Contents:
- WAS JOHNNY WEIR AN ‘OUT’ GAY ATHLETE WHEN HE PETED AT THE OLYMPICS OVER A AGO?
- JOHNNY WEIR EXPLAS WHY HE WAED TO PUBLICLY COME OUT AS GAY
WAS JOHNNY WEIR AN ‘OUT’ GAY ATHLETE WHEN HE PETED AT THE OLYMPICS OVER A AGO?
Gay NBC figure skatg mentator Johnny Weir has been the target of some cricism durg the Olympics. The heat directed at the out gay figure skatg champn hasn't e om anti-gay Rsians, but om gay Amerins here at home. We mt do everythg we n to stand up to those homophob!".
Yet here we have a well-known gay Amerin - Johnny Weir - dog that very thg, standg up to the Rsians and refg to back away om who he is, and LGBT people are slightg and attackg him for . The out gay journalist appeared as a gut on another CNN show over the weekend to lob anti-feme jabs at Johnny.
"No one lik a gay mstrel show," Lemon said, "so let's jt put that out there. About some of his flamboyant and over the top and all those, seems those are the people who get the attentn, but they don't reprent all of gay Ameri.". You don't have to be a whe, middle-aged gay sports fan om Massachetts to reprent me.
JOHNNY WEIR EXPLAS WHY HE WAED TO PUBLICLY COME OUT AS GAY
But cryg Johnny for beg a "gay mstrel show" and plag that he's gettg too much attentn for sends Lemon's very clear msage. Too often we get ught up worryg about stereotypil portrayals of gay men.
Yet when to more "feme," "flamboyant" men who f the age-old stereotyp of gay men, some feel the need to lash out. Here we have an out and out-there gay man hired by Olympic broadst work NBC to provi mentary on his sport and to do his job.
They have embraced Johnny all his overtly flamboyant gayns. Johnny's very public profile do not dimish the liv and experienc of other gay men who prefer blue jeans and football to a pk jacket and an afternoon at the ice rk. For many people, "flamboyance" is the fg characteristic of gay men.