If The Challenge was a horror movie, the gay guy would get targeted first. But are they really worthy of the stigma?
Contents:
- THE REAL WORLD'S DT ZO ON HIS GAY PORN PAST
- THAT GUY FROM MTV'S REAL WORLD WHO USED TO DO GAY PORN BUT IS "TOTALLY STRAIGHT" GOT ARRTED
- REAL WORLD’S DT ZO: NO REGRETS ABOUT GAY PORN PAST
- A HISTORY OF GAY MEN IN THE FIRST CHALLENGE ELIMATN
- HOW A 'CATFISH' HELPED DT LIVE HIS TTH AS A GAY MANKEEGAN SERVED AS A MENTOR -- AND A B OF A {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;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/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;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;}TVBY MATTHEW STT DONNELLYAUGT 26, 2020/9:00 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:698PX;WIDTH:1366PX;}BY MATTHEW STT DONNELLYAUGT 26, 2020 / 9:00 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"HOW A 'CATFISH' HELPED DT LIVE HIS TTH AS A GAY MAN","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2020-08-27T01:00:51.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2020-08-27T01:00:51.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"MATTHEW STT DONNELLY","KEYWORDS":"MTV SHOWS","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CATFISH’S NEWT EPISO CHALLENGED A 24-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN TO EXAME WHETHER HIS STRONG EMOTNS FOR AN INTER CSH WERE, ED, LOVE, OR WHETHER THEY WERE SIMPLY ADMIRATN FOR SOMEONE WHO SEEMED MORE FORTABLE BEG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON TONIGHT'S STALLMENT, NEV AND KAMIE REACHED OUT TO DT, A FLORIDIAN WHOSE TEENAGE G OUT WAS MET WH JUDGMENT AND NTEMPT OM FAY. DT SAID OVER ZOOM THAT HIS STEPFATHER WAS SO DISMAYED TO LEARN HE'S GAY, THE MAN FORCED DT TO DANGERO NVERSN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DT’S NSEQUENT JOURNEY TO ADULTHOOD WAS NOT EASY, BUT HE SAID ONE THG THAT GAVE HIS 16-YEAR-OLD SELF HOPE WAS MEETG A FELLOW TEENAGER NAMED KEEGAN ON FACEBOOK. KEEGAN, A VERMONT NATIVE WHO SEEMED EFFORTLSLY OUT AND PROUD, BEGAN TO SERVE AS A “SAFE HARBOR” FOR DT AND WAS ALWAYS ABLE TO MAKE HIM FEEL AT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT, ALTHOUGH NVERSATNS BEME A DAILY FIXTURE AS THE YEARS PASSED, KEEGAN HAD A WAY OF CYCLILLY BREAKG DT’S HEART. IN ONE PARTICULARLY BTAL STANCE, YEARS AFTER THEY’D FIRST CHATTED, KEEGAN VED DT TO LIVE WH HIM BOSTON. JT WHEN SEEMED AS THOUGH DT’S LOVE STORY WAS TAKG SHAPE, KEEGAN PULLED THE PLUG AND SAID HE’D FOUND SOMEONE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO WHY DID DT KEEP GOG BACK?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I LOOK AT [KEEGAN] AS MY WHOLE FOUNDATN OF G OUT,” HE SAID. “IT’S THE MOST PERSONAL RELATNSHIP I’VE EVER HAD WH ANYBODY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT, FED UP WH KEEGAN’S HOT-AND-LD ROUTE, DT SAID WAS TIME TO FALLY PUT THE MYSTERY TO BED, AND SO, NEV AND KAMIE GOT GOG ON SOME PENNT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN JT A FEW MUT, THE CATFISH TEAM FOUND THAT KEEGAN — WHO HAD A PAIR OF FACEBOOK PROFIL — APPEARED TO BE VOLVED WH A MAN NAMED KYLE. KYLE, WHO LIVED MASSACHETTS, WAS A RECURRG CHARACTER KEEGAN’S PHOTOS. WORSE, WHEN NEV SEARCHED KEEGAN’S PHONE NUMBER, THE RULT SAID THE VICE WAS REGISTERED TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WOULDN’T BE LONG BEFORE THE GROUP ENUNTERED KYLE THEMSELV, AS — AFTER NEV TEXTED KEEGAN’S NUMBER TO ARRANGE A YEARS--THE-MAKG CHAT — KYLE SUDNLY APPEARED ON THE LIVE LL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KYLE, SPOOKED, QUICKLY ABANDONED THE NVERSATN, ONLY FOR KEEGAN — THE REAL KEEGAN — TO JO MUT LATER. KEEGAN SAID KYLE HAD PREVLY LENT HIM A PHONE WHEN KEEGAN’S WAS SHUT OFF, WHICH ACUNTED FOR THE CROSSED WIR. KEEGAN ADD THAT KYLE WAS “TOO MUCH” AS A IEND AND THAT HE WAS TRYG TO CREATE SOME DISTANCE BETWEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS, THE GROUP BEGAN TO LEARN, WAS A B OF A HAB FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“[DT AND I] WERE REALLY GREAT AT HELPG EACH OTHER OUT AS EMOTNAL AND MENTAL SUPPORT,” KEEGAN SAID PRIVATELY TO KAM AND NEV. “I’VE ALWAYS BEEN WILLG TO BE THERE FOR DT…BUT WHEN I GIVE HIM A LTLE, HE TAK ALL. IT’S LIKE THAT TYPE OF PERSON…I KD OF BACKED AWAY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WHEN KAMIE AND NEV READ KEEGAN THE LETTER DT HAD WRTEN ABOUT HIM — WHICH SPELLED OUT EP, STARK FEELGS — KEEGAN’S HEART APPEARED TO BREAK, AND HE BEGAN TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I DIDN’T REALIZE WHAT I HAD HELPED YOU THROUGH, WHAT YOU STILL RRIED ON YOUR BACK,” KEEGAN TOLD DT ONCE THE LATTER HAD LOGGED BACK TO THE CHAT. “I’M SORRY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DT, WHO NEVER KNEW QUE WHERE TO PLACE KEEGAN HIS LIFE, ACCEPTED THE APOLOGY AND MTED TO BEG MORE DISCERNG ABOUT HIS FEELGS. BUT DO YOU THK HE’LL BE ABLE TO DO SO? AND WILL HE AND KEEGAN SALVAGE SOME SORT OF NNECTN? SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS, THEN TUNE TO ANOTHER CATFISH WEDNDAY AT 8/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MTV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
THE REAL WORLD'S DT ZO ON HIS GAY PORN PAST
Dt Zo, part of the MTV show's current st, kept his gay porn past a secret om his roommat until this week's episo. Andy Dehnart talked to Zo and the show's producers. * dustin the challenge gay *
The Real World's Dt Zo on His Gay Porn PastDt Zo, part of the MTV show's current st, kept his gay porn past a secret om his roommat until this week's episo.
" But is the part of his b that says he was "a st member on a webse that featured an uncensored look at a hoe of attractive guys livg together" that has earned the most 's language nceals the fact that Dt did gay porn: Performg as "Spencer" on FratMen ("erotic nu jackoff porn"), he masturbated and engaged oral sex two vios. Equally evable is the MTV dience's abily to fd Dt's porn surprisg part has been the rponse: In Wednday night's episo, Dt's Real World girliend exprsed her disgt and his roommat shunned, who's 24 and intifi as straight ("When I close my ey to masturbate, I thk of a girl"), is actually unembarrassed by the gay-for-pay work he did when he was 19. "Instead, they put on a remarkable monstratn of self-centeredns, tts, and homophobia hidn their ntempt over his li.
THAT GUY FROM MTV'S REAL WORLD WHO USED TO DO GAY PORN BUT IS "TOTALLY STRAIGHT" GOT ARRTED
* dustin the challenge gay *
" Dt told me that Heather is "edg herself" when she says she only red about the lie, not about the ntent of the of the st's bad reactn me om Dt's prev judgment of gay people.
" When the hoe was about to get a new roommate, he exprsed his fear over the potential that the new roommate uld be gay: "Over the years, you get a level of paranoia. You're walkg and you see a gay person and you get nervo. "While Dt unrstands why people viewed those ments as homophobic ("Of urse, of urse.
REAL WORLD’S DT ZO: NO REGRETS ABOUT GAY PORN PAST
People thought I was gay; they thought I would be terted.
"After that episo aired, a gay iend lled Dt and said, "You don't feel that way, do you? " "Never would I be unfortable around gay people, " Dt said.
However, the revelatn that he prevly did gay porn ultimately broke them up and created a rift wh his other -stars as they felt betrayed. Dt and Heather were immediately drawn to each other on Real World: Las Vegas, but their relatnship was rocked when Heather learned about Dt's history workg for a gay porn webse. Years before butg on The Challenge, Rogan posted some racially-sensive and homophobic tweets.
A HISTORY OF GAY MEN IN THE FIRST CHALLENGE ELIMATN
He is schled to appear urt today (July 16), the Tim of Adiana MTV star, who gaed his 15 mut of fame 2011 on the 25th season of the realy seri and stirred ntroversy for his prev work gay pornography, took to Twter followg the arrt.
The good news is, you’re now only 99 arrts away om everyone fettg that time you did Gay Porn LA bee you need money. Go on MTV Real World, have everyone fd out you’re a straight man who did gay porn for money, proceed to get arrted as many tim as possible until every article wrten about you don’t say “Remember that time he sucked that bro’s dick on a webm”. Jenn where they worked out issu their relatnship, cludg Dt's gay porn past.
Wright, her cisn now go to the school board, which will discs the book challenge at s Monday meetg agenda and vote on a cisn on Tallahassee mom who submted the challenge, Katie Lyons, said her dghter, then a send grar at a lol elementary school, brought home the children's book about Kg, a tennis legend who is gay — and also brought qutns to her mother about a page regardg Kg's sexual orientatn.
HOW A 'CATFISH' HELPED DT LIVE HIS TTH AS A GAY MANKEEGAN SERVED AS A MENTOR -- AND A B OF A {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;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/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;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;}TVBY MATTHEW STT DONNELLYAUGT 26, 2020/9:00 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:698PX;WIDTH:1366PX;}BY MATTHEW STT DONNELLYAUGT 26, 2020 / 9:00 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"HOW A 'CATFISH' HELPED DT LIVE HIS TTH AS A GAY MAN","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2020-08-27T01:00:51.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2020-08-27T01:00:51.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"MATTHEW STT DONNELLY","KEYWORDS":"MTV SHOWS","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CATFISH’S NEWT EPISO CHALLENGED A 24-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN TO EXAME WHETHER HIS STRONG EMOTNS FOR AN INTER CSH WERE, ED, LOVE, OR WHETHER THEY WERE SIMPLY ADMIRATN FOR SOMEONE WHO SEEMED MORE FORTABLE BEG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON TONIGHT'S STALLMENT, NEV AND KAMIE REACHED OUT TO DT, A FLORIDIAN WHOSE TEENAGE G OUT WAS MET WH JUDGMENT AND NTEMPT OM FAY. DT SAID OVER ZOOM THAT HIS STEPFATHER WAS SO DISMAYED TO LEARN HE'S GAY, THE MAN FORCED DT TO DANGERO NVERSN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DT’S NSEQUENT JOURNEY TO ADULTHOOD WAS NOT EASY, BUT HE SAID ONE THG THAT GAVE HIS 16-YEAR-OLD SELF HOPE WAS MEETG A FELLOW TEENAGER NAMED KEEGAN ON FACEBOOK. KEEGAN, A VERMONT NATIVE WHO SEEMED EFFORTLSLY OUT AND PROUD, BEGAN TO SERVE AS A “SAFE HARBOR” FOR DT AND WAS ALWAYS ABLE TO MAKE HIM FEEL AT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT, ALTHOUGH NVERSATNS BEME A DAILY FIXTURE AS THE YEARS PASSED, KEEGAN HAD A WAY OF CYCLILLY BREAKG DT’S HEART. IN ONE PARTICULARLY BTAL STANCE, YEARS AFTER THEY’D FIRST CHATTED, KEEGAN VED DT TO LIVE WH HIM BOSTON. JT WHEN SEEMED AS THOUGH DT’S LOVE STORY WAS TAKG SHAPE, KEEGAN PULLED THE PLUG AND SAID HE’D FOUND SOMEONE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO WHY DID DT KEEP GOG BACK?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I LOOK AT [KEEGAN] AS MY WHOLE FOUNDATN OF G OUT,” HE SAID. “IT’S THE MOST PERSONAL RELATNSHIP I’VE EVER HAD WH ANYBODY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT, FED UP WH KEEGAN’S HOT-AND-LD ROUTE, DT SAID WAS TIME TO FALLY PUT THE MYSTERY TO BED, AND SO, NEV AND KAMIE GOT GOG ON SOME PENNT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN JT A FEW MUT, THE CATFISH TEAM FOUND THAT KEEGAN — WHO HAD A PAIR OF FACEBOOK PROFIL — APPEARED TO BE VOLVED WH A MAN NAMED KYLE. KYLE, WHO LIVED MASSACHETTS, WAS A RECURRG CHARACTER KEEGAN’S PHOTOS. WORSE, WHEN NEV SEARCHED KEEGAN’S PHONE NUMBER, THE RULT SAID THE VICE WAS REGISTERED TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WOULDN’T BE LONG BEFORE THE GROUP ENUNTERED KYLE THEMSELV, AS — AFTER NEV TEXTED KEEGAN’S NUMBER TO ARRANGE A YEARS--THE-MAKG CHAT — KYLE SUDNLY APPEARED ON THE LIVE LL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KYLE, SPOOKED, QUICKLY ABANDONED THE NVERSATN, ONLY FOR KEEGAN — THE REAL KEEGAN — TO JO MUT LATER. KEEGAN SAID KYLE HAD PREVLY LENT HIM A PHONE WHEN KEEGAN’S WAS SHUT OFF, WHICH ACUNTED FOR THE CROSSED WIR. KEEGAN ADD THAT KYLE WAS “TOO MUCH” AS A IEND AND THAT HE WAS TRYG TO CREATE SOME DISTANCE BETWEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS, THE GROUP BEGAN TO LEARN, WAS A B OF A HAB FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“[DT AND I] WERE REALLY GREAT AT HELPG EACH OTHER OUT AS EMOTNAL AND MENTAL SUPPORT,” KEEGAN SAID PRIVATELY TO KAM AND NEV. “I’VE ALWAYS BEEN WILLG TO BE THERE FOR DT…BUT WHEN I GIVE HIM A LTLE, HE TAK ALL. IT’S LIKE THAT TYPE OF PERSON…I KD OF BACKED AWAY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT WHEN KAMIE AND NEV READ KEEGAN THE LETTER DT HAD WRTEN ABOUT HIM — WHICH SPELLED OUT EP, STARK FEELGS — KEEGAN’S HEART APPEARED TO BREAK, AND HE BEGAN TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I DIDN’T REALIZE WHAT I HAD HELPED YOU THROUGH, WHAT YOU STILL RRIED ON YOUR BACK,” KEEGAN TOLD DT ONCE THE LATTER HAD LOGGED BACK TO THE CHAT. “I’M SORRY.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DT, WHO NEVER KNEW QUE WHERE TO PLACE KEEGAN HIS LIFE, ACCEPTED THE APOLOGY AND MTED TO BEG MORE DISCERNG ABOUT HIS FEELGS. BUT DO YOU THK HE’LL BE ABLE TO DO SO? AND WILL HE AND KEEGAN SALVAGE SOME SORT OF NNECTN? SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS, THEN TUNE TO ANOTHER CATFISH WEDNDAY AT 8/{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MTV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
“It is important that be ma clear that this book was challenged not bee the book mentns Billie Jean Kg is gay, ” Lyons told the school board at a meetg last week. Regardls of orientatn, homosexual or heterosexual, the topic of sexual orientatn is not age-appropriate or velopmentally-appropriate for elementary stunts. "I object to material that discs beg gay and what means to be gay, " wrote page drawg the challenge reads: "Around this time, I realized I was gay.
Beg gay means that if you're a girl, you love and have romantic feelgs for other girls — and if you're a boy, you love and have romantic feelgs for other boys. "Lyons matas the book is ntrary to state law, largely cg the Parental Rights Edutn Act, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by crics, which prohibs stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty book challenge law:Florida schools stggle to apply new book law which even Shakpeare is 'spect'Why 's beg challenged:Tallahassee mom mak se that 'I am Billie Jean Kg' book 'g' on parents' rightsWright, her July 10 remendatn, unters that the book isn’t ed as “stctn” and poted to a clarifitn the Florida Department of Edutn issued statg that "cintal referenc" books to LGBTQ people are not also said a new law, HB 1069, directed each school district to adopt procs allowg parents to lim their child’s accs to library material. "The excln of one of the profil jt bee of the intifitn of the ma subject as homosexual is not the tentn of any law or statute passed by the Florida Legislature, " Syett Lyons said the parental book review procs is not enough to screen qutnable materials accsible to their stunts.