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Contents:

• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• AM I GAY/STRAIGHT? ?️‍? (FEMALE EDN)
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• UPLE GAY GIRLS LBIAN KISSG NAKED THE NIGHT UNR HEAVY RA, THE MOONLIGHT
• UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS
• CALL ME BY MY PRONOUNS: WHY GAY MEN CALL EACH OTHER "GIRL"
• WHY STRAIGHT WOMEN AND GAY MEN MAKE THE BT OF FRIENDS
• WHAT IT'S LIKE BEG A BLACK, GAY WOMAN IN AMERI
• GAY GIRL NET
• GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD HISTORIL CONTEXT ?
• BEG GAY AND LIVG WH A ROOMMATE EXPERIENC?
• FEATURED QUIZZ
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
• BEFORE I KNEW MY DGHTER WAS GAY, I LET HER GIRLIEND SPEND THE NIGHT
• GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD: THE STORY OF WHO I WAS, AND WHO GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN PAPERBACK – SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
• HER BOYIEND ISN'T GAY OR BI BUT HE IS SUCKG DICKS GLORY HOL
• 14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD: THE STORY OF WHO I WAS, AND WHO GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

AM I GAY/STRAIGHT? ?️‍? (FEMALE EDN)

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls.

UPLE GAY GIRLS LBIAN KISSG NAKED THE NIGHT UNR HEAVY RA, THE MOONLIGHT

The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay.

Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021. PREVIOUS REPORT: 'I'll never get my baby back': Fay of woman killed crash on North Freeway angry over lossHoton police said Sarah Gay was toxited when she drove northbound the southbound lan of the I-45 North Freeway near the Whe Oak ex and h two rs.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS

Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.

Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. Is a project by The Ltle Black Gallery, curated by -founr Ghisla Pasl, to promote queer and gay now reprents more than 60 photographers om 25 untri - cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia and Turkey where gay rights are reprsed and queer liv unr nstant threat. For margalized groups, tthful reprentatn film is imperative, even lifavg, and today’s stormy polil climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgenr people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetilly — and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like bee they live we’re a long way om total clivy and gay movi sans stereotyp, the film dtry has ma recent stris centerg LGBTQ+ characters.

Featurg a queer actor as one of the ma love terts, and a gay director, Love, Simon is a movie that will likely have you cryg and clappg through scen as you watch. ©Foc Featur/Courty Everett CollectnMilk (2008)G Van Sant directed Milk, a film based on the life of gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk. If you don’t speak or unrstand Portugue please do not be terred om watchg a film wh subtl, bee this is a g-of-age gay film that you do not want to miss.

CALL ME BY MY PRONOUNS: WHY GAY MEN CALL EACH OTHER "GIRL"

Courty Everett CollectnMoonlight (2016)Based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alv McCraney, Moonlight buted to high cril praise for cematography, storytellg, and s portrayal of black gay male inty. After meetg Ellt (Anton Marziale), who is openly-gay, Alex stggl wh his own romantic feelgs towards him and what means for his future wh Claire.

For the ocsn, Val’s father Armand (Rob Williams) attempts to pass as a straight person spe his life as a gay Miami drag club owner and relatnship wh the club’s star attractns (Nathan Lane).

Thanks to streamg works like HBO Max, Netflix, Apple TV+ and Showtime, we're gettg some of the bt gay sex on TV we've ever you're lookg for a sexy show to watch wh a iend or by yourself, here are some of our favor.

WHY STRAIGHT WOMEN AND GAY MEN MAKE THE BT OF FRIENDS

Although n sometim seem like one type of gay person is shown over and over aga the media or on TV, gay people aren’t tomatilly effemate, and lbian women aren’t tomatilly mascule – fact, those stereotyp leave out a lot of other personali and characteristics. While there may be some jobs that tend to have more gay or lbian people them than others, often has to do wh the cultural acceptance they might fd that particular field. SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

WHAT IT'S LIKE BEG A BLACK, GAY WOMAN IN AMERI

"Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments. Culled om a longlist of hundreds, movi nsired for the list promently feature gay, lbian, trans, or queer characters; ncern self centrally wh LGBTQ+ them; prent s LGBTQ+ characters a fair and realistic light; and/or be seen as a touchpot the evolutn of queer cema. And we regnize that some of the films the list will re-igne healthy bat that have been fixtur of discsn around LGBTQ+ films — straight actors playg gay characters, cis actors playg trans characters, and the historil domance of whe male perspectiv.

For our most recent update to the list, we’ve add mastream edi Fire Island and Bros, thriller Knock at the Cab (featurg two pairs of hbands whose vatn is terpted by the potential apolypse), Disney feature Strange World (wh the stud’s first openly gay lead character), Blue Jean (a Brish drama set durg the Thatcher premiership), the extremely well-reviewed Girl Picture), France’s magil realist The Five Devils, and Cann 2023 buts Monster and Strange Way of Life. Crics Consens: We Were Here reviss the cris facg the gay muny the early 1980s -- and offers a powerful tribute to the spirg rolve shown at a time of turmoil.

Synopsis: Substance abe and emotnal and physil distance threaten the relatnship between a gay filmmaker (Thure Ldhardt) and his longtime lover... She is the thor of Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been (B&H Books), om which parts of this article were adapted.

GAY GIRL NET

It’s not pletely known what someone to be lbian, gay, straight, or bisexual, but your sexual orientatn probably started at a very young age. Creatg a shared culture — cludg language — around femy n be a way of reclaimg the bas for opprsn many gay men have experienced, as well as disptg the harmful genr few if any lguistic practic are all one thg, all the time.

It may be time to reevaluate cis gay men’s e of words like "she" and "girl" to make sure they align wh ongog efforts to rpect nonbary genr inti, and avoid makg assumptns about people’s pronouns. Lguists, social scientists, and crics have observed and studied cis gay men’s e of “she, ” and their asssments pot to the multiple and often nflictg dimensns of the practice.

GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD HISTORIL CONTEXT ?

So for even to make sense for gay men to e ‘she, ’ we have to have some kd of associatn wh ‘she, ’ and ually that associatn is femy, whatever that might mean to or our culture. It’s not a recent formatn at all, ” explas William Leap, an emer profsor of anthropology at Amerin Universy and pneerg expert on queer men llg each other "she" or "girl" was historilly a way of protectg themselv as well as buildg muny the ntext of homophobic and vlent mastream culture.

”Yet some women have experienced gay men g words like “girl” toward them ways that don’t feel all that different om the misogyny they have experienced om straight men. “I also saw beg negatively ed when whe gay men would say, like, ‘Oh girl, what are you talkg about, ’ and they would be talkg to a woman of lor, pecially a Black woman. ”Consirg misogyny wh gay men’s language practic rais the qutn of how g words like “girl” or “honey” is nnected to their e of other, more ntroversial words that have historilly been ed to mean women, such as “bch” and “cunt.

BEG GAY AND LIVG WH A ROOMMATE EXPERIENC?

”“Gay men are a large group of people wh a lot of different kds of relatnships to genr, and I thk there are absolutely gay men who operate relatn to feme language that really is a reflectn of their male privilege, whether ’s through g ways that nigrate or stereotype women, or whether ’s jt feelg license to e the language how they see f, ” says Zimman, the lguist om UC Santa Barbara. Paris Is Burng, the 1990 documentary on Harlem’s drag ball scene, as well as Drag Race, have brought the e of words like "she" and "girl" between Black and Latx drag queens to a wir gay (and straight) dience; today this is somethg employed by gay men of all rac.

Wealthy whe gay cis men llg each other "girl" may be drastilly different om Black or Latx gay cis men who ntue to be margalized very different is visible a film like Paris Is Burng, a few s ago there were more shared spac, language, and culture between cis gay men, trans women, and genr-nonnformg dividuals.

That kd of rejectn of genr nonnormativy also giv the suatn we fd today, where we have more of a spl between gay men and trans women, for stance, than we might have seen prev s. “Wh ‘girl/she/her, ’” they say, “if I’m socializg wh cis gay men and that’s what they’re g to scribe each other and to scribe me, there is a ltle b of dissonance there, bee I’m not really sure if they’re g that to validate my genr, or if ’s beg ed as ’s ed wh other cis gay men.

FEATURED QUIZZ

The thors suggt the possibily that gay men may pete for mat the same way that straight women do wh each other, though they note remas to be studied. In orr to vtigate whether straight women and gay men see each other as the most tstworthy advisers on matters of the heart, the thors vised a clever puter task. Naturally, the straight female target profile picture was different than that of gay and straight mal (the same was ed for both); sexual preference was tailored acrdgly.

Straight women perceived the romantic advice of gay men to be signifintly more tstworthy than that of straight men and women, who were equally ls helpful. If you're the mood for a lighthearted take on the specialns of the straight woman-gay man iendship, the song “Gay Bt Friend” ptur hilar fashn.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

In honor of LGBTQ Pri month (June) and the 50th anniversary of Pri celebratns, Eric Cervi discs his book “The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs.

The documentary discs the Stonewall rts, a six-day perd begng on June 28, 1969, durg which the LGBTQ+ muny protted agast a police raid on a gay bar lled the Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, NYC. This rerdg om 1958 – The earlit known rad rerdg to overtly discs homosexualy - featur Public Affairs Director of KPFA Elsa Knight Thompson terviewg Hal Call, the edor of the Mattache Review; Dr. Blanche Baker, a psychologist noted for her then-rarely-shared belief that homosexualy was not an abnormaly nor an illns; and Leah Gailey, the mother of a gay man.

BEFORE I KNEW MY DGHTER WAS GAY, I LET HER GIRLIEND SPEND THE NIGHT

Elsa Knight Thompson morat a send panel discsn focg on laws regardg homosexuals, civil rights of homosexuals, intifitn of homosexuals, genr intifitn society, possible of sexual choice, i. At the time, he didn't know I was gay (I did, but more on that soon), so my sexualy was left out of the nversatn and would be a battle I faced the years to e. Jackie says that spe beg hard for heterosexual Christians to relate to the fight agast homosexualy, they all n unrstand the stggle agast any form of worldly pleasure.

July 13, 2022 Saltyhamstar Love & Friendship Personaly WLW Lbian Gay Girls Cute Pretty Poc Toxic There seems to be a lack of lbian, WLW, and NBLW quizz, and I'm here to fill that market. Homosexualy is still the rrect term clilly, but even though homosexualy is no longer nsired immoral, some people feel there are still negative overton to the word given s orig. For example, a person may feel same-sex sexual attractn but not intify as "gay" whereas another person who behav sexually towards men and women may intify as "gay.

Reviewed the Uned Stat on July 21, 2023This helped me unrstand better the homosexual Christian and their s which is no better or worse than me.

GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD: THE STORY OF WHO I WAS, AND WHO GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN PAPERBACK – SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Reviewed Mexi on July 5, 2019En te libro se encuentra la perspectiva personal y, por otro lado, una visión objetiva l homosexualismo a la luz la Biblia. However, the amount that he jok about beg gay, givg blowjobs, etc., mak me thk he might be gay or bisexual and is g to terms wh his sexualy. I wouldn't have any problems wh this—I dated women for ten years prr to him—but he emphatilly swears he's straight and often pots out that he don't like gay porn, he don't like to see gay men beg affectnate, etc.

But sure, GLORY, this may be a fetishistic sire on your boyiend's part or he uld be the tit b bisexual and this is how your boyiend exprs his ty b of bisexualy and only his unrolved homophobia/biphobia prevents him om nceivg of himself as bisexual. But the fact your boyiend don't like to see gay men beg affectnate smacks ls of, "Not gay or bi, not at all gay or bi, nothg to see here, " and more of, "Internalized homophobia and other issu and possibly bi or maybe even gay. So while I want to acknowledge the existence, the lived experience, and the validy of straight boys who like to suck ck but who are no other way attracted to men, this tail—your boyiend's disfort around gay men—uld be a sign that somethg else is gog on wh him.

HER BOYIEND ISN'T GAY OR BI BUT HE IS SUCKG DICKS GLORY HOL

It was a shty, selfish thg to do and you have a right to be angry about , GLORY, and you aren't obligated to put up wh this sh jt bee he's explorg his sexualy or stgglg wh ternalized homophobia/biphobia. Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step.

14 TV SHOWS THAT BROKE GROUND WH GAY AND TRANSGENR CHARACTERS

“Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed, ” he said. 16, 2017Last year was a remarkable time when me to the reprentatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr or queer regular characters on televisn, acrdg to the latt Glaad report monorg diversy on the small screen.

People, or beg able to help people unrstand who we are, pecially those tim when so many people lived hidn and visible, ” said Sarah Kate Ellis, the print and chief executive of Glaad (formerly known as the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn). 1972 — ‘THAT CERTAIN SUMMER’ A divorced father (Hal Holbrook) his his lover (Mart Sheen) om his teenage son Lamont Johnson’s movie for ABC, nsired the first sympathetic pictn of gay people on televisn. ”)1977 — ‘SOAP’ In this ABC s, Billy Crystal plays Jodie Dallas — a gay man havg an affair wh a famo quarterback and ntemplatg genr-reassignment surgery — who be one of the first gay dads on televisn.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

]1985 — ‘AN EARLY FROST’ A Chigo lawyer (Aidan Qun) returns home to reveal to his parents that he’s gay and has AIDS this NBC movie by John Erman, settg the stage for feature films like Jonathan Demme’s “Philalphia. 1994 — ‘MY SO-CALLED LIFE’ In the episo “Life of Brian, ” this ABC drama about high school angst als wh young gay love when Rickie (Wilson Cz) velops a csh on his new classmate, Corey (Adam Bik). ”2000 — ‘QUEER AS FOLK’ Showtime breaks new ground wh the first hourlong drama the Uned Stat about gay men and women, cludg a character who is H.

2009 — ‘MODERN FAMILY’ This ABC s — featurg a gay uple, Mchell (Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (Eric Stontreet), and their adopted dghter, Lily (Aubrey Anrson-Emmons), as part of a larger fay — “is geni the way tegrat edy and cln, and is able to te and open people’s hearts and mds, ” Ms. She's the openly gay high school senr who wanted to take her girliend to the high school prom at Itawamba High School northern Mississippi.

GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD: THE STORY OF WHO I WAS, AND WHO GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN

Recent surveys of teenage girls and young women fd that roughly 15% of young femal today self-intify as lbian or bisexual, pared wh about 5% of young mal who intify as gay or bisexual (see note 2, below). Popular acunts of homosexual behavr often suggt that the behavrs make evolutnary sense bee the people practicg the behavrs make better nts and uncl than heterosexuals do, a theory first advanced by E.

However, studi published the past 20 years have provid ltle support for this hypothis, and have often directly refuted , particularly for male homosexuals. It turns out that gay men are actually more likely to be tranged om niec and nephews, which ntradicts the predictns of Wilson's k altism theory: see for example Bobrow & Bailey 2001, also Rahman & Hull 2005. Wilson's 1970s hypothis about homosexual men beg better uncl, wh breathls crly and no substantive mentn of the studi refutg this theory, a lengthy March 29, 2010 feature The New York Tim Magaze.