For Centuri, Blackmail Was a Tool Used to Intimidate Gay Men | HISTORY

Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
• GAY MAN LLS OUT HIS HIGH SCHOOL BULLY FOR G OUT AS BISEXUAL AND ’S DIVID OPN
• SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
• KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM
• FOR CENTURI, BLACKMAIL WAS A TOOL USED TO INTIMIDATE GAY MEN
• 'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
• THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn. Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. The film won’t say , but a post-creds punchle about Ken’s handwrg, plete wh hearts and stars surroundg his name, tells what we need to heavily implied nature of Ken’s gayns Toy Story 3 harkens back to Hollywood’s tradnal gay bt iend-type characters.

In the Hays Co era, explic referenc to homosexualy weren’t allowed, so characters like Van Buren (Frankl Pangborn) 1937’s Easy Livg, Kip (David Wayne) 1949’s Adam’s Rib, or Addison (Gee Sanrs) 1950’s All About Eve stead were imbued wh effemate characteristics, offerg a glimpse outsi of heteronormativy whout explicly beg of the characters were the same—some were tty, others sweet.

Des later, 2010, the gay bt iend was all the rage; Teen Vogue even went so far as to proclaim the GBF as the summer’s mt-have accsory. In movi like Mean Girls (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Easy A (2010), No Strgs Attached (2011), and Isn’t It Romantic (2019), gay iends exist entirely the orb of their female iends. ” But Barbie do, and for Ken, that’s are plenty of reasons why the film wouldn’t outrightly state that Ken is homosexual.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND

Mattel, of urse, vehemently nied any claims that Ken was gay, let alone that he had somethg as prepostero as a ck rg around his neck. As a rult, gay men bought the doll drov, and spe Mattel ultimately rellg the doll and wipg away any trace of Earrg Magic Ken, was near-impossible to see Ken as anythg but the glor homosexual he was born to be om then on. Though Mattel don’t seem to be willg to say Ken is actually gay, the Ken dolls of recent years seem to really lean to Ken’s queerns.

While there is no way to “drs gay, ” there are several dolls that seem to suggt otherwise, such as:Fashnista Ken #193, who looks very exced to tell you about his new obssn, Troye Sivan;Travel Ken Doll, who has a satchel perfect for bathho and a purple overnight bag that lerally proclaims he’s “extra;”Ken Looks Doll, servg “I’m gonna give you a makeover”-type realns while sportg black pleather pants;This Ken, who wears the least heterosexual double nim I have a feelg the new Barbie movie will put the work to nvce that Ken is a hetero du who lov nothg life more than Barbie herself, the wrg’s already on the wall: Ken is, and always will be, Barbie’s gay bt obssg! Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

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.

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

”Wolf had sought refuge Florida 15 years ago when he was done wh ral Oregon, the childhood home where he suffered embedd racism and homophobia on a daily basis. Among his motivatns for wrg the book was to reclaim tersectnaly om DeSantis and others on the right who seek to hijack explas: “I wanted to give a human flavour to what tersectnaly actually looks and feels like and what feels like to experience racism and homophobia at the same time.

Growg up a nservative majory whe town was difficult bee the same kid who would ll me the N-word on one day would ll me a homophobic slur on another day and I was nstantly navigatg the tersectns of those two thgs. Last month DeSantis’s mpaign released an anti-LGBTQ+ vio assailg Tmp for his past support of gay and transgenr ments: “It is a sry time to be not jt LGBTQ but LGBTQ and Black this state and ultimately that’s the tent. Gay bullyg statistics dite that gay teens are two-to-three tim more likely to m suici than other youths and about 30% of all suicis have been lked to a genr inty crisis.

None of the aths had to occur, but they did bee each of the people was sent the msage that was better to be ad than to be gay.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

Gay bullyg statistics dite that 9-out-of-10 gay youth have been subject to bullyg and that, of those, almost half were physilly harassed and a quarter report beg physilly asslted. Any dividual mor cince of gay bullyg or gay bashg may be somethg that someone n al wh but the ma problem wh is s pervasive and nsistent nature to the pot where jur an dividual's self-teem and sire to live.

GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG

And while we often thk of children or teens when we thk gay bullyg, bullyg occurs adult suatns, such as the workplace, as well. Many anizatns are dited to stop gay bashg and gay bullyg and there are more and more iativ lolly, like high schools, to stop gay bashg.

Over 4000 Gay-Straight Allianc are now registered wh the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network and iativ such as "No Name-Callg Week" now exist to put the spotlight on all typ of bullyg and bashg. The 27-year-old gay man asked Redd ers if he was “the a**hole” the suatn when his old school bully me out as bisexual and he ed as an opportuny to ll him out for his homophobic bullyg. “Not sayg people n’t change, but sce B explicly said his post that he knew he was to boys sce krgarten, IMO that mak the fact that he tormented me high school jt for appearg gay even worse.

GAY MAN LLS OUT HIS HIGH SCHOOL BULLY FOR G OUT AS BISEXUAL AND ’S DIVID OPN

A prevly anonymo IRS whistleblower ttifyg about an vtigatn to Hunter Bin me forward Wednday, intifyg as a gay Democrat who wanted to do the “right thg. Osr-wng actor Kev Spacey has said he is attracted to mascule men but is not able to tell whether someone is gay jt by lookg at cross-examatn durg his trial on sex abe charg, the Hollywood star nied he was a “sexual bully” and told the jury he did not have a “power wand” to make people want to sleep wh about his sexual preferenc, Mr Spacey said he had prevly had romantic enunters wh men who would not scribe themselv as homosexual. Eighty-six percent of LGBT youth report beg harassed at school and nearly 64 percent of LGBT stunts have reported hearg homophobic remarks om teachers or school staff due to their genr exprsn.

In Augt 2010, Tyler started his hman year at Rutgers Universy, exced about havg the eedom to live openly as a gay man, as well as playg his vl at a high level of expertise at.

Hello everyone, for starters let me troduce myself, my name is Jam and back middle school I ed to bully other stunts who seemed feme and were openly gay, I was the typil Christian homophobic bully. I grew up a pletely Christian hoehold, my father would often post anti-gay/ anti-mocrat imag on his Facebook, prt them off and put them on the idge. I know I'm gay, I thk I bullied Nate so much bee I was aaid of beg like this, I wanted to be the strong straight kid my dad always wanted.

SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

Though the word “homosexual” would not be ed until the late 19th century, men who slept wh men the early 17th century began to velop their own subculture, and certa parks beme signated plac where they uld meet for laws, social mor and technology changed, so too did the sexual behavrs people blackmailed each other for. Still, blackmailg men for havg sex wh other men didn’t go away eher the Uned Stat or the Uned beme prevalent aga the 1950s and ‘60s, when a new gay inty and subculture was emergg for men.

Sex between men was still illegal and rried a signifint social stigma; durg the Lavenr Sre, the Uned Stat ernment purged some 10, 000 employe spected of beg gay. Cred: Getty ImagHomophob should nsir a ltle self-reflectn, suggts a new study fdg those dividuals who are most hostile toward gays and hold strong anti-gay views may themselv have same-sex sir, albe unrver on. The prejudice of homophobia may also stem om thorarian parents, particularly those wh homophobic views as well, the rearchers add.

KEV SPACEY: I N’T TELL WHETHER MEN ARE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT THEM

The rearch, published the April 2012 issue of the Journal of Personaly and Social Psychology, reveals the nuanc of prejudic like homophobia, which n ultimately have dire nsequenc. "Sometim people are threatened by gays and lbians bee they are fearg their own impuls, a sense they 'doth prott too much, '" Ryan told LiveScience.

For the implic measure, stunts had to tegorize words and pictur flashed onto a puter screen to "gay" or "straight" groups. The rearchers said quicker reactn time for "me" and "gay, " and a slower associatn of "me" wh "straight" would dite said an implic gay orientatn. " To gge homophobia a hoehold, stunts rpond to ems such as, "It would be upsettg for my mom to fd out she was alone wh a lbian" or "My dad avoids gay men whenever possible.

Participants dited their own level of homophobia, both overt and implic; word-pletn tasks, stunts wrote down the first three words that me to md when prompted wh some of the words' letters. "In a predomately heterosexual society, 'know thyself' n be a challenge for many gay dividuals, " lead thor Netta Weste, a lecturer at the Universy of Essex the Uned Kgdom, said a statement. Those participants who reported their heterosexualy spe havg hidn same-sex sir were also the most likely to show hostily toward gay dividuals, cludg self-reported anti-gay attus, endorsement of anti-gay polici and discrimatn such as supportg harsher punishments for homosexuals.

FOR CENTURI, BLACKMAIL WAS A TOOL USED TO INTIMIDATE GAY MEN

People nial about their own sexual orientatn, perhaps a nial fostered by thorarian and homophobic parents, may feel a threat om other gay and lbian dividuals. This ner nflict n be seen some high-profile s which anti-gay public figur are ught engagg same-sex acts, the rearchers say. And 2010, proment anti-gay activist and -founr of nservative Fay Rearch Council Gee Rekers was reportedly spotted 2010 wh a male rt rented om Acrdg to news reports, the rt nfirmed Rekers is gay.

" Another chtnut, and one that I e when eager to enurage stunts to expand the parameters of class participatn, "tell me more" eliced, this stance, an altogether extraordary statement: "There's such a thg as a gay bully, and that's what I'm alg wh today, your class, and I n't take anymore. When one young man brandished a fist, and the other slid forward on his seat, sleek as a fox, I first felt pri, for the were my kds of gays, willg to shatter stereotyp wh every Clt squt, starg each other down as if strapped to the saddl an old Spaghetti Wtern. The mut that followed are a blur, except for the sends that saw one man, the self-scribed victim of gay bullyg, stand up, slip his naked iPad to a whe nvas bag, and snter out of the room, a Wtern hero retreat.

'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE

A few tters om the back row, some heavy, feated breathg om the gay bully, and a sldg sound om behd the closed classroom door: the hero own waterworks would soon be loosed, though I kept my emotns check until safely nfed to my office.

Why was I, a profsor who took pri his pacy to extemporize, strangely unable to speak as two stunts, both self-intified gay men, ma the atmosphere a ually chilly lecture hall hot wh dread and disfort? " The latter word, wh s once-simple associatns, has lately been transformed to a munal rallyg cry, and one centered on the odns of homophobia.

THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

But a gay bully, a gay perpetrator of crim of nscience, is a ncept that no one wants to wrtle wh, let alone acknowledge. Sure, the survival of angry (or simply cheeky) asssments of anti-gay bulli, the sorts of asssments that say, "He's really gay; that's why he picks on pansi, " seems guaranteed an age of aggrsive sexual accatn.

And what if, trackg the very topic of membership, one man says that another is "the wrong kd of gay, " and thereby exclus him, exmunit him om a monolhilly queer untry? Sudnly, apropos of ltle more than the broad topic of lbianism, a lanky, betiful, stylishly drsed young man, a fellow stunt at the semar table, said to me, "I might be willg to buy that you're gay if you say that you're a butch lbian. " They weren't lghg at "faggy-fabulo, " the hyphenated phrase that I felt bt scribed my antagonist, and that I had chosen for s sheer got some gasps, om stunts who believed that I'd gone too far, that I'd flicted pa, not jt on my attacker but on everyone else, the gay stunts pecially.

I would have to tell of my terror of a fellow gay kid, of the low gra that he had given me, of the abe and nfn that I was alg wh. " It was a statement that I'd heard before, om my mother, who'd remd me that I was neher gay nor straight (sce I hadn't hooked up wh another person and so uldn't know my "te orientatn"), and om my father, who'd spected me of simply seekg claimg that I was straight, most people were, I thk, rpondg not to my reasonably butch appearance (my "manly mannerisms, " a classmate had lled them) but to my lack of any sort of boyiend. It mt be that my history of beg told that I'm not even gay is makg me choke on my own lt, and the one place where open utteranc of same-sex sire seem all too acceptable.