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Contents:
- WHY THIS GEIA MOUNTA TOWN HAS BEE A GAY-IENDLY HOT SPOT
- LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
- BEAR NECSI: AN SIR’S LOOK AT AN ATYPIL GAY CULTURE AND MUNY
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- BEAR (GAY CULTURE)
- UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
WHY THIS GEIA MOUNTA TOWN HAS BEE A GAY-IENDLY HOT SPOT
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LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
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Explore»RELATED: A weekend Blue RidgeThe cy, home to about 1, 444 rints, has had an flux of LGBT-owned bs open the past few years, and, acrdg to a Williams Instute study, the mounta muny is home to one of the largt populatns of gay upl the surroundg Fann County has the fourth hight ncentratn of same-sex upl, while neighborg Gilmer County has the state's fifth hight, acrdg to the California-based thk tank. It was recently regnized by Thrillist as the most gay-iendly cy Geia. "The list of reasons that gay upl have flocked to this unspectg town North Geia uld get que history, geo mountas and endls list of thgs to do and more might be the start of are few thgs you might not have known about the emergg gay-iendly muny:It's left the loggg the past.
BEAR NECSI: AN SIR’S LOOK AT AN ATYPIL GAY CULTURE AND MUNY
And wh such a large LGBT populatn, 's easy to fd gay-owned bs, like the popular downtown hair salon Indulgence Hair Stud, terg to the area's sizable tourist 's perfect for the outdoor Ridge is loted the Chattahoochee Natnal Fort, a stone's throw away om Tennsee and North Carola. Our muny still has s share of transphobia, racism, fatphobia, and other rogatory ms as do the mastream gay muny, which is ironic for a muny tend to buck the mold.
In this story:Jacksonville JaguarsJaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen beme the first publicly-known male ach Amerin men’s profsnal sports to e out as gay Thursday.Maxen spoke wh Outsports to share his journey and why he’s choosg to e out publicly.“I don’t want to feel like I have to thk about anymore,” Maxen said. I want to be vol support of people livg how they want to live, but I also want to jt live and not feel fear about how people will react.”Maxen, who has been wh his partner Nick for over two years, exprsed that the ntued support om the people around him helped him feel fortable to share his news.“It wasn’t until recently—and wh the immense love and support of my fay, my iends, lleagu and peers, and the urage and sacrifice om my partner—that I realized I have the right and rponsibily to love and be loved, and that maybe sharg this will hopefully give someone else the strength to accept their own life and take ntrol of their own story,” Maxen said.Maxen also noted that he reached out to Carl Nassib, who is the only known gay NFL player the league right now, back Feb. 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.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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. 9 pots better than their opponents wh Gay on the floor (1689 posssns) this season acrdg to Cleang the Glass.
BEAR (GAY CULTURE)
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. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still crimalized.From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100,000 people says is unr nstant threat.“Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad,” the report stated.In St. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean regn.While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.“The laws still have an impact,” said Jhua Bardoo, an ternatnal human rights lawyer om St.
UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
“People feel embolned to discrimate or be vlent.”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. “The (LGTBQ) muny the untry is very, very margalized and vulnerable.”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.A 58-year-old bisexual man relled how someone h him the head wh a bottle an attack that cracked his skull and put him a a.
One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici.Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.
It is hard for me as a gay this untry.”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Vcent Prime Mister Ralph Gonsalv was not returned.Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people. That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.