‎Gay Men's Chos of Los Angel on Apple Mic

Contents:

• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
• GAY MEN’S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL NAM S NEW MIC DIRECTOR AND NDUCTOR
• AT THE GAY MEN’S CHOS OF L.A., ACCATNS OF MISNDUCT AND A LEAR PARTG
• THE BT AWARDS SHOW SEGMENT OF THE WEEKEND IS LA’S GAY MEN’S CHOS CELEBRATG LRA DERN
• ‘THIS IS US’ STAR CHRISSY METZ PERFORMS AT THE GAY MEN’S CHOS OF L.A. GALA
• WHY THE GAY MEN’S CHOS OF L.A. IS SGG FOR SURVIVAL
• GAY MEN'S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

To their great surprise, 99 men appeared and a chos was MissnTo create mil experienc that strengthen our role as a lear among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) and performg arts anizatns, and expose new muni to our msage of Communy For over 40 years, the Chos has built an ternatnal reputatn for mil excellence while remag eply rooted service to the Los Angel muny. 5EXPLORE VIDEOSEnjoy vios of past performanc om the Gay Men's Chos of Los Angel!

Kev Maxen is gay. No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual that ma him angry — at himself.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

Men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017. Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports.

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.

RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.

” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.

GAY MEN’S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL NAM S NEW MIC DIRECTOR AND NDUCTOR

“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. ” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.

AT THE GAY MEN’S CHOS OF L.A., ACCATNS OF MISNDUCT AND A LEAR PARTG

Pieters spoke an emotnal Kisby for The New York TimPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 21, 2023In 1985, when fear and homophobia were still drivg much of the nversatn surroundg AIDS, the Rev.

THE BT AWARDS SHOW SEGMENT OF THE WEEKEND IS LA’S GAY MEN’S CHOS CELEBRATG LRA DERN

Stephen Pieters, a gay pastor who had the disease, was a cidly different May, at the St. Pieters spoke forthrightly about beg gay and about his illns, and Ms. ”In the years sce, that terview has been creded wh helpg to change at least some viewers’ perceptns of gay people, AIDS and fah.

Some televangelists had been implyg or statg outright that AIDS was dive retributn for homosexualy. He was spokman, Harlan Boll, said the e was a sepsis Pieters, who had ntued his mistry and sce 1994 had performed wh the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel, was lookg forward to the publitn next year of his book, “Love Is Greater Than AIDS: A Memoir of Survival, Healg, and Hope.

So many gay men of my generatn did not get to grow old. ”When he was a teenager, he said, he regnized that he was gay and talked to his pastor at a Congregatnal church about . ’”He said that after graduatg om Northwtern Universy 1974 wh a bachelor’s gree speech, he joed the Metropolan Communy Church Chigo and felt lled to a mistry foced on gay people, that church’s ma dience.

‘THIS IS US’ STAR CHRISSY METZ PERFORMS AT THE GAY MEN’S CHOS OF L.A. GALA

“I’ve had so many people over the years e up to me and say, ‘I saw your terview live, bee my mother always had PTL on, and changed my life bee I realized I uld be gay and Christian at the same time, ’” he said. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 24 of the New York edn wh the headle: Steve Pieters, 70, Gay Pastor Whose Words Changed Hearts, Di. Acrdg to Michael Stto of HoopsHype, the Lakers are among several teams who uld potentially have tert Rudy Gay.

Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype. Perhaps this is a role and avenue that Gay n also provi value like he did for a young Jazz team. While his on-urt productn certaly isn't where ed to be at this stage of his reer, Gay still do posss the reque size and strength to pete.

WHY THE GAY MEN’S CHOS OF L.A. IS SGG FOR SURVIVAL

Standg at 6’8” and sportg a 7’3” wgspan, Gay has the exact type of proportns the Lakers lacked their seri agast the Denver Nuggets particular.

The se agast Gay is simple — he would not shore up the Lakers’ glarg need at center. Gay put up reer lows 3-pot shootg (25%) and eFG% (43%) wh Utah this past year. Dpe the limatns and drop-offs that e wh age, there is potentially a role for Gay somewhere the league as he has proved to still be a steady ntributor when given the chance.

GAY MEN'S CHOS OF LOS ANGEL

9 pots better than their opponents wh Gay on the floor (1689 posssns) this season acrdg to Cleang the Glass. While remas to be see if that role is found Los Angel for Gay, probably behoov the Lakers to look elsewhere to fill what is an obv need or at least swg for upsi wh a younger player. Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about.

”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978. ” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe.

” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.