The man who played BYU’s mast revealed he’s gay and how he stggled growg up as a Mormon.
Contents:
- GAY COSMOS
- DID YOU KNOW THE MOON IS GAY?{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY SNICKSMARCH 12, 2014/3:56 PMBY SNICKSMARCH 12, 2014 / 3:56 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"DID YOU KNOW THE MOON IS GAY?","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-03-12T19:56:04.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-03-12T19:56:04.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"SNICKS","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SHEER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY. SOME ANIMALS ARE GAY, TOO. BUT DID YOU KNOW THE MOON IS GAY? TAKE A JOURNEY THROUGH THE GAY SMOS WH WRER/ILLTRATOR GRAHAM GREMORE AND SAN FRANCIS BAY AREA PERFORMER ANNE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT IS A SH TON OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- BYU’S COSMO THE COUGAR OUT AS GAY
- CHARLIE BIRD ON HIS NEW BOOK AND BEG BYU’S COSMO AND A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT
GAY COSMOS
The Earth has one big gay lonely moon. * gay cosmos *
While the spe of Gay Cosmos ncerns homosexualy, the book serv the full attentn of the general rear.
This is a work that emphasiz the digny of gays society and provis a amework for cln, persuasively posg that all sexuali are natural and nate. Eighner argu that homosexualy has played an tegral part the tradnal fay and society at large, but that the racism and homophobia of cultural anthropologists and behavral scientists have led to poor scholarship.
In ``Black Ganyme, '' for example, he rejects the notn that homosexualy was a European or Moslem import through a well-argued discsn of tradnal Ain homosexualy; he observ that many Ain cultur, a man may mata a male lover, but sce he is married he is nsired heterosexual. It is Eighner's ma ntentn that beg gay is ``not an afflictn that exceptnal dividuals n pensate for or overe.
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'' Essential and gently argued, Gay Cosmos provis a much need cultural and historil ntext for homosexualy. By snicksMarch 12, 2014 / 3:56 PMSheer people are gay.
BYU’S COSMO THE COUGAR OUT AS GAY
Some animals are gay, too. But did you know the moon is gay? Take a journey through the gay smos wh wrer/illtrator Graham Gremore and San Francis Bay Area performer Anne GaljourThat is a sh ton of stars.
" The creator of the se Queer Cosmos and self-scribed gay Gemi Tw seeks to stroy the bary that most horosp perpetuate — and make clear that astrology is for mentns that, growg up, he didn't know of any astrologil space that offered sight to the patibily between two men based on their signs.
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. ’ 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.
CHARLIE BIRD ON HIS NEW BOOK AND BEG BYU’S COSMO AND A GAY LATTER-DAY SAT
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. Charlie Bird on his new book and beg BYU’s Cosmo and a gay Latter-day Sat.
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.