Brian Schwezer's 'gay-dar' did pick up on somethg about Southern men | Howell WIlliams | The Guardian

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

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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.

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

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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.

DOCUMENTARY FOC ON SOUTHERN GAY LIFE

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.

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

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.

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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.

GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020

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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. Explore»RELATED: A weekend Blue RidgeThe cy, home to about 1, 444 rints, has had an flux of LGBT-owned bs open the past few years, and, acrdg to a Williams Instute study, the mounta muny is home to one of the largt populatns of gay upl the surroundg Fann County has the fourth hight ncentratn of same-sex upl, while neighborg Gilmer County has the state's fifth hight, acrdg to the California-based thk tank. "The list of reasons that gay upl have flocked to this unspectg town North Geia uld get que history, geo mountas and endls list of thgs to do and more might be the start of are few thgs you might not have known about the emergg gay-iendly muny:It's left the loggg the past.

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10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

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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. 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.

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

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.

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.

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

The fixated child molter — the stereotypil pedophile — nnot be nsired homosexual or heterosexual bee "he often fds adults of eher sex repulsive" and often molts children of both sex.

Most hard-le anti-gay anizatns are heavily vted, om both a relig and a polil standpot, promotg the tradnal nuclear fay as the sole amework for the healthy upbrgg of children. The Amerin Amy of Child & Adolcent Psychiatry affirmed 2013 that “[c]urrent rearch shows that children wh gay and lbian parents do not differ om children wh heterosexual parents their emotnal velopment or their relatnships wh peers and adults” and they are “not more likely than children of heterosexual parents to velop emotnal or behavral problems. The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics (AAP) a 2002 policy statement clared: "A growg body of scientific lerature monstrat that children who grow up wh one or two gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social, and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual.

” The next year, 2005, the APA published a summary of rearch fdgs on lbian and gay parents and reerated that mon negative stereotyp about LGBT parentg are not supported by the data. Siarly, the Child Welfare League of Ameri's official posn wh regard to same-sex parents is that "lbian, gay, and bisexual parents are as well-sued to raise children as their heterosexual unterparts.