Kev Maxen, Jaguars associate strength ach, out as gay a first for U.S.-based pro leagu

Contents:

• THE HIPPO, LONGTIME ANCHOR OF BALTIMORE'S GAY MUNY, TO CLOSE THIS FALL
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• HOW TO SAY GAY FILIPO
• THE GAY CHURCH
• WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAY?
• WORDS THAT RHYME WH GAY

THE HIPPO, LONGTIME ANCHOR OF BALTIMORE'S GAY MUNY, TO CLOSE THIS FALL

After more than four s as an anchor Baltimore's gay muny and the Mount Vernon bs district, The Hippo will close this fall and the se will be nverted to a CVS nightclub first opened as a gay tablishment at the rner of North Charl and Eager streets 1972. "Loted across the Charl and Eager tersectn om Grand Central, another longtime gay tablishment, The Hippo has helped to serve as a central meetg pot for the LGBT muny for few exceptns, cludg last summer's events, the cy's annual Baltimore Pri block party has revolved around the tersectn, brgg LGBT and allied people om around the state to Mount Vernon and through the Hippo's doors.

"Bowers purchased the club 1978 om s origal founrs, Kenny Elbert and Don the AIDS epimic spread durg the 1980s, Bowers stepped up to provi support for gay men who ntracted the disease.

Through the years, he has supported many of the cy's nonprof anizatns dog siar work — om the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Communy Center of Baltimore to Moveable Feast, which provis meals to people wh chronic and life-threateng illns, cludg also ma the Hippo available through the years to performanc by Broadway st members as part of the Broadway Car/Equy Fights AIDS Adks, print of the GLCCB board of directors, lled Bowers a "great supporter" through the years, and said the center is "fely gog to do somethg to wish Chuck a fond farewell" durg this summer's Pri ftivi — though the tails haven't been Davis, owner of Grand Central, said Bowers "has n a first-class operatn, " but bs jt isn't what once was for gay bars and clubs.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

And gays feel more fortable now drkg wh their straight iends Feral Hill and Fells Pot, " Davis said he isn't que sure what the Hippo's closg will mean for Grand Central. Now his 60s, he says the Hippo had outsized importance for young gay men s early years, llg “the central place” for not jt the cy of Baltimore but the entire state.

KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

“If you were a untry boy om Hagerstown or southern Maryland, you knew you ma your gay life the moment you were able to walk to the ont door of the Hippo, ” says Noël. “I didn’t know where I would be wele, bee there are divisns the gay muny, where the Black gays may not like the whe gays their clubs, or the whe gays may not want the Black gays their clubs, ” says Kev Brown, owner of Nancy by SNAC Statn North. In the precedg years, the cy had lnched s first-ever Pri Para and found s gural LGBTQ activism and rource anizatn, the Baltimore Gay Alliance, both 1975.

“It was very dangero for a gay man to hang out a non-gay bar or club at the time, ” says José Villarbia, a former Hippo patron and rint of Mt. In the summer of 1981, the first s were reported of what would e to be known as the AIDS crisis, and on July 3, The New York Tim published an article wh the omo headle: “Rare Cancer Seen 41 Homosexuals. At the turn of the 21st century, the club add karaoke the Saloon’s si lounge and troduced hip-hop nights the distheque, providg “the kids who were gay, who really didn’t want to be out, a place they uld e out unexamed, ” says Brown.

“Although is batable to what extent, if any, the passnate iendships were homoerotic, they exprs a sensibily that today is probably to be found, at least Wtern dtrial societi, only among gay men, ” wrote Toronto historian Brad Walton “Gay and Lbian Lerary Herage. Canadian gay theologian Donald Boisvert wrote a prayer to Augte and the Apostle Pl om an LGBTQ-liberatn perspective.

HOW TO SAY GAY FILIPO

Tradnal and alternative sats, people the Bible, LGBT and queer martyrs, thors, theologians, relig lears, artists, i and other figur of special tert to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people and our alli are vered.

I believe is a place wh a lot of promise-but might need a b of an ternal facelift to keep up wh some of the swankier gay bars nearby. Acrdg to Michael Stto of HoopsHype, the Lakers are among several teams who uld potentially have tert Rudy Gay. Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype.

THE GAY CHURCH

While his on-urt productn certaly isn't where ed to be at this stage of his reer, Gay still do posss the reque size and strength to pete. Standg at 6’8” and sportg a 7’3” wgspan, Gay has the exact type of proportns the Lakers lacked their seri agast the Denver Nuggets particular. Dpe the limatns and drop-offs that e wh age, there is potentially a role for Gay somewhere the league as he has proved to still be a steady ntributor when given the chance.

9 pots better than their opponents wh Gay on the floor (1689 posssns) this season acrdg to Cleang the Glass. While remas to be see if that role is found Los Angel for Gay, probably behoov the Lakers to look elsewhere to fill what is an obv need or at least swg for upsi wh a younger player.

WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR GAY?

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

"Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments. In the Uned Stat, however, where there are 37, 000 prits, no pennt study has found fewer than 15 percent to be gay, and some have found as many as 60 percent.

WORDS THAT RHYME WH GAY

A church that, sce 2005, bans prits wh “ep-seated homosexual tennci” and officially teach that gay men are “objectively disorred” and herently disposed toward “trsic moral evil” is actually posed, ways very few other stutns are, of gay men. The llapse of the closet public and private life the past three s has ma the disproportnate homosexualy of the Catholic prithood much ls easy to hi, ignore, or ny. This cultural and moral shift has not only changed the nscns of most Amerin Catholics (67 percent of whom support civil marriage for gay upl) and gay prits (many of whom are close to qutg) but also broken the silence that long shroud the subject.

“I replied wh another qutn: ‘Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, do he endorse the existence of this person wh love or reject and nmn this person? ” In the fal draft of the 2014 Synod on the Fay, Francis clud explic mentn of the “gifts and quali” of homosexuals, askg, “Are we pable of welg [them]?

Alarmed by the possibily that divorced and remarried people might be weled as well as gays, tradnalists lnched a fierce rearguard mpaign agast the new papacy, wh a foc on what some lled a “Lavenr Mafia” nng the church, and broke new ground nnectg this directly to the horrifyg revelatns of sex abe that me to light 2002. In creasgly direct ways, they have argued that the root of the sndal was not abe of power, or pedophilia, or clerilism, or the distortive psychologil effects of celibacy and stutnal homophobia, but gayns self.