Give a big Father's Day hug to Ricky Mart, Neil Patrick Harris, and Anrson Cooper — as well as the rt of our hight-profile gay dads.
Contents:
- IS “9/11 GAY DAD” THE MOST OFFENSIVE CARTOON EVER?
- SUPPORTERS PH FOR GAY PRIT WHO DIED ON 9/11 TO BE MA A SAT
- A GAY SAT? L.G.B.T. GROUPS ARE PHG FOR 9/11 HERO FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE’S NONIZATN
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
IS “9/11 GAY DAD” THE MOST OFFENSIVE CARTOON EVER?
Comedian Drew Michael re-released an animated vio tled “9/11 Gay Dad” on Thursday jt time for the 15th anniversary of September 11, 2001, and possibly wng the race for the most offensive rtoon ever. Co-created wh Junr Stopka, the YouTube vio says the rtoon is a trailer for an animated seri of the same tle about a sgle gay father and his adopted son, Nathan, livg suburban Ameri. The twist is, the gay father isn’t exactly a person- he’s a 9/11, visually reprented as tw towers on fire, wh a plane crashed to his head.
” Durg the September, 2015 podst he promised 9/11 Gay Dad would rise aga. His heroism later spired many to rensir gay September 11, 2001, terrorists ed plan to h the Tw Towers and the Pentagon. Celebrated as a gay hero after 9/11, Bgham was a 31-year-old public relatns executive — who nearly missed his flight that fateful morng.
SUPPORTERS PH FOR GAY PRIT WHO DIED ON 9/11 TO BE MA A SAT
And Mark Bgham beme a gay in. “The media portrayal of gays (lots of by gays themselv) is as effemate, ” openly gay nservative mentator Andrew Sullivan wrote the days after the terrorist attack. Another iend, Hani Durzy, said, “My feelg is that if told he would bee a gay in he would lgh.
Then he would s back and thk, ‘But if this is gog to do some good for the gay muny, then so be — good. "The fact that Judge was gay didn't bee wily known until after his ath, acrdg to New Ways.
A GAY SAT? L.G.B.T. GROUPS ARE PHG FOR 9/11 HERO FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE’S NONIZATN
""Mychal Judge shows that you n be gay and holy, " Jam Mart, a Ju prit who advot for greater LGBTQ+ cln the Catholic Church, told the Associated Prs. He joed the cy's fire partment a few iends knew Judge was gay.
The Catholic gay muny also claimed him, thkg 'Father Mychal is our guy, ' bee he was really able to nnect wh everybody.
And AIDS support anizatns when an unual illtratn the back pag of a gay weekly ught his eye: a pictn of St. And AIDS wrought havoc on the cy’s gay populatn.
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
A young Ju prit, William Hart McNichols, held healg Mass for people wh AIDS, and the gay and lbian Catholic anizatn Digny helped nnect volunteers to people need of support. But Father Judge’s volvement the Francisn mistry helped brg attentn to the overwhelmg need and to the hurt and anger gay New Yorkers felt toward some church lears. “At that time, there was a lot of nflict between the gay muny and the Catholic Church, ” Mr.
”Father Judge’s volvement the Francisn mistry helped brg attentn to the overwhelmg need and to the hurt and anger gay New Yorkers felt toward some church Father Judge had a way of listeng, he said, that ma people ultimately feel loved and rpected.