The man who played BYU’s mast revealed he’s gay and how he stggled growg up as a Mormon.
Contents:
- CHARLIE BIRD ON HIS NEW BOOK AND BEG BYU’S COSMO AND A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT
- BYU’S COSMO THE COUGAR OUT AS GAY
- FORMER BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSY MAST COM OUT AS GAY IN POWERFUL ESSAY
CHARLIE BIRD ON HIS NEW BOOK AND BEG BYU’S COSMO AND A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT
Charlie Bird on his new book and beg BYU’s Cosmo and a gay Latter-day Sat.
BYU’S COSMO THE COUGAR OUT AS GAY
In the gut opn piece, Bird “simultaneoly me out to the world as gay and revealed his inty as BYU’s beloved mast om 2015–18, ” acrdg to a recent article om LDS Livg, “I fely was eakg out, ” said Bird, who was Egypt at the time. 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.
FORMER BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSY MAST COM OUT AS GAY IN POWERFUL ESSAY
’ 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. 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. Release date: Febary 911Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton L11Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton LNow 11% OffCred: CourtyIn Gay Bar, Jeremy Atherton L exam the history of gay bars and the impact that their closgs may have throughout the gay muny.