Gay rights are gog backwards the US, says Elton John | Elton John | The Guardian

Contents:

• 'JOHN & KEN SHOW' RAD HOSTS: GAY MEN LIKE BODI 'THAT REMD THEM OF A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY'
• GAY RIGHTS ARE GOG BACKWARDS THE US, SAYS ELTON JOHN
• A RSIAN REALY TV SHOW LLED 'I'M NOT GAY' MAK 8 NTTANTS GUS WHICH IS GAY — AND 'S HOSTED BY A RIGHT-WG POLICIAN
• HOMOPHOBIC RSIAN MP TAK LEAD ON MP 'GUS WHO'S GAY' REALY TV SHOW
• ELTON JOHN MOSW NCERT TO GO AHEAD SPE ANTI-GAY LAW NCERNS
• ELTON JOHN CONMNS RSIAN ANTI-GAY LAW AT MOSW CONCERT
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

'JOHN & KEN SHOW' RAD HOSTS: GAY MEN LIKE BODI 'THAT REMD THEM OF A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY'

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It's implited sometim to no lghter which mak me believe he is gay, and other tim 's ed so flagrantly that seems disgenuo.

GAY RIGHTS ARE GOG BACKWARDS THE US, SAYS ELTON JOHN

Ex, a stereotypil gay man named Mr.

Article ntu below advertisementMy newt @VICE story is a ep dive to the 35-yr-old Walton & Johnson rad show, which featur 2 whe hosts imatg a black man, a gay man & a "redneck" to simulate 5 hosts.

For his article, Welch terviewed David Ahrens-Bryant, a man om New Orleans who is both Black and gay. I’d randomly tuned to the Walton and Johnson show, a talk rad program featurg two whe, male nservative hosts, pl three other disembodied voic: a lispy gay man (“Mr Kenh”), a ant black man (“Mr Ex”), and a drawlg, self-intified “redneck” (“Billy Ed”).

A RSIAN REALY TV SHOW LLED 'I'M NOT GAY' MAK 8 NTTANTS GUS WHICH IS GAY — AND 'S HOSTED BY A RIGHT-WG POLICIAN

Whenever Walton or Johnson uldn’t wrap their medcre heads around a gay rights issue, Mr. The gay character will argue wh Billy Ed, and they’re all equally reprented. ”Actual gay and black listeners, though, don’t necsarily agree.

David Ahrens-Bryant, who’s both black and gay, moved to New Orleans om Detro and had a siar experience engagg wh the show. ”I uld not fd any gay Walton and Johnson fans to speak wh, perhaps bee Mr. “I know I’ve heard them do anti–gay marriage thgs that were pretty off-puttg, but there was one b that was racist but also promoted vlence— may have been after the Charlottville shootg—and I jt felt that was too much.

”Greg Ellis, a gay man who’s been subjected to W&J many tim while livg Hoton, said, “I never felt reprented [by Mr. The hosts did seem to realize that makg fun of black people had s lims, but I don’t thk they ever realized that—asi om not makg AIDS jok—that makg fun of gays had lims. They’re g a gay voice to make anti-gay statements, ” asserted Shaffer.

HOMOPHOBIC RSIAN MP TAK LEAD ON MP 'GUS WHO'S GAY' REALY TV SHOW

"Half my life I'm around liberal, pro-gay people who n't believe that they're talkg to a nservative Republin, " Reid says.

ELTON JOHN MOSW NCERT TO GO AHEAD SPE ANTI-GAY LAW NCERNS

"And then the other half, I'm around very nservative people, some of whom never thought that they would engage wh an openly gay guy. As gay, as a Republin.

ELTON JOHN CONMNS RSIAN ANTI-GAY LAW AT MOSW CONCERT

It wasn't Reid's orientatn as gay that surprised him, Crosby says: "The revelatn for me was when he went to work for Gee Allen.

Reid rells a blog that aimed to out gay Republins workg on Capol Hill and their boss as hypocr. "But if you see me at a gay bar you n ask me a qutn, " he said, "bee I'm a very iendly guy. The worship sger, who me out as gay on The Voice 2019, told Baldridge he was let go om his job as a worship lear at his church after revealg his sexualy.

's high time christian mic got a shake up wh a msage of realy & hope beyond the homogenized CCM... The reactn mirrors the way many morn megachurch eher offer vague statements about acceptance while tryg to shift the foc away om their anti-gay polici or stay quiet on the issue.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

Sger-songwrer Julien Baker me out as queer 2016 alongsi Trey Pearson om Everyday Sunday, who me out as gay an emotnal letter to fans. He is shipped wh Fz and Kryozgamg and is apart of the Gay Baby Gang and the misfs (number one podst on iTun).

In 2017 he spoke to all five livg Brish Prime Misters a feature that celebrated 50 years sce the crimalisatn of homosexualy.

The first black and first openly gay edor--chief of Vogue, Edward Ennful OBE, was the keynote speaker at the Pri London gala dner last year, where he spoke of how a new generatn was “openg our ey to who and how we n love”. Lycett first me out as gay, then as bisexual and now intifi as pansexual.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Prenter of BBC Rad 1’s Drivetime show, Nick Grimshaw me out as gay 2012, and is an ambassador for The Albert Kennedy Tst, a chary that works wh homels LGBT youth. Calman is gay and married to lawyer Lee Cormack.

I knew I was gay.

If I wasn’t gay, I probably wouldn’t be a ic. A rad duo's on-air discsn of the Goln Globe Awards has sparked the ire of a number of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) media outlets after the pair implied that gay entertament honchos prefer stg women wh bodi "that remd them of a 14-year-old boy. " After Farren observed that many of the stars who strolled the red rpet looked "emaciated, " Kobylt went on to note: "Gay guys ntrol the fashn dtry and the stg dtry and the whole Hollywood look.