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Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• WHY THE BLUE BOY PATG IS A GAY IN
• #THELIST: BIG GAY BETY INS
• ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
• GRDR'S NEW "GAYMOJI" OFFER A WHOLE VOBULARY BEYOND EGGPLANT AND PEACH
• ?️‍? GAY EMOJIS COLLECTN
• YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS GAY

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

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WHY THE BLUE BOY PATG IS A GAY IN

Valerie Hedquist, a profsor of art history at the Universy of Montana, has wrten extensively about the patg and s role as a gay in.

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Acrdg to Hedquist, a formative episo was the so-lled "lavenr sre" the 1950s which gay men and women were perceived to be threats to natnal secury and were hound om ernment office.

#THELIST: BIG GAY BETY INS

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"The emergg ias about how people see gay men is so important to how the Blue Boy be an inic image, " says Hedquist, "first of all as a source of ridicule and then as a reappropriatn. The reappropriatn me the form of a gay magaze first published 1974, lled "Blue Boy". It remend gay-iendly hotels and bars and fostered a sense of muny.

"The first gay travel agency was lled 'Blue Boy', " Hedquist explas. "They had cis and hotels where men uld be openly gay, wearg 'Blue Boy' T-shirts and rryg 'Blue Boy' travel bags.

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

It was a full reappropriatn and a celebratn that the Blue Boy was gay.

GRDR'S NEW "GAYMOJI" OFFER A WHOLE VOBULARY BEYOND EGGPLANT AND PEACH

" In the perd after the Stonewall rts, this was a galvanisg symbol, and has left a legacy of multiple "Blue Boy" gay bars around the world. Blue Boy was appropriated equently by the US ceramicist Howard Kottler, a choice that exprsed “explic homosexual referenc”, acrdg to art historian Vicki Halper. But the most explic referenc to the Blue Boy me the work of another US ceramicist, Léopold Foulem: acrdg to Hedquist, he "transformed the tentative allns to gay ntent found the work of Lambert and Kottler to a full-blown rt of queer signifince" wh his highly provotive scen of the Blue Boy trysts wh characters like Father Christmas and Colonel Sanrs.

?️‍? GAY EMOJIS COLLECTN

Other artists who have intified as gay, such as Robert Rschenberg and Keh Wiley, have ced Blue Boy as a major fluence on their later output, wh Wiley havg recently created a direct homage that is currently on display at the Huntgton Art Mm California ( 1921, Henry and Arabella Huntgton bought The Blue Boy om the art aler Joseph Duveen, who had acquired om the De of Wtmster). Wiley's patg, showg a 21st-Century Blue Boy wh dyed blond dreadlocks, Apple watch and baseball p, marks the culmatn of a two-centuri-long journey of Gasborough's origal om a pillar of tradnal cultural valu to gay in.

YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS GAY

Acrdg to Hedquist, Blue Boy is a game-changg symbol the history of gay rights. Apart om s appeal to gay artists, s e as a brandg emblem Blue Boy magaze the 1970s seemed to have a roundg historil signifince.

"It provid a means of leadg a full public existence as a gay man – and all me through Blue Boy. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.