Terry McMillan on Gay Ex-Hband, 'Gettg to Happy' | Essence

Contents:

• TERRY MCMILLAN CONONTS GAY EX-HBAND
• TERRY MCMILLAN'S RELATNSHIP WH HER GAY EX-HBAND
• TERRY MCMILLAN ON GAY EX-HBAND, 'GETTG TO HAPPY'
• IS MAX MACLAN GAY?
• FOR MANY GAY MEN NSERVATIVE CHECHNYA, LIVG FEAR FOR THEIR LIV IS MONPLACE

TERRY MCMILLAN CONONTS GAY EX-HBAND

NEW YORK – Stella isn't happy about losg her McMillan appeared on "The Oprah Wey Show" Wednday to nont her gay ex-hband, Jonathan Plummer, who spired McMillan's 1996 novel "How Stella Got her Groove Back. McMillan filed for divorce January after 6 1/2 years of marriage when she learned Plummer was gay. "When Plummer joed McMillan on stage, she told him, "You didn't say anythg about beg gay.

He said he only realized he was gay the fal two years of the divorce was an ugly one wh each havg rtrag orrs filed on the other and Plummer sug for spoal support. After fdg out he was gay, she nonted him on "Oprah" five years ago. After fdg out he was gay, she nonted him on “Oprah” five years ago.

Now livg life as a gay man, Plummer says he is workg on “gettg to happy, ” cintally, the tle of McMillan’s latt novel. Max Maclan has never ma any public statement about this, so all mors about if Max Maclan is gay rema pletely unfound and unproven.

TERRY MCMILLAN'S RELATNSHIP WH HER GAY EX-HBAND

However, you will fd people that say Max Maclan is gay, but their ments have no nsistency or accuracy of any kd. More and more celebri adm every year that they are gay, but this is not the se wh Max Maclan sce this celebry never said so.

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TERRY MCMILLAN ON GAY EX-HBAND, 'GETTG TO HAPPY'

All terviews are translated om two men, who we have chosen to ll “Danill” and “Dimry, ” spoke wh ABC News Chief Foreign Corrponnt Terry Moran and said they fled Chechnya bee thori were roundg up and arrtg gay people. “Bee the roundg up of homosexuals had begun, ” Danill said. Human Rights Watch has llected disturbg imag of men allegedly beg choked, beaten and vlated -- targeted, they say, bee of their sexualy -- and reprsive ernment polici have fueled the Chechnya, a semi-tonomo republic, human rights groups say vigilante hate has evolved to somethg far worse -- a ordated ernment mpaign to round up and elimate gay men: a mass April, reports emerged that the Chechen thori were kidnappg and torturg dozens of gay men, holdg them secret prisons attached to police statns.

In acunts, first to the Rsian vtigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta and later to foreign media outlets, cludg ABC News, Chechen men have scribed how they were taed by secury forc and tortured, often through beatgs and electric shocks, to nfsg their sexualy and to namg others as gay.

Acrdg to the acunts om Dmry and others, police went through men's phon lookg to fd others they spected were gay.

IS MAX MACLAN GAY?

Those intified then also faced beg taed and mpaign is said to have brought a new level of terror, but acrdg to those who have fled and rights groups, has always been dangero beg gay said he is no stranger to discrimatn and vlence. As a gay man Chechnya, he said he uld take the risk of datg very rarely, and even when there was the glimmer of a possibily of a romantic enunter, buildg tst wh someone took months.

“We meet public plac, se of danger, we n n away or ask for help, ” he lived Grozny, the pal of the Chechen Republic, and said the threat of beg exposed as gay, then blackmailed or beaten, was always prent. ”For many gay men, Danill said, livg fear, hidg your tth is monplace the nservative Islamic culture of Chechnya. ”Both Dmry and Danill were given refuge a safe hoe Mosw by a rights group, LGBT Network, that sce the persecutns began has been workg to help gay men get out of Chechnya.

Acunts like the om gay men Chechnya have only slowly emerged to public view part bee of the Rsian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, one of the untry’s last pennt papers.

FOR MANY GAY MEN NSERVATIVE CHECHNYA, LIVG FEAR FOR THEIR LIV IS MONPLACE

Men were beaten, they were tortured, they were electrocuted and one of the ma qutns the police forc asked is, ‘Give nam of another gay man, jt nam, ’” said Ira Gordienko, who vers Chechnya for the then, Gordeko said she believ at least 200 men have been round up, held and tortured. He regularly stars his own onle vios that he shar on social media, which serve as glimps to the personaly cult he has built, one based on masculy, power and vout Mlim a recent terview wh HBO's “Real Sports, ” his first terview wh Wtern media years, which will be airg all month on HBO, Kadyrov flat out nied the very existence of gays his untry or that gays had been subjected to torture Chechnya.

“Men who are spected, who have been outed as gay, are at risk of [beg killed by] their own fai and fact seems the thori who are behd this mpaign have staged a way that they didn’t have to al wh anyone directly, ” he said. Essentially fai are expected to kill their own relativ if they are have been publicly named gay.

”Sce the story of gays beg tortured broke, there has been ternatnal nmnatn.