Ireland's first gay hotel |

Contents:

• BYU’S COSMO THE COUGAR OUT AS GAY
• IRELAND'S FIRST GAY HOTEL
• KARAMO BROWN OPENS UP ABOUT BEG A SGLE GAY FATHER: 'NO ONE GAVE ME A MANUAL'
• SENATOR STT (COSMO) BROWN ATTEMPTS TO DEFENDS HIS ANTI-GAY VOTG RERD
• A TASTE FOR BROWN BODI: GAY MORNY AND COSMOPOLAN DIRE

BYU’S COSMO THE COUGAR OUT AS GAY

He fathered an Amerin Idol nttant, and he hat the Gay Marriage, and right now he is a Massachetts State Senator. As Cosmo the Cougar, he danced his way to fans’ hearts, all the while ncealg his face, and a secret that he is only now ready to share: Charlie Bird is gay. ’ For years I plead wh God to change my sexual orientatn, but after returng to BYU om a full-time missn for The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, I began realizg that beg gay is an tegral part of who I am.

I was hyper-aware of what some of my peers said about the gay muny, how they viewed same-sex attractn and the often unkd and sensive words they ed to scribe LGBTQ people — people like me. He certaly was not the only closeted gay stunt; Andrew Evans revealed his memoir, excerpted on Outsports, how his llege roommate turned him after seeg him kiss another man, and how BYU forced him to choose between immediate expulsn or reparative therapy.

And then there was “Michael, ” an anonymo BYU football player, track star and closeted gay stunt who didn’t realize until senr year that keepg his secret had left him whout a sgle iend on mp. Carlow will soon be the only town Ireland to boast of an exclively gay hotel, when Cosmo Brown's is re-lnched as a gay rort hotel.

IRELAND'S FIRST GAY HOTEL

Acrdg to Edward O'Donoghue, a director of Cosmo Brown's on Tullow Street, the tablishment will be re-opened the next four weeks and lnched as Ireland's only gay ia of turng the bs to a gay tablishment me about when a promoter, Brian Berry, aka BB Brown, approached Edward wh the ia of settg up a gay club the hotel.

Gay people need to be looked after, too. 'n CONTINUED PAGE 6Edward also said that they have employed a lol secury firm to safeguard agast any possible Berry, who will manage the bs, is adamant that spe possible objectns om lols, Cosmo Brown's will open as a gay rort hotel.

'Cosmo Browns is currently only tradg at the weekend, after beg recently forced to close for a week for permtg a person unr the age of 18 to nsume alhol on the, who ns gay tablishments Kilkenny and Wexford, said that the hotel should be re-lnched as a gay rort wh four weeks. 'From the club to the hotel, right down to the menu, 's gog to be gay. ' I don't even thk I tly unrstood that word at that always talk about the experience of beg lbian, gay and now recently that of trans people.

KARAMO BROWN OPENS UP ABOUT BEG A SGLE GAY FATHER: 'NO ONE GAVE ME A MANUAL'

But what I n do is ntuoly you feel that there's a specific prsure placed on you as a sgle gay father raisg two boys?

Senator Stt (Cosmo) Brown who will be receivg an award tonight at the 2011 Spir of Lln Awards Dner, hosted by the Log Cab Republins released the text of the speech he will liver tonight after his extreme anti-gay votg rerd has been brought up. But Massachetts Democratic Party Chairman John Walsh puts Brown’s anti-gay votg rerd out on the table. When he was the state Legislature, he voted three tim for a nstutnal amendment to ban equal marriage and opposed funds for the monwealth’s missn on gay and lbian youth.

Stt Brown also refed to make an “It Get’s Better” vio to gay teens who might be otherwise ntemplatg suici. Today to “officially” discs Brown’s gay rights rerd.

SENATOR STT (COSMO) BROWN ATTEMPTS TO DEFENDS HIS ANTI-GAY VOTG RERD

"Brown is nsired one of the more nservative members of the Democratic-led Massachetts has served the US army's Natnal Guard for 30 years, although he has never been ployed to a war fence of waterboardg – simulated drowng, a now-banned terrogatn technique for terror spects – and nial that was torture sparked fury among Democrats, as did his belief that terror spects should be not be reprented by "taxpayer-fund" lawyers US has regularly upset gay activists, but claims this is unfair bee he favours civil unns but not gay marriag. It’s not jt his brand—’s been his entire personaly sce gra the only out gay kid school a small town outsi Albany, New York, Charl found his muny on social media, he says. “Quickly, please name five famo male gay celebri om the ag of 20 to 25, ” he says.

Neher queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned wh the role of race the emergence of the morn gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodi, Hiram Pérez trac the velopment of gay morny and s ntued romanticizatn of the brown body.

Dcribg an endurg homonatnalism datg to the “birth” of the homosexual the late 19th century, Pérez nsirs not only how US imperialist expansn was realized, but also how was visualized for and through gay men. By means of an analysis of lerature, film, and photographs om the 19th to the 21st centuri—cludg Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Anne Proulx’s “Brokeback Mounta, ” and photos of abe at the Abu Ghraib prison—Pérez propos that morn gay male inty, often traced to late Victorian nstctns of “vert” and “homosexual, ” occupi not the periphery of the natn but rather a smopolan posn, stmental to projects of war, lonialism, and neoliberalism. A Taste for Brown Bodi argu that practic and subjectivi that we unrstand historilly as forms of homosexualy have been regulated and normalized as an extensn of the US natn-state, layg bare the tac, if plex, participatn of gay morny wh US imperialism.

A TASTE FOR BROWN BODI: GAY MORNY AND COSMOPOLAN DIRE

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