DeSantis’ Gross Anti-Gay Ad Prov He’s Way Worse Than Tmp

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• BETY AND THE BEAST “DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH” WH GAY LEFOU, SAYS JOSH GAD “I DON’T THK WE DID JTICE TO WHAT A REAL GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE,” GAD SAID A RECENT TERVIEW.BY SAVANNAH WALSHMARCH 1, 2022FROM SHUTTERSTOCK.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIT’S BEEN NEARLY FIVE YEARS SCE DISNEY’S LIVE-ACTN BETY AND THE BEAST MA HEADL FOR AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” VOLVG LEFOU (PLAYED BY JOSH GAD), THE DIM-WTED SIKICK TO THE VILLAO GASTON (LE EVANS). THAT SCENE, TEASED BY DIRECTOR BILL CONDON DURG THE FILM’S PRS TOUR, WOUND UP BEG MERELY A BRIEF SHOT OF LEFOU DANCG WH ANOTHER MAN JT BEFORE THE CREDS ROLLED. GAD IS NOW REMORSEFUL ABOUT HIS CHARACTER’S POSNG AS DISNEY’S FIRST TE LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN.“WE DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH TO WARRANT ACLAS,” HE RECENTLY TOLD THE INPENNT. “WE DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH TO SAY, ‘LOOK HOW BRAVE WE ARE.’ MY REGRET WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT BEME ‘DISNEY’S FIRST EXPLICLY GAY MOMENT’ AND WAS NEVER TEND TO BE THAT. IT WAS NEVER TEND TO BE A MOMENT THAT WE SHOULD LD OURSELV FOR, BEE ANKLY, I DON’T THK WE DID JTICE TO WHAT A REAL GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE.”AT THE TIME OF BETY AND THE BEAST’S RELEASE, THE IMPLITN THAT A BELOVED ANIMATED CHARACTER WOULD BE QUEER ED NTROVERSY. AN ALABAMA THEATER REFED TO SCREEN THE FILM, MALAYSIA BALKED AT SCREENG AN UNCENSORED VERSN OF , AND RSIA APPROVED THE FILM FOR SCREENG BUT WH AN AGE RATG OF 16 AND ABOVE. AMIDST THE FALLOUT, CONDON REVISED HIS EARLIER MENTS, LLG VERAGE OF THE SCENE “OVERBLOWN.” MEANWHILE, GAD TOLD USA TODAY AT THE FILM’S PREMIERE THAT THE SCRIPT DID NOT EXPLICLY DISCLOSE LEFOU’S SEXUALY AS GAY. “THAT WAS NOT LEFOU,” GAD NTUED HIS REMARKS TO THE INPENNT. “IF WE’RE GOG TO PAT OURSELV ON THE BACK, THEN DAMN , WE SHOULD HAVE GONE FURTHER WH THAT. EVERYBODY SERV AN OPPORTUNY TO SEE THEMSELV ON SCREEN, AND I DON’T THK WE’VE DONE ENOUGH—AND I CERTALY HAVEN’T DONE ENOUGH TO DO THAT.”GAD WAS SET TO REPRISE HIS ROLE AS LEFOU A PREQUEL SERI FOR DISNEY+, WHICH WOULD HAVE RNED WH EVANS’S GASTON. HOWEVER, DISNEY POSTPONED THE PROJECT EARLIER THIS YEAR, DUE TO CREATIVE LAYS. “WE TRIED TO MAKE ALL WORK BUT UNR THE GUN WASN’T MEANT TO BE…FOR NOW,” GAD, WHO WAS ALSO A SHOWNNER ON THE SERI, TWEETED. “THE CHARACTERS AND THIS STORY WILL LIVE ON, BUT SOMETIM THE BT TENTNS & REALY LLI & NOTHG N BE DONE.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— JERRY LEWIS’S COSTARS SPEAK OUT: “HE GRABBED ME. HE BEGAN TO FONDLE ME. I WAS DUMBSTCK”— INSI CHARLIZE THERON AND TOM HARDY’S MAD MAX WAR— INVENTG ANNA IS A “DANGERO” DISTORTN, SAYS RACHEL WILLIAMS— HOW THE GUN ALEC BALDW’S HANDS TURNED THE RT SET DEADLY— LOVE IS BLD SEASON TWO IS PEAK RED FLAG TELEVISN— PACHKO FIRST LOOK: AN EPIC TALE, AND A HISTORY-MAKG SHOW— VANY FAIR’S HOLLYWOOD ISSUE 2022: SEE THE FULL PORTFOL FEATURG NILE KIDMAN, KRISTEN STEWART, AND MORE— THE UGLY TTH OF HOW MOVIE SR ARE MA— KIRSTEN DUNST ON HER FIRST OSR NOMATN FOR THE POWER OF THE DOG— FROM THE ARCHIVE: WH FRIENDS LIKE THE— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSAVANNAH WALSH
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• INSI HOLLYWOOD’S ‘TWK’ POOL PARTIPRETTY GROSSWILD NIGHTS OF NO CLOTH AND LOTS OF ALHOL: ONE ATTENE REVEALS WHAT WENT ON AT X MEN DIRECTOR BRYAN SGER’S FAMO POOL PARTI.STT BIXBYUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 2:18PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 19, 2014 5:45AM EDT VIA FACEBOOKIN GAY PANY, E OF THE WORD “TWK” IS TYPILLY PAIRED WH A ROLLED EYE AND A NSCENDG TONE. AT S MOST PEJORATIVE, THE TERM SCRIB A UNIQUELY DISPOSABLE KD OF YOUNG GAY MAN: HAIRLS, GUILELS, WLS. THE TERM’S NAMAKE IS TWKIE, A JUNK FOOD NTAG SHY PACKAGG, A SWEET TASTE, AND ZERO NUTRNAL VALUE. IT’S A LABEL THAT MIGAT THE NEED FOR NAM OR PERSONALI OR AGENCY: “TWKS” N BE BSED TO PARTI, THROWN TO POOLS, PUT TO A TY SPEEDO—OR NO TY SPEEDO AT ALL—AND ORNAMENTALLY PLACED AROUND THE WATER’S EDGE LIKE LIVG, BREATHG, GIGGLG STATUARY.SUCH IS THE PURPORTED SCENE AT THE FAMO POOL PARTI HOSTED BY HOLLYWOOD LUMARI LIKE BRYAN SGER, 48-YEAR-OLD DIRECTOR OF X-MEN, SUPERMAN RETURNS, AND THE USUAL SPECTS.THE GAY FILMMAKER IS THE SUBJECT OF A LAWSU FILED A HAWAII FERAL URT ALLEGG THAT HE DGGED, RAPED, AND ASSLTED MICHAEL EGAN, THEN SEVENTEEN, THE LATE NETI. IT WAS AT POOL PARTI A MANSN ENCO, EGAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, NOT HOSTED BY SGER, THAT THE WORST OF THE ABE TOOK PLACE. “AT THE HOE, WAS DGS PUT DRKS. LIQUOR POURED DOWN MY THROAT. RUL THE HOE: NO SWIMSUS, NO CLOTH OUT BY THE POOL AREA. I WAS RAPED NUMERO TIM THAT HOE. VAR TYP OF SEXUAL ABE. YOU WERE LIKE A PIECE OF MEAT TO THE PEOPLE. THEY’D PASS YOU AROUND BETWEEN THEM.” MARTY SGER, SGER’S LAWYER, HAS VEHEMENTLY NIED THE CLAIMS. “IN A STATEMENT, HE SAID: “THE CLAIMS MA AGAST BRYAN SGER ARE PLETELY WHOUT MER. WE ARE VERY NFINT THAT BRYAN WILL BE VDITED THIS ABSURD AND FAMATORY LAWSU. IT IS OBV THAT THIS SE WAS FILED AN ATTEMPT TO GET PUBLICY AT THE TIME WHEN BRYAN’S NEW MOVIE [X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST] IS ABOUT TO OPEN A FEW WEEKS.”“WE LOOK FORWARD TO OUR BRGG A CLAIM FOR MALIC PROSECUTN AGAST MR. EGAN AND HIS ATTORNEY AFTER WE PREVAIL,” SGER ADD A LATER STATEMENT. “IT IS OBV THAT PLATIFF’S ATTORNEY IS NOT LOOKG TO LIGATE THE SE ON S MERS. THIS MATTER IS NOTHG MORE THAN THE ATTORNEY SEEKG TO GET HIS 15 MUT OF FAME BY SENDG OUT A PRS RELEASE WH HIS ‘MEDIA NSULTANT’ YTERDAY AND FOLLOWG UP WH A PRS NFERENCE TODAY. ATTORNEYS WHO TRY S DON’T HOLD PRS NFERENC.”SGER ALSO QUTNED WHY THE X-MEN DIRECTOR WAS NOT MENTNED A 2000 LAWSU THAT EGAN BOUGHT. “IF BRYAN HAD DONE ANYTHG WRONG, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN CLUD THE PREV LAWSU,” SGER TOLD THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.EGAN’S ALLEGATNS OF CRIMAL BEHAVR AND ABE ULDN’T BE FURTHER REMOVED OM THE TTIMONY OF ONE ATTENE OF SGER’S POOL PARTI THAT THE DAILY BEAST HAS SPOKEN WH.ACRDG TO AN TERVIEW WH RERDG ARTIST AND ACTOR JASON DOTTLEY, WHO ATTEND POOL PARTI HOSTED BY SGER FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS, THE PARTI, WHILE WILD, WERE NOT OCSNS WHERE HE WNSED ANY OF THE KDS OF CRIMAL BEHAVR TAILED BY EGAN HIS SU. “THEY WERE NOT LARGE PARTI—20 OR 30 PEOPLE, MAX,” SAID DOTTLEY. “VERY CHILL, VERY RELAXED—I NEVER SAW ANYONE DOG DGS OPENLY. THERE WAS UALLY A BARTENR MAKG DRKS. I REMEMBER A HOT TUB THAT ULD HAVE HELD, LIKE, 20 PEOPLE. IT FELT LIKE ANY KD OF FRIDAY NIGHT HANGOUT, TO BE HONT.”SGER’S POOL PARTI HAVE BEEN A TOPIC OF DISCSN GAY ENTERTAMENT CIRCL FOR YEARS. SOME PARTI, -HOSTED WH FELLOW OUT DIRECTOR ROLAND EMMERICH, HAVE FEATURED MORE THAN A THOAND CELEBRANTS. EMMERICH TOLD THE ADVOTE, “WHEN [SGER] MAK A NEW YEAR’S PARTY, THERE’S LIKE 600, 700 TWKS NNG AROUND AND HE’S HIDG HIS ROOM. THAT’S QUE TYPIL.” EMMERICH TIMAT THAT THE LAST PARTY THEY HOSTED, 2009, DREW 1,200 GUTS.DOTTLEY ATTEND HIS FIRST “BRYAN SGER PARTY” THE SUMMER OF 1999, AT AGE 19. IT WAS OVER THE URSE OF THIS SAME SUMMER THAT SOME OF EGAN’S MOST DAMNG CLAIMS ALLEGEDLY TOOK PLACE: THAT ON A TRIP TO THE HAWAII TATE OF HAIR RE TYON PL MCHELL, SGER DGGED HIM WH E, FORCED HIM TO PERFORM ORAL SEX A HOT TUB, AND RAPED HIM BI A POOL.“EVERYONE KNEW BRYAN SGER LIKED HIS BOYS YOUNGER,” ACRDG TO DOTTLEY. “THE AGE RANGE WAS REALLY TIGHT BETWEEN 18 AND 21. WE’D ALL JOKE ABOUT ‘AGG OUT’ OF BRYAN SGER’S PARTI—HE HAD A VERY NARROW WDOW.” AS FAR AS UNRAGE ATTEN, DOTTLEY REMAS ADAMANT THAT 18 WAS THE CUTOFF POT. “IF THEY WERE [UNRAGE], THEY WERE ACTG LIKE THEY WEREN’T.”DPE BEG “BRYAN SGER PARTI,” MOST OF THE GATHERGS WEREN’T EVEN HELD AT THE DIRECTOR’S HOME. IN FACT, WAS NEVER CLEAR TO MOST ATTEN EXACTLY WHO OWNED THE MANSNS THEY WERE STAYG AT—MOST LIKELY, THE SPAC WERE LOANED TO SGER AND HIS IENDS BY WEALTHY AFFILIAT WHO DIDN’T MD ELY, SNTILY CLAD YOUNG MEN LOUNGG BY THEIR FY POOLS. “IF YOU’RE A FAMO HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR, YOU DON’T WANT A BUNCH OF STRANGERS YOUR HOME,” DOTTLEY EXPLAS. “I’VE BEEN TO A POOL PARTY HOSTED BY DREW BARRYMORE THAT WASN’T AT HER HOE, EHER—’S PRETTY MON.”IN THE DAYS BEFORE FACEBOOK VATNS AND MASS TEXTS, “WORD WOULD JT SORT OF GET OUT” THAT SGER WAS HOSTG A PARTY, ACRDG TO DOTTLEY. “YOU WOULD KNOW ONE DIRECT IEND OF HIS WHO WAS TOLD THAT HE ULD BRG IENDS, AND HE’D BRG THE IENDS WHO SORT OF F WHAT BRYAN WANTED AROUND.” YOUNG MEN ATTENDG WERE PRIMARILY ACTORS, MOLS, SGERS, AND WOULD-BE MEMBERS OF THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY—ALTHOUGH NEVER ANYONE WHO WAS WORKG ON ONE OF SGER’S MOVI, SAYS DOTTLEY. “I NEVER SAW ANYBODY WHO WAS OPENLY WORKG ON ONE OF HIS PROJECTS… IT WAS ABOUT CREATG AN ENVIRONMENT WH THE EYE NDY THAT HE APPRECIATED.”PART OF CREATG THAT ENVIRONMENT WAS AN RMAL DRS : THE CUTT OUTF YOU HAD. “WH THE MD OF A 19-YEAR-OLD BOY, GOG TO A BIG HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR’S HOE, YOU DRSED TO IMPRS. LABELS EVERYWHERE,” DOTTLEY SAYS.ACRDG TO URT PAPERS FILED BY EGAN’S ATTORNEYS, POOL PARTI EQUENTED BY SGER, AND HOSTED BY LNAIRE FOUNR OF INTER VIO PNEER DIGAL ENTERTAMENT NETWORK MARC COLLS-RECTOR, HAD A STRICT DRS : NOTHG. “IN PLIANCE WH THE ‘L’ IMPOSED BY COLLS-RECTOR THAT PEOPLE THE POOL AREA WERE NOT ALLOWED TO WEAR CLOTH, PLATIFF WAS NU AS WAS DEFENDANT SGER.” DOTTLEY SAYS THAT AT THE PARTI HE ATTEND, THERE WAS NO HARD-AND-FAST BAN ON SWIMWEAR, ALTHOUGH THE ENVIRONMENT WAS MORE THAN ACMODATG FOR THE MAJORY OF ATTEN WHO HAD “FOTTEN” TO BRG SWIM ATTIRE.“I DON’T RELL ANYONE BRGG A BATHG SU,” SAYS DOTTLEY. “IT WAS A HEALTHY MIXTURE OF UNRWEAR AND NO UNRWEAR.” HE PS. “MOSTLY NO UNRWEAR, TO BE HONT.”DPE THE UBIQUO PRENCE OF ATTRACTIVE, NU, BARELY-LEGAL YOUNG MEN, SGER DIDN’T F THE MOLD OF OTHER “LECHERO HOLLYWOOD TYP” THAT DOTTLEY HAD KNOWN LOS ANGEL. “BRYAN WAS ALWAYS REALLY SWEET AND KD.”ACRDG TO DOTTLEY, WHO SCRIBED HIMSELF AS “SHY AND BODY-NSC” AT 19, SGER MOST OFTEN APPROACHED HIM. “HE’D UALLY START A NVERSATN WH ME—HE WAS FOND OF THE FACT THAT I’M OM THE SOUTH. HE WAS FELY AN STIGATOR [OF THE NVERSATN], BUT I NEVER FELT TIMIDATED. HE NEVER ONCE ME ON TO ME, AND I NEVER SAW HIM ACT THAT WAY TO ANYBODY ELSE,” SPE BEG “TOTALLY HIS TYPE.”WHAT KD OF GUY MERS ATTENTN OM ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST SUCCSFUL DIRECTORS? “FRH OFF THE B. NEW TO THE CY, FELY YOUNG, 18, 19, 20, AND GOOD LOOKG,” SAYS DOTTLEY, AS PHOTOS POSTED BY GAWKER OF THE PARTI SEEM TO SHOW.AS NIGHT FELL, AND PARTYGOERS GREW MORE TOXITED, DOTTLEY SAYS, SGER’S PARTI WOULD TAKE A TURN. “AT AROUND TWO, TWO-THIRTY THE MORNG, THERE WOULD BE A DOZEN GUYS THE HOT TUB, AND THOSE WHO WANTED TO STAY AND…PARTAKE, ULD.” DOTTLEY HIMSELF NEVER STAYED TO WNS THE PARTY’S LOGIL NCLN, BUT HIS SCRIPTN READS LIKE THE OPENG SIXTY SENDS OF A DOWNMARKET PORN: “TWO GUYS WOULD START TO MAKE OUT, AND THEN THERE’D BE THIS DOMO EFFECT… I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, EXACTLY, SCE THAT WAS MY CUE TO EX, BUT I ULD PROBABLY GUS.”THE DAILY BEAST REACHED OUT TO A REPRENTATIVE FOR BRYAN AND MARTY SGER, BUT HAD RECEIVED NO RPONSE AT THE TIME OF FILG THE STORY. STT BIXBY
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• LGBTQ PARTY SCENE CONONTS ‘DEVASTATG’ CORONAVIS CRISISSTAYG ALIVEMOST, IF NOT ALL, “CIRCU” EVENTS ARE NCELED AFTER RONAVIS FECTNS AT MIAMI’S WTER PARTY, WHILE LGBTQ BARS AND CLUBS ACROSS AMERI FACE TOUGH FIGHTS TO SURVIVE.NI LANGUPDATED MAR. 25, 2020 11:31AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 21, 2020 5:49AM EDT MARK ROBERTSON TIMATED HIS BS WILL LOSE $250,000 THIS MONTH. ROBERTSON -OWNS THREE GAY BARS CHIGO—THE SOFO TAP AND MEETG HOE TAVERN ANRSONVILLE AND JACKHAMMER ROGERS PARK—AND ALL WERE FORCED TO CLOSE AFTER ILLOIS GOV. J.B. PRZKER ORRED BARS AND RTRANTS TO SHUT DOWN AMID THE NATNWI OUTBREAK OF COVID-19, ALSO KNOWN AS THE NOVEL RONAVIS. PRZKER ALSO HALTED PUBLIC GATHERGS OF 50 PEOPLE OR MORE.EVEN THOUGH THE BARS WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL MARCH 30 AT THE EARLIT, ROBERTSON SAID THE ISSUE IS THAT THEIR “FIXED STS DON’T GO AWAY.” HE AND PARTNER MIKE SULLIVAN STILL HAVE TO TAKE RE OF RENT, SURANCE, AND UTILY BILLS, ADDN TO THE LIQUOR THEY HAD ALREADY PURCHASED. HOWEVER, THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE REVENUE TO PAY FOR THEM. IF THE BS AREN’T REOPENED WH TWO MONTHS, ROBERTSON ADD THAT THEY ARE “PROBABLY LOOKG AT $350,000” POTENTIAL LOSS.“THE BS WON’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THIS, SO WE ARE NTRIBUTG THE MONEY OURSELV,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “WE’RE EHER BORROWG THE MONEY OM OUR BANKS OR WE’RE TAKG MONEY OM OUR OWN ACUNTS. WE HAVE MA THE PERSONAL CISN THAT PROTECTG OUR TEAM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR PERSONAL ASSETS, AND SO WE HAVE PLEDGED OUR PERSONAL ASSETS TO SUPPORT THEM.” GAY BARS AND VENU ACROSS THE U.S. ARE FACG THE SAME SUATN AS SPAC CLOSE THEIR DOORS TO MIGATE THE SPREAD OF RONAVIS, WHICH HAS ED AROUND 8,000 ATHS WORLDWI. THE EFFECTS ULD POTENTIALLY VASTATE THE BS AND THEIR EMPLOYE, POTENTIALLY THREATENG THE FUTURE OF QUEER NIGHTLIFE.THE WTER PARTY OF OUR DISNTENTAFTER SEVERAL ATTEN OF LAST WEEK’S WTER PARTY FTIVAL, A GAY CIRCU PARTY MIAMI BEACH, TTED POSIVE FOR RONAVIS—AS NBC NEWS REPORTED—NEARLY ALL UPG CIRCU EVENTS HAVE BEEN POSTPONED. THOSE PENNTLY NFIRMED BY THE DAILY BEAST CLU H20 PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXI; THE BLACK PARTY NEW YORK CY; CHERRY D.C. THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; AND THE WHE PARTY PALM SPRGS, CALIF., ALL OF WHICH HAD BEEN SCHLED OVER THE NEXT SIX WEEKS. SOME EVENTS HAVE BEEN TENTATIVELY RCHLED FOR THE FALL, WHILE OTHERS HAVE YET TO ANNOUNCE A NEW DATE. PL NICHOLLS, WHO ANIZ THE GPS PARTY AT THE GLOBE THEATRE LOS ANGEL, SAID THE LAYS ULD BE EXTREMELY STLY FOR THE TEAM OF DIVIDUALS WHO PUT THE EVENTS TOGETHER — WHICH CLUS EVERYONE OM PARTY PROMOTERS TO BOUNCERS AND BARTENRS.“EVERY TIME ONE OF THE BIG PARTI GETS NCELED, THERE’S FELY $100,000 BEG LOST BETWEEN MULTIPLE PARTI,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.NICHOLLS SAID THOSE HS WILL BE FELT ACROSS THE NIGHTLIFE SCENE, AFFECTG EVERYTHG OM DANCE PARTI AND DRAG SHOWS TO BOOZY SUNDAY BNCH. IN ADDN TO HOSTG GPS, HE WORKS AS THE DIRECTOR OF PROMOTN AT THE BAR AND RTRANT ROC’S WT HOLLYWOOD, WHICH HE TIMAT WILL BLEED OVER $200,000 THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS. ON MONDAY, CALIFORNIA GOV. GAV NEWSOM ISSUED AN EXECUTIVE ORR CLOSG DOWN BARS AND MANDATG THAT RTRANTS SWCH TO TAKE-OUT AND LIVERY ONLY.“IT’S VASTATG,” NICHOLLS SAID. “MOST OF ARE NOT SALARIED EMPLOYE. THE WHOLE STCTURE OF OUR BS IS PENNT NTRACTORS AND PENNT ALS, AND OUR ENTIRE E FLOW JT LERALLY GOT SHUT DOWN.”ONE OF THE REASONS THAT SO MANY QUEER SPAC HAVE CLOSED UP SHOP SUCH A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME IS THE LIKELIHOOD THAT RONAVIS, WHICH IS PASSED THROUGH PERSON-TO-PERSON NTACT, WILL BE RAPIDLY SPREAD THE CLOSE QUARTERS OF A NIGHTCLUB OR CIRCU PARTY. FOR THE UNIATED, CIRCU PARTI—WHICH GREW OUT OF THE DIS ERA OF THE 1970S—ARE GAY CULTURE’S ANSWER TO RAV, ATTRACTG THOANDS OF ATTEN TO LISTEN TO PULSE-POUNDG MIC AND DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY. ALTHOUGH THE EVENTS ARE SYNONYMO WH SEX, AS WELL AS THE E OF PARTY DGS LIKE GHB AND KETAME, THEY OFTEN SERVE AS CHARY FUNDRAISERS FOR LGBTQ NONPROFS. IN FACT, THE WTER PARTY WAS HELD AS A BENEF FOR THE NATNAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE.TRANSMISSN IS SIMPLY TOO DIFFICULT TO PREVENT, EVEN WH AN ABUNDANCE OF UTN. THE NATNAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE CLARIFIED A STATEMENT THAT THE EVENT FOLLOWED “ALL OFFICIAL GUIDANCE AVAILABLE AT THE TIME.”“THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ANYONE WHO PARTICIPAT ANY TASK FORCE EVENT IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO ,” SAID NATNAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REA CAREY, NOTG THAT ANIZERS DISTRIBUTED 10,000 BOTTL OF HAND SANIZER TO THE THOANDS OF GUTS WHO ATTEND. THEY ALSO DISTRIBUTED RMATN ABOUT HYGIENE PREUTNS TO PREVENT RONAVIS TRANSMISSN. “I’VE CHATTED WH ACQUATANC WHO MOST S SAY THAT THEY HAVE MANY SICK IENDS WH THEIR GROUPS AS WELL” BUT THOSE MEASUR SIMPLY WEREN’T ENOUGH. A WTER PARTY ATTENE TOLD THE LGBTQ NEWSPAPER WASHGTON BLA THAT AT LEAST 10 IENDS WHO ATTEND THE EVENT ARE NOW EXHIBG “FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS,” MANY OF WHOM ARE NOW SELF-QUARANTG.“I’VE CHATTED WH ACQUATANC WHO MOST S SAY THAT THEY HAVE MANY SICK IENDS WH THEIR GROUPS AS WELL,” SAID THE SOURCE, WHO WAS QUOTED ANONYMOLY. TY SUNRLAND, A DJ AND EVENT PRODUCER NEW YORK CY, REALIZED EARLY ON THE CRISIS THAT QUEER SPAC WERE GOG TO HAVE TO TAKE DRASTIC MEASUR TO ENSURE THEIR EVENTS WEREN’T PETRI DISH FOR RONAVIS. SUNRLAND WAS AT A SUNDAY FUNDAY GATHERG AND SAW IENDS SUALLY KISSG EACH OTHER ON THE CHEEK, THE SAME WAY THEY DO AT NIGHTCLUBS AND PARTI. HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, “OH MY GOD, THIS IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER.”“THAT SELF IS A QUICK WAY TO SPREAD A VIS,” SUNRLAND TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, ADDG THAT THE SARDE-LIKE PACY OF QUEER EVENTS LIKEWISE POS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE. “NEW YORKERS LOVE TO FEEL LIKE THEY’RE A VERY PACKED SPACE. IF ’S NOT PACKED TO THE BRIM AND A LE DOWN THE BLOCK, THEY DON’T WANT TO BE THERE.”THE DRAG SHOW MT GO ONQUEER ANIZERS ARE GETTG CREATIVE TO PREVENT WHAT HAPPENED AT THE WTER PARTY OM HAPPENG ELSEWHERE, WHILE ALSO ENSURG THEIR SHOWS N GO ON. SLOMO, A QUEER DANCE PARTY HELD ON THE THIRD THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH AT CHIGO’S THE WHISTLER, IS EXPERIMENTG WH A DIGAL VERSN OF THE EVENT, WHICH IS TEND TO CENTER QUEER, TRANS, AND NONBARY PEOPLE. IT WILL CLU DANCE LSONS BY LOL MIXED MEDIA ARTIST DARLG SHEER AND A SET OM RINT DJS AUD JACK AND VI GRRL.KRISTEN KAZA, WHO HAS BEEN ANIZG SLOMO SCE 2011, SAID WAS IMPORTANT TO GIVE THE LONG-NNG EVENT’S FANS “SOMETHG TO LOOK FORWARD TO” AT A TIME WHEN MANY OF THEM ARE SELF-QUARANTG OR ENGAGG SOCIAL DISTANCG AT HOME. “WE DIDN'T WANT TO JT SAY, ‘OK, WE'RE NCELG THIS. SORRY, WE LOVE YOU. TBD ON WHAT WE DO THE FUTURE,’” KAZA TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “TO ME, THIS IS NOT A NCELLATN. INSTEAD WE'RE ADAPTG AND JT MAKG MORE ACCSIBLE FOR PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE SPENDG SO MUCH TIME ONLE AND ON THEIR PHON RIGHT NOW, AND I'M REALLY HOPG THAT THIS IS SOMETHG THAT N HELP THEM FEEL NNECTED.”THE STOPGAPS ALSO SERVE AS CRIL REVENUE STREAMS FOR THOSE WHO ARE AMONG THE MOST ENOMILLY IMPACTED BY THE SHUTDOWN OF QUEER SPAC: GO-GO DANCERS AND DRAG QUEENS, MANY OF WHOM ARE EELANCE EMPLOYE WHO EARN A LIVG GIG TO GIG. BABY TEA, A MONTHLY DRAG BNCH ANIZED BY CHARLENE INRNATE AND TYLER ASHLEY, WENT DIGAL FOR A “WORK FROM HOME” LIVTREAM BROADST OM A BROOKLYN ROOFTOP THIS WEEKEND, AND DRAGULA WNER BCQH PUDDG IS HOSTG AN ONLE DRAG SHOW ON MARCH 20. “THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE HAVE HAD TO FACE A CRISIS. WE NATURALLY ANIZE AND TAKE RE OF EACH OTHER” MEANWHILE, ATTEN OF THE SLOMO DIGAL DANCE PARTY ARE ASKED TO BUY TICKETS ON A SLIDG SLE, AND THE PROCEEDS WILL BE PUT TOWARD PAYG A STIPEND TO PERFORMERS AND ANIZERS, AS WELL AS STAFF AT THE WHISTLER WHOSE BS HAS BEEN CLOSED. THEY WILL ALSO BE ACCEPTG DONATNS ON VENMO.“THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE HAVE HAD TO FACE A CRISIS,” KAZA SAID. “WE NATURALLY ANIZE AND TAKE RE OF EACH OTHER, AND DIDN'T EVEN FEEL LIKE AN OPTN TO ME. I FEEL THAT 'S IMPORTANT AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN VOLVED THE LGBTQ MUNY AND NIGHTLIFE FOR A LONG TIME THAT WHEN PEOPLE ARE FEELG A SENSE OF HOPELSNS OR PANIC, THAT WE HAVE REMRS OF HOW RILIENT AND ROURCEFUL WE N BE WHEN WE E TOGETHER.”FORTUNATELY, MANY MEMBERS OF THE NIGHTLIFE MUNY ARE DOG WHATEVER TAK TO ADVOTE FOR WORKERS WHO FD THEMSELV STGGLG WH THE DTRY AT A STANDSTILL. THE BROOKLYN QUEER SEX PARTY INFERNO RECENTLY ASKED S 8,000-PERSON MAILG LIST FOR A ONE-TIME DONATN TO PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PERFORMERS WHO WILL BE SHORT WORK WH THE EVENT ON HIAT. TH FAR, OVER $1,000 HAS BEEN RAISED. “WE’VE SEEN PEOPLE WHO WORK AT OTHER BARS WHO FILLED OUT UNEMPLOYMENT LOOKG AT $99 A WEEK AS THEIR BENEF. THAT’S NOT GOG TO STA YOU” NICHOLLS PLANS TO PERSONALLY NTUE SUPPORTG THE ANIZERS BEHD GPS ON AN AS-NEED BASIS, AND ROBERTSON IS NTUG TO PAY EMPLOYE OF JACKHAMMER, MEETG HOE TAVERN, AND SOFO TAP FOR THE NEXT MONTH. ACRDG TO ROBERTSON, THE PLAN IS TO PENSATE WORKERS AT A RATE OF $15 AN HOUR, BASED ON HOW MANY HOURS THEY TYPILLY LOGGED PER WEEK. IF AN DIVIDUAL WORKED AN AVERAGE OF 30 HOURS, THAT’S AN EXTRA $900 EACH PAYCHECK.“WE’VE SEEN PEOPLE WHO WORK AT OTHER BARS WHO FILLED OUT UNEMPLOYMENT LOOKG AT $99 A WEEK AS THEIR BENEF,” HE SAID. “THAT’S NOT SOMETHG THAT’S GOG TO STA YOU. THAT’S NOT GOG TO PAY YOUR RENT, PAY YOUR ELECTRIC BILL, OR PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE, LET ALONE EVEN GET YOU TO THE DOCTOR IF YOU DO GET SICK.”‘THE VERY UGLY TE LORS’AS QUEER SPAC WORK TOGETHER TO STOP RONAVIS AND SUPPORT VULNERABLE PARTS OF THE MUNY, NOT EVERYONE HAS BEEN SO PROACTIVE. FOR STANCE, TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE TO THE PURPLE PARTY, WHICH IS SET TO TAKE PLACE OM MAY 7 TO 11 DALLAS. THE PURPLE FOUNDATN, WHICH ANIZ THE ANNUAL EVENT, CLED REPEATED REQUTS FOR MENT FOR THIS STORY.SOURC CLOSE TO THE EVENT BELIEVE ANIZERS ARE LIKELY TO POSTPONE, PECIALLY AFTER THE MASSIVE FALLOUT OM THE WTER PARTY. “NO ONE WANTS TO LOOK LIKE THEY AREN’T TAKG THIS SERLY,” SAID AN DIVIDUAL WHO SPOKE UNR NDN OF ANONYMY. (EDOR’S NOTE: ON MARCH 25, THE ANIZERS OF THE PURPLE PARTY POSTPONED THE EVENT, RCHLG TO SEPTEMBER 3-7.)THE MYRIAD NCELLATNS ARE ALSO BEG MET WH SOME PHBACK OM MEMBERS OF THE MUNY LS THAN PLEASED ABOUT HAVG ALL THEIR FAVORE PARTI SHUT DOWN. ON TUDAY, TWTER ER SAM STRYKER SHARED A NOW-VIRAL POST OM AN OUTRAGED WTER PARTY ATTENE WHO GRIPED THAT HE HAS “ZERO REGRETS” AND SAID HE “WON’T ALLOW ANYONE TO MAKE [HIM] FEEL BAD” FOR GOG TO THE EVENT, EVEN THE FACE OF LATG WARNGS OM PUBLIC HEALTH THORI TO MATA SIX FEET OF DISTANCE OM OTHER PEOPLE.“PLEASE ALSO UNRSTAND THAT I’VE SEEN THE VERY UGLY TE LORS MANY OF YOU HAVE DISPLAYED THIS TIME OF CRISIS, AND KNOW EXACTLY WHO THE FUCK I’LL BE UGHG ON SHOULD I BEE SYMPTOMATIC OF RONAVIS,” THE GUT WROTE A FACEBOOK POST.WHILE THE NCERN OM HEALTH OFFICIALS MAY, TO SOME, JT FEEL LIKE PUBLIC SHAMG OF THOSE WHO JT WANT TO HAVE A GOOD TIME, THE LGBTQ MUNY HAS A REASON TO BE UT ABOUT RONAVIS. “LGBTQ PEOPLE SMOKE AT RAT 50 PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE GENERAL POPULATN, WHICH ULD BE TRIMENTAL IF A RPIRATORY ILLNS LIKE COVID-19 IS NTRACTED” A MARCH 12 LETTER SIGNED BY OVER 100 ADVOCY GROUPS NOTED THAT THIS POPULATN IS “PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE” TO NTRACTG THE VIS, WH “HIGHER RAT OF HIV AND NCER” AMONG QUEER AND TRANS PEOPLE.“LGBTQ PEOPLE SMOKE AT RAT 50 PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE GENERAL POPULATN, WHICH ULD BE TRIMENTAL IF A RPIRATORY ILLNS LIKE COVID-19 IS NTRACTED,” NOTED ANIZATNS LIKE LAMBDA LEGAL AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN.BUT THE WORST EFFECTS OF THE RONAVIS OUTBREAK ARE LIKELY YET TO E, WH PRINT DONALD TMP CLAIMG THAT THE U.S. ULD BE ALG WH THE IMPACT OF RONAVIS THROUGH THE SUMMER. AS THE FERAL ERNMENT FALIZ A $1.2 TRILLN STIMUL PACKAGE FOR AMERINS, GREATER ASSISTANCE, ROURC, AND SUPPORT IS NEED TO ENSURE THE DTRY AND S WORKERS ARE ABLE TO SURVIVE.“THE VAST MAJORY OF BARS DON’T OPERATE WH MARGS TO BE ABLE TO STA THEMSELV FOR TWO WEEKS, FOUR WEEKS, OR EIGHT WEEKS WHOUT SH FLOW,” ROBERTSON SAID. “IN THE QUEER SPACE, THEY’RE ALREADY STGGLG. I THK WE’RE JT AT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF WHAT THIS CRISIS IS GOG TO LOOK LIKE.” NI LANG
• I WAS TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY ADGONE TOO FARTO DESANTIS, IF YOU ARE GAY, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE A PART OF THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT.YVONNE DEAN-BAILEYUPDATED JUL. 05, 2023 12:28PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 01, 2023 11:46PM EDT OPNMICHAEL M SANTIAGO/GETTY IMAGIN THEORY, I AM RON DESANTIS’ PERFECT VOTER. I AM A LIFELONG NSERVATIVE, I VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE ANY AND ALL COVID RTRICTNS, AND I AM PASSNATELY ANTI-TMP. WHAT ULD BE A MORE IAL VOTER FOR A NDIDATE LIKE DESANTIS?THERE’S ONE PROBLEM FOR DESANTIS, THOUGH: I AM A GAY WOMAN. AND I N’T STAND BEHD HIS ATTACKS AGAST THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.I WAS UNNIABLY ON TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS MPAIGN SHARED WHAT ULD BE NSIRED THE MOST ANTI-LGBTQ+ AD RECENT HISTORY, BOASTG ABOUT ALL THE MEASUR HE’S SUPPORTED CRACKG DOWN ON THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. NOT ONLY DID DESANTIS SHOW THAT HE IS AS ANTI-LGBTQ+ AS THE MASTREAM MEDIA HAS ALLEGED, HE MA A MOCKERY OF ANY GOP NDIDATE THAT SHOWS AN TERT LGBTQ+ RIGHTS, SETTG THE WHOLE PARTY BACK S. DPE MY NSERVATIVE CRENTIALS, YOU ULDN’T PAY ME TO VOTE FOR THE FLORIDA ERNOR NOW. I AM A LBIAN AND DESANTIS HAS MA ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT HE DON’T WANT ANY LGBTQ+ NSERVATIV ON HIS TEAM BEE OF THEIR INTY. WHEN DESANTIS WAS TOYG WH THE IA OF NNG FOR PRINT, HE SOUND LIKE THE PERFECT NDIDATE: HE WAS TMP WHOUT THE TMPS. LTLE DID I KNOW DESANTIS WAS FARTHER TO THE RIGHT ON ISSU THAT MEANT THE MOST TO ME AND THE MORE THAN 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS WHO SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS.HE HAS MA CLEAR THE PAST FEW WEEKS THAT HE’S MORE TERTED APPEASG TWTER TROLLS WHO ABHOR ANY AMERIN WHO INTIFI AS LGBTQ+. TO DESANTIS, IF YOU ARE GAY, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE A PART OF THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT.A FEW YEARS AGO, I WOULDN’T HAVE BELIEVED THIS, BUT DESANTIS' RECENT ANTI-LGBTQ+ AD HAS PROVED THAT HE IS TO THE RIGHT OF TMP WHEN TO LGBTQ+ ISSU. IF TMP WAS SOMEONE WHO DON’T SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT, DESANTIS IS AN ALL-OUT HATER.MY GAYNS HAS NOTHG TO DO WH THE FACT THAT FLORIDA IS A BOOMG STATE AN OTHERWISE LACKLTER ENOMY. THAT BEG SAID, DESANTIS HAS MA ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT HE DO NOT SUPPORT GAY AMERINS REGARDLS OF WHETHER THEY SUPPORT HIS NSERVATIVE AGENDA.WHEN I FIRST ENUNTERED DESANTIS DURG HIS BOLD STANCE AGAST COVID MANDAT EARLIER THIS YEAR, I WAS GENERALLY PLEASED WH THE FLORIDA ERNOR. HE SEEMED JT LIKE WHAT NSERVATIV HAVE BEEN MISSG. BUT WHEN THE LEGISLATIVE SSN BROUGHT ISSU NCERNG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS TO THE FOREONT, MY EXCEMENT QUICKLY TURNED TO DISAPPOTMENT. IT BEME EVINT THAT DESANTIS WAS NOT THE CHAMPN OF DIVIDUAL EEDOMS AND RIGHTS THAT I HAD HOPED FOR.HIS ANTI-GAY RHETORIC AND ACTNS ARE NOT ONLY EPLY HURTFUL TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS LIKE MYSELF BUT ALSO TARNISH THE IMAGE OF THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. AS A LIFELONG NSERVATIVE, I BELIEVE THE PRCIPL OF LIMED ERNMENT, PERSONAL RPONSIBILY, AND DIVIDUAL LIBERTI. YET, DESANTIS’ APPROACH TO LGBTQ+ ISSU GO AGAST THE VERY PRCIPL.BY EXCLUDG LGBTQ+ NSERVATIV AND ATTACKG THEIR RIGHTS, DESANTIS ALIENAT A SIGNIFINT PORTN OF HIS POTENTIAL BASE, EFFECTIVELY DRIVG AWAY VOTERS WHO SHARE MANY OF HIS OTHER NSERVATIVE BELIEFS. IT IS DISHEARTENG TO WNS A NDIDATE WHO ULD HAVE BEEN A UNG FORCE WH THE PARTY STEAD NTRIBUTG TO FURTHER DIVISIVENS.DESANTIS’ STANCE ON LGBTQ+ ISSU NOT ONLY NTRADICTS NSERVATIVE VALU BUT ALSO REFLECTS A SEVERE DISNNECT OM THE MAJORY OF AMERINS WHO SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS. ACRDG TO POLLS, OVER 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE, AND THIS NUMBER NTU TO RISE. BY DISREGARDG SUCH A SIGNIFINT PORTN OF THE POPULATN, DESANTIS REVEALS A NCERNG LACK OF UNRSTANDG OF THE EVOLVG SOCIETAL NORMS AND VALU.AS A GAY WOMAN, MY SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS JT ONE ASPECT OF MY INTY, AND SHOULD NOT FE MY POLIL BELIEFS OR MY PLACE WH THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. UNFORTUNATELY, DESANTIS SEEMS TO BELIEVE THAT ONE’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN TERM THEIR WORTHS TO BE PART OF THE NSERVATIVE E. THIS DIVISIVE MENTALY DO NOT BO WELL FOR THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY OR S CHANC OF SUCCS BROAR ELECTNS.THE REPUBLIN PARTY SHOULD STRIVE TO BE A BIG-TENT PARTY, EMBRACG DIVERSE PERSPECTIV AND VOIC. ALIENATG LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS ONLY WEAKENS THE PARTY’S APPEAL AND RTRICTS S ABILY TO ATTRACT NEW SUPPORTERS. IT IS VAL FOR THE PARTY TO EVOLVE AND ADAPT TO THE CHANGG ATTUS OF THE AMERIN PEOPLE, RATHER THAN CLGG TO OUTDATED AND DISCRIMATORY VIEWS.DESANTIS MT REGNIZE THAT HIS ANTI-GAY RHETORIC IS NOT ONLY HARMFUL TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS BUT ALSO TRIMENTAL TO THE VERY PRCIPL HE CLAIMS TO UPHOLD. IF HE TLY AIMS TO LEAD THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND BRG ABOUT POSIVE CHANGE FOR ALL AMERINS, HE MT ABANDON DIVISIVE TACTICS AND FOC ON POLICI THAT PROMOTE UNY AND CLIVY.SO FAR, HE IS ONLY LOSG EVERYDAY AMERINS, CLUDG MANY NSERVATIV LIKE MYSELF, THROUGH HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY RHETORIC. HIS ATTACKS AGAST THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AND EXCLN OF LGBTQ+ NSERVATIV ARE NOT ONLY MORALLY WRONG BUT POLILLY MISGUID. THE REPUBLIN PARTY MT DISTANCE SELF OM SUCH HARMFUL BEHAVR AND STRIVE TO BE A PARTY THAT WEL ALL AMERINS, REGARDLS OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN. ONLY THEN N HOPE TO REPRENT THE TE VALU OF NSERVATISM AND GARNER THE SUPPORT NEED TO SUCCEED FUTURE ELECTNS. YVONNE DEAN-BAILEY
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BETY AND THE BEAST “DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH” WH GAY LEFOU, SAYS JOSH GAD “I DON’T THK WE DID JTICE TO WHAT A REAL GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE,” GAD SAID A RECENT TERVIEW.BY SAVANNAH WALSHMARCH 1, 2022FROM SHUTTERSTOCK.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIT’S BEEN NEARLY FIVE YEARS SCE DISNEY’S LIVE-ACTN BETY AND THE BEAST MA HEADL FOR AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” VOLVG LEFOU (PLAYED BY JOSH GAD), THE DIM-WTED SIKICK TO THE VILLAO GASTON (LE EVANS). THAT SCENE, TEASED BY DIRECTOR BILL CONDON DURG THE FILM’S PRS TOUR, WOUND UP BEG MERELY A BRIEF SHOT OF LEFOU DANCG WH ANOTHER MAN JT BEFORE THE CREDS ROLLED. GAD IS NOW REMORSEFUL ABOUT HIS CHARACTER’S POSNG AS DISNEY’S FIRST TE LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN.“WE DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH TO WARRANT ACLAS,” HE RECENTLY TOLD THE INPENNT. “WE DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH TO SAY, ‘LOOK HOW BRAVE WE ARE.’ MY REGRET WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT BEME ‘DISNEY’S FIRST EXPLICLY GAY MOMENT’ AND WAS NEVER TEND TO BE THAT. IT WAS NEVER TEND TO BE A MOMENT THAT WE SHOULD LD OURSELV FOR, BEE ANKLY, I DON’T THK WE DID JTICE TO WHAT A REAL GAY CHARACTER A DISNEY FILM SHOULD BE.”AT THE TIME OF BETY AND THE BEAST’S RELEASE, THE IMPLITN THAT A BELOVED ANIMATED CHARACTER WOULD BE QUEER ED NTROVERSY. AN ALABAMA THEATER REFED TO SCREEN THE FILM, MALAYSIA BALKED AT SCREENG AN UNCENSORED VERSN OF , AND RSIA APPROVED THE FILM FOR SCREENG BUT WH AN AGE RATG OF 16 AND ABOVE. AMIDST THE FALLOUT, CONDON REVISED HIS EARLIER MENTS, LLG VERAGE OF THE SCENE “OVERBLOWN.” MEANWHILE, GAD TOLD USA TODAY AT THE FILM’S PREMIERE THAT THE SCRIPT DID NOT EXPLICLY DISCLOSE LEFOU’S SEXUALY AS GAY. “THAT WAS NOT LEFOU,” GAD NTUED HIS REMARKS TO THE INPENNT. “IF WE’RE GOG TO PAT OURSELV ON THE BACK, THEN DAMN , WE SHOULD HAVE GONE FURTHER WH THAT. EVERYBODY SERV AN OPPORTUNY TO SEE THEMSELV ON SCREEN, AND I DON’T THK WE’VE DONE ENOUGH—AND I CERTALY HAVEN’T DONE ENOUGH TO DO THAT.”GAD WAS SET TO REPRISE HIS ROLE AS LEFOU A PREQUEL SERI FOR DISNEY+, WHICH WOULD HAVE RNED WH EVANS’S GASTON. HOWEVER, DISNEY POSTPONED THE PROJECT EARLIER THIS YEAR, DUE TO CREATIVE LAYS. “WE TRIED TO MAKE ALL WORK BUT UNR THE GUN WASN’T MEANT TO BE…FOR NOW,” GAD, WHO WAS ALSO A SHOWNNER ON THE SERI, TWEETED. “THE CHARACTERS AND THIS STORY WILL LIVE ON, BUT SOMETIM THE BT TENTNS & REALY LLI & NOTHG N BE DONE.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— JERRY LEWIS’S COSTARS SPEAK OUT: “HE GRABBED ME. HE BEGAN TO FONDLE ME. I WAS DUMBSTCK”— INSI CHARLIZE THERON AND TOM HARDY’S MAD MAX WAR— INVENTG ANNA IS A “DANGERO” DISTORTN, SAYS RACHEL WILLIAMS— HOW THE GUN ALEC BALDW’S HANDS TURNED THE RT SET DEADLY— LOVE IS BLD SEASON TWO IS PEAK RED FLAG TELEVISN— PACHKO FIRST LOOK: AN EPIC TALE, AND A HISTORY-MAKG SHOW— VANY FAIR’S HOLLYWOOD ISSUE 2022: SEE THE FULL PORTFOL FEATURG NILE KIDMAN, KRISTEN STEWART, AND MORE— THE UGLY TTH OF HOW MOVIE SR ARE MA— KIRSTEN DUNST ON HER FIRST OSR NOMATN FOR THE POWER OF THE DOG— FROM THE ARCHIVE: WH FRIENDS LIKE THE— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISSAVANNAH WALSH

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INSI HOLLYWOOD’S ‘TWK’ POOL PARTIPRETTY GROSSWILD NIGHTS OF NO CLOTH AND LOTS OF ALHOL: ONE ATTENE REVEALS WHAT WENT ON AT X MEN DIRECTOR BRYAN SGER’S FAMO POOL PARTI.STT BIXBYUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 2:18PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 19, 2014 5:45AM EDT VIA FACEBOOKIN GAY PANY, E OF THE WORD “TWK” IS TYPILLY PAIRED WH A ROLLED EYE AND A NSCENDG TONE. AT S MOST PEJORATIVE, THE TERM SCRIB A UNIQUELY DISPOSABLE KD OF YOUNG GAY MAN: HAIRLS, GUILELS, WLS. THE TERM’S NAMAKE IS TWKIE, A JUNK FOOD NTAG SHY PACKAGG, A SWEET TASTE, AND ZERO NUTRNAL VALUE. IT’S A LABEL THAT MIGAT THE NEED FOR NAM OR PERSONALI OR AGENCY: “TWKS” N BE BSED TO PARTI, THROWN TO POOLS, PUT TO A TY SPEEDO—OR NO TY SPEEDO AT ALL—AND ORNAMENTALLY PLACED AROUND THE WATER’S EDGE LIKE LIVG, BREATHG, GIGGLG STATUARY.SUCH IS THE PURPORTED SCENE AT THE FAMO POOL PARTI HOSTED BY HOLLYWOOD LUMARI LIKE BRYAN SGER, 48-YEAR-OLD DIRECTOR OF X-MEN, SUPERMAN RETURNS, AND THE USUAL SPECTS.THE GAY FILMMAKER IS THE SUBJECT OF A LAWSU FILED A HAWAII FERAL URT ALLEGG THAT HE DGGED, RAPED, AND ASSLTED MICHAEL EGAN, THEN SEVENTEEN, THE LATE NETI. IT WAS AT POOL PARTI A MANSN ENCO, EGAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, NOT HOSTED BY SGER, THAT THE WORST OF THE ABE TOOK PLACE. “AT THE HOE, WAS DGS PUT DRKS. LIQUOR POURED DOWN MY THROAT. RUL THE HOE: NO SWIMSUS, NO CLOTH OUT BY THE POOL AREA. I WAS RAPED NUMERO TIM THAT HOE. VAR TYP OF SEXUAL ABE. YOU WERE LIKE A PIECE OF MEAT TO THE PEOPLE. THEY’D PASS YOU AROUND BETWEEN THEM.” MARTY SGER, SGER’S LAWYER, HAS VEHEMENTLY NIED THE CLAIMS. “IN A STATEMENT, HE SAID: “THE CLAIMS MA AGAST BRYAN SGER ARE PLETELY WHOUT MER. WE ARE VERY NFINT THAT BRYAN WILL BE VDITED THIS ABSURD AND FAMATORY LAWSU. IT IS OBV THAT THIS SE WAS FILED AN ATTEMPT TO GET PUBLICY AT THE TIME WHEN BRYAN’S NEW MOVIE [X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST] IS ABOUT TO OPEN A FEW WEEKS.”“WE LOOK FORWARD TO OUR BRGG A CLAIM FOR MALIC PROSECUTN AGAST MR. EGAN AND HIS ATTORNEY AFTER WE PREVAIL,” SGER ADD A LATER STATEMENT. “IT IS OBV THAT PLATIFF’S ATTORNEY IS NOT LOOKG TO LIGATE THE SE ON S MERS. THIS MATTER IS NOTHG MORE THAN THE ATTORNEY SEEKG TO GET HIS 15 MUT OF FAME BY SENDG OUT A PRS RELEASE WH HIS ‘MEDIA NSULTANT’ YTERDAY AND FOLLOWG UP WH A PRS NFERENCE TODAY. ATTORNEYS WHO TRY S DON’T HOLD PRS NFERENC.”SGER ALSO QUTNED WHY THE X-MEN DIRECTOR WAS NOT MENTNED A 2000 LAWSU THAT EGAN BOUGHT. “IF BRYAN HAD DONE ANYTHG WRONG, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN CLUD THE PREV LAWSU,” SGER TOLD THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.EGAN’S ALLEGATNS OF CRIMAL BEHAVR AND ABE ULDN’T BE FURTHER REMOVED OM THE TTIMONY OF ONE ATTENE OF SGER’S POOL PARTI THAT THE DAILY BEAST HAS SPOKEN WH.ACRDG TO AN TERVIEW WH RERDG ARTIST AND ACTOR JASON DOTTLEY, WHO ATTEND POOL PARTI HOSTED BY SGER FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS, THE PARTI, WHILE WILD, WERE NOT OCSNS WHERE HE WNSED ANY OF THE KDS OF CRIMAL BEHAVR TAILED BY EGAN HIS SU. “THEY WERE NOT LARGE PARTI—20 OR 30 PEOPLE, MAX,” SAID DOTTLEY. “VERY CHILL, VERY RELAXED—I NEVER SAW ANYONE DOG DGS OPENLY. THERE WAS UALLY A BARTENR MAKG DRKS. I REMEMBER A HOT TUB THAT ULD HAVE HELD, LIKE, 20 PEOPLE. IT FELT LIKE ANY KD OF FRIDAY NIGHT HANGOUT, TO BE HONT.”SGER’S POOL PARTI HAVE BEEN A TOPIC OF DISCSN GAY ENTERTAMENT CIRCL FOR YEARS. SOME PARTI, -HOSTED WH FELLOW OUT DIRECTOR ROLAND EMMERICH, HAVE FEATURED MORE THAN A THOAND CELEBRANTS. EMMERICH TOLD THE ADVOTE, “WHEN [SGER] MAK A NEW YEAR’S PARTY, THERE’S LIKE 600, 700 TWKS NNG AROUND AND HE’S HIDG HIS ROOM. THAT’S QUE TYPIL.” EMMERICH TIMAT THAT THE LAST PARTY THEY HOSTED, 2009, DREW 1,200 GUTS.DOTTLEY ATTEND HIS FIRST “BRYAN SGER PARTY” THE SUMMER OF 1999, AT AGE 19. IT WAS OVER THE URSE OF THIS SAME SUMMER THAT SOME OF EGAN’S MOST DAMNG CLAIMS ALLEGEDLY TOOK PLACE: THAT ON A TRIP TO THE HAWAII TATE OF HAIR RE TYON PL MCHELL, SGER DGGED HIM WH E, FORCED HIM TO PERFORM ORAL SEX A HOT TUB, AND RAPED HIM BI A POOL.“EVERYONE KNEW BRYAN SGER LIKED HIS BOYS YOUNGER,” ACRDG TO DOTTLEY. “THE AGE RANGE WAS REALLY TIGHT BETWEEN 18 AND 21. WE’D ALL JOKE ABOUT ‘AGG OUT’ OF BRYAN SGER’S PARTI—HE HAD A VERY NARROW WDOW.” AS FAR AS UNRAGE ATTEN, DOTTLEY REMAS ADAMANT THAT 18 WAS THE CUTOFF POT. “IF THEY WERE [UNRAGE], THEY WERE ACTG LIKE THEY WEREN’T.”DPE BEG “BRYAN SGER PARTI,” MOST OF THE GATHERGS WEREN’T EVEN HELD AT THE DIRECTOR’S HOME. IN FACT, WAS NEVER CLEAR TO MOST ATTEN EXACTLY WHO OWNED THE MANSNS THEY WERE STAYG AT—MOST LIKELY, THE SPAC WERE LOANED TO SGER AND HIS IENDS BY WEALTHY AFFILIAT WHO DIDN’T MD ELY, SNTILY CLAD YOUNG MEN LOUNGG BY THEIR FY POOLS. “IF YOU’RE A FAMO HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR, YOU DON’T WANT A BUNCH OF STRANGERS YOUR HOME,” DOTTLEY EXPLAS. “I’VE BEEN TO A POOL PARTY HOSTED BY DREW BARRYMORE THAT WASN’T AT HER HOE, EHER—’S PRETTY MON.”IN THE DAYS BEFORE FACEBOOK VATNS AND MASS TEXTS, “WORD WOULD JT SORT OF GET OUT” THAT SGER WAS HOSTG A PARTY, ACRDG TO DOTTLEY. “YOU WOULD KNOW ONE DIRECT IEND OF HIS WHO WAS TOLD THAT HE ULD BRG IENDS, AND HE’D BRG THE IENDS WHO SORT OF F WHAT BRYAN WANTED AROUND.” YOUNG MEN ATTENDG WERE PRIMARILY ACTORS, MOLS, SGERS, AND WOULD-BE MEMBERS OF THE ENTERTAMENT DTRY—ALTHOUGH NEVER ANYONE WHO WAS WORKG ON ONE OF SGER’S MOVI, SAYS DOTTLEY. “I NEVER SAW ANYBODY WHO WAS OPENLY WORKG ON ONE OF HIS PROJECTS… IT WAS ABOUT CREATG AN ENVIRONMENT WH THE EYE NDY THAT HE APPRECIATED.”PART OF CREATG THAT ENVIRONMENT WAS AN RMAL DRS : THE CUTT OUTF YOU HAD. “WH THE MD OF A 19-YEAR-OLD BOY, GOG TO A BIG HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR’S HOE, YOU DRSED TO IMPRS. LABELS EVERYWHERE,” DOTTLEY SAYS.ACRDG TO URT PAPERS FILED BY EGAN’S ATTORNEYS, POOL PARTI EQUENTED BY SGER, AND HOSTED BY LNAIRE FOUNR OF INTER VIO PNEER DIGAL ENTERTAMENT NETWORK MARC COLLS-RECTOR, HAD A STRICT DRS : NOTHG. “IN PLIANCE WH THE ‘L’ IMPOSED BY COLLS-RECTOR THAT PEOPLE THE POOL AREA WERE NOT ALLOWED TO WEAR CLOTH, PLATIFF WAS NU AS WAS DEFENDANT SGER.” DOTTLEY SAYS THAT AT THE PARTI HE ATTEND, THERE WAS NO HARD-AND-FAST BAN ON SWIMWEAR, ALTHOUGH THE ENVIRONMENT WAS MORE THAN ACMODATG FOR THE MAJORY OF ATTEN WHO HAD “FOTTEN” TO BRG SWIM ATTIRE.“I DON’T RELL ANYONE BRGG A BATHG SU,” SAYS DOTTLEY. “IT WAS A HEALTHY MIXTURE OF UNRWEAR AND NO UNRWEAR.” HE PS. “MOSTLY NO UNRWEAR, TO BE HONT.”DPE THE UBIQUO PRENCE OF ATTRACTIVE, NU, BARELY-LEGAL YOUNG MEN, SGER DIDN’T F THE MOLD OF OTHER “LECHERO HOLLYWOOD TYP” THAT DOTTLEY HAD KNOWN LOS ANGEL. “BRYAN WAS ALWAYS REALLY SWEET AND KD.”ACRDG TO DOTTLEY, WHO SCRIBED HIMSELF AS “SHY AND BODY-NSC” AT 19, SGER MOST OFTEN APPROACHED HIM. “HE’D UALLY START A NVERSATN WH ME—HE WAS FOND OF THE FACT THAT I’M OM THE SOUTH. HE WAS FELY AN STIGATOR [OF THE NVERSATN], BUT I NEVER FELT TIMIDATED. HE NEVER ONCE ME ON TO ME, AND I NEVER SAW HIM ACT THAT WAY TO ANYBODY ELSE,” SPE BEG “TOTALLY HIS TYPE.”WHAT KD OF GUY MERS ATTENTN OM ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST SUCCSFUL DIRECTORS? “FRH OFF THE B. NEW TO THE CY, FELY YOUNG, 18, 19, 20, AND GOOD LOOKG,” SAYS DOTTLEY, AS PHOTOS POSTED BY GAWKER OF THE PARTI SEEM TO SHOW.AS NIGHT FELL, AND PARTYGOERS GREW MORE TOXITED, DOTTLEY SAYS, SGER’S PARTI WOULD TAKE A TURN. “AT AROUND TWO, TWO-THIRTY THE MORNG, THERE WOULD BE A DOZEN GUYS THE HOT TUB, AND THOSE WHO WANTED TO STAY AND…PARTAKE, ULD.” DOTTLEY HIMSELF NEVER STAYED TO WNS THE PARTY’S LOGIL NCLN, BUT HIS SCRIPTN READS LIKE THE OPENG SIXTY SENDS OF A DOWNMARKET PORN: “TWO GUYS WOULD START TO MAKE OUT, AND THEN THERE’D BE THIS DOMO EFFECT… I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, EXACTLY, SCE THAT WAS MY CUE TO EX, BUT I ULD PROBABLY GUS.”THE DAILY BEAST REACHED OUT TO A REPRENTATIVE FOR BRYAN AND MARTY SGER, BUT HAD RECEIVED NO RPONSE AT THE TIME OF FILG THE STORY. STT BIXBY

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LGBTQ PARTY SCENE CONONTS ‘DEVASTATG’ CORONAVIS CRISISSTAYG ALIVEMOST, IF NOT ALL, “CIRCU” EVENTS ARE NCELED AFTER RONAVIS FECTNS AT MIAMI’S WTER PARTY, WHILE LGBTQ BARS AND CLUBS ACROSS AMERI FACE TOUGH FIGHTS TO SURVIVE.NI LANGUPDATED MAR. 25, 2020 11:31AM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 21, 2020 5:49AM EDT MARK ROBERTSON TIMATED HIS BS WILL LOSE $250,000 THIS MONTH. ROBERTSON -OWNS THREE GAY BARS CHIGO—THE SOFO TAP AND MEETG HOE TAVERN ANRSONVILLE AND JACKHAMMER ROGERS PARK—AND ALL WERE FORCED TO CLOSE AFTER ILLOIS GOV. J.B. PRZKER ORRED BARS AND RTRANTS TO SHUT DOWN AMID THE NATNWI OUTBREAK OF COVID-19, ALSO KNOWN AS THE NOVEL RONAVIS. PRZKER ALSO HALTED PUBLIC GATHERGS OF 50 PEOPLE OR MORE.EVEN THOUGH THE BARS WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL MARCH 30 AT THE EARLIT, ROBERTSON SAID THE ISSUE IS THAT THEIR “FIXED STS DON’T GO AWAY.” HE AND PARTNER MIKE SULLIVAN STILL HAVE TO TAKE RE OF RENT, SURANCE, AND UTILY BILLS, ADDN TO THE LIQUOR THEY HAD ALREADY PURCHASED. HOWEVER, THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE REVENUE TO PAY FOR THEM. IF THE BS AREN’T REOPENED WH TWO MONTHS, ROBERTSON ADD THAT THEY ARE “PROBABLY LOOKG AT $350,000” POTENTIAL LOSS.“THE BS WON’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THIS, SO WE ARE NTRIBUTG THE MONEY OURSELV,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “WE’RE EHER BORROWG THE MONEY OM OUR BANKS OR WE’RE TAKG MONEY OM OUR OWN ACUNTS. WE HAVE MA THE PERSONAL CISN THAT PROTECTG OUR TEAM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR PERSONAL ASSETS, AND SO WE HAVE PLEDGED OUR PERSONAL ASSETS TO SUPPORT THEM.” GAY BARS AND VENU ACROSS THE U.S. ARE FACG THE SAME SUATN AS SPAC CLOSE THEIR DOORS TO MIGATE THE SPREAD OF RONAVIS, WHICH HAS ED AROUND 8,000 ATHS WORLDWI. THE EFFECTS ULD POTENTIALLY VASTATE THE BS AND THEIR EMPLOYE, POTENTIALLY THREATENG THE FUTURE OF QUEER NIGHTLIFE.THE WTER PARTY OF OUR DISNTENTAFTER SEVERAL ATTEN OF LAST WEEK’S WTER PARTY FTIVAL, A GAY CIRCU PARTY MIAMI BEACH, TTED POSIVE FOR RONAVIS—AS NBC NEWS REPORTED—NEARLY ALL UPG CIRCU EVENTS HAVE BEEN POSTPONED. THOSE PENNTLY NFIRMED BY THE DAILY BEAST CLU H20 PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXI; THE BLACK PARTY NEW YORK CY; CHERRY D.C. THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; AND THE WHE PARTY PALM SPRGS, CALIF., ALL OF WHICH HAD BEEN SCHLED OVER THE NEXT SIX WEEKS. SOME EVENTS HAVE BEEN TENTATIVELY RCHLED FOR THE FALL, WHILE OTHERS HAVE YET TO ANNOUNCE A NEW DATE. PL NICHOLLS, WHO ANIZ THE GPS PARTY AT THE GLOBE THEATRE LOS ANGEL, SAID THE LAYS ULD BE EXTREMELY STLY FOR THE TEAM OF DIVIDUALS WHO PUT THE EVENTS TOGETHER — WHICH CLUS EVERYONE OM PARTY PROMOTERS TO BOUNCERS AND BARTENRS.“EVERY TIME ONE OF THE BIG PARTI GETS NCELED, THERE’S FELY $100,000 BEG LOST BETWEEN MULTIPLE PARTI,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.NICHOLLS SAID THOSE HS WILL BE FELT ACROSS THE NIGHTLIFE SCENE, AFFECTG EVERYTHG OM DANCE PARTI AND DRAG SHOWS TO BOOZY SUNDAY BNCH. IN ADDN TO HOSTG GPS, HE WORKS AS THE DIRECTOR OF PROMOTN AT THE BAR AND RTRANT ROC’S WT HOLLYWOOD, WHICH HE TIMAT WILL BLEED OVER $200,000 THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS. ON MONDAY, CALIFORNIA GOV. GAV NEWSOM ISSUED AN EXECUTIVE ORR CLOSG DOWN BARS AND MANDATG THAT RTRANTS SWCH TO TAKE-OUT AND LIVERY ONLY.“IT’S VASTATG,” NICHOLLS SAID. “MOST OF ARE NOT SALARIED EMPLOYE. THE WHOLE STCTURE OF OUR BS IS PENNT NTRACTORS AND PENNT ALS, AND OUR ENTIRE E FLOW JT LERALLY GOT SHUT DOWN.”ONE OF THE REASONS THAT SO MANY QUEER SPAC HAVE CLOSED UP SHOP SUCH A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME IS THE LIKELIHOOD THAT RONAVIS, WHICH IS PASSED THROUGH PERSON-TO-PERSON NTACT, WILL BE RAPIDLY SPREAD THE CLOSE QUARTERS OF A NIGHTCLUB OR CIRCU PARTY. FOR THE UNIATED, CIRCU PARTI—WHICH GREW OUT OF THE DIS ERA OF THE 1970S—ARE GAY CULTURE’S ANSWER TO RAV, ATTRACTG THOANDS OF ATTEN TO LISTEN TO PULSE-POUNDG MIC AND DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY. ALTHOUGH THE EVENTS ARE SYNONYMO WH SEX, AS WELL AS THE E OF PARTY DGS LIKE GHB AND KETAME, THEY OFTEN SERVE AS CHARY FUNDRAISERS FOR LGBTQ NONPROFS. IN FACT, THE WTER PARTY WAS HELD AS A BENEF FOR THE NATNAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE.TRANSMISSN IS SIMPLY TOO DIFFICULT TO PREVENT, EVEN WH AN ABUNDANCE OF UTN. THE NATNAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE CLARIFIED A STATEMENT THAT THE EVENT FOLLOWED “ALL OFFICIAL GUIDANCE AVAILABLE AT THE TIME.”“THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF ANYONE WHO PARTICIPAT ANY TASK FORCE EVENT IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO ,” SAID NATNAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REA CAREY, NOTG THAT ANIZERS DISTRIBUTED 10,000 BOTTL OF HAND SANIZER TO THE THOANDS OF GUTS WHO ATTEND. THEY ALSO DISTRIBUTED RMATN ABOUT HYGIENE PREUTNS TO PREVENT RONAVIS TRANSMISSN. “I’VE CHATTED WH ACQUATANC WHO MOST S SAY THAT THEY HAVE MANY SICK IENDS WH THEIR GROUPS AS WELL” BUT THOSE MEASUR SIMPLY WEREN’T ENOUGH. A WTER PARTY ATTENE TOLD THE LGBTQ NEWSPAPER WASHGTON BLA THAT AT LEAST 10 IENDS WHO ATTEND THE EVENT ARE NOW EXHIBG “FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS,” MANY OF WHOM ARE NOW SELF-QUARANTG.“I’VE CHATTED WH ACQUATANC WHO MOST S SAY THAT THEY HAVE MANY SICK IENDS WH THEIR GROUPS AS WELL,” SAID THE SOURCE, WHO WAS QUOTED ANONYMOLY. TY SUNRLAND, A DJ AND EVENT PRODUCER NEW YORK CY, REALIZED EARLY ON THE CRISIS THAT QUEER SPAC WERE GOG TO HAVE TO TAKE DRASTIC MEASUR TO ENSURE THEIR EVENTS WEREN’T PETRI DISH FOR RONAVIS. SUNRLAND WAS AT A SUNDAY FUNDAY GATHERG AND SAW IENDS SUALLY KISSG EACH OTHER ON THE CHEEK, THE SAME WAY THEY DO AT NIGHTCLUBS AND PARTI. HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, “OH MY GOD, THIS IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER.”“THAT SELF IS A QUICK WAY TO SPREAD A VIS,” SUNRLAND TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, ADDG THAT THE SARDE-LIKE PACY OF QUEER EVENTS LIKEWISE POS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE. “NEW YORKERS LOVE TO FEEL LIKE THEY’RE A VERY PACKED SPACE. IF ’S NOT PACKED TO THE BRIM AND A LE DOWN THE BLOCK, THEY DON’T WANT TO BE THERE.”THE DRAG SHOW MT GO ONQUEER ANIZERS ARE GETTG CREATIVE TO PREVENT WHAT HAPPENED AT THE WTER PARTY OM HAPPENG ELSEWHERE, WHILE ALSO ENSURG THEIR SHOWS N GO ON. SLOMO, A QUEER DANCE PARTY HELD ON THE THIRD THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH AT CHIGO’S THE WHISTLER, IS EXPERIMENTG WH A DIGAL VERSN OF THE EVENT, WHICH IS TEND TO CENTER QUEER, TRANS, AND NONBARY PEOPLE. IT WILL CLU DANCE LSONS BY LOL MIXED MEDIA ARTIST DARLG SHEER AND A SET OM RINT DJS AUD JACK AND VI GRRL.KRISTEN KAZA, WHO HAS BEEN ANIZG SLOMO SCE 2011, SAID WAS IMPORTANT TO GIVE THE LONG-NNG EVENT’S FANS “SOMETHG TO LOOK FORWARD TO” AT A TIME WHEN MANY OF THEM ARE SELF-QUARANTG OR ENGAGG SOCIAL DISTANCG AT HOME. “WE DIDN'T WANT TO JT SAY, ‘OK, WE'RE NCELG THIS. SORRY, WE LOVE YOU. TBD ON WHAT WE DO THE FUTURE,’” KAZA TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “TO ME, THIS IS NOT A NCELLATN. INSTEAD WE'RE ADAPTG AND JT MAKG MORE ACCSIBLE FOR PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE SPENDG SO MUCH TIME ONLE AND ON THEIR PHON RIGHT NOW, AND I'M REALLY HOPG THAT THIS IS SOMETHG THAT N HELP THEM FEEL NNECTED.”THE STOPGAPS ALSO SERVE AS CRIL REVENUE STREAMS FOR THOSE WHO ARE AMONG THE MOST ENOMILLY IMPACTED BY THE SHUTDOWN OF QUEER SPAC: GO-GO DANCERS AND DRAG QUEENS, MANY OF WHOM ARE EELANCE EMPLOYE WHO EARN A LIVG GIG TO GIG. BABY TEA, A MONTHLY DRAG BNCH ANIZED BY CHARLENE INRNATE AND TYLER ASHLEY, WENT DIGAL FOR A “WORK FROM HOME” LIVTREAM BROADST OM A BROOKLYN ROOFTOP THIS WEEKEND, AND DRAGULA WNER BCQH PUDDG IS HOSTG AN ONLE DRAG SHOW ON MARCH 20. “THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE HAVE HAD TO FACE A CRISIS. WE NATURALLY ANIZE AND TAKE RE OF EACH OTHER” MEANWHILE, ATTEN OF THE SLOMO DIGAL DANCE PARTY ARE ASKED TO BUY TICKETS ON A SLIDG SLE, AND THE PROCEEDS WILL BE PUT TOWARD PAYG A STIPEND TO PERFORMERS AND ANIZERS, AS WELL AS STAFF AT THE WHISTLER WHOSE BS HAS BEEN CLOSED. THEY WILL ALSO BE ACCEPTG DONATNS ON VENMO.“THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE HAVE HAD TO FACE A CRISIS,” KAZA SAID. “WE NATURALLY ANIZE AND TAKE RE OF EACH OTHER, AND DIDN'T EVEN FEEL LIKE AN OPTN TO ME. I FEEL THAT 'S IMPORTANT AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN VOLVED THE LGBTQ MUNY AND NIGHTLIFE FOR A LONG TIME THAT WHEN PEOPLE ARE FEELG A SENSE OF HOPELSNS OR PANIC, THAT WE HAVE REMRS OF HOW RILIENT AND ROURCEFUL WE N BE WHEN WE E TOGETHER.”FORTUNATELY, MANY MEMBERS OF THE NIGHTLIFE MUNY ARE DOG WHATEVER TAK TO ADVOTE FOR WORKERS WHO FD THEMSELV STGGLG WH THE DTRY AT A STANDSTILL. THE BROOKLYN QUEER SEX PARTY INFERNO RECENTLY ASKED S 8,000-PERSON MAILG LIST FOR A ONE-TIME DONATN TO PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PERFORMERS WHO WILL BE SHORT WORK WH THE EVENT ON HIAT. TH FAR, OVER $1,000 HAS BEEN RAISED. “WE’VE SEEN PEOPLE WHO WORK AT OTHER BARS WHO FILLED OUT UNEMPLOYMENT LOOKG AT $99 A WEEK AS THEIR BENEF. THAT’S NOT GOG TO STA YOU” NICHOLLS PLANS TO PERSONALLY NTUE SUPPORTG THE ANIZERS BEHD GPS ON AN AS-NEED BASIS, AND ROBERTSON IS NTUG TO PAY EMPLOYE OF JACKHAMMER, MEETG HOE TAVERN, AND SOFO TAP FOR THE NEXT MONTH. ACRDG TO ROBERTSON, THE PLAN IS TO PENSATE WORKERS AT A RATE OF $15 AN HOUR, BASED ON HOW MANY HOURS THEY TYPILLY LOGGED PER WEEK. IF AN DIVIDUAL WORKED AN AVERAGE OF 30 HOURS, THAT’S AN EXTRA $900 EACH PAYCHECK.“WE’VE SEEN PEOPLE WHO WORK AT OTHER BARS WHO FILLED OUT UNEMPLOYMENT LOOKG AT $99 A WEEK AS THEIR BENEF,” HE SAID. “THAT’S NOT SOMETHG THAT’S GOG TO STA YOU. THAT’S NOT GOG TO PAY YOUR RENT, PAY YOUR ELECTRIC BILL, OR PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE, LET ALONE EVEN GET YOU TO THE DOCTOR IF YOU DO GET SICK.”‘THE VERY UGLY TE LORS’AS QUEER SPAC WORK TOGETHER TO STOP RONAVIS AND SUPPORT VULNERABLE PARTS OF THE MUNY, NOT EVERYONE HAS BEEN SO PROACTIVE. FOR STANCE, TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE TO THE PURPLE PARTY, WHICH IS SET TO TAKE PLACE OM MAY 7 TO 11 DALLAS. THE PURPLE FOUNDATN, WHICH ANIZ THE ANNUAL EVENT, CLED REPEATED REQUTS FOR MENT FOR THIS STORY.SOURC CLOSE TO THE EVENT BELIEVE ANIZERS ARE LIKELY TO POSTPONE, PECIALLY AFTER THE MASSIVE FALLOUT OM THE WTER PARTY. “NO ONE WANTS TO LOOK LIKE THEY AREN’T TAKG THIS SERLY,” SAID AN DIVIDUAL WHO SPOKE UNR NDN OF ANONYMY. (EDOR’S NOTE: ON MARCH 25, THE ANIZERS OF THE PURPLE PARTY POSTPONED THE EVENT, RCHLG TO SEPTEMBER 3-7.)THE MYRIAD NCELLATNS ARE ALSO BEG MET WH SOME PHBACK OM MEMBERS OF THE MUNY LS THAN PLEASED ABOUT HAVG ALL THEIR FAVORE PARTI SHUT DOWN. ON TUDAY, TWTER ER SAM STRYKER SHARED A NOW-VIRAL POST OM AN OUTRAGED WTER PARTY ATTENE WHO GRIPED THAT HE HAS “ZERO REGRETS” AND SAID HE “WON’T ALLOW ANYONE TO MAKE [HIM] FEEL BAD” FOR GOG TO THE EVENT, EVEN THE FACE OF LATG WARNGS OM PUBLIC HEALTH THORI TO MATA SIX FEET OF DISTANCE OM OTHER PEOPLE.“PLEASE ALSO UNRSTAND THAT I’VE SEEN THE VERY UGLY TE LORS MANY OF YOU HAVE DISPLAYED THIS TIME OF CRISIS, AND KNOW EXACTLY WHO THE FUCK I’LL BE UGHG ON SHOULD I BEE SYMPTOMATIC OF RONAVIS,” THE GUT WROTE A FACEBOOK POST.WHILE THE NCERN OM HEALTH OFFICIALS MAY, TO SOME, JT FEEL LIKE PUBLIC SHAMG OF THOSE WHO JT WANT TO HAVE A GOOD TIME, THE LGBTQ MUNY HAS A REASON TO BE UT ABOUT RONAVIS. “LGBTQ PEOPLE SMOKE AT RAT 50 PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE GENERAL POPULATN, WHICH ULD BE TRIMENTAL IF A RPIRATORY ILLNS LIKE COVID-19 IS NTRACTED” A MARCH 12 LETTER SIGNED BY OVER 100 ADVOCY GROUPS NOTED THAT THIS POPULATN IS “PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE” TO NTRACTG THE VIS, WH “HIGHER RAT OF HIV AND NCER” AMONG QUEER AND TRANS PEOPLE.“LGBTQ PEOPLE SMOKE AT RAT 50 PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE GENERAL POPULATN, WHICH ULD BE TRIMENTAL IF A RPIRATORY ILLNS LIKE COVID-19 IS NTRACTED,” NOTED ANIZATNS LIKE LAMBDA LEGAL AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN.BUT THE WORST EFFECTS OF THE RONAVIS OUTBREAK ARE LIKELY YET TO E, WH PRINT DONALD TMP CLAIMG THAT THE U.S. ULD BE ALG WH THE IMPACT OF RONAVIS THROUGH THE SUMMER. AS THE FERAL ERNMENT FALIZ A $1.2 TRILLN STIMUL PACKAGE FOR AMERINS, GREATER ASSISTANCE, ROURC, AND SUPPORT IS NEED TO ENSURE THE DTRY AND S WORKERS ARE ABLE TO SURVIVE.“THE VAST MAJORY OF BARS DON’T OPERATE WH MARGS TO BE ABLE TO STA THEMSELV FOR TWO WEEKS, FOUR WEEKS, OR EIGHT WEEKS WHOUT SH FLOW,” ROBERTSON SAID. “IN THE QUEER SPACE, THEY’RE ALREADY STGGLG. I THK WE’RE JT AT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF WHAT THIS CRISIS IS GOG TO LOOK LIKE.” NI LANG

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I WAS TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY ADGONE TOO FARTO DESANTIS, IF YOU ARE GAY, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE A PART OF THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT.YVONNE DEAN-BAILEYUPDATED JUL. 05, 2023 12:28PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 01, 2023 11:46PM EDT OPNMICHAEL M SANTIAGO/GETTY IMAGIN THEORY, I AM RON DESANTIS’ PERFECT VOTER. I AM A LIFELONG NSERVATIVE, I VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE ANY AND ALL COVID RTRICTNS, AND I AM PASSNATELY ANTI-TMP. WHAT ULD BE A MORE IAL VOTER FOR A NDIDATE LIKE DESANTIS?THERE’S ONE PROBLEM FOR DESANTIS, THOUGH: I AM A GAY WOMAN. AND I N’T STAND BEHD HIS ATTACKS AGAST THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.I WAS UNNIABLY ON TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS MPAIGN SHARED WHAT ULD BE NSIRED THE MOST ANTI-LGBTQ+ AD RECENT HISTORY, BOASTG ABOUT ALL THE MEASUR HE’S SUPPORTED CRACKG DOWN ON THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. NOT ONLY DID DESANTIS SHOW THAT HE IS AS ANTI-LGBTQ+ AS THE MASTREAM MEDIA HAS ALLEGED, HE MA A MOCKERY OF ANY GOP NDIDATE THAT SHOWS AN TERT LGBTQ+ RIGHTS, SETTG THE WHOLE PARTY BACK S. DPE MY NSERVATIVE CRENTIALS, YOU ULDN’T PAY ME TO VOTE FOR THE FLORIDA ERNOR NOW. I AM A LBIAN AND DESANTIS HAS MA ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT HE DON’T WANT ANY LGBTQ+ NSERVATIV ON HIS TEAM BEE OF THEIR INTY. WHEN DESANTIS WAS TOYG WH THE IA OF NNG FOR PRINT, HE SOUND LIKE THE PERFECT NDIDATE: HE WAS TMP WHOUT THE TMPS. LTLE DID I KNOW DESANTIS WAS FARTHER TO THE RIGHT ON ISSU THAT MEANT THE MOST TO ME AND THE MORE THAN 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS WHO SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS.HE HAS MA CLEAR THE PAST FEW WEEKS THAT HE’S MORE TERTED APPEASG TWTER TROLLS WHO ABHOR ANY AMERIN WHO INTIFI AS LGBTQ+. TO DESANTIS, IF YOU ARE GAY, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE A PART OF THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT.A FEW YEARS AGO, I WOULDN’T HAVE BELIEVED THIS, BUT DESANTIS' RECENT ANTI-LGBTQ+ AD HAS PROVED THAT HE IS TO THE RIGHT OF TMP WHEN TO LGBTQ+ ISSU. IF TMP WAS SOMEONE WHO DON’T SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT, DESANTIS IS AN ALL-OUT HATER.MY GAYNS HAS NOTHG TO DO WH THE FACT THAT FLORIDA IS A BOOMG STATE AN OTHERWISE LACKLTER ENOMY. THAT BEG SAID, DESANTIS HAS MA ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT HE DO NOT SUPPORT GAY AMERINS REGARDLS OF WHETHER THEY SUPPORT HIS NSERVATIVE AGENDA.WHEN I FIRST ENUNTERED DESANTIS DURG HIS BOLD STANCE AGAST COVID MANDAT EARLIER THIS YEAR, I WAS GENERALLY PLEASED WH THE FLORIDA ERNOR. HE SEEMED JT LIKE WHAT NSERVATIV HAVE BEEN MISSG. BUT WHEN THE LEGISLATIVE SSN BROUGHT ISSU NCERNG LGBTQ+ RIGHTS TO THE FOREONT, MY EXCEMENT QUICKLY TURNED TO DISAPPOTMENT. IT BEME EVINT THAT DESANTIS WAS NOT THE CHAMPN OF DIVIDUAL EEDOMS AND RIGHTS THAT I HAD HOPED FOR.HIS ANTI-GAY RHETORIC AND ACTNS ARE NOT ONLY EPLY HURTFUL TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS LIKE MYSELF BUT ALSO TARNISH THE IMAGE OF THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. AS A LIFELONG NSERVATIVE, I BELIEVE THE PRCIPL OF LIMED ERNMENT, PERSONAL RPONSIBILY, AND DIVIDUAL LIBERTI. YET, DESANTIS’ APPROACH TO LGBTQ+ ISSU GO AGAST THE VERY PRCIPL.BY EXCLUDG LGBTQ+ NSERVATIV AND ATTACKG THEIR RIGHTS, DESANTIS ALIENAT A SIGNIFINT PORTN OF HIS POTENTIAL BASE, EFFECTIVELY DRIVG AWAY VOTERS WHO SHARE MANY OF HIS OTHER NSERVATIVE BELIEFS. IT IS DISHEARTENG TO WNS A NDIDATE WHO ULD HAVE BEEN A UNG FORCE WH THE PARTY STEAD NTRIBUTG TO FURTHER DIVISIVENS.DESANTIS’ STANCE ON LGBTQ+ ISSU NOT ONLY NTRADICTS NSERVATIVE VALU BUT ALSO REFLECTS A SEVERE DISNNECT OM THE MAJORY OF AMERINS WHO SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS. ACRDG TO POLLS, OVER 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE, AND THIS NUMBER NTU TO RISE. BY DISREGARDG SUCH A SIGNIFINT PORTN OF THE POPULATN, DESANTIS REVEALS A NCERNG LACK OF UNRSTANDG OF THE EVOLVG SOCIETAL NORMS AND VALU.AS A GAY WOMAN, MY SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS JT ONE ASPECT OF MY INTY, AND SHOULD NOT FE MY POLIL BELIEFS OR MY PLACE WH THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. UNFORTUNATELY, DESANTIS SEEMS TO BELIEVE THAT ONE’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN TERM THEIR WORTHS TO BE PART OF THE NSERVATIVE E. THIS DIVISIVE MENTALY DO NOT BO WELL FOR THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLIN PARTY OR S CHANC OF SUCCS BROAR ELECTNS.THE REPUBLIN PARTY SHOULD STRIVE TO BE A BIG-TENT PARTY, EMBRACG DIVERSE PERSPECTIV AND VOIC. ALIENATG LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS ONLY WEAKENS THE PARTY’S APPEAL AND RTRICTS S ABILY TO ATTRACT NEW SUPPORTERS. IT IS VAL FOR THE PARTY TO EVOLVE AND ADAPT TO THE CHANGG ATTUS OF THE AMERIN PEOPLE, RATHER THAN CLGG TO OUTDATED AND DISCRIMATORY VIEWS.DESANTIS MT REGNIZE THAT HIS ANTI-GAY RHETORIC IS NOT ONLY HARMFUL TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS BUT ALSO TRIMENTAL TO THE VERY PRCIPL HE CLAIMS TO UPHOLD. IF HE TLY AIMS TO LEAD THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND BRG ABOUT POSIVE CHANGE FOR ALL AMERINS, HE MT ABANDON DIVISIVE TACTICS AND FOC ON POLICI THAT PROMOTE UNY AND CLIVY.SO FAR, HE IS ONLY LOSG EVERYDAY AMERINS, CLUDG MANY NSERVATIV LIKE MYSELF, THROUGH HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY RHETORIC. HIS ATTACKS AGAST THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AND EXCLN OF LGBTQ+ NSERVATIV ARE NOT ONLY MORALLY WRONG BUT POLILLY MISGUID. THE REPUBLIN PARTY MT DISTANCE SELF OM SUCH HARMFUL BEHAVR AND STRIVE TO BE A PARTY THAT WEL ALL AMERINS, REGARDLS OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN. ONLY THEN N HOPE TO REPRENT THE TE VALU OF NSERVATISM AND GARNER THE SUPPORT NEED TO SUCCEED FUTURE ELECTNS. YVONNE DEAN-BAILEY

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