Aaron Hernanz Gay Rumors: Ex-NFL Star’s Fal Letter Was For Attorney Jose Baez, Report Says

Contents:

• AARON HERNANZ TEARFULLY TOLD MOM HE WAS GAY BEFORE PRISON SUICI, BROTHER SAYS
• FIANCEE SAYS AARON HERNANZ NIED MORS HE WAS GAY
• AARON HERNANZ'S FIANCEE ON GAY RUMORS: 'IT'S JT NOT HIM'
• AARON HERNANZ GAY RUMORS: EX-NFL STAR’S FAL LETTER WAS FOR ATTORNEY JOSE BAEZ, REPORT SAYS
• AARON HERNANZ SUICI: LAWYER NI GAY MORS, FORMALLY ASKS FOR NVICTN DISMISSAL
• AARON HERNANZ GAY RUMORS UNTE, FIANCéE SAYS ON DR. PHIL
• AARON HERNANZ’S FIANCEE: HE TOLD ME HE WAS NOT GAY
• DID AARON HERNANZ HAVE A GAY LOVER? NFL STAR’S CO SOUNDS OFF ON BISEXUALY RUMORS (EXCLUSIVE)
• AARON HERNANZ'S FIANCéE NI GAY MOR
• AARON HERNANZ NIED GAY MORS, FIANCEE SAYS
• FIANCEE SAYS AARON HERNANZ NIED MORS HE WAS GAY
• AARON HERNANZ'S FIANCEE SAYS EX-PATRTS TE WASN'T GAY
• AARON HERNANZ’S ALLEGED GAY LOVER DCRIB YEARS-LONG RELATNSHIP NETFLIX’S ‘KILLER INSI’

AARON HERNANZ TEARFULLY TOLD MOM HE WAS GAY BEFORE PRISON SUICI, BROTHER SAYS

” A subsequent Globe story on the reportg of the mors scribed the mountg ire of gay-rights advot who mata that the salac tails reports like McPhee’s have no bearg on Hernanz’s crim and th no relatnship to the public McBri, a media-ethics expert at the Poynter Instute, offered a more nuanced take.

FIANCEE SAYS AARON HERNANZ NIED MORS HE WAS GAY

But a statement given to the Globe, he sisted that McPhee’s reportg was not sound: “Rumors of letters to a gay lover or out of prison are false, ” the statement read. The fiancée of late New England Patrts star Aaron Hernanz says she saw no ditn the football player was gay, addg she would have accepted him regardls of his sexual the foreword for "Unnecsary Roughns, " a book wrten by Hernanz's fense attorney Jose Baez, Hernanz's fiancée Shayanna Jenks-Hernanz, 29, addrs the speculatn about the NFL player's sexualy and talks about the grief she felt learng of his advanced chronic trmatic encephalopathy (CTE) after his ath. After his ath, a judge vated Hernanz's murr nvictn on a book is based on timate nversatns Baez had wh Hernanz the fal year of his life, acrdg to an Amazon and Jenks-Hernanz were not immediately available on Monday to ment on the days after Hernanz's suici and approximately a month before his murr nvictn was tossed out, Newsweek published an article suggtg that Hernanz's motive for the murr was an attempt to hi his sexual the foreword, Jenks-Hernanz claims that she never saw any sign that Hernanz was gay but adds that she don't flt him if he was keepg his inty a secret.

AARON HERNANZ'S FIANCEE ON GAY RUMORS: 'IT'S JT NOT HIM'

I saw no ditn that he was gay or homosexual. While that was my role Aaron's heart, Jose mataed that role the urtroom, " she said of the New England Patrts football player Aaron Hernanz listens to ttimony durg his trial Fall River, Massachetts on April 6, Fzgerald / The Boston Herald via AP fileIn Hernanz's fal note to Jenks-Hernanz, which were obtaed by NBC Boston, Hernanz tells his high school sweetheart that she is his angel and asked her to tell his Leontire, a member of Hernanz's fense team who is openly gay, told the New York Post that Hernanz "acknowledged" to him that he was homosexual. "This man clearly was gay, " Leontire said.

AARON HERNANZ GAY RUMORS: EX-NFL STAR’S FAL LETTER WAS FOR ATTORNEY JOSE BAEZ, REPORT SAYS

I thk that he also me out of a culture that was so negative about gay people that he exhibed some self-hatred. Acrdg to Hernanz’s fense team, prosecutors were lookg to ll a wns to ttify to the fact that Hernanz was gay.

“The prosecutn was tendg to troduce evince that the shootg occurred — somehow — bee Aaron was nflicted about beg gay, ” fense attorney Gee Leontire told Oxygen’s docu-seri “Aaron Hernanz Unvered. Here’s a man who happened to be gay who loved a woman.

AARON HERNANZ SUICI: LAWYER NI GAY MORS, FORMALLY ASKS FOR NVICTN DISMISSAL

Aaron Hernanz had tearfully told his mother that he was gay before his prison cell suici — wh his fay still fearg he beme a killer to hi his secret sex life, his brother says a new TV terview.

In part five, Gee Leontire, one of Hernanz’s attorneys, alleg that Hernanz told his mother he was gay while prison. Durg this time, Hernanz lked his homosexualy to his beg molted as a child.

AARON HERNANZ GAY RUMORS UNTE, FIANCéE SAYS ON DR. PHIL

“He had been molted fairly tensely as a very young kid, ” said Leontire, who believed Hernanz thought his sexual abe had ma him gay.

AARON HERNANZ’S FIANCEE: HE TOLD ME HE WAS NOT GAY

However, the Globe also spoke wh a former mate who said, “he never believed Hernanz was gay, and that would have been dangero for him prison.

”Hernanz’s early life was filled wh abe and homophobia om his father. ”This homophobia and ner turmoil traveled wh Hernanz everywhere, even the Patrts' locker room, acrdg to his his first days trag mp, he threatened to “f— up’’ six-year veteran W Welker after Welker said the tight end need help.

DID AARON HERNANZ HAVE A GAY LOVER? NFL STAR’S CO SOUNDS OFF ON BISEXUALY RUMORS (EXCLUSIVE)

He’s gog to talk about gay sex. ’’’This sexual inty crisis ntued on prison, where he went on angry, homophobic rants. BOSTON -- The fiancee of former NFL player Aaron Hernanz says he told her that mors that he was gay or bisexual were not Qutns lger over Aaron Hernanz's relatnship wh jailhoe "brother"The send part of a two-part terview wh Shayanna Jenks-Hernanz aired Tuday on the "Dr.

Aaron Hernanz’s Fiancée On Rumors He Was Gay: ‘It’s Jt Not Him’ by. Shayanna Jenks-Hernanz, the fiancée of Aaron Hernanz, nied this week that the former New England Patrts star may have been gay, or that he had an affair wh a fellow mate while servg a life sentence for the murr of Od Lloyd. I had no ditn or any feelg that he was [gay], ” Jenks-Hernanz said durg a lengthy terview wh daytime talk show host Dr.

This after reports claimed Hernanz wrote the last letter to his gay lover.

AARON HERNANZ'S FIANCéE NI GAY MOR

Rumors about Hernanz havg a homosexual relatnship began after Newsweek reported last week his fal note was addrsed to his prison boyiend. “Rumors of letters to a gay lover, or out of prison, are false, ” Baez said a statement, ced by NBC Sports’ Pro Football Talk.

Notwhstandg my unambiguo statement that there were no such letters, reprentativ, on behalf of an dividual named Kyle Kennedy, ntu to advise the media such a gay love letter exists. It’s been almost a week sce former New England Patrts star Aaron Hernanz hanged himself prison, but the headl the strange saga have not slowed latt: Hernanz’s lawyers have formally requted a dismissal of Hernanz’s nvictn for the murr of Od Lloyd while also strongly nyg media reports that Hernanz had a gay lover prison and left him a suici note his prison cell.

Dog so uld unlock a fancial wdfall for Hernanz’s survivg that Hernanz was bisexual and had a gay lover prison named Kyle Kennedy have also gaed steam recent days wh the alleged lover’s lawyer issug a statement of his own. “Rumors of letters to a gay lover, or out of prison, are false, ” Baez told the webse. Shayanna Jenks Hernanz nied media reports that her fiancé Aaron Hernanz was secretly gay and had wrten a letter a prisoner reported as his the send part of an terview wh Dr.

AARON HERNANZ NIED GAY MORS, FIANCEE SAYS

Allegatns that the 27-year-old, who was nvicted of life whout parole 2016, had a male partner behd bars ught fire on the ter, wh many suggtg that Hernanz was secretly gay. But outlets like the Sun, New York Daily News Metro, and Radar Onle went wild about Hernanz’s “gay prison lover.

FIANCEE SAYS AARON HERNANZ NIED MORS HE WAS GAY

On Twter, social media ers piled on by referrg to Hernanz as a “homo, ” “faggot, ” “fairy, ” and “marin, ” the latter a rogatory slur Spanish monly ed agast homosexual men. There’s no evince, as MSN suggted, that Hernanz end his life fear of “beg outed as gay.

AARON HERNANZ'S FIANCEE SAYS EX-PATRTS TE WASN'T GAY

” Although lgerg prejudice agast gay men do lead many people to stay the closet, leadg double liv to hi their ceptn, that’s not necsarily the se here. Hernanz uld have been a gay man, but ’s more likely he was alg wh a different stigma—the lack of acceptance of bisexualy, particularly when to bisexual men.

Jokg about the former All-Amerin’s sexualy is fairly distasteful given what would happen next, but the amg here is important: Euphemistilly referrg to Hernanz as a “tight end” s Hernanz as a closeted gay man, and that d suggtn stuck. Google Trends data shows there were four tim as many search for “Aaron Hernanz gay” as there were “Aaron Hernanz bisexual” the days after those mors surfaced, and the man at the center of them took his own life. Studi show that bisexuals are more likely than gay men or lbians to have a history of anxiety and prsn due to pervasive stigma.

AARON HERNANZ’S ALLEGED GAY LOVER DCRIB YEARS-LONG RELATNSHIP NETFLIX’S ‘KILLER INSI’

“Bisexuals experience high rat of beg ignored, discrimated agast, monized, or renred visible by both the heterosexual world and the lbian and gay muni, ” claimed a report om the San Francis Human Rights Commissn. Bisexuals are likely to hear ments that qutn their sexualy as impermanent, claimg that bisexualy is merely a “p stop” on the road to intifyg as totally straight or totally gay. To be a bisexual man is a double bd: You have to al wh the visibily and myriad challeng that e wh intifyg somewhere along the Ksey Sle, as well as the route homophobia lobbied at men who have sex wh men.

In Hernanz’s se, his associat acced him of beg a “limp wrist” and a “smoocher, ” the suatn beg that he was jt a gay man nial. Phil she never saw any ditns he was gay. The fiancee of former New England Patrt Aaron Hernanz said a televised terview aired Tuday that the ex-NFL star nied to her mors that he was gay.

After Hernanz died, there were published reports that he feared beg outed as gay or bisexual. “I had no ditn or any feelg that he was (gay), ” Jenks-Hernanz said. And sce then, untls mors have e out about the troubled 27-year-old’s life prison — cludg claims that he was bisexual and had a “gay lover” while locked up.