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Contents:

• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• BRANDON BLACK ON PLAYG THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER THE MAA CEMATIC UNIVERSE
• BRANDON GAY
• BRANDON BLACK ON PLAYG THE FIRST GAY ROLE A MAA MOVIE: 'I THK I'M QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB'
• BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

When, the sixti, the tste of the Universy of Hoton spected their school was beg rpted by homosexuals and stunt radils, they hired Cly Wilson to snoop around. Dolcefo’s report was nuendo rather than proof, but the subtext was clear: Eher Turner was hopelsly naive, or he was a gay crook, keepg up appearanc wh a wife and child while livg another hoe wh a man.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

When the Hoton Post and the Hoton Chronicle were not terted the rults of Wilson’s vtigatn of Universy of Hoton homosexuals and radils, he took his material to right-wger Clymer Wright, who published the hyped-up tale of marijuana and sex parti his ultranservative newspaper, the Hoton Tribune.

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BRANDON BLACK ON PLAYG THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER THE MAA CEMATIC UNIVERSE

”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis. Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time.

Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs.

Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. Wh your role as Tim, you have played the first openly gay character Maa history.

BRANDON GAY

Y, I keep talkg about how I want to see more gay stori, and not all of them are gonna be the tragic, dark, shameful stori. I want to book some straight parts, and I want you to see an out gay Black man playg straight rol the way you see straight men playg gay rol.

And then the other thg is, I really want to see more gay rol [different] genr. You don’t really see a leadg gay character a psychologil thriller—you see some foreign gay films, but terms of mass-produced, stud-backed big films or televisn shows… Like image if you saw like Archive 81, which is a really ol show, but what if he was gay though? Same thg, same stori, same everythg, but he was gay.

BRANDON BLACK ON PLAYG THE FIRST GAY ROLE A MAA MOVIE: 'I THK I'M QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB'

That’s the kd of stuff I’m hopg exists more the future, and there’s a lot of gay Black actors that are on the rise right now, and I’m so exced to be part of that swell, and I hope that this movie helps that even further. Like your leadg character, he’s gay, and then what do that mean for everythg else? EHealth’s grant was restated May, but do not provi fundg for any rearch Cha or wh Gay Stolberg is a Washgton Corrponnt verg health policy.

BEG AGAST GAY MARRIAGE DON'T MAKE YOU A HOMOPHOBE

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Benign bee this time the Simmons matriarch was biddg hellur to a gay character — notably, the first openly gay character to ever appear a Maa movie. It's nice, one uld even say important, to see a Black fay beg so supportive of an LGBTQ+ relative, pecially sce Black folks are often falsely picted as beg somehow more homophobic than the rt of society.

For Brandon Black, who's openly gay, that g-out scene is what sold him on the project. " EW talked to the San Diego native about jog the Maaverse, beg Black and gay Hollywood, the bety of endls mimosas, and sharg scen wh a 6'5" great-grandmother who also happened to be his boss. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So you play the first openly gay character a Maa movie.