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Contents:

• THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT
• HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
• GRIFF MATTHEWS IS SO MUCH MORE THAN THE GAY BT FRIEND ON ‘THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT’
• WHAT A GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT’S LOST DISCRIMATN CASE SAYS ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CHA
• LARRY GAYE: RENEGA MALE FLIGHT ATTENDANT
• DON'T ARGUE WH THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT
• THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT......

THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT

Homosexualy is not illegal Cha and was officially removed om a list of mental disorrs 2001.

After the vio of him kissg his worker went viral, Chai said he was taken asi by a senr manager who told him that homosexualy was agast “socialist re valu, ” and asked him to rema silent on the topic. Peng Yanhui, who heads the Cha Rabow Media Awards, an LGBTQ rights advocy group, said pani rarely fire LGBTQ employe “explicly” for beg gay. Although Chai rerd some of his supervisor’s homophobic remarks – cludg llg homosexualy “abnormal” – durg their nversatns, Zhong said the airle sisted urt that those reprented personal opns, not a rporate posn.

HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE

Chai remembered tim when workers mocked more effemate gay flight attendants at Cha Southern – he said he stayed quiet to avoid unwanted attentn.

After he was outed by the vio, he said many fellow gay employe retreated further back to the closet for fear of beg targets themselv. Sce 2016, Che censors have banned portrayals on TV and onle of what they see as “abnormal sexual behavrs, ” cludg gay relatnships. Many of the untry’s current lears grew up durg the Cultural Revolutn the 1960s and ’70s, when thori attempted to purge any “non-socialist” elements – cludg homosexualy – om Che society.

“LGBTQ employe are still forced to live a lie a place where they spend so much time, ” said Peng, the gay rights advote.

GRIFF MATTHEWS IS SO MUCH MORE THAN THE GAY BT FRIEND ON ‘THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT’

“It may be an executive’s personal opn that homosexualy is abnormal or immoral – but if there is a workplace equaly law, what that executive thks won’t matter anymore. After readg Chai’s story, Liu, who is gay, left an angry ment on the official Instagram page of Cha Southern, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and had been rapidly expandg s global work before the panmic.

“As a gay passenger, I wouldn’t want to spend any money flyg your airle. My flight was beg served by an obvly gay flight attendant, who seemed to put everyone a good mood as he served food and the plane prepared to scend, he me swishg down the aisle and told that "Capta Marvey has asked me to announce that he'll be landg the big sry plane shortly, so lovely people, if you uld jt put your trays up, that would be super. Some mentary on Pedro Almodóvar’s new edy I’m So Exced has noted that rerc gay stereotyp, particularly the characters of s sassy male flight attendants, who are all gay.

When did the gay steward bee such a mon stereotype? Some stewards were hired back after returng om World War II—often out of a sense of loyalty or patrtic duty—but bee they performed what was nsired “women’s work, ” they were thought to be effemate and were therefore spected of beg homosexual, acrdg to the bias of the time. This perceptn was further rerced when the killg of a gay male flight attendant a “lover’s lane” Miami brought the stereotype to the headl of sensatnal stori the Miami Daily News.

WHAT A GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT’S LOST DISCRIMATN CASE SAYS ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CHA

In the macho, homophobic years of the 1950s, this provoked a crackdown on the cy’s unrground gay muny, and stori like the were seen as evince that gay people were “perverts. ” Many airl (some of which traed their stewards Miami) turn quietly did away wh hirg stewards, both gay and straight.

LARRY GAYE: RENEGA MALE FLIGHT ATTENDANT

Ever sce, men have generally prised about 15 percent of flight attendants, pendg on the airle, and a high percentage of the men returng to the ranks of the flight attendant rps the 1970s were gay. For gay men, there were many reasons to bee a flight attendant— wasn’t jt the willgns of many to do stereotypilly feme work.

As Tiemeyer wr, “the aisl and galleys of airplan, as well as crew hotels and crash pads, served the same role that other gays and lbians found bars: a place where they uld meet others like themselv and even embrace their same-sex sir for the first time.

DON'T ARGUE WH THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT

And I’d walk through termals, and I knew if there were gay men, they’d be lookg at me. So how many flight attendants were and are gay? They timated that “between 30 and 50 percent of male flight attendants were gay the 1950s, and between 50 and 90 percent the 1970s.

THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT......

The historic flight took off on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn raids, which are nsired one of the first major events of the gay rights and liberatn movement the flight parted Philalphia Internatnal Airport (PHL) for New York-LaGuardia (LGA) and was operated wh an Embraer E-190. The gay bt iend is a tired cliché and a lot of film and televisn scripts don’t know what to do wh them. For me beg Black and gay this dtry, that don’t always give the bt shot at juicy rol; felt like an amazg opportuny to dig , to make a character as plex as we are real life.

We jt spent two days talkg about beg gay and he’s a theater kid and we have mutual iends and that helped get to those moments like when we are the closet or flirtg the urtyard. I had jt e om playg D’Unte on Dear Whe People where I am the most gay and on Ballers we get to a fight bee we are flirtg wh girls at a bar.

The experience of havg to do a fight scene for that long is, and I don’t mean to pull the gay rd, but ’s not somethg that gay actors really get to do.