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PAYG HOMAGE TO A BELOVED GAY MENTOR

Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * gay mentor *

A ee area for the discsn of issu facg those who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and all other sexual or nonsexual orientatns and/or genr inti. I learned so much about gay culture through Alan particular, as he nsired me his son some ways. I miss those guys and wonr if anyone else has some great gay mentor stori to Anonymoreply 34July 29, 2020 4:00 PM.

OBAMA’S GAY MENTOR

Will the Goln State Warrrs sign veteran Rudy Gay NBA ee agency after he got bought out by the Oklahoma Cy Thunr? * gay mentor *

Om him - I was way more relaxed when I fally went to biggt mentor I had was when I was close to 30, and met a guy who was what we'd ll an elrgay here, I thk he was his early fifti. Jt the different array of gay movi he has seen at my place has given him a different perspective on the world and how beg gay is not somethg to be aaid Anonymoreply 9December 28, 2019 9:26 PM. He told me where all the gay bars our cy were, explaed the var cisg spots and tearooms around time, and filled me on how one hooked up plac like that.

He opened my ey to what a rich, tertg life there was to be had for a gay man. He hung around a few old gay piano bars on the Northwt Si, and was really a rg guy.

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

I have enjoyed meetg many elr-gay men my life, mostly platonic, but always tertg and knowledgeable.

I had a gay neighbor the late 80s when I first moved to Chelsea who was his early 60s and had given up on gay life.

He told great stori of gay life the 60s and 70s and had no regrets. [quote] The biggt mentor I had was when I was close to 30, and met a guy who was what we'd ll an elrgay here, I thk he was his early fifti.

IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

He died a few years after we met, and I still miss sounds like one of my elrgay mentors! I'm glad the OP's experience, at a later age, was llege a theatre profsor and director of the universy theater showed me the posive si of olr/younger gay relatnships. After my send year, they cid to cut me off, sce they spected (rrectly) that I was gay.

In April 2009, the Advote, a leadg gay and lbian magaze, asked print Barack Obama who had most profoundly fluenced his ias about gays and lbians. “He was the first openly gay profsor that I had ever e ntact wh, or openly gay person of thory that I had e ntact wh.

GAY MEN, MASCULY, AND MENTORG

Margalized groups flocked to him: gay men, gay women, women of lor—and Obama.

GAY MENTOR

Most straight men did not want to be seen associatg wh gays bee of the social stigma, but Obama was not ncerned about what people might thk. He arrived at Reed uncerta about his own sexual inty at a time when most gay men kept their sexualy firmly locked the closet. There he crafted a new inty, velopg a greater fort wh the tag “gay” wh each new statn.

I sort of forced my way though this, and sce then I’ve enuraged gay men and women to e me as a mentor. Obama actually speaks the words “gay” and “lbian, ” self a turng pot for the natnal nversatn, and has asked Congrs to repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

GAYT PLAC IN OH FOR 2020

Lawrence’s tone turns stern when he criciz the print’s support of the Feral Fay Protectn Act and reticence on California’s Proposn 8, but livens aga when he thks about the future of gay rights.

He says of Obama: “I thk he’s been a ltle nservative on gay issu, but I’m sensive to what kd of promis he has to make. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY MENTOR

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