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Contents:

• CLOSETED GAY MEN – WHY ARE THEY STILL THERE?
• 'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• 29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
• THE AM I GAY TT (MEN ONLY!)

CLOSETED GAY MEN – WHY ARE THEY STILL THERE?

Funny and erotic, Benjam tells a memorable story on a mimal budget—one which will feel very te to life to many gay viewers.

We want to give a special shout-out to The Capote Tap, director Ebs Burnough’s documentary about Tman Capote’s lost fal novel; The Obuary of Tun Johnson, the story of an Ain-Amerin gay man relivg his own ath over and over; Breakg Fast, the Haaz Sleiman-led queer romantic edy (which jt picked up the prtig Audience Award at aGLIFF, no ls), and Cured, a fascatg new documentary about the queer activists who lobbied the APA to classify homosexualy as an illns. If you’re a gay man you’ve probably felt different sce around six or seven years old. Beg a Closeted Gay Man By the time you reached middle school or high school your hidg was probably full-blown.

Much of the vlence experienced by gay men, and youth, is at the hands of other self-hatg queer men. Even after we start beg open, once we built liv outsi the closet, we need to e to terms wh our own ternalized homophobia.

'TWO BOYS SNOGGG WAS REVOLUTNARY': THE GREATT GAY MOMENTS CEMA

Larry Craig, R-Idaho, a men's rtroom at the Mneapolis airport for allegedly lookg to engage gay sex wrote his June report that he "regnized a signal ed by persons wishg to engage lewd nduct. Craig told reporters today that he did nothg appropriate and said his guilty plea was a plac like men's rtrooms, airports and tra statns, tck stops, universy librari and parks, have long been plac where gay and bisexual men, particularly those the closet, ngregate orr to meet for anonymo time, people faiar wh cisg told, gay men began g a dified system of signals to dite to others that they were terted sex. In an effort to curb lewd acts public — or as some gays argue, an effort to persecute gay men — unrver police began stg operatns plac known for sex solicg and employed the same s.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Bee much of the signalg is self benign behavr, some gay rights activists and lawyers have admonished police partments for arrtg men who have done ltle more than tap their feet.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

"Cizens have a right not to nont lewd activy public plac, " said Steve Sanrs, a lawyer and gay rights activist. "But if there is evince that a stg is motivated by anti-gay anim, that may reprent a more troublg issue. If a se like this went to trial, police officers would have to produce evince to say here is how we n say wh certaty this is was really a lewd act, " he plead guilty to the charg and therefore opted agast a, Craig nied beg gay and said he ma a mistake by pleadg officers, for the most part, only vtigate an area after members of the public have plaed about beg ed for sex, said Rich Gregson, executive director of the California Peace Officers Associatn.

"Wh many other optns available for gay men to meet each other, Gershen Kfman, a profsor emer of psychology at Michigan State Universy and thor of the book "Comg Out of Shame, " said public cisg is practiced maly by eply closeted men. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns. "I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said.

"But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said. At age 21, his mom had enouugh and mand an explatn for the gay porn she was fdg on the puter and phone.

29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY

"Once I had the nversatn wh my mom, I had no problem sayg I was gay, " he said.

"I was actually rehab when I was 16 years old and I thk a part of why I end up gog to rehab was the difficulty I had wh acceptg myself as a gay person, " Sharok said.

THE AM I GAY TT (MEN ONLY!)

For him, beg gay was a ath sentence beg that he grew up the 1990s durg the HIV/AIDS epimic and a fay member died of the disease.

"At that pot was kd of like an emotnal avalanche and I jt let all out and told her that I was gay.

" Fran said that while they have grown to accept him, his fay still believ he shouldn't act on his homosexualy. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web In My Fay | Official Trailer [HD] | NetflixWatch onIn this documentary, a gay filmmaker shows his Che fay's road to acceptg him and his growg fay the Uned Stat.