@GaysOverCovid Expos Gay Men Partyg In Panmic

Contents:

• MEET THE GUYS EXPOSG OTHER GAY MEN PARTYG DURG THE PANMIC
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• #GAYSOVERCOVID: MASKLS PARTI LEAD TO RIFT WH LGBTQ MUNY
• IN D.C., GAY BARS AND DIV LEAD A WAVE OF BS REQUIRG PROOF OF VACCATNS

MEET THE GUYS EXPOSG OTHER GAY MEN PARTYG DURG THE PANMIC

For four days, he chewed sleep to obssively scroll through social media and sort through hundreds of tips he’s received as part of his secret missn: e Instagram to name and shame other gay men who are partyg durg the panmic. “No part of is anger on my end, ” said the man behd @TheGayRona, a California tech dtry worker, who like others this story asked not to be intified, fearg he would bee a social media target himself. ”@TheGayRona is one of several recent so-lled COVID vigilante acunts aimed at self-policg the behavr of the gay muny durg the ronavis panmic.

“Hunker Downers, steer clear, ” @TheGayRona wrote one Instagram post taggg a shirtls fluencer. ”Most of the drama has been taloged on the Instagram acunt @GaysOverCovid, which has amassed more than 115, 000 followers and spawned several smaller imators.

“A public fom is better bee sparks change, or at least attempts to, ” the gay man his late twenti nng the acunt told reporters Taylor Lorenz and Alex Hawgood. ) In recent weeks, @GaysOverCovid played tective by checkg people’s Facebook lotn and even Venmo history to place them Puerto Vallarta, Mexi, and R Janeiro, Brazil, which over the New Year’s Eve perd hosted circu parti — all-night rav wh a reputatn for dg e and few sexual boundari — i.

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

They’re gog out on Instagram, postg stori, flntg them floutg guil, ” said a mid-thirti healthre dtry worker who is one of the four people behd @BostonGaysOverCovid, which has been exposg the behavr of that cy’s gay muny. ”But the acunts have ed tensn the gay muny.

One man offered a $500 reward on a circu party Facebook group for the inty of whoever’s behd @GaysOverCovid, tellg Lorenz and Hawgood the acunt was “like Salem Wch huntg. There was briefly even a @GaysOverGaysOverCovid acunt set up to h back at “public shamg, cyberbullyg, and stigma. ” (That acunt naturally prompted a @GaysOverGaysOverGaysOverCovid.

”Vox reporter Alex Abad-Santos has been the most proment chronicler of the drama on Twter where he has shared a seri of viral updat about what he jok has been a “Gay Civil War. When Brazilian police shut down a circu party, gay men reveled their unterparts’ wasted told BuzzFeed News gay men were transfixed by the saga bee of the proment place circu parti hold the muny — and the horror om some that they might ntue a adly panmic. “I mean, I thk there's fely other issu that this fight is touchg on when to the way gay men look at ourselv, what we value, and how we look at other gay men.

#GAYSOVERCOVID: MASKLS PARTI LEAD TO RIFT WH LGBTQ MUNY

Zack Ford, the prs secretary for the Alliance for Jtice and a former LGBTQ edor for Thk Progrs whose own take on the parti went viral, told BuzzFeed News the bate touch on issu of male body image and social media that n e prsn the gay muny.

Palm Sprgs Mayor Christy Holstege told BuzzFeed News dozens of rints of her California cy, long a haven and travel statn for the LGBTQ muny, had ntacted her office ncerned by what they’ve seen posted by @GaysOverCovidPage. ”The tech dtry worker behd @TheGayRona said his acunt has been particularly foced on exposg medil practners who have been preachg safe COVID-19 practic or uploadg photos of themselv receivg a ronavis vacce, only to then share party pics. ”As for why the men would go on vatn and flnt themselv fyg ronavis safety measur, @TheGayRona believ some ers simply n’t help themselv.

IN D.C., GAY BARS AND DIV LEAD A WAVE OF BS REQUIRG PROOF OF VACCATNS

He said he wanted to take legal actn agast @GaysOverCovid and other s “postg false famatory rmatn, ” but later said he uld not afford a lawyer.

The @BostonGaysOverCovid acunt was spend Tuday night after one of the admistrators posted a story allegg a man had been lyg about his HIV stat to sexual partners. ”But whether be men partyg on Fire Island for the 4th of July or vatng on a private island wh iends, the gay muny has been policg their own throughout the panmic. “I do thk we hold our muny to a higher standard, ” said @TheGayRona.