Dakar-based journalist Marta Moreiras explor what means to be gay Senegal, where homosexual men here are targeted wh the slur “Góor-jigéen” - a pejorative term which lerally means “men-women” the Wolof language #CryLikeaBoy
Contents:
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- LIVG SHADOWS: LIFE AS A GAY DAKAR
- GUI GAY DU SéNéGAL
- RENNTRE GRATUE GAY SéNéGAL
- LIX POUR L GAY SENEGAL
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- GAY SENEGAL - FROM GAY CAPAL TO COUNTRY OF HOMOPHOBIA
- TERROR SWEEPS SENEGAL’S GAY MUNY AFTER A SERI OF ASSLTS
- LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
- GAY LIFE SENEGAL
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
- HIDG HOMOPHOBIA AS A GAY STUNT SENEGAL
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer. * gay senegal *
McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals.
Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly.
LIVG SHADOWS: LIFE AS A GAY DAKAR
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It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport.
GUI GAY DU SéNéGAL
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McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay. ”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry.
As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok.
RENNTRE GRATUE GAY SéNéGAL
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’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac.
“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.
Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done.
LIX POUR L GAY SENEGAL
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The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L. “Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth.
McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others.
Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice. When you are homosexual Senegal, you are not only nsired as a sub-man but also a crimal.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
Anti-gay rhetoric the media and by policians agast dividuals believed to be gay or lbian sharply creased. In 2008, the 1965 law punishg same-sex activi was revived, wh the arrts of more than 50 people and trials of at least 16 dividuals. * gay senegal *
In this fifth episo of Euronews and Ainews’ first podst, Cry Like a Boy, Dakar-based journalist Marta Moreiras explor what means to be gay Senegal, where homosexual men are targeted wh the slur “Góor-jigéen” - a pejorative term which lerally means “men-women” the Wolof language, and is ed to beltle their masculy. A hor of angry stunts elbows their way to the hall of one of the faculti tryg to pture a man acced of beg gay. In Senegal, gay men are lled "góor-jigéen", a pejorative term ed to beltle their masculy.
Danielle Olavar: In Senegal, if you are openly gay, you n not only be sulted, rejected, and ostracised, but also hunted, beaten, and even arrted and imprisoned. His book ‘D Purs Homm’ (‘Pure Men’ English) explor a big taboo Senegale society: beg gay. Junr: “Beg gay is very difficult bee you tend to hi, to change your behavur, bee people are much more radil and they are much meaner to , even mistreat them.
GAY SENEGAL - FROM GAY CAPAL TO COUNTRY OF HOMOPHOBIA
Kev Maxen, assistant ach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is the first openly gay ach of a U.S. men’s profsnal league sport * gay senegal *
Danielle Olavar: Lus Ramón Mendos om the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) explas how more than half of the untri sub-Saharan Ai have legislatn prohibg or reprsg homosexualy. A few months ago, Senegal’s Print Macky Sall nfirmed that the crimalisatn of homosexualy is not among his short-term plans.
Danielle Olavar: But is the nmnatn and rejectn of homosexualy actually part of tradnal Senegale culture? In the next episo, we will look at Senegal’s lonial past to track down the roots of homophobia.
TERROR SWEEPS SENEGAL’S GAY MUNY AFTER A SERI OF ASSLTS
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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.
The mixture of vodka and soda water, long known rmally as “gay water” the LGBTQ muny, is the brachild of 30-year-old gay entreprenr Spencer Hodson. He noted that the nctn aims “to stigmatize the word ‘gay’ by brgg reprentatn to spac that have not tradnally featured queer products, such as bars, liquor stor, grocery stor, rtrants, hotels and more.
LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
Hodson, who is fancg Gay Water wh his own money pl backg om fay and iends, his brightly lored ns are leang to their gayns stead of avoidg . He told CNN that he worked wh a queer signer to base Gay Water’s red, purple, green and orange lor scheme on pop art and 1990s televisn shows om Nickeloon, a ble work for children. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.
A statement on the Gay Water webse not that the word “gay” appears barely any products outsi of Pri Month each June. In lonial tim, Senegal’s metropolis Dakar was famo for s open and tolerated homosexual prostutn market, and as late as the 1970s, as many as 17 percent of Senegale men admted havg had homosexual experienc.
GAY LIFE SENEGAL
Sce 1965, same-sex activy has been punishable by up to five years imprisonment, but only durg the last five years, Dakar’s former visible gay muny has had to go unrground, riskg punishment. Ined, homosexualy has been a visible and well-known part of Wolof tradns, and only moralist opns of the lonialists, later adopted by an creasgly domant Mlim clergy, led to the supprsn of this culture. (photo right, gay uple Baba and Baidy had to flee Senegal after a lol newspaper prted their photo).
” Dr Corre referred to the Wolofs’ appete for “morbid eroticism” his cril report; the olst known wrten rerds of homosexualy Senegal. Mr Gorer tertgly not that the openly gay men “do not suffer any way socially, though the Mohammedans refe them relig burial.
“The elrs and fahful Mlims nmn men for this, ” Mr Crowr noted, th documentg a slowly growg tolerance towards homosexualy om the lol clergy.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
” When he returned ne years later, “Dakar was gayer than ever” and nobody did have to shy about his homosexualy the cy. And by 1958, he rells, homosexualy was not nfed to the French domated centre of Dakar, but to the nightlife the “native quarters” and shantytowns surroundg the pal. While many still ed the Wolof term gor-digen, several men now referred to themselv as “homosexuèl” French.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
A nnectn between the Wolof gor-digen tradn and the ternatnal notn of “homosexualy” – a much wir fn often excludg the optn of marryg someone of the oppose genr – was slowly beg tablished.
But still the mid-2000s, gay meetg pots were well known to Dakar habants and gay men relatively openly uld pick up equally oriented men terrass of the famo beach promena Corniche Out the centre at pla daylight. Anti-gay rhetoric the media and by policians agast dividuals believed to be gay or lbian sharply creased.
HIDG HOMOPHOBIA AS A GAY STUNT SENEGAL
In Febary 2008, publitn of photographs om a same-sex mment ceremony set off a wave of arrts and an anti-gay media enzy and sent dozens of gay men to exile. In December 2008, police raid an HIV trag hosted by a lol AIDS anisatn spected of aidg gay men. In November 2009, Safatoul Amal, an anisatn charged wh the spirual protectn of the town of Touba, raid a man’s home and arrted him for formg a “work of homosexuals.