Black, Gray and Gay: The Perils of Agg LGBTQ People of Color

Contents:

• GRAY AND GAY: CLOSETED PSYCHIATRIST COM OUT AFTER 40 YEARS
• OPN AN ACTOR’S LONG, TROUBLED JOURNEY TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY AND GRAY
• DOZENS OF GAY MEN ARE OUTED MOROC AS PHOTOS ARE SPREAD ONLE
• WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• BLACK, GRAY AND GAY: THE PERILS OF AGG LGBTQ PEOPLE OF COLOR
• JAKE BORELLI ON WHY GREY'S ANATOMY'S GAY BLOOD BAN STORY IS PERSONAL
• ‘X-MEN’ CHARACTER ICEMAN OUTED AS GAY
• PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS

GRAY AND GAY: CLOSETED PSYCHIATRIST COM OUT AFTER 40 YEARS

" But long after many men acknowledge their sexual orientatn, he me out after the age of his new book, "Fally Out: Lettg Go of Livg Straight, " Olson, now 68 and semi-retired psychiatrist, exam the liv of closeted gay men, many of whom have sex wh other men but ny they are homosexual. "There are a lot of really out and proud gay young men, but they don't know we exist or they don't really sense that we are thentilly gay, " Olson said. "The olr Amerins me of age at a time when beg gay was labeled a psychiatric disorr and there was overt discrimatn, " Evans said.

"Comg Out Beyond 40When Olson me out, "I felt over the hill as a gay man, cluels about what gay meant and sudnly alone, " he men don't ever e out, part bee of the ia that "beg gay is associated wh beg weak and powerls, " he said.

"There was a lot of anger back and forth for a perd of two or three the time he was ee to be gay, Olson had veloped all the signs of clil eventually embraced the gay muny that he once rid as a "hedonistic liftyle, " jog a gay father's group 1985. Although tense, the relatnship wh the Lat Amerin lover didn't last, and he formed a more lastg unn wh Doug, whom Olson wed 2009, when gay marriage was legalized uple, who had been together for 23 years, married the prence of both their fai, cludg Olson's two children and six grandchildren.

OPN AN ACTOR’S LONG, TROUBLED JOURNEY TO E OUT AS GAY

”Practilly no one realiz what was like to be gay Ameri the 1950s and 1960s — no one except those old enough to have had the experience themselv. In that era of fierce prejudice, beg openly gay barely stck anyone as a practil choice, except for an ocsnal urageo inoclast like Jam Baldw, Allen Gsberg or Christopher latt wdow on the closeted world that nearly all gay men habed is Joel Grey’s newly published tobgraphy, “Master of Ceremoni.

GAY AND GRAY

” This lovely memoir by the actor bt known for his role as the emcee the film “Cabaret” is a remr that jt a few s ago, people every profsn believed that beg perceived as straight was an sential prerequise for succs — even actors the ’s secret gay life began 1942 at the age of 10, wh the 16-year-old elevator operator his fancy Cleveland apartment buildg. But even the act of intifyg wh that uple ightened him, bee men who loved men were “fairi, homos, limp-wristed perverts, sissi, and fags. ”Disgt wh homosexuals was so universal the 1950s, nothg at this stage of his life uld have nvced Whe that there was anythg healthy about his orientatn.

DOZENS OF GAY MEN ARE OUTED MOROC AS PHOTOS ARE SPREAD ONLE

“Even if someone had tried to refute my horror of homosexualy I would have stantly rejected his suatg proposals, temptg me to settle for send bt, ” he wrote. ”When I began my own g-out procs the early 1970s, I benefed om the first stirrgs of the gay liberatn movement, igned by the 1969 police raid of a gay club, the Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village. Still, all the time he was wh his wife, he was seeg men on the si, a solutn that remas mon among gay men married to told himself that sleepg wh men wasn’t beg unfahful to his wife.

”After 20 years of marriage, Grey cid that the time had fally e for him to reveal at least some of his gay secrets to his wife, the mistaken belief that this would strengthen their relatnship. "His new life was vastly plited by the fact that his marriage dissolved jt as the AIDS epimic began, makg gay life even more terrifyg to him. Eight tim a week, I got to be a gay man, a remarkable gay man, and every night that felt as full, as te, as passnate and as thentic as I ever felt my life.

It breaks the stereotype that olr gay men are strange, lonely creatur and reveals that most olr gay men are well-adjted to their homosexualy and the agg send edn ntas four new chapters that prent addnal perspectiv on the realy of gay agg. Mnigero’s study shows that olr gay men do not perceive themselv as growg old faster than their heterosexual unterparts, and that forty is the age at which most gay men believe that the label “young” no longer appli--this fdg led Berger and other rearchers to fe “olr” gay men as those over forty. John Gbe’s paper on the teractn of olr gay men wh younger gay liberatnists explor the cultural divi between today’s olr gay man and his younger unterpart, fillg a gap left the first edn.

WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?

Bee the book portrays olr gay men a realistic and sympathetic light, is theraptic for the many gay men who have been burned wh society’s negative and distorted views about them. Gay and Gray offers younger gay men a rare glimpse to their futur and enlightens and forts those who unt olr gay men among their fay and iends. The nclns drawn the book will change people’s perspectiv and offer new ways of thkg for and about olr gay and Gray is filled wh rich se histori and treats s subject wh digny and passn.

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

popular stereotypAs the first tensive terview and qutnnaire study of gay men aged 40 and olr Ameri, Gay and Gray exam the liv of the men light of cultural stereotyp.

Author Berger asks about the social liv of the men, their volvement both the heterosexual and homosexual muni, their ”g out” experienc, their attus about younger gays, their experienc growg olr, and their strategi for adaptg to life’s challeng. In the study, Berger reveals that, ntrary to stereotypic views, most olr gay men are well-tegrated to social works and lead active and generally satisfyg liv.

He found that few live alone; most sred as well as younger gays on measur of psychologil adjtment, such as self-acceptance; many are open about their homosexualy wh fay, iends, and lleagu; and the most well-adjted olr gay men were tegrated to a homosexual muny, associated wh younger gay men, and were unwillg to change their sexual orientatn. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe ia was to show the hypocrisy of Morocn society by showg how many gay men are livg quietly straight society.

BLACK, GRAY AND GAY: THE PERILS OF AGG LGBTQ PEOPLE OF COLOR

It backfired S/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagPARIS — At least 50 to 100 gay men were outed Moroc over the last two weeks, rights activists say, after the men were intified on lotn-based meetg apps while shelterg at home amid a ronavis at least three s, men were kicked out of their ho, L. ”In Moroc, a North Ain kgdom where homosexualy and sex outsi marriage are crim, gay people are pafully acctomed to the feelgs of peril and rejectn, and many keep their sexual inti unr, their ver has been blown a way that would be crimal most Wtern societi, rights advot say. ”What mak this episo particularly paful, gay lears say, is that was igned by someone who had also been sgled April 13, a Morocn transgenr Instagram personaly based Istanbul, Naoufal Mosa or Sofia Talouni, was sulted about her sexual orientatn.

In a rage, she released a profany-laced vio enuragg women to download the lotn-based meetg apps, like Grdr and Pla Romeo, which are ually ed by gay subsequent vios, she said her aim was to reveal the hypocrisy of Morocn society by showg her attackers how many gay men were livg their vicy, perhaps even their own people followed Ms.

JAKE BORELLI ON WHY GREY'S ANATOMY'S GAY BLOOD BAN STORY IS PERSONAL

Mosa’s lead and created fake acunts on the apps to gather photos of gay men, which they then posted on private and public Facebook pag, settg off the homophobic attacks igned a firtorm of cricism, both of Ms. “My datg life Moroc was somehow OK as long as my partner and I were beg super discreet and ut, ” said one gay man who asked to be intified only by his ials, N.

Abllah Taia, a proment gay thor and one of few to publicly clare his sexual orientatn Moroc, says that the state keeps people a gray area, makg them vulnerable to abe and discrimatn and forcg many to hidg. ”Moroc’s Interr Mistry did not rpond to a requt for outg episo is seen by many as stroyg a agile balance that the untry’s unrground gay culture has built laborly over the years, ma even worse a time of uncertaty and enomic hardship. But they do have some support at Bezad, the print of the Pan-Ain Organizatn for the Fight Agast AIDS, said that while Moroc’s laws were unlikely to change, s health mistry enurag associatns like hers to help vulnerable populatns, cludg gay people.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

‘X-MEN’ CHARACTER ICEMAN OUTED AS GAY

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

While female sexualy appears to be more fluid, rearch suggts that male gayns is an born, unalterable, strongly geilly fluenced tra. But nsirg that the tra disurag the type of sex that leads to procreatn — that is, sex wh women — and would therefore seem to thwart s own chanc of beg geilly passed on to the next generatn, why are there gay men at all? For several years, studi led by Andrea Camper Ciani at the Universy of Padova Italy and others have found that mothers and maternal nts of gay men tend to have signifintly more offsprg than the maternal relativ of straight men.

The rults show strong support for the "balancg selectn hypothis, " which is fast beg the accepted theory of the geic basis of male theory holds that the same geic factors that duce gayns mal also promote fecundy (high reproductive succs) those mal' female maternal relativ. Through this tra-off, the maternal relativ' "gay man gen, " though they aren't exprsed as such, tend to get passed to future generatns spe of their tenncy to make their male herors no one knows which gen, exactly, the might be, at least one of them appears to be loted on the X chromosome, acrdg to geic molg by Camper Ciani and his lleagu. Mal her only one X chromosome — the one om their mother — and if clus the gene that promot gayns mal and fecundy femal, he is likely to be gay while his mom and her female relativ are likely to have lots of kids.

PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS

Prevly, the Italian rearchers suggted that the "gay man gene" might simply crease androphilia, or attractn to men, thereby makg the mal who posss the gene homosexual and the femal who posss more promiscuo. But after vtigatg the characteristics of 161 female maternal relativ of homosexual and heterosexual men, the rearchers have adjted their hypothis. The androphilic pattern that we found is about femal who crease their reproductive value to attract the bt mal, " Camper Ciani told Life's Ltle out, the moms and nts of gay men have an advantage over the moms and nts of straight men for several reasons: They are more fertile, displayg fewer gynelogil disorrs or plitns durg pregnancy; they are more extroverted, as well as funnier, happier and more relaxed; and they have fewer fay problems and social anxieti.