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Contents:

• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GAY JOURNALISTS, OUT IN THE NEWSROOM
• JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK
• MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
• LETA GAY HENSON
• ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'
• ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’
•  WHO SUZANNE MALVEX CNN JOURNALIST PARTNER KARE JEAN-PIERRE 1ST OPENLY-GAY WOMAN WH PRS BRIEF
• WHO IS MARA GAY?
• THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS
• MARA GAY B, WIKIPEDIA, MSNBC, HBAND, AGE, HEIGHT, NET WORTH
• BORIS SANCHEZ (CNN) WIKI BGRAPHY, AGE, ETHNICY, WIFE, GAY, PARENTS
• JAM LONGMAN OPENLY GAY, HBAND, HEIGHT, SALARY
• CONFN, EXASPERATN AND DATG APPS – MY MONTH AS A GAY REPORTER AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP
• LEGENDARY REPORTER GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE FDS TMP INSPIRG
• MARA GAY (JOURNALIST) AGE, WIKI, PARENTS, UNIVERSY, B
• ‘THE BLACKENG’ STAR DEWAYNE PERKS ON HIS GAY HORROR SPOOF CHARACTER AND MG HIS COMG-OUT STORY FOR COMEDY

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist. Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

GAY JOURNALISTS, OUT IN THE NEWSROOM

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

JENNA WOLFE, TODAY SHOW ANCHOR, COM OUT AS GAY, ANNOUNC SHE’S EXPECTG A BABY GIRL WH GIRLIEND STEPHANIE GOSK

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. “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.

31, 2013When Rob Roberts, an anchor of “Good Morng Ameri, ” disclosed this week that she was gay and a long-term relatnship wh another woman, she did so not a news release or on the ver of a magaze, but durg a seemgly sual asi a year-end Facebook a post on Sunday that looked back on her yearlong revery om a bone-marrow transplant 2012 to treat a rare blood disorr lled myelodysplastic syndrome, Ms.

MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)

Roberts announced that he was gay at the annual meetg of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn, sayg that he had cid was time to go public wh news that he had already shared wh many of his -workers. Champn, the longtime weather anchor for “Good Morng Ameri” and now anchor and managg edor at the Weather Channel, never hid his homosexualy (and fact, me out a sual ment to a reporter the Vows lumn about the weddg of Mr. 9, 2014: An article last Thursday about the ways which several news anchors, most recently, Rob Roberts, have ma public their sexual orientatn misstated part of the name of the anizatn to which Thomas Roberts was givg a speech when he announced he was gay.

It is the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn, not the Natnal Gay and Lbian Journalists we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn E, Page 6 of the New York edn wh the headle: ‘In Other News’: TV Personali’ Low-Key Comg Out. ” Perez graduated wh a bachelor’s gree broadst journalism om the Universy of Illois Urbana-Champaign 2002 and subsequently began his reer Read: Maggie Rulli - Age, B, ABC News & HbandIs Alex Perez Gay?

LETA GAY HENSON

Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay. Soon after Deb Price joed the Detro News 1989, she wrote a piece about gay people beg expelled om the ary, an issue that was barely a blip on the journalistic radar screen. As the big gay rights prott unfolds here this weekend, many of the 700 members of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists' Associatn are nvergg on the cy as well.

Andrew Sullivan, edor of the New Republic, which is publishg a special edn on gay issu this week, says he stggl to addrs two disparate dienc that lack a mon language. "This subject is so divisive on all levels that be a mefield for journalists to cross, and even more so for gay journalists bee your own team laid the m, " he says. Schmalz says he "took enormo heat" om homosexuals last week when the Tim reported on a survey which only 1 percent of rponnts acknowledged beg gay -- even though he had nothg to do wh the story.

ANRSON COOPER SHAR WHEN HE REALIZED HE WAS GAY: 'ONE OF THE GREAT BLSGS OF MY LIFE'

" As recently as five or six years ago, many gay journalists were nvced, rightly or wrongly, that their reers would be ed if they acknowledged their sexual orientatn. In 1989, the Amerin Society of Newspaper Edors asked Leroy Aarons, then the executive edor of the Oakland Tribune, to nduct a nfintial survey of gay journalists. Aarons had been out at his own paper, but when he prented the survey fdgs at a nference the followg year, he ed the ocsn to announce his homosexualy to his peers.

ANRSON COOPER: ‘BEG GAY IS ONE OF THE BLSGS OF MY LIFE’

In 1991, Hoton Post edors refed to allow Palomo to wre a lumn about his homosexualy, then fired him for speakg publicly about the dispute (he was restated days later). When rtoonist Lynn Johnston wrote about a gay teenager "For Better or for Worse" this month, 19 papers nceled the ic strip and 50 others refed to n the gay sequence. As their issu have taken center stage -- om the anti-gay rights referendum Colorado to Print Clton's effort to lift the ary ban on homosexuals -- most gay journalists agree that prs verage has improved dramatilly.

In a special appearance on Today and, later, a blog on the show's webse, the 39-year-old NBC rrponnt me out as gay and announced that she and her girliend, fellow NBC journalist Stephanie Gosk, are expectg a dghter at the end of Augt. Wh the announcement this week that liberal journalist Steve Kornacki of Salon will take over weekend roundtable show, Up, MSNBC is addg s third openly gay anchor to the lp. Maddow, who is gay, often lled upon Kornacki as a Roberts, who was recently married to Patrick Abner New York, also hosts his own midday show on the channel and was before that anchor for The Advote's onle newsst, which is no longer productn.

 WHO SUZANNE MALVEX CNN JOURNALIST PARTNER KARE JEAN-PIERRE 1ST OPENLY-GAY WOMAN WH PRS BRIEF

Among the roughly dozen reporters on the b that day, five were gay—part of a terie of LGBTQ journalists verg the first mastream openly gay printial ndidate.

WHO IS MARA GAY?

A number of gay natnal rrponnts have foced on Buttigieg, too, a list that clus Josh Lerman, an NBC News natnal polil reporter; Chris Johnson of the Washgton Bla; Jeremy Peters of the New York Tim, and the Washgton Post’s Chelsea Jan and opn wrer Jonathan Capehart. Over the past 12 months, om New Hampshire to Iowa, the gay reporters on the Buttigieg beat have wnsed and reported on anti-gay hecklg at stops D Mo, Iowa, and Marshalltown, Iowa. It was a ary veteran and person of fah “who jt let me know ’s OK to be a Christian veteran gay Amerin, but I did not grow up wh a lot of out gay people my life, ” he rpond.

THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS

“It’s helped facilate really ep, thoughtful nversatns about what was like to be the closet up until his 30s, what was like g out, how affected him as a young man, how affects him today on the mpaign, ” Smh says of the fact that gay reporters are verg the mpaign. As a black and gay journalist, the Post’s Capehart has had an even more sgular wdow to Buttigieg’s mpaign, particularly as he has stggled to w over black voters. In a November 2019 lumn headled “The ugly lie about black voters and Pete Buttigieg, ” Capehart tackled the stereotype that Ain Amerins stat such as South Carola are homophobic.

“You are verg somethg that is unprecented, which is a major openly gay printial ndidate havg to ntend wh protters shoutg vulgari about their sexualy at them durg a mpaign event, ” says Lerman, who documented the episo for NBC News. “The fact of the matter is that gay rights issu, same-sex marriage, other issu like that, are still matters of public ntroversy our untry, ” says Lerman, who pched his edors on verg Buttigieg around his lnch April after Buttigieg had raised $7 ln the first fundraisg quarter.

It’s Gary Hart, ’s Bill Clton and ’s Print Tmp, but I feel like as a gay reporter, I might have an unrstandg of the relatnship to sexualy and sexual orientatn and what has to do wh other aspects of a person’s life.

MARA GAY B, WIKIPEDIA, MSNBC, HBAND, AGE, HEIGHT, NET WORTH

Havg other gay, queer, LGBTQ reporter iends who you see at ralli or bat or foms or on the b, mostly, mak a ltle more bearable to ver any ndidate, ” Bixby says. "I'm not sure I knew the word 'gay' at the time, but I realized somethg was up, " Cooper said a Q&A ssn Monday on CNN's "Full Circle, " addg that he began to tell iends when he was high school but still stggled through llege wh fully lovg himself. "I thk I really, tly accepted – and not jt accepted , but fully embraced and me around to really lovg the fact that I was gay – would probably be right after llege, " he said.

" He me out as gay to the public on July 2, 2012, allowg iend and wrer Andrew Sullivan to publish an email om him, sayg 'd bee clear that remag silent on the topic had given the false imprsn that he had somethg to hi. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I uldn’t be any more happy, fortable wh myself, and proud, " he has sce weled a son, Wyatt Man Cooper, born April 27, 2020 via surrogate. Gay also began trendg 2021 after sayg she was "disturbed" to see "dozens of Amerin flags" flown by Donald Tmp supporters durg a weekend trip to Long Island.

BORIS SANCHEZ (CNN) WIKI BGRAPHY, AGE, ETHNICY, WIFE, GAY, PARENTS

"The realy is here that we have a large percentage of the Amerin populatn — I don't know how big is, but we have tens of lns of Tmp voters who ntue to believe that their rights as cizens are unr threat by simple virtue of havg to share the mocracy wh others, " Gay told MSNBC host, Mika Brzezski. "I thk that as long as they see Amerinns as the same as one wh Whens, this is gog to ntue, " Gay said, mentg that "Whens" and "Amerinns" need to be separated.

JAM LONGMAN OPENLY GAY, HBAND, HEIGHT, SALARY

While the work still appeals to nservativ and tak plenty of flak om liberals, there has been a cidly pro-gay uptick on-air talent, edorial ntent and signalg. On Monday, July 9, immediately followg Print Tmp’s announcement of his Supreme Court nomee, Kennedy Montgomery –– host of her own show, Kennedy, on the Fox Bs Network and who also appears on Fox News –– nducted a segment which she terviewed a “married” gay uple entled How Brett Kavangh uld affect same-sex marriage rights.

When one of the gay men suggted that there is no puttg the same-sex marriage “genie back the bottle, ” Kennedy agreed, sayg, “It’s not jt a matter of cultural cursy, is somethg that has reached cril mass and there is now cultural acceptance and rightly so.

As far back as 2002, former Fox News heavyweight Bill O’Reilly said an terview wh gay-oriented The Advote that he, “uldn't re ls, to tell you the tth … You want to get married? ” Asked if he would oppose homosexual “marriage” if were legalized, O’Reilly said, “If you n get that changed, I'm not gog to jump up and down and say I thk 's wrong, bee I don't.

CONFN, EXASPERATN AND DATG APPS – MY MONTH AS A GAY REPORTER AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP

The Fox News’ talent stable –– past and prent –– remas packed wh pro-gay libertarians (and some admtedly are self-proclaimed liberals) who often enjoy, at least for a time, reputatns as nservativ: Margaret Hoover, Megyn Kelly, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Jamie Colby, Chris Wallace, Kelly Wright, and even Fox & Friends weatherman Rick Reichmuth. Of all the Fox News Channel programmg, “The Five” has the hight nsy of pro-gay sentiment among s regulars: former host Eric Bollg, Dana Pero, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Greg Gutfeld, and Geraldo Rivera.

LEGENDARY REPORTER GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE FDS TMP INSPIRG

Baier was among three high-profile speakers to whdraw om the event after the homosexual activist group “Good As You” mpaigned agast Legat, llg a “very anti-gay anizatn of Catholics. In realy, Fox News and Baier were reactg agast the prence of another man slated to speak at the nference, Pl Darrow, a lifelong gay man and former ternatnal male mol who nverted to Catholicism, now liv a chaste life, and is a member of the Courage apostolate. The Catechism of the Catholic Church do ed scribe homosexual acts as acts of “grave pravy, ” and the homosexual clatn as “trsilly disorred, ” while also urgg that those wh same-sex attractn “be accepted wh rpect, passn, and sensivy, ” as we do here at LifeSeNews.

He’s been known to keep his private affairs low profile, and this lack of rmatn led to some speculatn that he was gay, but this was nied after was revealed that he was already trip on Air Force One / March ‘19Follow me on Insta: @borissancheztvThanks to Jay McMichael for the pic?? Jam Longman, the handsome ABC News Foreign Corrponnt, is someone that many LGBTQ+ people n relate shared his stggle as a closeted gay man before and me out bravely to the world. After workg at Santanr UK for over six years, Brannan joed HDI Global SE January of Brannan currently works as Marketg Manager at HDI Global SE and is rponsible for creatg a marketg strategy for UK & Ireland Bs as well as Brand Ari Himmel B, Age, Datg, Height, SalaryJam Longman Comg Out As GayDpe knowg for years, Jam me out as a gay man at the age of 24.

Longman figured out that he was gay at the age of 16, and as he stat, the realizatn ma him cry tears of relief and also only lettg know a very few select people about his homosexualy, Jam hid om his fay, pecially om his mom. A story that’s taken to Mosw, Grozny, St Petersburg, Belgium and France, meetg the victims and the alleged perpetrators of crim agast #LGBT men and women A post shared by jamaalongman (@jamaalongman) on Sep 20, 2019 at 6:11am PDT But when I’m on a story, I’m nsc of three dienc: the people I’m wh that place; the broar TV dience at home; and the young gay men and women who may see my first group n be challengg. I’m keen to be myself, but also sensive to different attus plac where gay rights have a ways to not legimizg homophobic views, you jt have to be practil how you al wh certa anyone I meet some far-off place cid to Google me, they’d see I’m gay (shoutout to my pretty credible -- and very patient -- boyiend Alex!

MARA GAY (JOURNALIST) AGE, WIKI, PARENTS, UNIVERSY, B

Perhaps on some level I hope that by meetg me, and seeg that I take an tert their liv, they may be ls judgmental of dience at home is the send group -- and I’m aware there are also anti-gay views there. I’m powerfully aware though of the third dience: young gay men and women who may be stgglg wh their I was growg up, I had virtually no one to look to the public eye, where I uld say to myself, "Wow, he managed , I might not have to be the dark forever. It meant tailg and unrstandg how and why LGBT+ people — and that bloody armband — beme one of the them of the here is a gay guy’s acunt of the past month, reportg the World Cup Qatar.

Gianni Infanto speaks ntroversially ahead of the tournament (Photo: Christopher Lee/Getty Imag)Homosexual behavur is illegal Qatar, as is sex outsi of marriage, regardls of sexual orientatn, so some of what I am scribg may e as a surprise. The hostily is worse for those nsired feme, or trans, unrlg that so much about homophobia is unrpned by warped perceptns of the tournament, many Wtern journalists had obssed over whether men would be able to hold hands Doha. One said he was prepared to set asi his own happs bee he feared his father would be stigmatised by his fay if he was known to have a gay person shared so many of the same terts as me.

”Brighton is often scribed as England’s gay pal, which mak the nversatn untentnally funny — to me, fd some mon ground: “It’s not somethg you n ntrol, ” he says. A 959-word statement on the English FA’s webse scribed the armband as a mpaign to “stop discrimatn” but did not mentn the words “gay” or “LGBT” relatn to the FA chief executive Mark Bullgham scribed the armband “as a visible show of support for cln football — somethg we strongly believe and have nsistently supported”. A few days later, Qatar World Cup ambassador and former ternatnal footballer Khalid Salman told a German broadster that to be gay is “haram”, meang forbidn said: “I am not a strict Mlim, but why is haram?

‘THE BLACKENG’ STAR DEWAYNE PERKS ON HIS GAY HORROR SPOOF CHARACTER AND MG HIS COMG-OUT STORY FOR COMEDY

Harry Kane wearg the OneLove armband before the World Cup (Photo: Getty Imag)This was my first full day Doha and when I tweeted cricism of Infanto’s speech, people replied wh imag of a rabow flag flam, warngs to “shut the f*** up u gay peace (sic) of sh”, and I received direct msag tellg me to rot next 48 hours would set the tone for the rt of the tournament. ”FIFA would not ment formally but sourc, who wouldn’t speak on the rerd orr to protect their jobs, said that the OneLove opposn was “never anti-gay” but stead about remdg people of the regulatns to which they prevly signed up. The discsn is all the more powerful for football player or ach munited the purpose of the armband they wished to wear, or the importance of rights and eedoms, or sought to nvey any way what life might be like for a Qatari queer person or a gay supporter elsewhere.