Kev Hart Grilled by 'Frh Air's' Terri Gross on Anti-Gay Statements

Contents:

• 4 OBNOX THGS ABOUT TERRY GROSS’ GAY MARRIAGE HILLARY INTERVIEW
• HILLARY CLTON SPARS WH NPR'S TERRY GROSS OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• DR. ANTHONY FCI TALKS GAY BATHHO WH TERRY GROSS
• KEV HART WAS GRILLED ABOUT HIS ANTI-GAY JOK ON 'FRH AIR,' AND HE EXPLAED HIS ACTNS: 'IF PEOPLE CHOOSE TO TAKE OFFENSE TO SOMETHG, THAT'S A CHOICE'
• ROXANE GAY
• DR. FCI TALKS ATH THREATS, GAY BATHHO, AND RONALD REAGAN WH FRH AIR’S TERRY GROSS
• TERRY GROSS REFLECTS ON AWKWARD EXCHANGE WH HILLARY CLTON ON GAY MARRIAGE

4 OBNOX THGS ABOUT TERRY GROSS’ GAY MARRIAGE HILLARY INTERVIEW

A samplg of the current groupthk on the issue clus this Washgton Post story by Alexandra Petri headled “Hillary Clton’s strangely awkward Terry Gross terview on gay marriage. They supported gay marriage. Hillary Clton had a tense exchange wh Terry Gross, host of NPR's Frh Air, today, over her evolutn on the issue of gay marriage.

Thgs got pecially heated when Gross suated that Clton's view of gay marriage "evolved" for polil reasons:GROSS: "I'm jt tryg to clarify so I n unrstand — "CLINTON: "No, I don't thk you are tryg to clarify. Gay activist Larry Kramer openly acced Fci of murr durg the epimic, and activists staged vlent protts outsi Fci’s office the Natnal Instut of Allergi and Infect Diseas. Fci went on to reveal that he did his own amount of field rearch–by showg up to gay bathho New York and San Francis.

HILLARY CLTON SPARS WH NPR'S TERRY GROSS OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Actor and edian Kev Hart fend himself a "Frh Air" terview wh Terry Gross, sayg that anti-gay jok he ma 10 years ago were nothg more than jok. Actor and edian Kev Hart has said that he's done talkg about prev anti-gay jok and statements that st him a spot hostg the 2019 Osrs. However, Thursday's episo of "Frh Air" wh Terry Gross, he fensively explaed his actns away, sayg that those who were offend by his assertn that he would prevent his child om beg gay if he uld were choosg to be offend and twistg his tent.

In one sectn, Gross asked what Hart was aaid of when he said one of his "biggt fears" was his "son growg up and beg gay. "And then I say, but as a heterosexual male, if I n prevent my son om beg gay, I would.

But to actually be lockg ey wh Ellen and hold her, shakg hands as she said, "I'm gay, " on natnal televisn and for the first time, as she has shared outloud that way publicly, was such a profoundly extraordary and timate gift to that moment that I will forever be grateful for. " That's one of the reasons I love workg on rad: You might be a public figure but you're sentially jt a voice, and this lets each person who listens form whatever image of you he or she wants-tall or short, fat or th, sex bomb or schoolmarm, straight or gay.

DR. ANTHONY FCI TALKS GAY BATHHO WH TERRY GROSS

Durg the height of the HIV epimic, LGBTQ activists prsed him to make experimental treatment dgs available for gay men dyg of AIDS.

He went to gay bathho San Francis and New York — sans su and tie, he ma sure to note — to get an sense of how the sexually transmted vis was actually spreadg. Print Ronald Reagan was heavily supported by relig nservativ, whose attu towards gay and lbian relatnships ma them ls cled to fund AIDS rearch and treatment.

Yet nfg is exactly how Gross felt she me off durg her famo 2014 terview wh now-former Democratic printial ndidate Hillary Clton, specifilly when she qutned Clton about her posn on gay marriage, an exchange that almost immediately went viral.

KEV HART WAS GRILLED ABOUT HIS ANTI-GAY JOK ON 'FRH AIR,' AND HE EXPLAED HIS ACTNS: 'IF PEOPLE CHOOSE TO TAKE OFFENSE TO SOMETHG, THAT'S A CHOICE'

Durg the 2014 terview, Gross asked Clton what 's like "when you're office and you have to do all the polil lculatns to not be able to support somethg like gay marriage that you actually believe ? Durg the 2008 Democratic printial primary, Clton publicly opposed gay marriage.

" In 2013 she officially me out support of gay marriage. Unr that ntext, Gross persistently qutned Clton as to whether she changed her md on gay marriage, or whether she held back her real view until the Amerin public was ready. GROSS: You know, I'm sayg, I'm sorry, I jt want to clarify what I was sayg, I was sayg that you maybe really believed this all along, you know, believed gay marriage all along, but felt for polil reasons Ameri wasn't ready yet and you uldn't say .

CLINTON: I did not grow up even imagg gay marriage and I don't thk you probably did eher. This was an credibly new and important ia that people on the ont l of the gay rights movement began to talk about and slowly but surely nvced others of the rightns of that posn. "Now, I thought maybe went viral bee, you know, gay people felt like, 'What do this say about her posn on gay rights?

ROXANE GAY

"But if my unrstandg of how went viral is rrect, went viral bee people on the right were tryg to e somethg that would alienate liberals agast her, would alienate gay people agast her. She tried explag to "Longform" what she was really tryg to ask Clton about gay marriage:.

Growg up the '70s, he was a young Black birdwatcher a world of whe birdwatchers, a closeted gay boy and a Marvel ic book nerd before that was nsired ol. While at Harvard, he me out and then beme a gay activist. He was one of the first openly gay wrers and edors at Marvel and created what he thks was Marvel's first lbian character and was on the creatn of Marvel's first openly gay male Cooper hosts a new show for the Natnal Geographic Channel lled "Extraordary Birr, " and he serv on the board of New York Cy Audubon.

DR. FCI TALKS ATH THREATS, GAY BATHHO, AND RONALD REAGAN WH FRH AIR’S TERRY GROSS

" He's a former Marvel Comics wrer who helped troduce the first gay character and wrote the first lbian character. His new memoir, lled "Better Livg Through Birdg: Not From A Black Man In The Natural World, " is about growg up as a birdwatcher, as a closeted gay boy and a Marvel ics nerd - and then as an adult, wrg for Marvel Comics, beg a gay activist and now hostg a Natnal Geographic show lled "Extraordary Birr. What was like for you beg Black, a birr, a closeted gay boy and a ic book nerd?

And beg gay was not a thg, at least not a thg if you wanted to live.

And for me, my idol, probably largely bee of that reason - the fact that I had to keep my gayns unr lock and key - was Mr. And Vulns are supposed to be pletely ratnal and keep their emotns unr plete lock and, God, if there was one thg I had to do, was keep my emotns unr lock and key bee if my emotns got out, I might betray myself, might betray the fact that I'm actually terted this person romantilly or that I'm gay some other way.

TERRY GROSS REFLECTS ON AWKWARD EXCHANGE WH HILLARY CLTON ON GAY MARRIAGE

It was, you know, outwardly, you know, affable, genial - si feelg like I was buried alive, but keepg that that dichotomy unr reful You wre about how some Ain Amerins who aren't LGBTQ dismiss the gay experience as beg terribly opprsive bee, unlike Black people, gays n blend at will. COOPER: Well, no, exactly that, which is that the fact that many - not all, but many - gay people n, you know, blend and pass and disappear to the norm so that we n get by is a horrible fate. And so the fact that we should, you know, thk that, oh, 's easier for gay people bee they n do that - no, that's not easy.