Chelsea Handler helps llege swimmer accept he’s gay - Outsports

Contents:

• CHELSEA HANDLER HELPS LLEGE SWIMMER ACCEPT HE’S GAY
• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• ROMMEL GAY CALIFORNIA

CHELSEA HANDLER HELPS LLEGE SWIMMER ACCEPT HE’S GAY

In the followg weeks, Rommel learned a gay swimmer wasn't new for Hope —€” there were two gay upperclassmen —€” but for Rommel, this marked a change. Rommel's hatns about tellg people he's gay before llege prevented him om velopg close iendships most of his life. Though Rommel had been around gay men sce he started dancg serly, sex —€” and particularly gay sex —€” were taboo topics his Christian home.

He told his mom he's gay for the first time the wter of his sophomore year. Nathan's lack of operatn wh the therapist led to his mom endg the unselg after about five ssns, and would be years before they talked aga about him beg gay. From his sophomore year forward, Rommel intified as gay, but he felt hant to be open about .

Hope Farnsworth, a high school classmate of Rommel's, never saw or heard of him explicly tell anyone that he's gay. As his relatnship wh Rose progrsed, Rommel cid to broach the topic of beg gay wh his parents, somethg he hadn't done sce therapy end two years earlier. Rommel put no qualifiers or rtrats on Sheldon after tellg her that he's gay, and he experienced a surprisg feelg as spread om one person to another that night.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

A man  make-up and pearls nmng transgenr people may seem untertuive, but Milo Yiannopoulos is hardly the first gay reactnary. The se of Ernst Röhm, the hight-rankg gay Nazi, prents an tertg study the nstctn and ntament of masculy by the right. Röhm opposed his party’s stand on Paragraph 175 of the German penal , which ma male homosexual acts illegal.

This ma some German homosexuals thk he might ultimately tone down the Nazi stance.

(Earlier, the Social Democrats, one of the few parti to mpaign for the repeal of Paragraph 175, showed self willg to gay-ba Röhm.

ROMMEL GAY CALIFORNIA

As Eleanor Hanck explas, Röhm, his face srred om war wounds, strsed a hyper-masculy to unteract ntemporary views of homosexualy as feme. ” This aligned wh Nazi views of the homosocial Männerbund.

Röhm suggted that the le between homosocial and homosexual, however, was potentially fluid. Hanck says that Röhm “challenged the privilegg of heterosexual over homosexual masculi. His open homosexualy may have threatened the psychologil secury of some other Natnal Socialists, creatg a form of ‘male homosexual panic.

'” She go further, wonrg if “the purge of the SA and the killg of Röhm reprented the leral objective rrelative for the supprsn and reprsn of the homosexual sir their own Nazism?