Meet Son Lor, the Gay Filipo Man Who Catwalked His Way to Fame | GQ

Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• THE ‘GOLN GAYS’ RETURN TO THE STAGE THE PHILIPP
• MENCIRCLE HOMEMENCIRCLE IS THE LEADG POY GAY ONLE MUNY THE PHILIPP FEATURG POY GAY STORI AND HELPFUL GAY RELATED ARTICL PL A LIVE VIO CHAT ROOM EXCLIVE TO FILIPO GAY MEN, BISEXUALS AND TRANSGENRS WORLDWI.MENCIRCLE AIMS TO PROVI A VENUE FOR NVERSATN AND EXCHANGE OF IAS AMONG S MEMBERS, PROVIDG A VENUE FOR IENDSHIP, A SENSE OF MUNY, AND A SOUNDG BOARD FOR OPNS AND NCERNS OF GAY MEN REGARDG THE CURRENT ISSU AND TRENDS FACG NOT JT THE LGBT PEOPLE, BUT SOCIETY GENERAL.SUPPORT
• MANILA’S GOLN GAYS PROVE YOU’RE NEVER TOO OLD TO BE A QUEEN
• MEET SON LOR, THE GAY FILIPO MAN WHO CATWALKED HIS WAY TO FAME
• GAY PHILIPP STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

THE ‘GOLN GAYS’ RETURN TO THE STAGE THE PHILIPP

Bisexual men are perceived to sound more mascule than men who are straight, acrdg to a study of Atralian subjects.Amics at the Universy of Sydney pared the voic of gay, straight and bisexual men a study volvg 160 people.In the rearch led by clil psychologist Jam Morandi, people were reced to analyse the voic of 60 men, 20 of whom were gay, 20 straight and 20 bisexual.

MENCIRCLE HOMEMENCIRCLE IS THE LEADG POY GAY ONLE MUNY THE PHILIPP FEATURG POY GAY STORI AND HELPFUL GAY RELATED ARTICL PL A LIVE VIO CHAT ROOM EXCLIVE TO FILIPO GAY MEN, BISEXUALS AND TRANSGENRS WORLDWI.MENCIRCLE AIMS TO PROVI A VENUE FOR NVERSATN AND EXCHANGE OF IAS AMONG S MEMBERS, PROVIDG A VENUE FOR IENDSHIP, A SENSE OF MUNY, AND A SOUNDG BOARD FOR OPNS AND NCERNS OF GAY MEN REGARDG THE CURRENT ISSU AND TRENDS FACG NOT JT THE LGBT PEOPLE, BUT SOCIETY GENERAL.SUPPORT

They were then asked to rate the men on their sexual orientatn g a sle om zero (exclively heterosexual) to 10 (exclively homosexual).Listeners were also asked to rate each man’s perceived level of femy or masculy the voic on a siar sle.The men volved the study were asked to rerd themselv on a smartphone recg the first two l of the Atralian natnal anthem.Voice sampl were then modified to remove any background noise while volume levels were ma the same to ensure nsistency.Rults om the study showed listeners uld distguish between gay and straight men’s voic wh an accuracy of 62 per cent, apparently nsistent wh prev rearch.However, the study participants uld not terme any differenc between bisexual and straight men’s voic wh any gree of accuracy. The thors said their rearch showed bisexual men’s voic were perceived as beg more exclively attracted to women pared wh both gay and straight men’s voic.Bisexual men’s voic were rated as more mascule than both gay and straight men’s voic.Rearchers claimed the abily to intify a man’s bisexual inty om his voice alone uld have cril social implitns such as helpg to rce feelgs of alienatn.‘Voice may unter visibily many bisexuals feel’An abstract of the study, tled Can listeners tect if a man is bisexual om his voice alone, reads: “The prent study examed whether bisexual men n be intified om their voic ak to how gay men n be intified on their voice alone.“If this is the se, voice may be an important target of discrimatn on the one hand but may also unter the visibily many bisexuals feel (if their bisexual inti n be apprehend by their voice alone, whout explic disclosure required).“The fdgs may also she light on whether bisexual male voic, like gay male voic, differ om straight voic terms of their genr non-nformy – a qutn that to date has not been examed.”But amics noted the rearch was limed on the grounds all men who participated the study are Atralian, which may not be reflected among wir cultur.And the thors nced the study did not ntrol for the rerdg environment or microphone-to-mouth distance, which uld have affected the qualy of the voice sampl.The thors said the fdgs suggted that while the voic of bisexual men the sample were perceived as more mascule and attracted to femal, listeners did not associate this imprsn wh bisexualy.As a rult, while bisexual men may appear to be at lower risk of facg voice-based intifitn and discrimatn than gay men, they may often be mistaken as beg straight.The study was published the Journal of Sex Rearch. They formed a muny meant to support and shelter gay people who had been st asi by society.

MANILA’S GOLN GAYS PROVE YOU’RE NEVER TOO OLD TO BE A QUEEN

Members of the Goln Gays preparg for a show Manila. The money they raise through their performanc is ed to sta a home and basic needs as they Rey MoralPhotojournalist Hannah Rey Moral documented the liv of the “Goln Gays, ” visg their home Manila several tim 4, 2023On weekdays Manila, Al Enriquez, 86, ph a rickety woon rt wh a multilored umbrella perched on the dilapidated wood.

MEET SON LOR, THE GAY FILIPO MAN WHO CATWALKED HIS WAY TO FAME

Enriquez — swallowed by a T-shirt and basketball shorts hangg loosely on his small, agg body — is often overlooked by the weekends, though, he go by the stage name Carmen la Rue and is transformed to a Manila showgirl, donng floor length drs, elaborate makp, high heels and Enriquez belongs to a muny of olr gay men that lls self the Goln Gays. Jto found the Goln Gays, he wanted to create a re home for gay men livg on the streets of Manila, rejected by their fai and society.

Jto sheltered the Goln Gays his own home until he died 2012. “Many had to go back to the street where they me om, ” said Ramon Ba, the current print of the Goln Gays, who go by Lola Mon or the stage name Monique la of the members, Feri Ramasamy, better known as Lola Ri, found work as a street sweeper and was given a room a shantytown. Lola Ri crammed her belonggs and stum the small room and weled other Goln Gays who had nowhere else to go.

Muny, which means many of the Goln Gays were unable to fd jobs when they were younger.

GAY PHILIPP STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Jto’s home, some members of the Goln Gays entered homels shelters but said they felt unsafe men’s dorms and unfortable wh the expectatn that they would perform relig ruals, as many shelters the Philipp are n by fah-based anizatns. In the absence of a tradnal fay stcture, the Goln Gays have had to create their own support the panmic, the ernment prohibed olr Filipos, nsired more vulnerable to Covid fectn, om leavg their hom.