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

‘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

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

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

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. 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". Most prompts for gay porn, meanwhile, explibly flt to people of ambiguoly LatX scent wh an unrcut hairstyle. Is that ditive of the typ of gay porn the mols were traed on?

A gay uple, as picted by Unstable Diffn.

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

In the rerdg leaked earlier this week, the Chigo rapper appears to claim he’s gay to law enforcement officers an effort to secure a cell transfer while servg time jail. They got a problem wh gay people.

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

Culary stctor: ‘I have 3 strik agast me: I’m a woman, I’m black and I’m gay’.

The self-proclaimed “first Black female” stctor at the Culary Instute of Ameri says she tells people that she has “three strik agast [her] the kchen”: She’s female, black and gay.

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

“As chefs, we don’t walk around and say, ‘Hey, I’m gay, '” Sanrs said.

“Of urse, nobody is ever gog to say, ‘I don’t like you bee you’re gay. “Unfortunately, I know people who have gone through the proper channels to let their boss know of homophobic cints and falls on af ears.

When you look at what’s happeng untri such as Uganda, where there’s the ath penalty for beg gay, and then the laws beg passed this untry, you know that there are people who are not able to live their tth bee they fear for their liv. Sanrs’ ntentn about the rtrant environment appears to jibe wh a 2022 report om One Fair Wage which noted LGBTQ (rtrant) employe face higher stanc of “sexual harassment, homophobia, and transphobia” than their straight peers. On the other hand, former rtrant employee and current gay-issu podster Dante Adonis Rhos said the bs is “one of the few dtri where [gay folks] are allowed to be ourselv.

‘I’M BLACK AND I’M GAY’

“I’m a black gay guy and I n personally say that Obama did nothg for me, ” Browng tweeted, acrdg to screengrabs posted onle and media reports. “Every time I wake up and I have to walk down the street, I have to remd myself that I’m Black and I’m gay, ” Nana said.

SAY LOUD: I’M BLACK, GAY AND PROUD!

“Black means that I n be hated by whe people and gay means that I n be hated by my own muny.

Back home, his fay did not accept that he is gay.

NO NTRADICTN: I’M BLACK AND GAY

“Do you know what is to be black and gay this world, this untry? I have to worry about beg black and beg killed, but even my own muny, people don’t unrstand what is to be black and gay the right way, ” he said. But Fran strsed that ’s not beg black and gay that the out, but rather the surroundg web of classism, heterosexism and racism.

I'M GAY

A 2019 study published Social Science & Medice found that “tersectnal stigma” ntribut to low e of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for Black gay men the Uned Stat. HIV fectn the Uned Stat still affects Black gay men more than whe and Hispanic gay men, even though Black gay men “nsistently report fewer sex partners and ls risk behavrs.

As a rult, many Black gay men are reluctant to disclose their sexual orientatn and approach doctors as straight men to avoid beg judged— but posg as straight lims accs to PrEP. “A black trans person is more vulnerable than a whe gay guy, ” she said. I’m my room, there’s no black or gay.