQ muny members, lleagu, and clicians, ternalized homophobia is what happens when we take the bias, prejudic, and hatred towards gay folks rerced by society (aka societal homophobia) and turn the bias ward back on ourselv. I should also acknowledge there is bate wh the psychologil and scientific muny as to the extent that this impacts gay and lbian dividuals and if we should e the term "ternalized homophobia" or stead nstct and redirect our attentn stead towards "more salient issu of cultural and stutnalized heterosexism.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. Internalized homophobia n be fed as the tenncy of some lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) dividuals to regularly validate, margalize, and/or opprs their own or other LGBTQ members’ sexual orientatn, sexual inty, self-worth, dividual exprsns, and human rights.

Often, those wh gre of ternalized homophobia are nscly or unnscly socialized to believg that members of the LGBTQ muny are “abnormal”, “shameful”, “unsirable” and “unacceptable”, and should be regard wh disda (self-rejectn) and ntempt (self-loathg). It is also signifint to note that while some people wh ternalized homophobia are “out of the closet” and openly alg their own sexual orientatn/sexual inty issu, many others are still “ the closet” (to themselv and/or to others) and secretly stgglg.

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Courty of ALL MAN: The Internatnal Male Story, © Brawn,, Internatnal Male never said was a gay publitn, but that “also speaks to the general tenncy of the fashn media to really mouflage, to some extent, their ntent, ” Filippello says. The doc tracks the way Internatnal Male shaped and reflected male body image, om the lanky look of the ’70s to the mcle-bound bodi of the ’80s and ’90s, which were a direct ntrast to the ail forms of dyg men durg the early days of the HIV and AIDS might be temptg to look back now, as we’re reexamg masculy this post-#MeToo culture, and assume that the staff was on some vert missn to advance gay rights, one paisley top at a time.

’ ”At the time, though—and even more so when Burkard and others left, after the talog giant Hanover Direct purchased Internatnal Male, 1988, and tried to make mastream the ’90s—there was a tightrope walk when me to tryg to not “appear” gay. Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC2678796NIHMSID: NIHMS59525AbstractWe examed the associatns between ternalized homophobia, outns, muny nnectedns, prsive symptoms, and relatnship qualy among a diverse muny sample of 396 lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) dividuals. Theori of inty velopment among lbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGB) suggt that ternalized homophobia is monly experienced the procs of LGB inty velopment and overg ternalized homophobia is sential to the velopment of a healthy self-ncept (Cass, 1979; Fgerhut, Pepl, & Hgavami, 2005; Mayfield, 2001; Rowen & Mallm, 2002; Troin, 1979; 1989).

Rearch has shown that ternalized homophobia has a negative impact on LGBs’ global self-ncept cludg mental health and well beg (Allen & Olon, 1999; Herek, Cogan, Gillis, & Glunt, 1998; Meyer & Dean, 1998; Rowen & Mallm, 2002) rearch on ternalized homophobia and mental health has adopted a mory strs perspective (DiPlacido, 1998; Meyer 1995; 2003a).

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

For example, a strong sense of nnectedns to one’s mory muny n buffer the ill effects of mory and Dean (1998) have referred to ternalized homophobia as the most sid of the mory strs procs that, although stems om heterosexist social attus, n bee self-generatg and persist even when dividuals are not experiencg direct external valuatn. It is important to note that spe beg ternalized and sid, the mory strs amework lot ternalized homophobia s social orig, stemmg om prevailg heterosexism and sexual prejudice, not om ternal pathology or a personaly tra (Rsell & Bohan, 2006).

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Wh regard to romantic relatnships, Meyer and Dean (1998) monstrated that gay men wh higher levels of ternalized homophobia were ls likely to be timate relatnships, and when they were relatnships, they were more likely to report problems wh their partners than gay men wh lower levels of ternalized homophobia. Internalized homophobia has been lked to poor relatnship qualy wh both male and female same-sex relatnships (Balsam & Szymanski, 2005; Otis, Rostosky, Riggle, & Hamr, 2006) regard to non-romantic relatnships, ternalized homophobia n affect the qualy of LGB dividuals’ iendships, faial relatnships, and other social relatnships.

Higher levels of ternalized homophobia are associated wh greater sexual prsn, sexual anxiety, sexual image ncern, and fear of sexualy as well as lower levels of sexual teem and sexual satisfactn and are predictive of sexual problems among gay and bisexual men (Dupras, 1994; Meyer, 1995).

Distguishg Internalized Homophobia om Its Out and CorrelatRearchers have disagreed about what nstut ternalized homophobia and how is distct om associated nstcts (Currie, Cunngham, & Fdlay, 2004; Meyer & Dean, 1998; Nungser, 1983; Ross & Rosser, 1996; Shildo, 1994: Szymanski & Chung, 2001). Most signifintly, some have clud the fn of ternalized homophobia the gree to which the person is out about his/her sexual orientatn (we refer to this as “outns” here) and nnected to the LGB muny (Mayfield, 2001; Shildo, 1994; Williamson, 2000).

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

Also, some have nsired prsn and suicidal thoughts (Nungser, 1983; Shildo, 1994) as well as hopelsns about one’s future (Szymanski & Chung, 2001) as part of ternalized homophobia bee, as we showed above, the are often associated wh ternalized mory strs mol differs om the perspectiv that nceptualiz ternalized homophobia and outns as two separate mory strsors and muny nnectedns as a mechanism for pg wh mory strs. Applyg the mory strs mol to unrstand how ternalized homophobia is distctly related to relatnship qualy is important given the lack of nsistency the field regardg associatns between outns, muny nnectedns, prsn, and relatnship qualy. Further, rearchers have yet to exame the unique ways which ternalized homophobia is related to relatnship problems LGB liv, pennt of prsive treatment of outns as an aspect of ternalized homophobia stems om psychologists’ view that g out is a posive velopmental stage LGB inty velopment (Cass, 1979).

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL HEMORRHOIDS AND GAY HEALTH (HOMOSEXUALY)

But, we ntend, lack of outns should not be taken to dite the oppose and therefore should not be nceptualized as a part of ternalized homophobia (Eliason & Schope, 2007) out regardg one’s sexual orientatn follows self-acceptance, but even after pletely acceptg one’s self as lbian, gay, or bisexual, an LGB person may ci not to be out certa suatns. Th, lack of nnectn wh the muny is not necsarily a reflectn of ternalized homophobia and should be nsired as a separate nstct so that rearchers n tease apart the nstcts unrstandg their associatns wh relatnship associatns between ternalized homophobia, prsive symptoms, and relatnship qualy are obscured by nceptualizatns of ternalized homophobia that volve a nsirable amount of overlap wh prsive symptoms.

The fdgs are acrdance wh the mory strs mol, which nceptualiz ternalized homophobia as a mory strsor which mental health problems cludg prsive symptoms (Meyer, 2003a), however, have empirilly studied whether or not ternalized homophobia and prsive symptoms are penntly related to relatnship qualy (Biss & Horne, 2005).

The fdgs suggt that ternalized homophobia may lead to creased prsive symptoms that, turn, rce relatnship Current StudyWe examed the associatn between ternalized homophobia and the qualy and closens of dividuals’ terpersonal relatnships wh iends and fay and wh romantic relatnships.

INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA AND RELATNSHIP QUALY AMONG LBIANS, GAY MEN, AND BISEXUALS

We did not have specific hypoth regardg the effects of outns and muny nnectedns1 on relatnship problems (paths d and e), but we isolated the effects of the factors so that we uld exame the pennt effect of ternalized homophobia on relatnship problems.

AM I GAY?

Participants were eligible if they were 18–59 years-old, New York Cy rints for two years or more who uld munite English and self-intified as: a) lbian, gay, or bisexual; b) male or female; and c) whe, black or Lato (participants may have ed other inty terms referrg to the social groups).

MeasurInternalized homophobia (IHP) The IHP sle was origally veloped by Mart and Dean (1992) to asss the extent to which LGB dividuals reject their sexual orientatn, are uneasy about their same-sex sir, and seek to avoid same-sex attractns and sexual feelgs (Herek & Glunt, 1995; Meyer, 1995; Meyer & Dean, 1998). In a study of gay fathers, Sbordone (1993; as ced by Shildo, 1994) reported that this measure of ternalized homophobia signifintly rrelat wh another wily ed measure of ternalized homophobia: the Nungser Homosexualy Attus Inventory (Nungser, 1983).

24**------Connectedns to the LGB muny Communy nnectedns was asssed wh an 8-em sle, adapted om a 7-em muny hn sle ed the Urban Men’s Health Study (UMHS), a multi-cy study of gay men’s psychologil and physil health (Mills et al., 2001). To aid participants answerg the qutns, they were read by the terviewer a fn of muny as ed the sle, which stated, “I don’t mean any particular neighborhood or social group, but general, groups of gay men, bisexual men and women, and lbians.

GAY PS VTIGATED FOR HOSTG ‘BREEDG’ SEX PARTI FOR TEENS

Although there is no published data explicly addrsg the validy of this measure, the current study nnectedns to the LGB muny was signifintly negatively rrelated wh ternalized homophobia and outns (see Table 1) and signifintly posively rrelated wh the number of LGB-related muny or recreatnal groups participants were members of or active (measured by a 9-em checklist veloped by Mills et al., 2001 for the UMHS; r =. Three parcels were created for each of the followg sl: Internalized Homohpobia (two, 3-em parcels, and one, 2-em parcel); Center for Epimlogil Studi –Deprsn sle (two, 7-em parcels, and one, 6-em parcel); muny nnectedns (two, 3-em parcels, and one, 2-em parcel); and relatnship stra for upled participants only (two, 2-em parcels and one, 3-em parcel). To rrect for this problem, we ed a bootstrappg procre (Bollen & Ste, 1992; 1993) AMOS® to lculate (a) the average standardized path efficients, their standard errors, and associated probabily valu based on timat om 10, 000 sampl dawn randomly om the 396 participants the study, and (b) the Bollen-Ste adjted probabily valu for the chi-square tts of mol Tts of the Associatn between Internalized Homophobia and Relatnship ProblemsAt each step the SEM analys ttg the relatnship between ternalized homophobia and relatnship problems, we f mols separately2 for (a) all participants the study (N = 396) wh a latent oute of relatnship problems, and (b) upled participants only (n = 184) wh a latent oute of relatnship stra.

In our scriptn of the mols below, we e the suffix a to refer to mols tted among all participants the study and b to refer to mols tted among upled participants all participants the study, we observed a signifint unntrolled direct effect of ternalized homophobia on relatnship problems, β =. However, we also showed that outns, muny nnectedns, and prsive symptoms are important to nsir as factors pennt of ternalized hypothized, the direct effects of ternalized homophobia signifintly attenuated when we acunted for the mediatg role of prsn, suggtg that ternalized homophobia leads to relatnship problems primarily by creasg prsive symptoms.

By theorizg and analyzg ternalized homophobia and s mental health out at the same level, rearchers misreprent the nature of the relatnship between the two nstcts, obscurg the medatnal role of mental health out the associatn between ternalized homophobia and relatnship qualy. Although we had no specific hypothis about the relatnship between outns and relatnship problems, this fdg is not surprisg given recent lls by psychologists to avoid seeg outns as an ditn of ternalized homophobia (Eliason & Schope, 2007) and rearch that showed that ternalized homophobia was negatively related to relatnship qualy, but outns was not (Balsam & Szymanski, 2005).

DR. ROY GAY

Although our rults monstrate that prsive symptoms seem to pletely mediate the relatnship between ternalized homophobia and relatnship qualy, pecially among upled participants, is important not to overlook the remag direct associatn between ternalized homophobia and relatnship qualy.

That beg said, we believe that a al role for ternalized homophobia as specified by our mol is the most parsimon based on existg clil and theoretil wrgs and empiril measur ed the study monstrated ls than sirable reliabily and have limed rmatn regardg validy among LGB populatns (i. Our study suggts that efforts targeted at rcg ternalized homophobia and s effects on LGB liv need to be specific, and extend beyond helpg LGB people e out of the closet and tablish ti wh the larger muny, as mols of inty velopment may suggt.