Urban Dictnary: gay rod

Contents:

• GAY ROD
• THE PROFSNAL ATHLETE WHO CAME OUT AS A GAY MAN— 1989
• A FORMER YANKE EMPLOYEE IS SPREADG GAY SEX RUMORS ABOUT DEREK JETER AND JE POSADA
• ROD WHEELER WIKI, AGE, MARRIED, GAY, FOX NEWS, 2017

GAY ROD

For many rears, the obuari functned as the fal word on McKuen’s legacy; so what do mean that the mastream prs all but erased McKuen’s queer past and gay activism? I first enuntered Rod McKuen’s name while rearchg Ana Bryant’s 1977 anti-gay Save Our Children mpaign  Florida. McKuen publicly opposed the Florida Cs spokwoman—dubbg Bryant wh the name ‘Gny Orangeed’—and gave benef performanc Miami and at gay diss New York and LA to raise money for gay rights groups.

In fact, McKuen was a longtime supporter of gay rights.

In the 1950s, he held a learship role an early and important gay rights anizatn, the San Francis Mattache Society. Asked 1977 by an Associated Prs reporter if he was gay, McKuen rpond: “I’ve been attracted to men and I’ve been attracted to women. ” By the end of the year, the Baltimore Sun sually scribed McKuen as a homosexual.

THE PROFSNAL ATHLETE WHO CAME OUT AS A GAY MAN— 1989

The gay newspaper, The Advote, was ls certa. In 1976, had given McKuen the dub “Somethg You do the Dark” award for refg to intify as gay. The ver of this album, pictured above, picts the arm of 1970s gay porn star Bno, his fist filled wh Cris, hoverg above a n wh the label “dis” on .

(In the 1970s, Cris—a vegetable shorteng—was practilly synonymo wh gay sex as gay men ed Cris as an anal lubrint). The so-lled “Cris/Dis” album featured the song “Don’t Drk the Orange Juice, ” released durg the natnal “gayt” of Florida orange juice rponse to the Ana Bryant mpaign.

In 2004, one rrponnt asked McKuen if he was gay. Am I gay? Homosexual?

A FORMER YANKE EMPLOYEE IS SPREADG GAY SEX RUMORS ABOUT DEREK JETER AND JE POSADA

I do intify wh the Gay Rights stggle, to me that battle is about nothg more or ls than human rights.

” In 2005, a prumably gay male fan wrote a note of appreciatn about McKuen’s poem “I Always Knew. ” McKuen rpond by reflectg upon his partnership wh Edward and implicly parg this relatnship to his fan’s gay partnership. I ntacted the obuary wrers for the Washgton Post, the New York Tim and Los Angel Tim and asked why mentn of McKuen’s gay polics or his queer relatnships had been omted om their articl.

Schul’s obuary briefly acknowledg McKuen’s gay activism but misleads rears about McKuen’s sexually variant past: “Always vague when asked about his romantic attachments, ” Schul disgenuoly wr, “Mr.

ROD WHEELER WIKI, AGE, MARRIED, GAY, FOX NEWS, 2017

” An openly gay man, Colker explaed that he uldn’t verify whether McKuen had children and found no rerd of his same-sex sexual relatnships. But, he emphasized, there was no effort to closet McKuen: “No one has ever said to me ‘Oh don’t clu that the person was gay or bi. A Google search g the keywords “Rod McKuen gay, ” he stated, immediately brgs up McKuen’s own scriptn of his sexual inty.

Still, is possible that the mands of the 24-hour news cycle and the petn between papers to break a story first are reproducg the silenc that prevly rulted om anti-gay sentiment. Journalists, whether gay or straight, when faced wh such adl, might flt to cultural norms that prume heterosexualy. The newspaper’s own private archiv, Colker and Fox explaed, ma no mentn of McKuen’s gay activism or queer relatnships.