After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement.
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- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- BARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIATHE FORMER US PRINT'S SIBLG HAS RPOND TO HIS FENSE OF LGBTQ-THEMED BOOKS CHILDREN'S LIBRARIBARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER KENYA HAS REPORTEDLY RPOND TO THE FORMER US PRINT'S EFFORT TO PROMOTE THE CLN OF LGBTQ-THEMED BOOKS SCHOOL LIBRARI BY SUGGTG THAT HIS HALF-SIBLG IS HOMOSEXUAL."THIS MAN IS FELY GAY," MALIK OBAMA PURPORTEDLY SAID ON MONDAY A SCE-LETED TWTER MSAGE. THE POST, WHICH WAS REPORTED BY MULTIPLE MEDIA OUTLETS, ME RPONSE TO A LETTER WHICH BARACK OBAMA NOUNCED THE BANNG OF NTROVERSIAL BOOKS CHILDREN'S LIBRARI, CLUDG AT LEAST ONE THAT FEATUR GRAPHIC ILLTRATNS OF GAY SEXUAL ACTS.THE FORMER PRINT PRAISED LIBRARIANS HIS TWTER POST, SAYG THEY WERE ON THE "ONT L" OF AN EVERYDAY FIGHT TO "MAKE THE WIST POSSIBLE RANGE OF VIEWPOTS, OPNS AND IAS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE." HE ADD, "TODAY, SOME OF THE BOOKS THAT SHAPED MY LIFE - AND THE LIV OF SO MANY OTHERS - ARE BEG CHALLENGED BY PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WH CERTA IAS OR PERSPECTIV."OBAMA WENT ON TO PROMOTE A MPAIGN LLED UNE AGAST BOOK BANS, AN EFFORT BY THE AMERIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATN TO NONT CREASG MANDS TO CENSOR NTENT THAT CRICS EM APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN.PARENTS HAVE TARGETED BOOKS THAT ALLEGEDLY CLU PORNOGRAPHIC OR PEDOPHILIC MATERIAL. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE TLE FEND BY US MEDIA OUTLETS AS "THE MOST BANNED BOOK AMERI," LLED 'GENR QUEER', FEATUR GRAPHIC IMAG AND SCRIPTNS OF CHILDREN ENGAGED HOMOSEXUAL RELATNS."MICHELLE AND I WANT TO THANK THE LIBRARIANS FOR THEIR UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE EEDOM TO READ," OBAMA SAID. "I HOPE YOU'LL READ MY LETTER TO THEM, AND JO ME REMDG ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN -- AND EVEN SOME PEOPLE YOU THK MIGHT NOT -- THAT THE EE, ROBT EXCHANGE OF IAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT THE HEART OF AMERIN MOCRACY."MALIK OBAMA, WHO HAS THE SAME FATHER AS THE EX-PRINT, VISED THE WHE HOE SEVERAL TIM DURG HIS BROTHER'S FIRST TERM OFFICE. HOWEVER, HE LATER CLAIMED THAT BARACK OBAMA WAS "LD AND THLS" AND BLASTED HIM FOR ABANDONG HIS KENYAN FAY. "WHAT I SAW WAS THE KD OF PERSON THAT WANTS PEOPLE TO WORSHIP HIM," MALIK OBAMA TOLD THE NEW YORK POST 2020. "HE NEEDS TO BE WORSHIPED, AND I DON'T DO THAT. I AM HIS OLR BROTHER, SO I DON'T DO THAT."() !FUNCTN(D,I){IF(!D.GETELEMENTBYID(I)){VAR J=D.CREATEELEMENT("SCRIPT");;";VAR W=D.GETELEMENTBYID(I);(J);}}(DOCUMENT,"POCKET-BTN-JS");BARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIABARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIA
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021
- JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
- MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
- FIRE ISLAND: WHY WE’RE EXCED ABOUT THIS NEW GAY ROM-COM
- 14 BT NEW GAY MOVI ON NETFLIX STREAMG
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and the other streamg servic have a great selectn of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr classics to watch this June. * new gay themed *
Set post World-War II Germany, this Atrian drama follows Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) who's imprisoned several tim for beg gay and durg his time prison shar an timate relatnship wh his cellmate, Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski), who is servg a life sentence for murr. Wolfe (Ma Raey's Black Bottom), wrten by Dt Lance Black, and produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's productn pany Higher Ground, this film is a mt-watch this year, pecially wh Coleman Domgo as civil and gay rights in Bayard Rt. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Kramer's semi-tobgraphil drama to life this HBO film, tellg the story of the creatn of the Gay Men's Health Crisis at the height of the AIDS epimic.
You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Hanks and Denzel Washgton star one of the first mastream Hollywood movi to tackle the subject of HIV/AIDS, homosexualy, and homophobia. Night Shyamalan is back his groove, and his next feature is about gay fathers—played by Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge—whose scenic woodland getaway wh their dghter is terpted by strangers who force them to make an impossible cisn orr to stop the apolypse.
BARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIATHE FORMER US PRINT'S SIBLG HAS RPOND TO HIS FENSE OF LGBTQ-THEMED BOOKS CHILDREN'S LIBRARIBARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER KENYA HAS REPORTEDLY RPOND TO THE FORMER US PRINT'S EFFORT TO PROMOTE THE CLN OF LGBTQ-THEMED BOOKS SCHOOL LIBRARI BY SUGGTG THAT HIS HALF-SIBLG IS HOMOSEXUAL."THIS MAN IS FELY GAY," MALIK OBAMA PURPORTEDLY SAID ON MONDAY A SCE-LETED TWTER MSAGE. THE POST, WHICH WAS REPORTED BY MULTIPLE MEDIA OUTLETS, ME RPONSE TO A LETTER WHICH BARACK OBAMA NOUNCED THE BANNG OF NTROVERSIAL BOOKS CHILDREN'S LIBRARI, CLUDG AT LEAST ONE THAT FEATUR GRAPHIC ILLTRATNS OF GAY SEXUAL ACTS.THE FORMER PRINT PRAISED LIBRARIANS HIS TWTER POST, SAYG THEY WERE ON THE "ONT L" OF AN EVERYDAY FIGHT TO "MAKE THE WIST POSSIBLE RANGE OF VIEWPOTS, OPNS AND IAS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE." HE ADD, "TODAY, SOME OF THE BOOKS THAT SHAPED MY LIFE - AND THE LIV OF SO MANY OTHERS - ARE BEG CHALLENGED BY PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WH CERTA IAS OR PERSPECTIV."OBAMA WENT ON TO PROMOTE A MPAIGN LLED UNE AGAST BOOK BANS, AN EFFORT BY THE AMERIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATN TO NONT CREASG MANDS TO CENSOR NTENT THAT CRICS EM APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN.PARENTS HAVE TARGETED BOOKS THAT ALLEGEDLY CLU PORNOGRAPHIC OR PEDOPHILIC MATERIAL. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE TLE FEND BY US MEDIA OUTLETS AS "THE MOST BANNED BOOK AMERI," LLED 'GENR QUEER', FEATUR GRAPHIC IMAG AND SCRIPTNS OF CHILDREN ENGAGED HOMOSEXUAL RELATNS."MICHELLE AND I WANT TO THANK THE LIBRARIANS FOR THEIR UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE EEDOM TO READ," OBAMA SAID. "I HOPE YOU'LL READ MY LETTER TO THEM, AND JO ME REMDG ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN -- AND EVEN SOME PEOPLE YOU THK MIGHT NOT -- THAT THE EE, ROBT EXCHANGE OF IAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT THE HEART OF AMERIN MOCRACY."MALIK OBAMA, WHO HAS THE SAME FATHER AS THE EX-PRINT, VISED THE WHE HOE SEVERAL TIM DURG HIS BROTHER'S FIRST TERM OFFICE. HOWEVER, HE LATER CLAIMED THAT BARACK OBAMA WAS "LD AND THLS" AND BLASTED HIM FOR ABANDONG HIS KENYAN FAY. "WHAT I SAW WAS THE KD OF PERSON THAT WANTS PEOPLE TO WORSHIP HIM," MALIK OBAMA TOLD THE NEW YORK POST 2020. "HE NEEDS TO BE WORSHIPED, AND I DON'T DO THAT. I AM HIS OLR BROTHER, SO I DON'T DO THAT."() !FUNCTN(D,I){IF(!D.GETELEMENTBYID(I)){VAR J=D.CREATEELEMENT("SCRIPT");;";VAR W=D.GETELEMENTBYID(I);(J);}}(DOCUMENT,"POCKET-BTN-JS");BARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIABARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER SAYS HE'S FELY GAY MEDIA
From the return of a legendary gay novelist to a blazg new memoir about parenthood, the are the queer books you should be readg this Pri Month—and beyond. * new gay themed *
Gays have long loved this inic horror-whodun seri, and though the latt stallment shockgly won’t feature Neve Campbell‘s Sidney Prtt, do have queer star Jasm Savoy-Brown, Wednday It Girl Jenna Ortega, thirst-trap kg Mason Goodg Jr., and the return of Hayn Patiere’s fan-favore character. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cab tells the story of a gay uple (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) and their adopted dghter Wen (Kristen Cui) as they grapple wh an impossible ultimatum: sacrifice someone or else the world will end. Hontly, the whole thg sounds like Booksmart meets, well, Fight Club, and that’s exactly the kd of energy queer-themed teen edi — TBDDavid Lee / NetflixRarely has there been a bpic stg cisn as perfect as tappg Tony and Emmy-wng actor Colman Domgo to play gay civil rights activist Bayard Rt, a man who was an enormo fluence on Mart Luther Kg, Jr., among other key lears, but who mostly worked behd the scen.
JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did. * new gay themed *
This movie has all the gay ins you uld want: Jane Fonda, Ra Morena, Sally Field, and lba legend Lily Toml star as a group of iends who plete a lifelong goal by travelg to the Super Bowl to meet their favore player, quarterback Tom Brady.
Netflix, Prime Vio, HBO Max and Hulu (as well as the other streamg servic) offer dozens of new and classic LGBTQ+ movi to watch this is leadg the way wh Fire Island, a hilar-lookg new gay rom- starrg some of the hottt queer talent workg today. Wh good queer relatnship advice hard to fd this post-"Don't Say Gay" moment, there is a lot to empathize wh this story of a bisexual woman Brooklyn left reelg after breakg up wh her long-term (Paramount+)Directed by leadg trans directors the Wachowskis, Bound was the first sign that the were trs to watch before they ma The Matrix.
We n gmble that took this long, but we nnot hold that agast this new take on Pri and Prejudice, set amid the gay hedonism of Fire Handmaid (Prime Vio)Though directed by the straight Park Chan-Wook, The Handmaid's lbian bona fis are tablished by the fact is an adaptatn of the semal novel Fgersmh.
BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021
* new gay themed *
It may lack the explic sexualy of some other films on this list, but mak up for sheer homoerotic (Hulu)In a world where some are tryg to spl the "T" om the "LGB, " and where homophobic legislatn is back on the book across the U.
JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
Películas ercial temáti gay y ter gay * new gay themed *
Here, fd a list of all the new novels, memoirs, say llectns, and other LGBTQ+ books we’re lookg forward to spendg time wh this Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller (May 31)Bad Gays: A Homosexual HistoryWh their new book, wrer Huw Lemmey and amic Ben Miller are brgg their fascatg—and very funny—ep div to the liv of the most dastardly queer people history om the podst to the page.
While Holleran’s cult classic, Dancer om the Dance, is remembered for the illic thrills of s hedonistic roller-aster ri through gay life 1970s New York (durg the ee-spired moment after Stonewall and before the AIDS crisis), The Kgdom of Sand, Holleran turns his gimlet eye to the aftermath of that perd.
MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * new gay themed *
The book offers a poignant visn of iendship between the narrator—a gay man his 40s who moved om New York back to his hometown Florida to re for his dyg parents, where he has remaed ever sce—and a man 20 or so years his senr lled Earl, wh whom he shar a strange and unlikely bond; s grapplgs wh lonels and mortaly emergg as somethg both hntg and ultimately betiful. Jt by Lookg at Him is wrten om the perspective of a gay, disabled TV wrer livg Los Angel who appears, om the outsi at least, to have all—a succsful show, a cent e, a lovg boyiend—but ep down feels stuck, attemptg to overe his imposter syndrome and low self-teem through liberal amounts of alhol and sual sex. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.
FIRE ISLAND: WHY WE’RE EXCED ABOUT THIS NEW GAY ROM-COM
Currently airg, upg and fished BL/Gay themed dramas and movi of 2020 and 2021.(Cha--Maland Cha + Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Thailand.) UPDATE: List was created early 2020, so I was ponrg on whether to spl this list two, but cid not to, sce que…" name="scriptn * new gay themed *
Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.
Simon & Schter Asylum: A Memoir & Manifto by Edafe OkporoSimon & Schter Asylum: A Memoir & Manifto by Edafe OkporoImmigratn and LGBTQ rights activist Okporo was 26 years old when he was driven om his home Abuja, Nigeria, for the s of beg gay. For a wild time off the beaten path, Piñata PV Gay Hotel offers stic charm and clothg optnal pool Cy ns a close send, particularly for the electric gay nightlife loted at the heart of the cy Zona Rosa, the area’s official gayborhood (which also has some of the bt shoppg). See the famed Oxford Street gay district wh a private tour om The Fabulo Wonr Mama (@thefabulowonrmama), a wealth of knowledge and humor who also posss some of the biggt peaks this si of the Grand Beach is perfect for workg on your tan or takg a surfg lson.
Queer visors should head to Ibiza Town’s gay neighborhood, Calle la Virgen, wh s terraced rtrants and gay bars ial for fun tim, people watchg, and cisg for you’d rather not party like Paris Hilton but prefer to relax luxury and relative solu, leave behd Ibiza Town and head north to the Six Sens Rort.
14 BT NEW GAY MOVI ON NETFLIX STREAMG
The new, LGBTQ+ holiday films and seri are gog to make the yuleti hella gay this holiday season! * new gay themed *
“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.
“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.
Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L.
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen jt me out as gay. * new gay themed *
Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy. Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr. Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic.
The former US print's siblg has rpond to his fense of LGBTQ-themed books children's librariBarack Obama's brother Kenya has reportedly rpond to the former US print's effort to promote the cln of LGBTQ-themed books school librari by suggtg that his half-siblg is homosexual. The post, which was reported by multiple media outlets, me rponse to a letter which Barack Obama nounced the banng of ntroversial books children's librari, cludg at least one that featur graphic illtratns of gay sexual former print praised librarians his Twter post, sayg they were on the "ont l" of an everyday fight to "make the wist possible range of viewpots, opns and ias available to everyone.
Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri. * new gay themed *
Directed by Tony wner Michael Mayer and starrg a stacked st that clus Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Le MacFarlane, Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Robertson, and edy screen legends Jennifer Coolidge and Kathy Najimy, Sgle All the Way is Netflix's highly-anticipated, first gay holiday film and tells the story of a gay man named Peter who is "sperate to avoid his fay's judgment about his perpetual sgle stat, " acrdg to the film's official (and relatable AF) scriptn. Part of the Hallmark Channel's imprsive and packed slate of 41 brand-new Christmas movi beg released this holiday season, the upg sequel to last year's gay-clive The Christmas Hoe, tentatively entled Deck Those Halls, is rng the origal st for another round of queer holiday cheer, cludg Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bent and Brad Harr, the two actors who played the loveable hband-hband duo the first movie.
2, NetflixTony-wng director Michael Mayer (“Sprg Awakeng”) helms Netflix’s first gay holiday film, which se perpetually sgle Peter (Michael Urie) beggg his bt iend, Nick (Philemon Chambers), to e home wh him and pretend to be his boyiend to put an end to his fay’s nstant meddlg. But the se is put to the tt when his mother (another gay fave, Kathy Najimy) sets him up wh her hunky traer (“Brothers and Sisters” actor Le Macfarlane) to “Sgle All the Way” for stg three out actors as gay characters — and for stg Jennifer Coolidge, perd.
3, NetflixFormer nttants return to the tents for a pair of holiday-themed episos: In “The Great Christmas Bakg Show, ” out ic Tom Allen subs for Noel Fieldg to -host wh gay prenter Matt Lus as season ne’s Jon Jenks and Kim-Joy Hewlett and season 11’s Herme and Rowan Williams whip up wondro Yuleti treats.
Bt new gay movi on Netflix streamg, cludg Capote, C.O.G., Blue is the Warmt Color and more. * new gay themed *
“The showstopper challenge, they’ve got to make a ftive feast illn ke, ” judge Pl Hollywood teased, acrdg to “The Great New Year’s Bakg Show, ” 's season five wner Nancy Birtwhistle up agast season ne champn Rahul Mandal and two nttants om season 19: Gay nerd Henry Bird and wchy Helena Garcia.
18, Hallmark ChannelLast year, after sparkg outrage by pullg a jewelry ad featurg lbian bris, Hallmark ma amends by featurg the first gay uple one of s many, many holiday movi: "The Christmas Hoe" sred more than 13 ln viewgs over the 2020 holiday season, so a sequel was a no-braer. In the origal, Bill and Phylis Mchell (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) ved their adult sons home for the holidays, then drop a bomb that they’re sellg the fay time around, gay son Brandon (Jonathan Ben) and his hband, Jake (Brad Harr), pete wh Brandon’s straight brother, Mike (Robert Buckley), to see who n create the most ftively rated Christmas hoe.
It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc. Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage.