Jaguars associate strength ach out as gay a first for US-based pro leagu

Contents:

• PAYG HOMAGE TO A BELOVED GAY MENTOR
• OBAMA’S GAY MENTOR
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?
• GAY MEN, MASCULY, AND MENTORG
• GAY MENTOR
• GAYT PLAC IN OH FOR 2020

PAYG HOMAGE TO A BELOVED 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. 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.

OBAMA’S GAY MENTOR

He hung around a few old gay piano bars on the Northwt Si, and was really a rg guy. 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. 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.

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

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.

IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

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

GAY MEN, MASCULY, AND MENTORG

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.

GAY MENTOR

One such piece — and a highly-predictable one, at that — is veteran forward Rudy Gay, who was recently waived by the Oklahoma Cy Thunr, after beg ed as filler two different offseason tras: first when the Utah Jazz shipped him to the Atlanta Hawks the John Colls al, and then when the Hawks sent him to the Thunr the Patty Mills tra. Dpe beg a 17-year veteran — he was drafted one year after Chris Pl, and one pick ahead of Patrick O’Bryant — Gay has never shared an NBA locker room wh any Warrrs.

Not only have they played (and ached) agast him for years, but Gay was teammat wh Steph Curry and Klay Thompson on the Team USA squad that won gold at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, and also teammat wh Curry (and Andre Iguodala) on the gold medal-wng 2010 team. Perhaps most importantly, Gay spent four seasons — four recent seasons, crilly — playg for the San Anton Spurs and Steve Kerr’s mentor, Gregg Popovich. If the Warrrs are terted Gay, you n bet that Kerr and Pop have talked about , and about how he handled the swch om high-volume starter/srer to veteran bench piece.

GAYT PLAC IN OH FOR 2020

That is, theory, the biggt benef of Gay: beg a tsty and smart vet that n fill the Iguodala role. Which is good, bee ’s unclear if Gay has anythg left the tank on the urt.

It’s easy to make the se for Gay, sce the Warrrs rotatn seems pretty set as is, wh an 11-player rotatn of Curry, Pl, Thompson, Wiggs, Green, Kumga, Moody, Kevon Looney, Gary Payton II, Dar Šarić, and Cory Joseph. Here’s a staggerg stat: Gay is 68th NBA history regular season gam played, wh 1, 120.

There’s also a cent chance that Gay go unsigned, and that the Dubs uld brg him to trag mp on a non-guaranteed al to get a better look at him.