A Gay Romp - The Stranger

Contents:

• A GAY ROMP
• 'BROS' TRAILER: BILLY EICHNER TO LEAD FIRST GAY ROM- BY A MAJOR STUD
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?
• GAY ROMP! MEANG, GAY ROMP! FN | ENGLISH COBUILD DICTNARY
• ' THE BOYS THE BAND' IS STILL A SAD GAY ROMP
• MAN BTED WH ANDREW GILLUM HOTEL ROOM WH METH WAS GAY RT
• PETER AND THE STARTCHER: A GRAND, GAY ROMP

A GAY ROMP

The ia go further than gaystreamg—this is the ia that there n't even be a straight whout a gay. Joey Veltkamp and Jefy Mchell, two gay and out artists Seattle of two different generatns—Veltkamp his 30s, Mchell his 50s—took Hi/Seek for the first time last week.

Gayns is allowed s full range of postur and stum: smopolan, wboy-hatted, pre-dis (shirts unbuttoned down to there), sailors butt-huggg uniforms. "It's the oppose of Cadm, which is yummy but mean, " Mchell says, lookg across the gallery toward Cadm's ndy-lored manifto pictg a segregated landspe separatg straights om gays. One of the great unacknowledged breakups Amerin history, Hi/Seek propos, is the one between straights (so-lled "normals") and gays (so-lled "viants").

'BROS' TRAILER: BILLY EICHNER TO LEAD FIRST GAY ROM- BY A MAJOR STUD

Wh the rise of the term "homosexual" the 20th century, sudnly you were eher one or the other, and never the two uld meet.

Rivers and O'Hara were not ee om opprsive homophobia, but they were puttg everythg out the open this patg. "Internalized homophobia. It rais the qutn: Who are the biggt smugglers the history of gay art?

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

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She clared the "first Homosexual Weddg ever to be performed the Uned Stat.

That purpose is very different than simply a "homosexual weddg, " Mchell pots out. This is not jt a straight weddg wh gay personnel.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

Is a radil versn of post-gay? How do out-and-proud and post-gay exist? Is important to be gay or straight anymore?

IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

"I like this world where the label gay or straight don't matter anymore, " Veltkamp says. "I'm still thkg about this qutn: Is important to be gay or straight? "I ed to be homophobic around super-effemate men.

For me, personally and polilly, is important to be gay. Universal Pictur released Wednday the trailer for “Bros, ” the first gay romantic edy to premiere by a major gay rom- was wrten by and stars Billy Eichner, makg the edian and four-time Emmy nomated actor the first openly gay man to ever wre and star his own major stud film. "While ’s sane to me that took this long to get this movie ma, ’s still credibly excg to me — and a real sign of progrs — that the same stud makg movi like 'Jurassic World' and 'The Fast and the Fur' is also releasg this R rated gay rom wh an all LGBTQ+ st, and wh as much passn and enthiasm as they release those other films, " Eichner wrote.

"Nile Rivelli / Universal PicturDirected by Nicholas Stoller, "Bros" featur Eichner playg an openly gay man, Bobby, who stggl "to fd another tolerable human beg to go through life wh. In the trailer, Eichner's character is seen talkg on a podst about his experience meetg wh Hollywood producers about creatg a romantic film about gay people that "a straight guy might even like.

GAY ROMP! MEANG, GAY ROMP! FN | ENGLISH COBUILD DICTNARY

""They said: 'We jt want a movie that shows the world that gay relatnships and straight relatnships are the same.

' THE BOYS THE BAND' IS STILL A SAD GAY ROMP

Romp is a podst that talks to gay men about how they met and dated a time before the smartphone, when we had to go out to meet each other bars, clubs and public spac.

Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay. Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U.

Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player. “I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio.

MAN BTED WH ANDREW GILLUM HOTEL ROOM WH METH WAS GAY RT

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. Perhaps this is a role and avenue that Gay n also provi value like he did for a young Jazz team.

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.

The se agast Gay is simple — he would not shore up the Lakers’ glarg need at center.

PETER AND THE STARTCHER: A GRAND, GAY ROMP

Gay put up reer lows 3-pot shootg (25%) and eFG% (43%) wh Utah this past year. 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. One such piece — and a highly-predictable one, at that — is veteran forward Rudy Gay, who was recently waived by the Oklahoma Cy Thunr, after beg ed as filler two different offseason tras: first when the Utah Jazz shipped him to the Atlanta Hawks the John Colls al, and then when the Hawks sent him to the Thunr the Patty Mills tra.