Inspired by the movie Milk, 81-year-old skeptic and nerd hero Jam Randi has e out, wh a heartfelt and movg article on spendg 70+ years keepg his sexualy a secret. From some seventy years of personal experience, I n tell you that there's not much "gay" about beg homosexual. For the first twenty years of…
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JAM RANDI IS GAY
From some seventy years of personal experience, I n tell you that there's not much "gay" about beg homosexual. Homo naledi buried ad and rved symbols more than 100, 000 years ago.
Dcribed by CNN as a "myster speci, " Homo naledi were buryg the ad and rvg symbols more than 100, 000 years earlier than Neanrthals and morn humans. Randi me out as gay to the public at age 81, a few years before his retirement. Jam Randi -- one of the founrs of the morn skeptil movement, a leadg ratnalist, thker, and fighter of antiscience -- has ma a big announcement: he's gay.
But he mak clear why both his announcement on Swift as well as his terview wh JREF Print (and openly gay man) D. 's terview wh Randi is excellent; they discs how this mold Randi's life, his thoughts on gay marriage, his equent mentng of Sophia Loren (which ma me se), and how this affects (or more accurately, do not affect) the JREF's missn.
JAM RANDI: “I’M GAY.”
Jt beg open and fortably gay whout makg a pot of will tablish that this is jt another of the many flavors humans e . But there is still a lot of prejudice about homosexualy -- and certaly a lot of that om "cultural nservativ" as D. I’m gay.
From some seventy years of personal experience, I n tell you that there’s not much “gay” about beg homosexual. I’m some seventy years of personal experience, I n tell you that there’s not much “gay” about beg homosexual.
He talked about the cshg feelgs of watchg a iend die and spoke of the magic of 2010, he announced he was gay. Publicly announced he was gay 2010, marryg his longtime partner, José Alvarez, a 2013 ceremony Washgton, DC, USA. Although Randi had known he was gay sce he was a teenager, he kept that to himself.
JAM RANDI ANNOUNC HE’S GAY — PROVG PSYCHICS DON’T EXIST
“They wouldn’t have had a known homosexual workg the rad statn.
” In an terview room at the jail, he told an agent everythg: He had fled homophobic persecutn Venezuela and had e to the U. Alvarez, an artist whose origal name was Deyvi Orangel Peña Arteaga, said that he had fled his native Venezuela as a young man to pe antigay ath had reached the Uned Stat on a stunt visa.
Randi himself says the revelatn of his homosexualy provis the most damng proof that human begs do not posss any psychic gifts. Randi said, “Of all the people I have vtigated — people like John Edward, Sylvia Brown and Miss Cleo — not one of the self-lud clairvoyants uld figure out I was gay? Randi’s tractors, wh longtime rival Geller the most vol among them, argue that “gaydar” is not a psychic abily.