'S-Town' and the Lonels of Beg Gay the Rural South

Contents:

• 'S-TOWN' AND THE LONELS OF BEG GAY THE RURAL SOUTH
• BRIAN SCHWEZER'S 'GAY-DAR' DID PICK UP ON SOMETHG ABOUT SOUTHERN MEN
• DOCUMENTARY FOC ON SOUTHERN GAY LIFE
• WHY THIS GEIA MOUNTA TOWN HAS BEE A GAY-IENDLY HOT SPOT
• GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020
• BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

'S-TOWN' AND THE LONELS OF BEG GAY THE RURAL SOUTH

By takg and puttg the library, hopefully, will make more accsible to the muny, ” said Robert “Robby” Byrd, 40, a gay man who grew up the ral Mississippi town of Amory and is now an assistant profsor of journalism at the universy. He gave his llectn of old gay newspapers to his alma mater Rhos College, which was known as Southwtern at Memphis when he earned gre German and theater there 1975.

I had a lot of mementos om the Emerald Theater Company, ” said Astor, referrg to the lol gay theater troupe wh which he had performed, cludg twice as the flamboyant Emory productns of the play “Boys the Band. Such was the se when Janelle Sweeney, a straight woman who liv Birmgham, ntacted the project out of the blue about a gui to gay bars she had disvered at an tate sale. Thkg she uld rell the mcle magaz, Sweeney was sortg through them when she was amazed to disver a send edn of the 1964 Internatnal Guild Gui to var gay bars om around the globe.

BRIAN SCHWEZER'S 'GAY-DAR' DID PICK UP ON SOMETHG ABOUT SOUTHERN MEN

Thanks to the shownners drivg thentic stori, filmmakers buckg s-old heteronormative paradigms, actors embolned to live more hontly and platforms bankrollg so much of , beg gay, queer, transgenr or any other other has never been more wily embraced the entertament s gural Pri issue, The Hollywood Reporter homed on the talent and makers helpg boost visibily and creatg opportuni for members of the extend LGBTQ muny. After more than a of Watch What Happens Live Wh Andy Cohen, where he beme the first openly gay host Amerin late night, Bravo's exec turned talent tackl all kds of media (SiriXM show Rad Andy, multiple books), while upliftg and advotg for the LGBTQ muny.

Puttg his stamp on The Ln Kg — he played Timon to great acclaim the billn-dollar-earng Disney reboot — the out-and-proud funnyman will next play Matt Ddge  Amerin Crime Story: Impeachment while his upg Judd Apatow-produced feature at Universal is set to be the first gay rom- om a major stud. Creator of the NBC s One Big Happy and her own YouTube talk show This Jt Out, Feldman recently ma her Netflix edy outright queer, as Dead to Me's sophomore season revealed a lead character to be bisexual. Watchg Rickie Vasquez, a gay character played by an openly gay actor, Wilson Cz, certaly felt like the most hont and rpectful portrayal of a gay teen I had ever seen.

DOCUMENTARY FOC ON SOUTHERN GAY LIFE

I'LL FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOLLYWOOD'S LGBTQ REPRESENTATION WHEN "When 'gay actor, ' 'gay director, ' 'gay wrer, ' 'gay story, ' et cetera, are no longer labels even worth mentng.

WHY THIS GEIA MOUNTA TOWN HAS BEE A GAY-IENDLY HOT SPOT

In 2019, the bisexual actor uld be seen as French New Wave in Jean Seberg Venice premiere tle Seberg, as a secret agent Sony's Charlie's Angels reboot and on a particularly gay episo of SNL. The queer Salvadoran edian translated the handful of breakout Saturday Night Live scen he wrote to multiple als at HBO — where he buted the edy special My Favore Shap  2019 and is readyg season two of Los Espookys, the half-Spanish, half-English, entirely absurd edy which he stars as the gay heir to a cholate fortune. After 45 seasons, 's hard to believe there are any firsts left for Saturday Night Live — but Yang arrived at 30 Rock 2019 as the st's first Che Amerin stmember and only s third openly gay male.

(2011), the crilly-acclaimed [lk=tt1454029, his stage role as "Peanut" the gay-themed Southern Baptist Sissi (2013) wrten and directed by Del Shor, another -star role as an HOA "dictator" Whoa! The votg public lov to get behd a salac news story om time to time, pecially when volv a potentially closeted nservative who is on the rerd as is no surprise that former Montana Governor Brian Schwezer ma headl last week when he said that Republin Hoe majory lear Eric Cantor (who is whdrawg om his top slot) sets off his "gay-dar". If you were jt a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talkg, I would say – and I'm fe wh gay people, that's all right – but my gaydar is 60-70 percent.

His wk-and-nod at Cantor's sexualy uld be read as jt another attempt to grab natnal headl by brandg the former Republin lear a 'HOMO' when I heard Schwezer's remarks, I thought about the long legacy of effemate southern men – and particularly the image of lispg, land-owng lads om days gone 's right: As a scholar of genr and sexualy studi and Amerin polics, and a gay man om the South, I thk Schwezer may have a pot. Rumors have swirled around Texas Governor Rick Perry (which he's nied), spe his recent ments that beg gay is like beg an alholic: you n put the hab down if you try hard enough (spoken like someone who's revery).

GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020

And South Carola Senator Ldsey Graham has alt wh siar backbg for years – most recently when a rival the Republin primary lled him "ambiguoly gay" – spe hilarly-word nials. Whether Perry or Graham are practicg homosexuals isn't the pot: accg them of beg gay is part of a long history of qutng the virily – and thereby the abili – of southern men posns of tth is, the image of the southern ele is kda gay, and Schwezer's not a homophobe – he was jt bong up on some good ol'-fashned populist ele-hatg.

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE

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10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

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“You may ask why do we need a platform and magaze for queer and gay photography”, Ghisla Pasl, -founr and -owner of The Ltle Black Gallery, curator and edor of BOYS!

Volume 1, Domeni Cennamo, gay, gay men, gay photographer, gay photography, gay photos, Krzysztof Marchlak, Maths Katayama, michael epps, Michael Sønrgaard, Niv Shank, Pl McDonald, queer photographer, queer photography, queer photos, Serge Le Hidalgo, The Queer Review, Tyler Udall. Ever sce born-aga sger and orange juice pchwoman Ana Bryant helped kick off the ntemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-le elements of the relig right have been searchg for ways to monize gay people — or, at a mimum, to fd arguments that will prevent their normalizatn society. For the former Florida bety queen and her Save Our Children group, was the alleged plans of gay men and lbians to "rec" schools that provid the fodr for their csa.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

But addn to hawkg that myth, the legns of anti-gay activists who followed have add a panoply of others, rangg om the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientatn is a choice, to unalloyed li like the claims that gay men molt children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalizatn of btialy and necrophilia.

The fairy tal are important to the anti-gay right bee they form the basis of s claim that homosexualy is a social evil that mt be supprsed — an opn rejected by virtually all relevant medil and scientific thori.

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

Depictg gay men as a threat to children may be the sgle most potent weapon for stokg public fears about homosexualy — and for wng electns and referenda, as Ana Bryant found out durg her succsful 1977 mpaign to overturn a Da County, Fla., ordance barrg discrimatn agast gay people. Others have ced a group lled the Amerin College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) to claim, as Tony Perks of the Fay Rearch Council did November 2010, that "the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a [moltatn] danger to children. Gregory Herek, a profsor at the Universy of California, Davis, who is one of the natn's leadg rearchers on prejudice agast sexual mori, reviewed a seri of studi and found no evince that gay men molt children at higher rat than heterosexual men.