I wanted to know how Mister Rogers felt about gay people. Here's what I found. - Upworthy

Contents:

• BIG HOLIGAY MARKET
• BIG GAY MARKET STAR GAYZG
• A BIG GAY MARKET
• BIG GAY MARKET RETURNS THIS WEEKEND
• BIG GAY MARKET RETURNS TO NORTHWT ARKANSAS WH ‘HOLIGAY EDN’
• BIG GAY MARKET RETURNS TO NORTHWT ARKANSAS WH ‘HOLIGAY EDN’
• ‘BIG GAY MARKET’ EVENTS FOR SUMMER 2022
• ‘BIG GAY MARKET’ G TO FAYETTEVILLE
• BIG GAY MARKET RETURNS THIS WEEKEND
• GAY MISTER ROGERS ACTOR NO LONGER BOUND BY OATH TO CHILDREN’S TV TAN
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• BIG GAY MARKET
• WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND: RIVERFT LNCH, 25TH ANNIVERSARY NCERT, AND A BIG GAY MARKET
• HERE’S WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW TO TAKE ON BIG GAY

BIG HOLIGAY MARKET

Jo for our send annual Big HoliGAY Market at Ozark Beer Co Downtown Rogers. A qutn popped to my queer ltle bra right then, though, and I'm not entirely sure why:Could Rogers have quietly been a homophobe?

It's a toxic batn that, if we're overgeneralizg and I reflect on my personal experience, tends to produce the worst kds of homophob. In a dark and dreary world, Rogers was a reliably bright light, and I wanted whatever I disvered to nfirm my spicns that the beloved children's advote was a benevolent force for good — and nothg one thg I've e to learn as a jad gay man is that the more flawls a fave of me seems to be, the harr they fall om the high pestal I've placed them on once their shortgs evably air. He didn't let his fah box him to any certa iology regardg gay people or their rights.

BIG GAY MARKET STAR GAYZG

Rogers' widow, Joanne, has said her hband had close iends who were gay, acrdg to also stood strong agast outsi prsur to e his platform to nmn same-genr relatnships, acrdg to Vox's Todd VanDerWerff. Panng homosexualy likely would have been appld by many parents tung , as mastream Ameri wily embraced homophobic attus throughout much of Rogers' reign.

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While Rogers hired and beiend Franis Clemmons — a gay man who played Officer Clemmons the seri for 25 years — he didn't necsarily want the show associated wh Clemmons' sexual orientatn, eher.

BIG GAY MARKET RETURNS THIS WEEKEND

After word got back to Rogers that Clemmons had been spotted a gay bar, Rogers asked the actor to avoid such venu, fearful Clemmons' sexualy would brg negative attentn to the show.

Even on queer issu, Rogers evolved as time went Long wrote for HuffPost 2014, Rogers' perspective on Clemmons' sexualy shifted throughout the years: "Rogers evintly believed Clemmons would tank his reer had he e out as a gay man the late 1960s. As untls gays me out more publicly followg the Stonewall uprisg, Rogers even urged Clemmons to enter to a longterm and stable gay relatnship.

And he always warmly weled Clemmons’ gay iends whenever they vised the televisn set Ptsburgh. " below:From Your Se ArticlDan Levy’s mom regrets worryg about her 'ltle boy who loved to twirl' and cue all the tears - Upworthy ›The group turng relig lears to LGBTQ rights csars - Upworthy ›Gee Montague, 'the olst gay the village' has passed away.

BIG GAY MARKET RETURNS TO NORTHWT ARKANSAS WH ‘HOLIGAY EDN’

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A Big Gay Market. A Big Gay Market will be Sunday, July 16th (ra date on Sunday, July 23rd) at Washgton Park on Knox Street Mall Rd om 11AM-3PM. The Big Gay Market at s re is an clive, tersectnal, and joyo muny gatherg to sell goods for a good e.

BIG GAY MARKET RETURNS TO NORTHWT ARKANSAS WH ‘HOLIGAY EDN’

Photo urty Big Gay Market/Ollie DiPietro and Ashley Shaw. The Big Gay Market is back for s send n wh expand offergs this g Sunday.

‘BIG GAY MARKET’ EVENTS FOR SUMMER 2022

A project put together by lol queer artists Ollie DiPietro and Ashley Shaw, The Big Gay Market will offer more vendors and food, an expand area and more safety nsiratns. Capalizg on the funds gaed are their existg plans to expand, the Big Gay Market will have double the vendors this time, ma possible through a scholarship fund to ver registratn sts.

Photo urty Big Gay Market. The goal is to nsistently grow and improve on the Big Gay Market, reeratg a pot that DiPietro said at the Arts Bs Competn, and this will be the first trial n expansn. The prev Big Gay Market sprg was doors at the Wisns Rugby Complex Cottage Grove.

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The Big Gay Market will be held this Sunday, July 9 om 10:00 am -4:00 pm at the Wisns Rugby Complex, 488 Clark St, Cottage Grove. The October A Big Gay Market Vendor Applitns are OPEN!

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What is the missn of A Big Gay Market?

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A Big Gay Market is a signated safe and affirmative space for LGBTQI+ dividuals, pecially for those our muny that have tersectg margalized inti, to jo together queer and trans joy for a e.

Speakg of accsibily, what are A Big Gay Market’s accsibily not? I want to volunteer wh A Big Gay Market! Wele to A Big Gay Market Fam!

(KNWA/KFTA) — The Big Gay Market is back wh another holiday themed event. Acrdg to a news release, The Big Gay Market: Holigay Edn is happeng Saturday, December 11, at Ozark Beer Company downtown Rogers.

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“Wh this holiday market, we pecially hope to shift the lol dollar to the pockets of queer and diverse makers, ” said baker Amanda Arafat, founr of Big Gay Market. Arafat, along wh lol artist and graphic signer Grace Holb started Big Gay Market June 2021, the wake of a wave of legislatn the release says is anti-trans.

The Holigay Market ns om 10 a. This is the third Big Gay Market event Northwt Arkansas.

(KNWA/KFTA) — The “Big Gay Market” hosted a “Tour Big Gay” Rogers acrdg to a prs release. The “Big Gay Market” was found 2021 as a rponse to Arkansas lawmakers creatg anti-trans legislatn.

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“We started Big Gay Market as an act of prott– a rponse to aggrsively anti-trans legislature our state.

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Events for the “Big Gay Market” clu the June 18 Pri Para off Dickson Street Fayetteville and the last event will be June 30 Bentonville at The Momentary. For more rmatn, follow their Instagram at @biggaymarket. (KNWA/KFTA) — The “Big Gay Market”, Northwt Arkansas’ queer maker’s market, is happeng this Saturday, June, 26.

“The missn of the ‘Big Gay Market’ is to troduce a rich work of queer small bs and their owners to the Fayetteville muny a way that is accsible, approachable, and charable, ” Arafat said. Gay Mister Rogers actor no longer bound by oath to children’s TV tan.

Clemmons, the black, gay opera sger and actor, played Officer Clemmons, one of the “neighbors” on the show.

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND: RIVERFT LNCH, 25TH ANNIVERSARY NCERT, AND A BIG GAY MARKET

He’d read bs of Rogers, but after readg the acunts, he wr, “I nclud that … none of the other publitns were thored by a black, gay, ordaed person of the theater who had worked timately wh you (Rogers) for over 30 years. Clemmons realized he was gay. “My fay was a tradnal Baptist, God-fearg one, ” Clemmons wr, “And even before I unrstood what homosexualy meant, was drilled to my bra that the (gay) men were wrong the ey of God.

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“If you’re gay, don’t matter to me at all, ” Rogers told Clemmons, “but if you’re gog to be on the show … you n’t be out as gay. ‘Leg’ reunts gay man’s experience wh cerebral palsy.

He hoped that no one would notice he was gay, but they mt’ve: nobody seemed surprised when he me out as a teen. That’s a lite thg the midst of a madp tale of a limb and the gay man attached to , and ’s sneaky, too: you’ll be lookg every-which-way at Marshall’s life and boom! Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships.