Wp</tle><path d="M11.055 8.728l-1.018-1.019-.782.782v6.292l1.782 1.564.018-.019v-7.6zm-4.11.236L5.674 7.71l-.836.855v6.237l1.545 1.327.564-.636V8.964zm2.656 9.074l-2.528-2.182-1.927 2.182-2.619-2.255v-3.564h-.509c-.454 0-.672.273-.745.636H1.09a2.89 2.89 0 0 1-.091-.69c0-.473.2-1.71 1.527-1.71V7.691c0-1.073-.709-1.127-.709-2.054 0-1.037.982-2 2.782-2.637l.164.145c-.6.291-1.09.655-1.09 1.437 0 1.2 1.163.89 1.163 2.782v.727l2.127-2.236 2.237 2.2 2.109-2.2 2.036 2v6.728l-3.745 3.455zm11.108-9.625l-1.073-.982-.964 1.018v6.6c.855.11 1.491.4 2.019.964l.018-.018V8.413zm-2.382.418l-.528.545v10.237l.528.492V8.83zm1.49 9.055c-.308-.382-.69-.709-1.145-.836v3.782l-.036.018-1-.927-2.11 1.945-.036-.018V16.96c-.636.145-1.327.545-1.854 1.2l-.146-.091c.127-1.4.818-2.436 2-2.837v-3.545h-.382c-.527 0-.89.363-.963.763h-.219c-.054-.145-.127-.381-.127-.836 0-.891.6-1.564 1.582-1.564h.11V8.085l-.655-.582-.51.51-.254-.237 2.018-2.073 1.71 1.564V9.05l.527-.564v-2.09h.345v1.727l2.273-2.419L23 7.576v7.91l-3.182 2.4z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg><span class="mr-xs ml-xs gray-darkt flex ems-center">Get the full experience.<span class="ml-xs subs-theme blue">Choose your plan</span></span><svg class="ntent-box" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" xmlns=" style="fill:#166dfc" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><tle>ArrowRight</tle><path d="M7.664 1.25l6 6a1 1 0 010 1.414l-6 6L6.25 13.25 10.499 9H2V7h8.585L6.25 2.664 7.664 1.25z" fill-le="nonzero"></path></svg></a><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Sce Tuday, the posters have been spotted  <a href=">Rocky River, Oh</a><a href=">;</a> at <a href=">Conrdia College Moorhead, Mn</a>.; at <a href=">Tulane Universy New Orleans</a>; at <a href=">Montgomery Blair High School Silver Sprg, Md</a>.; <a href=">around llege-mp rich Cambridge, Mass</a>., cludg <a href=">the Harvard Yard</a> and at <a href=">the Universy of Alberta</a> Canada. In most s, schools and ci have pulled the posters down, but the msage has <a href=">ntued to spread imag and hashtags across Twter</a> and other social media platforms, even promptg a related <a href=">Know Your Meme entry</a> tailg s Inter origs and cultural backstory.</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The signs began as a suggtn on the onle chat space 4chan last month, a kd of Inter prank laced wh ennui and cynicism about race and whe inty morn-day Ameri.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A seri of msag said people should prt signs readg “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE,” post them on llege mp and elsewhere, and then stand back and watch the fun beg. News reports would draw attentn to the posters, the wrer behd the ia predicted. Then whe Amerins risively referred to as “normi” the whe natnalist esphere will disver that Amerin journalists and “lefti” hate whe people. In the procs, normi will stop regardg news outlets as credible. That would al a damagg blow the culture war, the post said, evably nvertg more “normi” to the whe natnalist, alt-right si. It uld be that easy to seed social disptn, the post implied.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The episo is ditive of the efforts whe-natnalist groups have ma to rec and around the natn’s llege mp and other mastream settgs wh claims of growg whe maltreatment and expandg anti-whe discrimatn. The whe victim nstct is one that experts say, not so long ago, only had tractn avowed whe supremacists, segregatnists and neo-Nazi circl. But today, animat open and anonymo public discsns of race and shap the natn’s polics.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">The Universy of Michigan is nsirg allowg Richard Spencer to speak on mp</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In the perd jt after the 2016 electn, <a href=">vtigators wh the Southern Poverty Law Center documented a surge posters and recment activy</a> by whe-natnalist anizatns on 150 llege and universy mp. Whe natnalist anizatns regard lleg as spac where lns of young Amerins, whout their terventn, will be culted wh the ias of valug diversy, seekg and creatg cln and equy, the vtigators found. And, on mp, whe-natnalist groups have ma every effort to unter that wh well-drsed, tech-savvy and articulate spokmen who rest equaly and cultural sensivy as a damagg loss for whe Amerins.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In the months immediately after the November 2008 electn, the untry saw an crease both hate crim and hate group membership, said Nicholas Valento, a polil scientist and rearch profsor at the Universy of Michigan’s Center for Polil Studi. For those already worried about what they view as the unacceptable price of equy, an end to whe ntrol, the untry’s cisn to elect s first black print was a chillg moment. But the Amerins’ perceptn that equy is effectively anti-whe discrimatn appears to have been adopted by a bigger portn of the Amerin whe populatn, Valento said.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div id="gift-share-le" data-ttid="gift-share-le" class="PJLV PJLV-ilotWTr-css hi-for-prt"><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expand="false" aria-ntrols="gift-share-drawer" role="button" tabx="0" aria-label="Share this article" id="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" data-ttid="gift-share-drawer-ntrol-le" class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-gsmDXe wpds-c-gsmDXe-goNocI-placement-Inle foc-highlight"><div data-ttid="gift-share-terstial-trigger" class="wpds-c-kPqOkS wpds-c-kPqOkS-jtSXsT-hasSubsText-false"><span class="wpds-c-hBJqc"><span class="wpds-c-dzSncg">Share this article</span></span><span class="wpds-c-eCvK"><span class="wpds-c-enedHQ wpds-c-enedHQ-cCdK-isShown-false">Share</span><svg xmlns=" fill="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 16 16" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img" class="wpds-c-fBqPWp wpds-c-fDHGth"><path fill="currentColor" d="M8 .6v3.8h.1c-4.4 0-7.3 4.5-6.9 8.8.1.8.2 1.2.2 1.2l.2 1 .4-1.3c.8-2 2-4 6.2-3.9H8v4l7-6.9L8 .6Zm1 11.3V9.3h-.9c-3 0-4.8.5-6.2 2.9.5-3.3 2.7-6.8 6.2-6.8H9V3l4.5 4.4L9 11.9Z"></path></svg></span></div></button></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Wh si var supremacist groups and movements believe, and have for a long time, that they are part of a victimized racial group,” said Valento. “Far right, whe natnalist, neo-Nazis and their ilk have always had this sense of aggrievement, the zero-sum mentaly that says as other groups ga rights or optns and opportuni om which they have been exclud, wh necsarily lose and this n not be tolerated. But rearch, my rearch and several other iativ, suggt that the whe sense of victimizatn, and by that I mean the perceptn of victimizatn, has been creasg dramatilly sce Obama’s electn. At this pot, ’s not a majory of wh, but has grown dramatilly outsi those extremist groups.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The sense that whe Amerins have bee the lone group Ameri unable to attend to group terts shows up those 4chan chat threads and Twter timel, too. Durg the 2016 electn, then-printial ndidate Donald Tmp even retweeted a msage om a like-md acunt <a href=">ltered wh accurate data on race and murr</a>. On the mpaign trail, Tmp said wh some regulary that life was safer and all-around better at a time Ameri when no one had to ncern themselv wh beg “polilly rrect.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">A black protter hugged a whe natnalist outsi Richard Spencer’s talk. ‘Why do you hate me?’ he asked.</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The factual basis for claims that whe Amerins are llectively sufferg<strong> </strong>is difficult to fd. On average, they ntue to enjoy better e, personal wealth rerv, health, health re, hog, schools than any other group. Whe Amerins also <a href=">make up 90 percent of the natn’s elected officials</a> spe makg up <a href=">about 61 percent</a> of the total populatn.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">At Conrdia College, one of the mp where the “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” plards and stickers were found this week, removed them. Conrdia officials said a statement they did so bee the signs did not adhere to mp display polici, the Mneapolis Star Tribune reported. Conrdia Print William Craft said he wanted to ve the mp muny to discs the posters at a public fom the school will anize. He also poted out that the posters were distguished, among other thgs, for a lack of rmatn, even the name of the group behd them.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">On Wednday, Craft posted a longer statement on the school’s Facebook page.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“There is and mt be a place here for people of different ethnici and sk lors, of different fah tradns or no fah tradns, of different natns, of different genr inti, of different polil nvictns,” he wrote. “In that sense, is ed OK to be whe — and to be black, to be brown, to be Christian, to be Mlim, to be straight, to be gay, to be nservative, to be liberal, and so on. 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Do you know that 70% of Amerins support gay marriage? (Gallup) And yet, anti-gay voic are loud, vilent, and hateful across the land. Anti-gay Did you know that seventy percent of Amerins support gay marriage? And yet, anti-gay voic are loud, vilent, and hateful across the land. Anti-gay is ....

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A GEIA SCHOOL STAFFER REMOVED STUNT'S 'GAY IS OK' ARTWORK AND PARED TO A NAZI FLAG: REPORT

The artwork featur a rabow wh the words "Gay is OK" unrneath an umbrella, acrdg to NBC affiliate WXIA-TV. * it's okay to be gay poster *

A school admistrator Geia removed a stunt's artwork featurg a rabow wh the words "Gay is OK" and pared to a Nazi flag − promptg an vtigatn by the lol school district. A pro-LGBTQ+ stunt artwork at a school Athens, Ga., was taken down om a classroom last week and likened by an admistrator to the Nazi picture, wh rabow lors and the words "Gay Is OK, " was beg displayed by a teacher as part of an exhib of stunt art at Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School, Atlanta TV statn WXIA reports.

But Friday, admistrators asked that the "Gay Is OK" artwork be removed, sayg a parent had plaed about . "Homophobia, Anti-semism, and all forms of hate should have no home here Athens -- pecially our public schools.

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It's like if one of went to a Christian movie and got offend that nservative valu were displayed and no gay characters 's all performance are for the Anonymoreply 25July 25, 2023 5:08 PM. Not for agg gays and we mommi who want to take down the Anonymoreply 26July 25, 2023 5:11 PM.

Do you know that 70% of Amerins support gay marriage? (Gallup) And yet, anti-gay voic are loud, vilent, and hateful across the land. Anti-gay Christians put a lot of stock the argument that they have the Bible on their si.

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(PHOTO BY EARL LEAF/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAG)BY DAVID TOSATSEPTEMBER 10, 2018 / 11:08 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"BURT REYNOLDS LET ME KNOW IT WAS OKAY TO BE GAY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-09-10T15:08:11.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-09-10T15:08:11.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAVID TOSAT","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH MUT OF HEARG OF BURT REYNOLDS’ ATH, I POSTED A PHOTO ON FACEBOOK OF THE MOVIE STAR’S COSMOPOLAN LAYOUT, WHICH THE SOCIAL MEDIA SE ALMOST JT AS QUICKLY FLAGGED AS A VLATN OF MUNY STANDARDS. AND THEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WTF?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT WASN’T JT THAT FACEBOOK DIDN’T SEEM TO REALIZE THAT THE IMAGE—A NAKED REYNOLDS SPRAWLED OUT ON A BEARSK N, SMOKG AND SG, WH ONLY ONE HAND TO HI HIS PRIVATE PARTS—IS ONE OF THE MOST INIC IMAG OF THE 1970S, OR THAT WE LIVE A WORLD WHERE MALE NUDY—FULL-ONTAL, PORN, TUMBLR GUYS PLEASURG THEMSELV EVERY WAY POSSIBLE—IS AVAILABLE 24/7, WAS THAT FACEBOOK (WHICH HAS SCE ISSUED AN APOLOGY FOR THE LETN), AND PERHAPS A WHOLE GENERATN, MISSED THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BURT REYNOLDS’ BEEFKE SHOT WAS MEANT FOR TO LOOK AT—ALL OF . AND NOT PRIVATE. IT WAS A CELEBRATN OF THE MALE FORM AS OBJECTIVY, LIKE SO MANY WOMEN BEFORE AND AFTER HIM. FOR GAY KIDS LIKE ME, WAS THE TURNG POT ACCEPTG OUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I’D LIKE TO SAY THAT BURT REYNOLDS MA ME GAY, BUT I ALREADY KNEW THAT. WHAT THAT PHOTO DID, AND A SIAR SHOT OF HIM OM BEHD AND NAKED OM THE WAIST DOWN, HOLDG A FOOTBALL, AND, Y, ALSO SG, IS MAKE ME KNOW WAS OKAY TO LT AFTER MEN, BEEFY MEN WHO ULD BE OUR NEIGHBOR’S DAD OR THE LOL SPORTS ACH OR THE TO-SHOP {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID I MENTN HE WAS SG?UNED ARTISTS/GETTYBURT REYNOLDS ONT OF LOCKER A SCENE OM THE FILM 'FUZZ', 1972. (PHOTO BY UNED ARTISTS/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BURT REYNOLDS THE FILM FUZZ (1972).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1972, WHEN THE LAYOUT APPEARED, MOST GAY KIDS HAD NO ROURC TO EXPLORE OUR SEXUAL URG, SAVE SNEAKG A PEEK AT THE LIFEGUARD AT THE POOL OR PUTTG UP ROCK STARS POSTERS ON OUR BEDROOM WALL—NOT SO MUCH BEE WE LOVED THE BAND, BUT BEE THEY ALL TEND TO WEAR TIGHT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BURT CHANGED ALL OF THAT, BEE THERE HE WAS—HIS LAYOUT MA TO POSTERS AND DISPLAYED EVERYWHERE, A MAJOR MOVIE STAR SAYG ’S OKAY, AND WELE, TO GAWK AT MEN UNABASHEDLY. THERE’S NOTHG THREATENG HIS POSE, THERE ARE NO SECRETS HIS EY. THERE ARE NO CLU THAT SAY, “IF YOU’RE A GUY AND LOOKG AT THIS, FUCK OFF.” UNTENTNALLY OR NOT, HE’S GIVG MEN THE SAME EE PASS AS WOMEN TO ENJOY HIM. HE’S SUBMISSIVE. AND THAT’S ABOUT AS GAY AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GRANTED, WASN’T LIKE I ULD E MY ALLOWANCE TO BUY A POSTER OF BURT’S RRIèRE AND SHARE AMONG IENDS, AND I DID THE SAME THG MOST GAY KIDS DID: I WENT TO THE STORE AND SUALLY STARED AT BURT’S POSTERS WHILE PRETENDG TO BE TERTED THE LATT BLACK-LIGHT IMAG THAT WERE ALL THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED THAT THE ORIGAL LAYOUT WAS FOR COSMO, A WOMEN’S MAGAZE, AND NSIRED PART OF THEIR SEXUAL LIBERATN. BUT WASN’T LOST ON THE GAY LIBERATN TAKG PLACE AT THE SAME TIME.SILVER SCREEN COLLECTN/GETTYAMERIN ACTOR BURT REYNOLDS SS ON THE SHOULRS OF -STAR RONNY COX A SWIMMG POOL, DURG THE FILMG OF 'DELIVERANCE', CIR 1972. JON VOIGHT IS JT VISIBLE ON THE RIGHT. (PHOTO BY SILVER SCREEN COLLECTN/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BURT REYNOLDS SS AND DELIVERANCE -STAR RONNY COX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}POST-STONEWALL AND POST-THE ADVOTE, THE GAY LOOK WAS BURT’S LOOK—DARK, HAIRY, MTACHED—WELL, BUTCH—AND YOU ULD SEE OTHER GAY-CELEBRATED CELEBRI, TOO. SWIMMER MARK SPZ, WHOSE BATHG SU POSTER ALSO ME OUT 1972, LOOKED LIKE EVERY PORN STAR ROLLED TO ONE. A YEAR LATER WE’D BE H WH LEE MAJORS THE SIX MILLN DOLLAR MAN, SOON SAM ELLTT LIFEGUARD, LEADG UP TO A CELEBRATN OF THE FORM THE EXCSIVELY GAY VILLAGE PEOPLE TUNE “MACHO MAN” {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1973, PLAYGIRL FORMED, THE FIRST OPPORTUNY FOR KIDS OF MY GENERATN TO ACTUALLY SEE MEN FULLY NAKED. (Y, I HAD TO H THE DGSTORE AND HI THE PI BETWEEN OTHER MAGAZ AND PRAY NO ONE UGHT ON.) WHILE PLAYGIRL WAS TEND FOR WOMEN, THE MEN SI WERE, BY ALL ACUNTS, ADORED BY A LARGELY GAY DIENCE. IN A SENSE, THE MOLS WERE BURT’S PROTéGéS, ALLOWG TO SEE EVERYTHG—THE DIFFERENCE BEG THAT THEY WERE HIDN AN ADULT MAGAZE, SECRETIVE, WHILE BURT’S IMAG WERE PLASTERED SHOPPG MALLS ACROSS THE UNED STAT. EVERYONE WAS EE TO HAVE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BURT REYNOLDS WAS A MAJOR MOVIE STAR, WHO MA DOZENS OF H FILMS, SOME OF THEM GREAT, SOME OF THEM NOT. TO RCE HIS LEGACY TO TILLATG PHOTOS IS NOT MY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT EVERY TIME I SAW HIM A FLICK AFTER 1972, I HAD THOSE IMAG MY MD. I WAS WATCHG A MAN, A HEARTTHROB, WHO WAS LOOKG BACK AT MY CHILDHOOD SELF, SG, AND SAYG, “GO AHEAD, TAKE A PEEK. THERE’S NOTHG WRONG WH GETTG EXCED BY A MAN.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

As a progrsive Christian, I not only dissent om this evangelil “take, ” I sist that is not okay to be gay.

OKAY TO SAY GAY POSTERS

Sce the church has an anti-gay history, evangelils sist they have the “orthodox, ” “tradnal, ” “te” Christian posn.

I have a better philosophy: “It’s not okay to be anti-gay.

” In this article I argue that the claims of evangelils to be biblil, Christian, and fahful on the issue of homosexualy are rooted human prejudice and cultural unrstandgs.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* IT'S OKAY TO BE GAY POSTER

'Gay Is OK' Artwork Taken Down, Allegedly Likened to Nazi Flag .

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