All the Openly Gay Male Celebs Who Are Out, Proud & Smok’ Hot – SheKnows

Contents:

• WHY DO SO MANY GAY PEOPLE SMOKE?
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT

WHY DO SO MANY GAY PEOPLE SMOKE?

If anyone has a reason to smoke, gay people do. Gays have higher rat of PTSD, prsn, and anxiety—all of which lead to the urge for a cigarette. And a tragilly high number of gay people are told that they are diseased, aberrant, trsilly disorred throughout their youths, fosterg a self-loathg that n lead, if not to suici, than to nearly suicidal activi.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Smokg, after all, is one of the ls harmful ways troubled gay people n stroy their bodi a va attempt to exorcise their mons. A pack of cigarett is certaly ls toxic than meth, bge drkg, and equent, anonymo unprotected sex—all nostms wh which some sufferg gays attempt to treat their mental wounds. We n wave CDC morbidy studi around all day, but a gay person stgglg wh self-loathg won’t particularly re.

In fact, a perverse way, the hazard is the draw for gay kids who see no reason to ntue livg. Instead, the solutn to the LGBTQ smokg crisis is, sentially, to do nothg—nothg more, that is, than we’re already dog to promote gay rights across the untry. Every time a stat’ cizens give the thumbs-up to gay marriage, every time a feral judge grants basic equaly to gay people, a new generatn of LGBTQ youth be a ltle ls prone to self-hatred and self-stctn.

Supreme Court Jtice Anthony Kennedy’s sistence that gay people serve equal digny probably did more to curb smokg among gay youth than any anti-smokg ad ever uld.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

As gay people bee more accepted mastream life, so, too, will gay teens feel ls tempted to exorcise their agony wh risky behavr like smokg. But until gay people are tly weled all facets of society, gay kids will keep turng to those vic that, the midst of such overwhelmg bleakns, provi a fleetg (and o) moment of relief.

Studi over the past suggt that gay men smoke at higher rat than men the general U.

ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT

This puts gay and bisexual men at high risk for smokg-related illns. 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?

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As a 30-year-old gay man, I’ve met a lot of other queer people who also hid parts of themselv childhood. Experimentg wh femy the safety of the home — even somethg as mcule as selectg girl characters vio gam and livg virly through her abily to kick ass — seems to be a shared gay experience for many of . None of this mak a person gay, of urse.

It feels remiscent of the adoratn that gay fans hold toward old Hollywood beti like Joan Crawford and Judy Garland, or the pageant-style exaggeratns of femy that unrpned so much of early drag culture.

Barbie has been the subject of the same gay diva worship over the years, and Gerwig’s film promently featurg LGBTQ+ actors feels like a nod to that history. Part of Barbie’s gay appeal might be that, spe beg plastic and unmalleable, she n transform herself to anythg: doctor, lawyer, judge, journalist, and vet, or whatever Mattel thks will sell the most dolls.

) As the world’s most famo doll, she has been st as both an aspiratnal hero and a rctive villa — the gay world, this polarizg dualy often turns women to ins. After I me out as gay, I spent a lot of my younger adult life reilg when people said that they “already knew. Now, I feel proud of my ltle gay self for havg the urage to play wh those fabulo dolls — and of my parents for buyg me the toys I wanted, not the on I was supposed to like.