Cancel Blackhawks Pri Night after anti-gay attacks on Kyle Beach - Outsports

Contents:

• EX-CNN EMPLOYEE CLAIMS BOSS FIRED HIM FOR BEG GAY, LLED HIM ‘FLAMBOYANT’ $60 LN SU
• REVIEW: GAY G-OF-AGE STORY ‘MIL’ GETS BY ON PELLG CHARACTER
• THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO EVER BE FEATURED ON 'LOVE & HIP HOP' HAD AN AWFUL BREAKUP
• I'M NOT GAY

EX-CNN EMPLOYEE CLAIMS BOSS FIRED HIM FOR BEG GAY, LLED HIM ‘FLAMBOYANT’ $60 LN SU

This isn’t to say that Mil, a cisgenr boy wh a csh on a girl, is LGBT wh the spe of the story, or that a homosexual perspective is necsary to enjoy the film. They rarely need to rencile the charmed worlds to which they properly belong (Hogwarts, Oz) and the one which they were do experience that need, and the urse he follows is so thunroly ronant wh actual queer experience that you uld, as an exercise, translate to gay terms. That leav him the posn of a pretty typil gay teen, ettg about urg that he n’t procs as normal or exprs whout urtg disaster.

A gay boy might at this pot ask a parent, “Will you still love me if I’m gay? Uncle Aaron teach Mil how to flirt by roleplayg wh him - they take turns beg the man, admisterg sctive “shoulr-touch” - then gets him bten by a radactive homosexu- uh, spir.

(Apparently the tglg of their spir sense works a lot like gaydar.

REVIEW: GAY G-OF-AGE STORY ‘MIL’ GETS BY ON PELLG CHARACTER

) Mil falls out of touch wh his parents as he spends more time Aunt May’s Spir-Man basement, a space that is part kschy closet, part dimly-l gay the film, Mil’ native-dimensn Spir-Man advis him that he don’t “have a choice” when to his superpowers, offers to show him the rop, and di. Photos urty of EDKO Films LimedTh Mil’ arc: the regnn that you’re a eak; the isolatn of the closet; the disvery of eaks like you, who might e to stand for blogil fay; the play of intifitn and shame wh a stigmatised group, of revulsn and self-acceptance, iatn and petn; turng eakishns to a weapon agast adversy; and perhaps the eventual retegratn - of some part of yourself - to mastream society, or at least to the arc n be translated to specifilly gay terms, but don’t have to be.

But after then hearg about how players on the champnship roster rpond by peltg Beach wh anti-gay slurs and askg him if he “missed his boyiend Brad, ” one thg is clear: TThe Hawks need to s out Pri Night until they addrs both the horrors of this asslt and the culture of homophobia that allowed an attack on Beach to happen and then turned to a joke the locker room. Teammat subjected Kyle Beach to anti-gay slurs after learng about his sexual asslt.

Acrdg to the Chigo Sun-Tim’ Ben Pope, “Toews and Kane said they didn’t wns any homophobic slurs directed at Beach durg his stts the NHL. Dpe that importance and his iendship wh Beach, Kane also plead ignorance of both the nature of the asslt and the homophobic aftermath. And to be someone that he uld nfi when fellow teammat ridiculed his trma and add to wh anti-gay bigotry.

THE FIRST GAY COUPLE TO EVER BE FEATURED ON 'LOVE & HIP HOP' HAD AN AWFUL BREAKUP

While both Kane and Toews are at least showg more empathy for Beach, neher has addrsed their team’s homophobic rponse to his asslt other than to ny hearg about . Sce Kane and Toews are the most famo members of the 2021 roster, their abily to meangfully addrs their teammat’ homophobic and llo rponse to sexual asslt renrs any celebratory aspect of Blackhawks Pri Night hollow and meangls. As a muny, we need to send a msage to the Hawks: We will not be part of your attempts to market yourself back to Chigo’s good grac until you meangfully addrs your team’s role sexual asslt and homophobia.

I'M NOT GAY

A former CNN employee claims he was fired bee he's gay and wore bright lors and mariachi outfs to work that were emed "too flamboyant, " acrdg to a $60 ln discrimatn lawsu. The former CNN employee says the getup only beme an issue after his boss learned he is gay.