From the legendary gay falsetto known for Bronski Beat, the Communards, and his pneerg solo work Homage, a dis album that keeps his polil beat alive.
Contents:
- ELR GAYS: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT JIMMY STOKELY? WAS HE BISEXUAL? SOP? GROUPIE STORI?
- THE STORY OF O.J. SIMPSON’S GAY FATHERJIMMY SIMPSON WAS A FAY SECRETJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·5 M READ·JUL 13, 2022--1SHARETHAT O.J. SIMSON, AS THE GREAT 1970S FOOTBALL STAR, HAD A GAY FATHER WAS KEPT QUIET. I’M LOOKG THROUGH BGRAPHI RELEASED OVER THE YEARS.THERE WAS FLEETG MENTN OF JIMMY LEE SIMPSON. HE WAS SAID TO BE A JANOR AT A BANK. HE’D LEFT THE FAY WHEN O.J. WAS FOUR. NO REASON WAS OFFERED.O.J. AND JIMMY SIMPSON (UNDATED; LORIZED)THE FOUR SIMPSON CHILDREN WERE RAISED BY O.J.’S MOTHER, EUNICE SIMPSON.A 1974 BGRAPHY BY JIM BAKER CLUS AN TERVIEW WH JIMMY.“ALTHOUGH O.J. ME OM A BROKEN HOME, HIS MOTHER AND I DIDN’T CHANGE THE OTHER THGS,” HE SAID. “THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT — WE DIDN’T CHANGE THGS. BOTH HIS MOTHER AND I ME OM VERY RELIG HOM AND ARE RELIG OURSELV.”O.J. RELLED WAS HARD BEG RAISED BY A SGLE MOTHER. HE WAS LLED “MAMA’S BOY” AS A NICKNAME. IN A 1975 PROFILE PARENTS MAGAZE, HE RELLED:“EXCEPT FOR THE HOLIDAYS, WHEN I WAS GROWG UP I RARELY SAW MY FATHER. I RENTED HIS ABSENCE, PECIALLY WHEN I BEME A TEENAGER, AND WAS TRYG TO FD OUT WHO I WAS. I REALLY NEED A MAN AROUND THEN FOR GUIDANCE. I GET ALONG WH MY FATHER NOW, BUT ’S TAKEN YEARS FOR ME TO E TO TERMS WH MY FEELGS.”O.J. SIMPSON AND FAYHE SEEMS TO HAVE KNOWN HIS FATHER WAS GAY.
- BGRAPHY REVEALS STEWART 'PRUMED GAY'
- THIS FORMER SUPER BOWL ACH ACCEPTED HIS GAY SON OM THE NIGHT HE ME OUT
- TIM HAVE CHANGED FOR GAYS PROFSNAL WRTLG, SAYS WWE LEGEND JIMMY HART
- WHO IS JIMMY NAIL NOW: DO ANYONE KNOW IF HE IS GAY?
- IS JIMMY GAY ?
- IS JIMMIE ALLEN GAY? THE COUNTRY SGER’S SEXUALY REVEALED
- THIS FORMER SUPER BOWL ACH ACCEPTED HIS GAY SON OM THE NIGHT HE ME OUT
ELR GAYS: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT JIMMY STOKELY? WAS HE BISEXUAL? SOP? GROUPIE STORI?
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THE STORY OF O.J. SIMPSON’S GAY FATHERJIMMY SIMPSON WAS A FAY SECRETJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·5 M READ·JUL 13, 2022--1SHARETHAT O.J. SIMSON, AS THE GREAT 1970S FOOTBALL STAR, HAD A GAY FATHER WAS KEPT QUIET. I’M LOOKG THROUGH BGRAPHI RELEASED OVER THE YEARS.THERE WAS FLEETG MENTN OF JIMMY LEE SIMPSON. HE WAS SAID TO BE A JANOR AT A BANK. HE’D LEFT THE FAY WHEN O.J. WAS FOUR. NO REASON WAS OFFERED.O.J. AND JIMMY SIMPSON (UNDATED; LORIZED)THE FOUR SIMPSON CHILDREN WERE RAISED BY O.J.’S MOTHER, EUNICE SIMPSON.A 1974 BGRAPHY BY JIM BAKER CLUS AN TERVIEW WH JIMMY.“ALTHOUGH O.J. ME OM A BROKEN HOME, HIS MOTHER AND I DIDN’T CHANGE THE OTHER THGS,” HE SAID. “THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT — WE DIDN’T CHANGE THGS. BOTH HIS MOTHER AND I ME OM VERY RELIG HOM AND ARE RELIG OURSELV.”O.J. RELLED WAS HARD BEG RAISED BY A SGLE MOTHER. HE WAS LLED “MAMA’S BOY” AS A NICKNAME. IN A 1975 PROFILE PARENTS MAGAZE, HE RELLED:“EXCEPT FOR THE HOLIDAYS, WHEN I WAS GROWG UP I RARELY SAW MY FATHER. I RENTED HIS ABSENCE, PECIALLY WHEN I BEME A TEENAGER, AND WAS TRYG TO FD OUT WHO I WAS. I REALLY NEED A MAN AROUND THEN FOR GUIDANCE. I GET ALONG WH MY FATHER NOW, BUT ’S TAKEN YEARS FOR ME TO E TO TERMS WH MY FEELGS.”O.J. SIMPSON AND FAYHE SEEMS TO HAVE KNOWN HIS FATHER WAS GAY.
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Cho, who grew up San Francis and had parents that owned a gay bookstore, has squashed the stereotypil tras placed on Asian-Amerin gaed populary by wrg and starrg a s lled "All Amerin Girl" and has bee a celebrated stand-up ic.
BGRAPHY REVEALS STEWART 'PRUMED GAY'
Joel Kim Booster often jok about beg raised a homogeno Southern town. He often jok that he knew he was gay before he knew he was 's sce lnched a succsful stand-up reer — appearg on "The Late Late Show Wh Jam Corn, " "Late Night Wh Seth Meyers, " "CONAN, " and more.
Booster ntued, "I'd look at myself and say, 'Why am I treated like a send-class cizen the gay muny?
Simson, as the great 1970s football star, had a gay father was kept quiet.
THIS FORMER SUPER BOWL ACH ACCEPTED HIS GAY SON OM THE NIGHT HE ME OUT
Simpson and fayHe seems to have known his father was gay. So was obv that his dad was gay. " When an olr kid beat the hell out of him our sophomore year, I remember the kid jt yelled "fag.
TIM HAVE CHANGED FOR GAYS PROFSNAL WRTLG, SAYS WWE LEGEND JIMMY HART
So 1984 when a vio for the song "Smalltown Boy" by the Euro synth-pop band Bronski Beat premiered, was like the story of our liv on nsired the first real gay vio on MTV, featured sger Jimmy Somerville -- who gave both Bronski Beat and later the Communards their signature falsetto sounds -- who flirts wh a swimmer the high school locker room and is later attacked by homophob and disdaed by his father. Two years later, we followed Somerville's lead and left song, though, beme a huge gay anthem, and a global succs: htg the top 10 on the mic charts the U. '"The kd of gay polil mentary om his early pneerg mic is there too.
"Yeah, bee I'm a gay man, so everythg I do and I say is about kd of who I am, where I am, and what is happeng, and what the polil climate is and what the social climate is.
" On the new album, he says, there's a track about "how I feel about myself, and where I am, and never really ftg even wh my mil muny, wh gay life and stuff -- I've always been slightly outsir-ish.
WHO IS JIMMY NAIL NOW: DO ANYONE KNOW IF HE IS GAY?
Not only a sger, Somerville appeared the 1992 cult film Orlando and Isaac Julien's 1989 gay classic Lookg for Langston. Even while fallg apart, Somerville kept creatg, kept phg other Euro-synth or New Wave bands flirted wh homoerotic imagery their vios (most of them, actually) or phemisms that LGBT people uld terpret as gay, Somerville has always been out, and his mic, too, has been out om the begng.
Wh Bronski Beat (band mat Steve Bronski and Larry Stebachek were also gay), Somerville sang to other men, not to women, somethg unheard of mastream mic the '80s. "For me as a gay man that's always been important, " he says of the pronoun age his songs, "sce the very, very early days, sce the first album, TheAge of Consent. '"That 30 years later, few gay male micians are followg his lead is dishearteng.
"Even the [gay micians] who are out now, there is still that fear that they're gog to alienate, " Somerville adms. He says, though, if you're the type of person who lik listeng to the whole "Jamain dance hall stuff about shootg and killg gays...
IS JIMMY GAY ?
[Beg gay is] jt beg who you are as a person and choosg who you love and all that kd of stuff.
He won't speak harshly, but he don't que unrstand other gay performers, like Lance Bass of 'N Sync, who e out only after beg famo. "And Bronski Beat was super gay. The album, Age of Consent, had a pk triangle on the ver (a nod to what the Nazi's brand homosexuals wh) and si on the ssette ler not (which every kid read back then, hopg the lyrics were prted) were age of nsent laws around the world and a gay hotle number.
IS JIMMIE ALLEN GAY? THE COUNTRY SGER’S SEXUALY REVEALED
'Oh, there's a number here I n ll, a gay help le. ' We were kda realizg, actually, we uld take rmatn to a bigger dience, and not necsarily jt a gay dience, a wir dience as well.
We were actually tryg to give out this rmatn to unteract the disrmatn that was beg out there the media, so we were nstantly tryg to be one step ahead, or actually rrect what had been put out there about AIDS, about gay men, all that kd of stuff. "That they were gay wasn't the only revolutn though.
" He and Col were proud of their polics, their gay visibily, "so we didn't want sudnly the foc to be on how we were fallg apart, so we realized was bt if we stopped before that beme so publicly visible.
THIS FORMER SUPER BOWL ACH ACCEPTED HIS GAY SON OM THE NIGHT HE ME OUT
"After havg survived the early AIDS epimic, after losg so many iends and lovers and ex to the disease, Somerville says he's often disturbed that HIV isn't more of a ncern among young gay men, even the U. "After the sex and dgs and HIV talk, I have three mut left to brg back to Somerville's amazg new album, or rather, his long legacy of mil succs and gay pneerg.