Benjam Carlton: I’m black, I’m a mister and I’m gay, who are you to judge? | Benjam Carlton | TEDxJacksonville | TED Talk

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• I’M BLACK, I’M A MISTER AND I’M GAY, WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE? | BENJAM CARLTON | TEDXJACKSONVILLE
• ‘I’M BLACK, I’M GAY, I’M A WOMAN. MY UNTRY HAT ME!’: ACTOR SAMIRA WILEY ON LOVE, NFINCE AND THE HANDMAID’S TALE
• QT MARSHALL SAYS HE PCHED ANTHONY BOWENS’ ‘I’M GAY’ SEGMENT
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
• ‘I'M A BLACK GAY GUY,' VIRAL TWEET OM PA. GOP CANDIDATE LEADS TO SOCIAL MEDIA MYSTERY
• ‘I’M BLACK AND I’M GAY’
• SAY LOUD: I’M BLACK, GAY AND PROUD!
• NO NTRADICTN: I’M BLACK AND GAY
• I'M GAY

I’M BLACK, I’M A MISTER AND I’M GAY, WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE? | BENJAM CARLTON | TEDXJACKSONVILLE

In 2016, Benjam Carlton ma the brave cisn to e out as a black gay mister a article that generated natnal discsn.

‘I’M BLACK, I’M GAY, I’M A WOMAN. MY UNTRY HAT ME!’: ACTOR SAMIRA WILEY ON LOVE, NFINCE AND THE HANDMAID’S TALE

I’m Black, I’m gay, I’m a woman. And the character was gay, which was all that I was foced on, ” she says.

”Wiley had e out to her parents, who were supportive, when she was 20 – they officiated her weddg – and she has done terviews wh gay prs, though plenty of LGBTQ+ actors choose not to.

QT MARSHALL SAYS HE PCHED ANTHONY BOWENS’ ‘I’M GAY’ SEGMENT

“I fely did specifilly not talk about for a while, but people jt assumed I was gay. “ Bee Posey is gay? Photograph: Marc BrennerShe worried that if she took The Handmaid’s Tale part, havg played one gay character jt before , she might be typest.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

“My wife was like, if you do gay for anythg, you do gay for this.

VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

When I thk about now, ’s a ltle naive to say, I don’t want to play gay, bee that’s the heteronormative ia that we’re all the same.

‘I'M A BLACK GAY GUY,' VIRAL TWEET OM PA. GOP CANDIDATE LEADS TO SOCIAL MEDIA MYSTERY

For me, how powerful is , to have a Black gay woman portray an actual Black gay woman on TV?

‘I’M BLACK AND I’M GAY’

”Anthony Bowens rebuffed Harley Cameron by remdg her about his gay orientatn on an episo of AEW Rampage last month, and QT Marshall reveals that he was the man behd the a recent edn of the “Talk Is Jericho” podst, Jericho spoke about the June 23rd Rampage segment, where Cameron told Bowens that “It’s pretty clear that you’re to me” to which The Acclaimed member clared “I’m gay! The moment got over wh the live crowd who chanted “He’s Gay! I didn’t thk the whole arena would chant ‘he is gay’ a posive way.

(Kent Nishimura / Los Angel Tim) To the edor: I wonr if the LGBTQ+ muny realiz that the Supreme Court lg favor of a webse signer who didn’t want to create weddg s for gay upl n work our favor as well.

SAY LOUD: I’M BLACK, GAY AND PROUD!

(“How the ripple effect of the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative cisn uld swamp civil rights, ” Opn, July 12)As a gay man, I am always ncerned if the bs where I spend my money are supportive of my muny.

NO NTRADICTN: I’M BLACK AND GAY

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

I'M GAY

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".