Kev Maxen, assistant ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the first openly gay ach of a U.S. men’s profsnal league sport
Contents:
- NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
- SECRET CY: THE HIDN HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- SECRET CY: BEHD THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF DC POLICS
NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
In the new documentary Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood, former V.F. edor Matt Tyrner sh a light on the sexual fixer who tered to secretly gay Goln Age stars * secret history gay *
Which didn’t stop burly Hler nfidante and head of the Nazi SA paraary wg Ernst Röhm, a not-terribly-closeted gay man, om equentg the tablishment. As the film explas, the SA had a strong homoerotic element, a disgt wh women and femy they somehow ed to jtify homosexualy – for a time, anyway. At a certa pot, Röhm’s iendship wh Hler uld only take him so far a Nazi regime creasgly set on eraditg homosexualy.
Röhm is but one player this ncise, ftly told doc that the Eldorado as a lnchg pad to a broar story about beg gay Nazi Germany.
SECRET CY: THE HIDN HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON
For s, the specter of homosexualy hnted Washgton: The mere suggtn someone might be gay stroyed reputatns, end reers, and ed liv. Jam Kirchick discs dividuals who urageoly cid that the source of their private shame uld stead be galvanized for public pri. * secret history gay *
The film never out and yells , but is also a remr of the Fal Solutn tenor that still acpani much anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric and, creasgly, policy. He was also a bohemian spir who had a passnate homosexual relatnship wh Manasse Herbst, a Galician Jewish actor who fled Germany 1936. Hirschfeld, a groundbreakg sexologist, both gay and Jewish and therefore a prime target of Nazi Germany, was thankfully not prent when his stute was ransacked by mardg Nazi youth (here aga, there are photos).
Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175).
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
He worked at a gas statn on the rner of North Van Ns Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, out of which, he says, he and a dre of his male and female iends serviced Hollywood celebri—many of them closeted homosexuals. They provid a safety zone for people whose reers would have been ed if the tth about them emerged the s before gay rights and the AIDS crisis. For s, the specter of homosexualy hnted Washgton.
The mere suggtn that a person might be gay stroyed reputatns, end reers, and ed liv. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexualy beme tertwed wh the growg threat of ternatnal munism, leadg to a purge of gay men and lbians om the feral ernment. Jo Kirchick as he illumat how the midcentury ia of homosexualy shaped succsive printial admistratns, impactg everythg om the creatn of Ameri’s earlit civilian telligence agency to the rise and fall of McCarthyism, the stggle for Ain Amerin civil rights, and the nservative movement.
Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton (Henry Holt and Co. Purchase your py of Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton by Jam Kirchick here.
SECRET CY: BEHD THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF DC POLICS
Francis is gay and, like Henry, om a wealthy background, though he do not like to talk about much. In the years followg Henry’s ath, Francis’s grandfather disvers that he’s gay and threatens to whhold his herance unls Francis marri a woman. Pot, Richard realiz the extent of Bunny’s homophobia.