<i>The Other Two</i> -creator Chris Kelly and actor Noam Ash talked wh BuzzFeed News about the episo that left gay viewers reelg.
Contents:
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE
- NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- NFL COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- IT: CHAPTER TWO’S GAY-BASHG SCENE EXPLOS A REAL-LIFE KILLG FOR A CHEAP SHOCK
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
The New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Monday that is vtigatg a strg of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay * 2 gay people *
Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.
Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.
PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE
* 2 gay people *
”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.
One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.
Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.
NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
Maxen is the first ever male ach Amerin men's sports to e out as gay. * 2 gay people *
It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.
That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.
"Chos Car" is a Palm Sprgs Gay Men's Chos program providg outreach iativ throughout the Coachella Valley. "So jt pick up a uple ems of school suppli and drop them off our box, and we'll be there to greet you and tell everyone about the Palm Sprgs Gay Men's Chos, and what we have g up. Maxen origally ntacted gay NFL player Carl Nassib Febary 2022, who then nnected Maxen wh Outsports.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Rults also reveal listeners uld distguish between gay and heterosexual men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent * 2 gay people *
The New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Monday that is vtigatg a strg of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year shortly after they left gay bars Manhattan's Hell's Kchen neighborhood. His fay prevly told NBC News that approximately $20, 000 had been draed om his bank acunts and that they believed he was Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary / Fay photoAbout a month later, Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell's Kchen gay bar, the Q. We’d been posively drowng gay culture all week, but we were still not prepared for the show’s most recent episo: an almost Shakpearean edy of errors volvg Grdr, “dad/son” upl, and threom that felt like somethg we’d never seen before a mastream TV edy.
”The Other Two — now on HBO Max after a swch om Comedy Central and an extensive filmg lay ed by the panmic — never shied away om gay storyl s first season — as the olr brother to a famo teen pop star (Case Walker), Cary (Drew Tarver) always seemed eply unfortable wh his homosexualy, hookg up wh his “straight” roommate (Andrew Ridgs) and explog a gaggle of Instagays.
Wrg for BuzzFeed News, Manuel Betanurt clared The Other Two “one of the bt shows about gay men on TV right now, ” makg specific reference to an oddly sweet teractn between Cary and a love tert (Daniel K. E., bottom) this season’s send episo that was released on Thursday, "Pat Connects wh Her Fans, " reach new exploratory pths of gay sexualy.
NFL COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach, is the first male ach a major U.S. men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * 2 gay people *
In , Pat (Molly Shannon) hosts an episo of her new talk show which she lavish a $25, 000 check om Shutterstock on a young man named Eddie (Noah Galv) who has recently e out to his anti-gay father, Troy (Tuc Watks).
Pat’s dghter and manager Brooke (Heléne Yorke) has rrectly observed the pair are a uple who are fleecg Pat’s show for money after seeg her reward other young gays for their g-out vios. He’s probably never even met a gay person, ” Cary tells Js wh an earntns that beli his New York elism. Gabe González, a edian who has hosted shows for the Grdr rival Scff, told me he thought was a “pch-perfect storyle, ” as well as a “funny and apt dictment of how gays ci image life for queer people who don’t live New York or LA.
”“Cary go along wh flatteng the characters to a piable stereotype — young gay men who n't be who they are bee of the ‘Kansas’ of all — even when 's beg unrmed right ont of him, ” González, the -creator, said the show don’t set out to actively explore new parts of gay culture every week, but stead tri to fd ways that the fame of Cary and Brooke’s mother and brother n be ed to teach them somethg about themselv. ’” he said this episo — which was filmed Febary 2020 before productn shut down for a year — is all about Cary tryg to perform a “sanized, PG versn of himself” that he thks might make his late father more fortable wh a gay son.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
“I nfintly me out of the closet, but still certaly felt like I had to be a certa type of gay so I wasn’t too sry to my parents.
IT: CHAPTER TWO’S GAY-BASHG SCENE EXPLOS A REAL-LIFE KILLG FOR A CHEAP SHOCK
I was nfintly tellg them I was gay and I was proud to be gay, but at the same time I was tryg to be like, but barely, guys!
I’m gay, but hontly you’ll hardly even notice!
”The Other Two ftly explor this ia that there is a lim to the gayns wh which straight people are fortable and which some the LGBTQ muny feel pelled to embrace: rabow-saturated rporate culture — like the Big Gay Ice Cream store to which Cary and Js drag the others — sweet g-out vios that play on morng talk shows, or “heteronormative” notns of marriage and children. This tensn has self bee somethg of a cliché and meme for Very Onle Gays.