Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.
Contents:
- THE TOPP TWS W BIG AT THE LGBTI AWARDS AND SPEAK OUT ON THE PORTRAYAL OF GAY UPL ON MAFS
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
THE TOPP TWS W BIG AT THE LGBTI AWARDS AND SPEAK OUT ON THE PORTRAYAL OF GAY UPL ON MAFS
Tw pairs which at least one tw is homosexual were soliced through announcements the gay prs and personal referrals om 1980 to the prent. An 18-page qutnnaire on the "sexualy of tws" was filled out by one or both tws. Thirty-eight pairs of monozygotic tws (34 male pairs … * are the topp twins gay *
45pmTheir reer spans 40 years and is emblematic of changg attus to gay and lbian people.
Chang e om tg people and New Zealand has been very ol about acceptg openly gay and lbian people. Never judgmental, they ped when their tws were "plastered all over magaz when wasn't ol to be openly gay, " says Lynda. "Events like Pri and the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras are now the only time you have a ncentratn of gays and lbians gog to theatre, shows, parti.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
Dame Jools and Lynda Topp took home the Lifetime Achievement Award, ed the opportuny to highlight their ncerns over the way gay people are portrayed on televisn, llg "a sad reflectn of our liftyle.'' * are the topp twins gay *
What is really ol now is that we have young lbian women, young gay men who know nothg of this stuff. But there are still thgs we mt be mdful of – many young gays and young lbians, transgenr and genr-fluid people are stgglg.
JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light's disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. * are the topp twins gay *
It's not a bed of ros all the time for the gay and lbian muny. "Realisg that ser untry mic was "not everyone's favoure", the Topp Tws' act evolved to clu ic characters and their own songs that tapped to the polil issu of the time – a nuclear-ee New Zealand, Maori land rights, homosexual law reform and, more recently marriage equaly.
* are the topp twins gay *
"The Topp Tws host and perform at the Strictly Kaftan Party, at the Ivy, on Febary 19, as part of the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Viewed CultureLoadg. The Topp Tws are among New Zealand's most inic and celebrated entertaers but they're also activists - the past 40 years they've urageoly mpaigned for the rights of women, gays and lbians, unns, and a nuclear-ee New Zealand. "We're all gay, " the pair lgh rly, referrg also to their brother, Bce.
(And, unsurprisgly, gay rights. The sisters' supportive parents, Jean and Pete, adm to ial shock that their tws were gay.
Have the tws actually charmed every sgle person New Zealand — even racist, pro-ne homophob — or is the director simply accentuatg the posive? Raised along wh their gay brother their island natn's gged ttle untry, the Topp gals started bkg for giggl the early 1980s, leadg to a reer that has no clear Amerin unterpart.