BYU’s Cosmo the Cougar mast out as gay - Outsports

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.

IRELAND'S FIRST GAY HOTEL

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.

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

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.

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.

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

' 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. 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.

A TASTE FOR BROWN BODI: GAY MORNY AND COSMOPOLAN DIRE

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. "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.