'Wasn't He Gay?': A Revealg Qutn About Mister Rogers | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• AARON RODGERS POSSIBLY BEG GAY ISN’T A JOKE
• ‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY
• IS BRANDON ROGERS GAY? KNOW HIS EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIP AND MORE
• MR. ROGERS’ LONGTIME GAY -STAR LLS HIM “THE LOVE OF MY SPIRUAL LIFE”
• MISTER ROGERS TOLD CO-STAR DON'T COME OUT AS GAY, AND MARRY A WOMAN
• PL RODGERS GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 87 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY
• OLIVIA MUNN SPARKS MORE AARON RODGERS GAY MORS
• AARON RODGERS EXPLAS WHY GAY NFL PLAYERS FEAR G OUT
• STILL GAY AFTER 100 YEARS! PART 30 OF THE AARON RODGERS SAGA
• NFL STAR AARON RODGERS IS GAY NEEDS TO BE OUTED AS A HOMOSEXUAL
• IS AARON RODGERS GAY? WHEN SPECULATN BE PROBLEMATIC.
• PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY
• SOME PACKERS THOUGHT AARON RODGERS WAS GAY BEE HE DIDN’T ‘BRAG ABOUT HIS PENIS SIZE’
• AARON RODGERS’ PERSONAL LIFE IS A F*CKG MS, GAY RUMORS RE-EMERGE
• THE GAY NFL SUPERSTARS
• WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK AARON RODGERS IS GAY?
• AARON RODGERS GAY RUMORS: DID HE AND BOYIEND KEV LANFLISI BREAK UP?
• WAS MR. ROGERS GAY?
• AARON RODGERS GAY? EX-BOYIEND REPORTEDLY PLANNG TO OUT PACKERS QB
• 'WASN'T HE GAY?': A REVEALG QUTN ABOUT MISTER ROGERS
• JULIE RODGERS SHAR STORY OF SURVIVG ‘EX-GAY’ MISTRI NEW BOOK AND NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
• HOW A LEADG CHRISTIAN COLLEGE TURNED AGAST ITS GAY LEAR
• OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF OKLAHOMA CY RIGNS OVER ‘THREATS AND ATTACKS BORRG ON VLENCE’

AARON RODGERS POSSIBLY BEG GAY ISN’T A JOKE

And not jt any rg—the prtig Super Bowl MVP rg which was award to Rodgers ’s a vio of Rodgers talkg affectnately of Lanflisi and the two at a banquet where Rodgers receiv his MVP award:It also shows off a batch of newly disvered tweets that portray a kd of faiary between the two that falls–at least the 140 word world– that gray area somewhere between bromance and love prompted a media storm to try and figure jt out who Lanflisi Break UpWas Aaron Rodgers once a gay relatnship wh his one-time roommate and assistant Kev Lanflisi?

‘LAST CALL’ TE STORY: HBO DOC IS ABOUT THE SERIAL KILLER RICHARD ROGERS, WHO TARGETED MANHATTAN’S GAY BARS

"Like his victims, who were bisexual and gay, Rogers is a gay man, per his trial ’s book go over some of his bgraphil tails: Rogers was the elst of five children born to a fay Plymouth, had had n-s wh the law before for siarly morbid allegatns. A total of four murrs were brought up at his trial, but he was only charged Thomas Mulhy and Anthony Marrero’s four victims were middle-aged, gay or bisexual men, last seen at gay bars Manhattan. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS (4-12-1)CAMP SITE: Wtfield, IndianaKEY ADDITIONS: Head ach Shane Steichen, offensive ordator Jim Bob Cooter, QB Anthony Richardson, QB Gardner Mshew, K Matt Gay, DE Samson Ebam, DT Taven Bryan, CB JuJu Brents, WR Josh Downs.

Franis Clemmons, who played Officer Clemmons om 1968 - 1995, says his new memoir, Fred Rogers got wd of the fact Clemmons was gay, pulled him asi and said, "Franc, you have talents and gifts that set you apart and above the crowd.

"Whatever you say and do is fe wh me, but if you're gog to be on the show as an important member of the 'Neighborhood, ' you n't be out as gay.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY

However the poll suggts that a big majory - 87% - of rponnts don't believe that he’s the poll:What do you thk about the gay mors surroundg Pl Rodgers?

Rogers ran the gamut, om claims that he had an earlier reer as a Mare sniper or Navy SEAL (he did not serve the ary any pacy), to the accatn that he was a nvicted child molter (no crimal rerd of any kd has e to light), to mblgs that spe a half-century-long marriage to the same woman, he was actually gay (ntrary to all available evince).

IS BRANDON ROGERS GAY? KNOW HIS EARLY LIFE, RELATNSHIP AND MORE

Aaron Rodgers personal life has always been heavily sctized, and mors have persisted for years that he’s gay, g the women that e and out his life as beards. By his acunt, he beme active the “gay scene, ” spendg his nights at the cy’s clubs and diss, and also workg on the streets as a prostute.

Rogers sometim attend the island’s Metropolan Communy Church, which was at the time lled “the gay church, ” bee the nomatn found 1968 affirmed LGBT inti and blsed same-sex relatnships. Then the same-sex uple who had gotten married Hawaii wrote him they had “turned away om the homosexual liftyle and inty” bee they had bee Christians.

Rogers joed a Christian support group and unselg center lled Eltheros (a Greek word meang “eeborn”), which was unr the umbrella of Exod Internatnal, the proment ex-gay mistry. “I’ve heard story after story of chang that have occurred as men and women fd the grace of God their liv as homosexual people, ” one ex-ex-gay lear said 2011. We were maybe 23, and I heard Donna Summer sgg Love to Love You Baby and I heard Eddie Kendricks’ Girl You Need a Change of Md, and I saw gay people dancg wh straight people and black people and whe people and Asian people and Lato people, and I saw they were dog this dance lled the Htle and everybody seemed to know how to do .

MR. ROGERS’ LONGTIME GAY -STAR LLS HIM “THE LOVE OF MY SPIRUAL LIFE”

Rodgers, 35, is among several LGBTQ people featured the film who started as proment proselytizers for the ia that beg gay is a s that n be overe, but then nverted to a new e — one of affirmatn, acceptance and regret over their past advocy. Then I end up speakg for Exod [a major “ex-gay” mistry featured promently the film that shut down 2013 after s lears said nversn therapy was harmful]. There are almost certaly more than a few gay players currently the NFL, and Aaron Rodgers unrstands why they are aaid to reveal their sexual orientatn publicly.

In a wi-rangg terview wh Ma Kim of ESPN The Magaze, Rodgers was asked about his former Cal teammate Ryan O’Callaghan, who recently me out as gay. This guy talked about Aaron Rodgers beg gay on his podst for 3 years before the Kev breakup that would be around 2010 when the gay mors were first discsed on the show. Kev was Aaron's "roommate" at Aaron's whg about "fantasy" when sports rad shows aimed at straight guys were discsg Aaron beg gay way before the datalounge wasby Anonymoreply 213Febary 18, 2021 4:23 PM.

MISTER ROGERS TOLD CO-STAR DON'T COME OUT AS GAY, AND MARRY A WOMAN

Also, Michael seemed to be more terted the fame aspect than actually workg on beg a better athlete - he lov all the attentn he was gettg for beg the first openly gay NFL player.

I lost what ltle rpect I had for him when he got fake engaged to please all the homophob who kept wonrg why he was still Anonymoreply 272April 3, 2021 5:38 AM. He didn't addrs the homophobia specifilly, but he talked about a more progrsive learship the starts talkg about Gn and the NFL culture at 5:30Offse Lkby Anonymoreply 420October 15, 2021 1:06 AM. This closeted A-list star recently end a high profile romance wh his equally famo girliend so now his team is scramblg to sre another cutie to tackle those never endg gay mors.

PL RODGERS GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 87 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

Why are the Amerin sports media reticent to discs the homosocial relatnship between NFL Star Aaron Rodgers and his former personal assistant Kev Lanflisi? For stance, Atralian gay swimmer Ian Thorpe knew the media would not out him so he lived his life the glass closet until beme advantageo for him to e out. By keepg the gay secret of male athlet still sends the wrong msage to the public that male homosexualy is a dirty secret that needs to be hidn.

Meanwhile, Ameri another male athlete Aaron Rodgers one of the top NFL players is subjected to gay mours has also ntued to ny his homosexualy spe evince provg otherwise. The gay star athlet are wards many livg the glass closet but too selfish to make the fal step and change sports forever and advance gay rights. The silence of the prs about the mours swirlg Aaron Rodgers alleged homosexualy is astonishg and is due to you have been livg unr a rock, you have heard about the explosive allegatns that Green Bay Packers star Quarterback Aaron Rodgers was moured to be a closeted webse The Fame Driven broke the story that Rodgers had a fallg out wh his male personal assistant and former roommate Kev Lanflisi.

Rodgers has always praised Lanflisi terviews the media that they have a close mastream sports media are engenrg a fa that the gay mours about Aaron Rodgers alleged homosexualy emerged out of the gay mour emerged Rodgers told ESPN Rad that “I am not gay.

OLIVIA MUNN SPARKS MORE AARON RODGERS GAY MORS

Even though Michael Sam has e out do not mean the NFL or the sports media are sudnly pro though Rodgers nied beg gay he also did not mentn his former male roommate and former bt iend Kev Lanflisi.

AARON RODGERS EXPLAS WHY GAY NFL PLAYERS FEAR G OUT

A few months after the gay mours got to the mastream media, sudnly tabloid webs like US Weekly are lkg Rodgers to untry mic sger Taylor Swift. The NFL is a very powerful anizatn and Rodgers is one of the biggt stars the NFL spe the rhetoric that the NFL would accept an openly gay player the Kerry Rhos suatn prov otherwise. However, a more subversive answer is the mastream North Amerin sports media is domated by heterosexual men the straight male reporters and journalists might be ignorant about male homosexualy.

One reason is, spe the mastream media’s sire for an openly gay male star athlete to e out of the closet the attu of the prs towards male homosexualy needs to change. Male homosexualy is still viewed as foreign, distant, and do not exist the sports homosexualy is still viewed as shameful, dirty, private, and immoral.

STILL GAY AFTER 100 YEARS! PART 30 OF THE AARON RODGERS SAGA

Male homosexualy is the last taboo North Amerin real reason gay male athlet do not e out is not bee of the media or the fans or even losg endorsements. Gay men are all lumped together beg effemate, soft, and lite but this is an ugly stereotype which gay men are ed effemate but there are also many gay men who do not nform to the stereotype and are mascule and excel at sports.

‎Rodgers has been on a media blz proclaimg his love for Munn yet the timg is spic sce he and his PR team are workg hard to kill mours he is a closeted homosexual.

Even though gay rights are advancg the Uned Stat is still taboo for a top male athlete to e out as gay male athlet are g out but they are mostly margal players on the g.

NFL STAR AARON RODGERS IS GAY NEEDS TO BE OUTED AS A HOMOSEXUAL

In Palm Sprgs for a uple days to rg the new year, dozens of people asked me the qutn on the md of every gay person who's ever read a gossip blog. But while 's important to afford celebri a tly private life, the state of homophobia sports today - upled wh the LGBT teen suici rate - mak imperative that every gay athlete at the very top let the world know who they are. They've started to thk they uld dip a toe the water, maybe try to date someone on the sly, maybe nfi a uple people that they are gay.

IS AARON RODGERS GAY? WHEN SPECULATN BE PROBLEMATIC.

A mor circulated around the locker room that he was gay, based upon the fact that — unlike many of his teammat — he wasn’t one to brag about his penis size or his endls strg of sexual nquts.

Owens’ source dit that Rodgers had his fay, and everyone else close to him, sign non-disclosure agreements as prevents them om ever talkg about Rodgers news outlets are startg to believe there’s a ser publicy stunt gog on to try and ntue to nvce the public Rodgers really isn’t gay. ”However, Munn said they ocsnally have sex after Packers quot aren’t any evince Rodgers is gay, but when you’re datg one of the sexit women the world… has wrten several different reports on this subject, and also spoken to several different sirs that appear to have knowledge on the suatn, here’s what he told about his opn on the matter. However, a Super Bowl champn is now acknowledgg that not only are there many gay men the NFL… but that some of them are bona fi superstars!

PACKERS QB AARON RODGERS ADDRS MOR THAT HE'S GAY

Some of the biggt stars the NFL are gay… they’re jt not ready to e out publicly yet… so says Super Bowl champ-turned-LGBT activist Brendon Ayanbajo. Let’s face … none of the NFL players who have e out have really been top tier guys — so we asked Brendon if we’ll ever see an openly gay man achieve that hoehold name regnn… a la Peyton, Brady, Watt, etc. And as ual, every time Aaron Rodgers is on natnal televisn, I look at this se’s traffic stats and I see two phras “Aaron Rodgers Gay” and “Is Aaron Rodgers Gay?

Now even wh his relatnship to Olivia Munn (which some of even brand a distractn) lots and lots of people out there seem to thk Rodgers is still a homosexual. And pops up bee people are nstantly searchg for “Aaron Rodgers gay, ” “Aaron Rodgers gay mors, ” “Is Aaron Rodgers gay, ” “Aaron Rodgers athletic traer boyiend” and etc.

SOME PACKERS THOUGHT AARON RODGERS WAS GAY BEE HE DIDN’T ‘BRAG ABOUT HIS PENIS SIZE’

Rumors that Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is gay and has broken up wh boyiend Kev Lanflisi – who doubled as Rodgers’ “personal assistant” – are makg the rounds on the Interwebs.

Supposedly, Rodgers was one of the four gay NFL players who were set to e out over the summer, but the football star backed out at the last mute. While that on s own may not be enough evince to say whether Aaron Rodgers is gay, many have ced his nversatn wh MilwkeeMag – when he said he judg people based on how they treat Kev, who is “not a famo person” – as proof that the two are more than iends.

AARON RODGERS’ PERSONAL LIFE IS A F*CKG MS, GAY RUMORS RE-EMERGE

While those clost to him sisted both durg his life and after his ath that he was ed straight, many people still believed the soft-spoken host whose missn life was to teach people to be kr to one another, was homosexual.

THE GAY NFL SUPERSTARS

People believe Te'o was tfished to the whole thg while others believed he may be gay and was merely g the Kekua story as a way of hidg his relatnship wh Tuiasosopo.

Grer got an endorsement al wh Nike after she me out, markg the first time the pany had announced a partnership wh an openly gay athlete. He was talkg about fashn week and said "It was this one thg durg fashn week: I had my legs crossed, and they lled me gay, I've got my legs crossed, I'm chill', I'm gettg my grown man on at the event.

So the mere fact that Rogers was the oppose of macho really prov nothg about his sexual qutn is also reasonable if gay men prefer that their iends and social groups be gay or at least gay-iendly.

WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK AARON RODGERS IS GAY?

After all, Fred Rogers knowgly hired gays to appear on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, even untg two of them, John Reardon and Franis Clemmons, among his clost personal iends.

Rogers also attend a Prbyterian church Ptsburgh that remas well known for welg the LGBT muny and supportg s full cln at all nomatnal wa another send: Isn't te that some gay men don't e sexual orientatn as the major crern when selectg their bt iends, and that others even closely intify wh stutns and movements that are historilly and vehemently anti-gay, like the Catholic Church, nservative Prottant church, and the Boy Suts of Ameri? If this is ed te, Rogers' choice of iends and church also don't give any firm evince about his sexual naggg qutn is also unrstandable if we acknowledge that gay men of Rogers' generatn (and discretn) often hid their gay sexualy by marryg women and havg children, all the while engagg gay sex on the sly.

Nothg, but don't we also have to nce that some (heterosexually married or sgle) gay men, for a wi variety of reasons, don't engage gay sex? Everythg be a b more plited when we nsir that the late 1960s Rogers enuraged Franis Clemmons, who played the role of Officer Clemmons, to rema the closet, marry a woman, and foc on his sgg reer as ways to re and channel his gay sexual orientatn. As untls gays me out more publicly followg the Stonewall uprisg, Rogers even urged Clemmons to enter to a long-term and stable gay relatnship.

AARON RODGERS GAY RUMORS: DID HE AND BOYIEND KEV LANFLISI BREAK UP?

Neverthels, Rogers was never a public advote of gay rights, even the post-Stonewall era, and he told lleagu that a public stance on the issue would alienate many of the viewers he wanted to reach wh his what was that msage? "Unndnal acceptance, arguably the most posive and passnate msage that any gay child, youth, or adult uld fd anywhere on televisn durg Rogers' tenure.

Perhaps 's this queer- and straight-iendly msage that we would do well to rell as we wonr about Rogers' sexual orientatn, revealg so many of our prejudic along the way, ep-seated prejudic about the liv of gays and straights and about our own uneass wh sexual orientatns and behavrs.

At last, perhaps we should turn the mera lens toward ourselv and assure Fred Rogers that we like him jt as he was: the oppose of machismo, a lovg hband and father, a close iend and employer of gays, a man who grew to support at least one iend's sire for an openly gay relatnship and, above all else, a passnate human beg who assured each of that, no matter who we are or what we do, we are always and everywhere lovable and pable of lovg... The 35-year-old feels like she has lived at an tertg time: the rise of LGBTQ rights; a social media boom that has offered others a glimpse to the life of LGBTQ people of fah; evangelil Christiany’s grapplg wh sexualy; and the evolutn of her own thkg about her sexualy as a gay Christian. Chelette ached her to share what she lled her “ex-gay” ttimony, and she later spoke at nferenc n by Exod Internatnal, which was at the time the olst and largt anizatn the so-lled “ex-gay” movement.

WAS MR. ROGERS GAY?

“Pray Away, ” which to Netflix Augt, centers on the stori of a number of past Exod lears who left the “ex-gay” movement and the anizatn before closed 2013. Rodgers’ story of ultimately fdg love and fah as a gay Christian shows that “there is hope that you n fd muny and acceptance outsi of this world, ” Stolakis said.

She still hears om young adults programs like Livg Hope who tell her they are gay, but they n’t image a life outsi of the nservative evangelilism they’ve known. They wanted to hire someone who was gay, but they need the kd of gay who uld sign Wheaton’s Communy Covenant—a of nduct that says marriage is between a man and a woman and sexual exprsn is rerved for that relatnship alone.

AARON RODGERS GAY? EX-BOYIEND REPORTEDLY PLANNG TO OUT PACKERS QB

This meant that gay and lbian stunts uldn’t date or marry, which a growg number of stunts volly opposed, and Wheaton thought maybe I uld help. Anx but earnt, I agreed to sign after a transparent round of terviews where I highlighted all the reasons that I, an openly gay blogger, might not be the bt f for Wheaton.

The blog post qutn asked Christians to lm the scty when to gay people—a pot that was lost on nservative alumni like Eric Teetsel, Director of Fah Outreach for the Mar Rub mpaign, who was outraged by my hire and relentlsly monored my social media activy.

At a time when Evangelils are supremely anx about all thgs LGBT, they hired an openly gay wrer to work their Chapla’s office as a spirual lear.

'WASN'T HE GAY?': A REVEALG QUTN ABOUT MISTER ROGERS

Even though I uld sign the Communy Covenant at that time, I was a risk—a risk they took bee they re about their gay stunts and know they need an advote. The article, never published, offered a posive narrative for gay Christians and enuraged the church to celebrate the prence of LGBT people.

JULIE RODGERS SHAR STORY OF SURVIVG ‘EX-GAY’ MISTRI NEW BOOK AND NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Wheaton’s admistratn had always phed back agast my attempt to create a posive narrative around beg gay rather than one of “brokenns” and the need for healg. The Covenant don’t explicly talk about the badns of a gay orientatn, however, so I felt the article would have been le wh the school’s statement of fah. If gays m to never date or marry, if they keep their stori quiet, if they rema theologilly nservative and they war agast their gayns, then maybe they n kd of stick around.

So she may have misnsted the ia when Frankie Crocker told her what 'I'm g out' meant — that she thought we were tryg to imply that she was gay.

In this week's fal episo of the season, Patrick and Tommie wele back their iend Ernto Wolfgang, meet the world's uglit dog, remember Broadway poser Richard Rodgers and gay actor John Inman on their birthdays, say farewell to Broadway poser Sheldon Harnick, celebrate the 54th anniversary of the Stonewall rts wh a round of trivia qutns, Steven drops by to discs parchment paper, review the se of the Geia teacher fired for readg a book class she found at the school's book fair, nmn the Roman Colossm vandal, lgh at South Dakota legislator Joe Donnell for claimg Mount Rhmore is a monic portal, and name their "mt have" songs for their Pri Month playlist. The openly gay mayor of The Village, Okla., announced his rignatn on Monday after a seri of “threats and attacks borrg on vlence” ma him no longer safe his pacy to serve as an elected Graham who served on the cy uncil for nearly five years before he was named mayor on May 2, was the cy’s youngt and first openly gay elected Monday, a letter addrsed to Cy Manager Bce Stone, Graham said that he has fought agast “ageism, racism and homophobia” sce 2018 and that he was proud that The Village — a cy of about 9, 000 Oklahoma County, about 10 north of Oklahoma Cy — was “ready for a young voice and new ias. ” Instead, he shared a huge apartment wh his angel mother until she died, only seven months before he ’s taken for granted now that to the extent Larry Hart had a nsistently active sex life, was homosexual.

HOW A LEADG CHRISTIAN COLLEGE TURNED AGAST ITS GAY LEAR

”) The homophobic Mrice Chevalier, for whom R&H were wrg that unique movie Love Me Tonight, warned his young male assistant to stay away om Larry “or he’ll try to get to your pants. I was one of his boys, and I ’s easy to hear sly echo of homosexualy Hart’s lyrics (there would certaly be none Osr Hammerste’s), but although his great subject was love, he didn’t wre much about sex. This week, Aaron Rodgers gay mors arose after The Fame Driven received a “spy” email tippg them off to “bter sublimal tweets on Lanflisi’s Twter.

OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF OKLAHOMA CY RIGNS OVER ‘THREATS AND ATTACKS BORRG ON VLENCE’

The thgs are rarely cut and dried, and assumg Rodgers is gay – still a stretch, spe any of the tails – has to be a personal and plited issue for him. Some believe homosexuals privileged cultural posns have an obligatn to e out, to make life easier for those closeted by more tryg circumstanc.

Gay or straight, and regardls of what we thk, Rodgers will lead the Packers agast San Francis the first round of the NFL playoffs this weekend.