KISS' Pl Stanley addrs the persistent mor over the years that he's gay and opens up about what 's been like to work wh Gene Simmons all this time.
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- KISS FRONTMAN PL STANLEY DON'T MD IF YOU THK HE'S GAY
- KISS’ PL STANLEY ADDRS GAY RUMOR, DISCS WORKG WH GENE SIMMONS
- SHOUT OUT LOUD! THE OUT GAY MAN WHO MA KISS SUPERSTARS, GOT THEM TO ROCK HALL OF FAME
- GAY KISS
- KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
KISS FRONTMAN PL STANLEY DON'T MD IF YOU THK HE'S GAY
* kiss is gay *
KISS's Pl Stanley has opened up about long-standg mors about his sexualy, sayg he wouldn't be ashamed to be a gay man. "If I were [gay], I’d be proud to be whatever I am, " the 63-year-old rocker told New Zealand's The Breeze.
"Commemoratg KISS's ductn to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, The Montreal Gazette published a profile of Bill Au, the legendary rock manager who disvered the band the early 1970s and who also happened to be an openly gay man. Also on HuffPost: Celebri Who've Faced Gay RumorsPopular the CommunyYou May Like.
There have been many mors about KISS over the years, but the one that's always taken volist Pl Stanley by surprise is that he's gay.
KISS’ PL STANLEY ADDRS GAY RUMOR, DISCS WORKG WH GENE SIMMONS
We’ll never fet watchg the inic gay kissg scen for the first time. * kiss is gay *
Durg a chat wh New Zealand's The Breeze (seen above), Stanley was qutned about the crazit mor he's heard about told terviewer Robert Stt, "The odst, to me, was always — and 's always persisted over time -- is that I'm gay. Sce I’m gay, I never really got the job as producer and there was a real glass ceilg there.
SHOUT OUT LOUD! THE OUT GAY MAN WHO MA KISS SUPERSTARS, GOT THEM TO ROCK HALL OF FAME
A gay kiss has all the bety and tenrns that a straight one do, wh the add benef of beg between two men. * kiss is gay *
Between two gay men, ’s about a romantic relatnship bee they’ve already had sex. Ser and lleagu noted that whereas straight upl almost always kiss before havg terurse, gay youths ually have their first kiss (at least wh a guy) durg an terurse ssn.
Hence, the age when a straight boy ually has his first kiss wh a girl is 14; for a gay boy (wh another boy), is three years later, at age 17. ” About one-third had engaged “staed same-sex kissg, somethg they nsted as non-sexual and non-homosexual. Perhaps—or are gay boys the holdout?
GAY KISS
Perhaps non-kissg dividuals are simply not on a normative schle terms of emotnal timacy and homosocial velopment more generally. For gay boys, sex first, emotnal nnectn later—whether this is changg is unknown.
Followg a year marked by turmoil wh s LGBTQ+ fan base and employe, Disney is releasg s first-ever movie that shows a gay kiss.
KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
Lightyear is not the first Disney film to be censored other untri for s pictn of gay characters. After ially refg to ment on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the pany faced a wave of cricism om employe and nsumers. “Nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn is cut at Disney’s beht, regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar, ” their letter read.
Beyond qutng s public stance, fans and employe also cricized Disney for donatg to Florida policians who supported the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
(Disney/Pixar)There's lots of buzz over a particular scene Lightyear, and now the filmmakers and star are ready to addrs the Variety reported March, a same-sex kiss om Pixar’s upg Toy Story spoff was ially cut om the animated feature, only to be rtored after LGBTQ employe and alli at the Disney-owned pany sent a jot statement to stud executiv prottg the censorship of “overtly gay affectn. ”The stud’s about-face me as Disney was unr creased scty om s workforce over the rporatn’s perceived lax rponse to Florida’s ntroversial so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill.