The director, who is beg honored at Saturday's GLAAD Media Awards, opens up about the work that he's most proud of and why beg gay Hollywood hasn't ever been a problem for him.
Contents:
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
- GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN
- AGE GAP RELATNSHIP | INTERVIEW | GAY COUPLE AARON & MIKE
- JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
- CANDACE CAMERON BURE SAYS GREAT AMERIN FAY WILL NOT FEATURE GAY COUPL, FOC ON ‘TRADNAL MARRIAGE’ INSTEAD
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- HIV POSIVE BABY ADOPTED BY GAY COUPLE AFTER BEG REJECTED 10 OTHER TIM
- ROLAND EMMERICH ON ‘INPENNCE DAY 2’S’ GAY COUPLE: IT’S NOT “A BIG DEAL”
- BLACK GAY UPLE VH1’S ‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ BREAKS NEW GROUND
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.
In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. * gay couple interview *
He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.
To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.
GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN
A gay uple Geia have been acced of sexually abg and "pimpg" out their adopted children, acrdg to reports. * gay couple interview *
The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars strength ach, Kev Maxen, has e out as gay — makg him the first male ach a U. While Maxen is believed to be the first male ach to have e out publicly as gay, there have been a few female ach U. When to players, there have only been 16 the history of the NFL to e out as gay or bisexual as of September 2022, per Outsports.
Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay.
Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U.S. Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player. “I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay,” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio.
AGE GAP RELATNSHIP | INTERVIEW | GAY COUPLE AARON & MIKE
The Vatin said Pope Francis' remarks were taken out of ntext but still nfirmed the pontiff's belief that gay upl should enjoy legal protectns. * gay couple interview *
The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. Surrogacy is illegal Italy, and gay marriage has not been legalized.
“There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent.
JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
Sarah and Dar om age gap adventur terview gay uple Aaron and Mike om the QueerDaze blog on their age gap relatnship. * gay couple interview *
A gay uple Geia have been acced of sexually abg and “pimpg out” their adopted children, as well as producg distributg homema child pornography, acrdg to reports.
Gay uple charged wh moltg their adopted sons also pimped them out to pedophile rg, report claims — New York Post (@nypost) January 20, 2023 Acrdg to a 17-unt dictment obtaed by Townhall, the uple allegedly performed oral sex on the boys, forced the children to perform oral sex on them and one stance anally raped the olr child to the pot of jury. ROME — The Vatin says Pope Francis’ ments on gay civil unns were taken out of ntext a documentary that spliced together parts of an old terview, but still nfirmed Francis’ belief that gay upl should enjoy legal Vatin secretariat of state issued guidance to ambassadors to expla the uproar that Francis’ ments created followg the Oct. Instead, he favored extendg legal protectns to gay upl unr what is unrstood Argenta as a civil unn Francis was known to have taken that posn privately, he had never articulated his support while as pope.
CANDACE CAMERON BURE SAYS GREAT AMERIN FAY WILL NOT FEATURE GAY COUPL, FOC ON ‘TRADNAL MARRIAGE’ INSTEAD
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports. * gay couple interview *
The document, signed by Francis’ precsor as pope, says the church’s support for gay people “nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns. “More than a year ago, durg an terview, Pope Francis answered two different qutns at two different tim that, the aforementned documentary, were eded and published as a sgle answer whout proper ntextualizatn, which has led to nfn, ” said the guidance posted by the film, Afeevsky reunts the story of Andrea Rubera, a married gay Catholic who wrote Francis askg for his advice about brgg to the church his three young children wh his was an anguished qutn, given that the Catholic Church teach that gay people mt be treated wh digny and rpect but that homosexual acts are “trsilly disorred.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e. * gay couple interview *
” The church also holds that marriage is an dissoluble unn between man and woman, and as a rult, gay marriage is the end, Rubera reunts how Francis urged him to approach his parish transparently and brg the children up the fah, which he did. “Homosexual people have the right to be a fay.
”Francis’ ments about gays havg the right to be a fay referred to parents wh gay children, and the need for them to not kick their children out or discrimate agast them, the Vatin guidance said. Francis was not endorsg the right of gay upl to adopt children, even though the placement of the quote right after Rubera told his story ma seem that Francis pope’s ments about gay civil unns me om a different part of the Televisa terview and clud several veats that were not clud the the Televisa terview, Francis ma clear he was explag his posn about the unique se Buenos Air 10 years ago, as opposed to Rubera’s suatn or gay marriage as a the Televisa terview, Francis also sisted that he always mataed Catholic doctre and said there was an “ngy” for the Catholic Church as far as “homosexual marriage” is documentary elimated that Televisa footage is available onle, and clus an awkward cut right after Francis spoke about the “ngy” of homosexual marriage.
Prumably, that is where he segued to his posn as archbishop favorg extendg legal protectns to gay upl. But don’t expla how his support for extendg Argente legal protectns to gay upl 2010 uld be squared wh the 2003 document om the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, which says “the prcipl of rpect and non-discrimatn nnot be voked to support legal regnn of homosexual unns.
HIV POSIVE BABY ADOPTED BY GAY COUPLE AFTER BEG REJECTED 10 OTHER TIM
A married gay uple om Argenta adopted a baby girl wh HIV after the child had been rejected on 10 other ocsns. * gay couple interview *
Sarah and Dar om age gap adventur terview gay uple Aaron and Mike om the QueerDaze blog on their age gap relatnship. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports. ”Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach the NFL and all of major Amerin men's pro sports, acrdg to Outsports.
ROLAND EMMERICH ON ‘INPENNCE DAY 2’S’ GAY COUPLE: IT’S NOT “A BIG DEAL”
* gay couple interview *
" San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, a pneer among female ach the NFL, me out as the the league's first openly gay ach 2017, acrdg to Outsports.
He add that he reached out last year for advice on g out om former Las Vegas Rairs lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active openly gay player NFL history 2021. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. An Argentian gay uple have adopted an HIV posive baby girl who had prevly been rejected by 10 other child, named Olivia, was born wh the vis.
But today he’s preppg a smaller project, the die drama Stonewall, about the historic 1969 gay rts New York that had a revolutnary impact on the civil rights movement.
BLACK GAY UPLE VH1’S ‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ BREAKS NEW GROUND
It’s Emmerich’s work as helmer on this upg Roadsi Attractns release — along wh his extensive advocy on behalf of the gay muny — that have earned the 59-year-old Germany-born director the 2015 Stephen F. — where’s he preppg an Inpennce Day sequel — about the work that he’s most proud of and why addg a gay uple to a blockbter actn anchise isn’t “a big al. I grew up Germany, and when I went to film school, I didn’t want to say “I’m gay” bee I was worried that I nnot do the movi I want to make.
I wanted to go and make movi like Steven Spielberg or Gee Lus, and when you’re Germany, a gay director, meant somethg. You know they would always be like, “the gay director who’s tryg to attempt a certa kd of film. When I was 33, I me to Ameri, and was, for me, que an awakeng bee there were no openly gay directors who were shootg actn movi.
And that really got me gog, and I beme more and more open and more public and then beme a big supporter for some of the big anizatns, you know, bee I wanted to, and now I’ve ma a gay movie. Has beg gay ever been a problem for you Hollywood? But I’ve met a lot of my lleagu, and they were openly gay, and I thought to myself, “If [director] Joel Schumacher n be openly gay, I n try that, too.