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Contents:

• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE
• THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
• HOW A GROUP OF GAY MALE BALLET DANCERS IS RETHKG MASCULY
• PRI T-DANCE EDN 2021 | CELEBRATG 14 YEARS OF GAY PRIDE!
• SUNDAY TEA DANC, A PROUD GAY TRADN WORTH REVIVG
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
• GAY WE WEEKEND WAS THE SUMMER WE TASTG EVENT OF 2023
• THE ARTISTS ARE PRERVG THE HISTORY OF A DANCE STYLE GAY MEN CREATED ’70S-ERA L.A.
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• THE WCHER WAS SUPER GAY WAY BEFORE SEASON 3
• THE 10 BEST BARCELONA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BARCELONA
• TMP EXPLAS HIS LOVE OF ‘Y.M.C.A.,’ WHICH HE CLAIMS IS THE ‘GAY NATNAL ANTHEM’
• GAY BLACK MEN HELPED CREATE EDM. WHY DO STRAIGHT WHE MEN DOMATE IT?
• THE BT GAY CLUBS MIAMI FOR A NIGHT OUT WH THE BOYS

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.

"However, the latt episo, which was expected, ed uproar soon after s Holland's fans are quick to jump his fense by praisg him for takg a darg role and also poted to the prev Spir-Man actors' Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield, on-screen gay characters after a trend NotMySpirman was started on Twter. And some larger gay rorts, such as Fire Island, there is even mid-tea which tak place between the his way to the tea dance, Jason was very ncerned that he would n to the troll he slept wh the night before.

TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE

Portmante of Tea Partier and Tea Dance, a maly East Coast phenomenon of Gay nightclub danc held the late afternoon, at I fully support what the Governor has done to Public Employee Unns. News·Posted on 1 Jul 2020The Director Of "High School Mil" Explaed Why Ryan Wasn't Openly Gay And Said He Would "Come Out In College""I was ncerned bee was fay and kids that Disney might not be ready to cross that le.

In a new terview wh Variety, director Kenny Ortega opened up about his experience makg the High School Mil seri and said he thought the character of Ryan would have e out as gay later life. A lot of them see both Ryan and Kelsi — who went to prom together and had a subtle romantic storyle High School Mil 3 — as gay.

But now Ortega has nfirmed Ryan would probably have e out as gay " llege", addg that his character the movi was "ls about g out and jt more about lettg his te lours e forward".

THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"

He went on to say that while Disney is "the most progrsive group of people" he's ever worked wh, he had ncerns that they "weren't ready" to have an openly gay character a Disney Channel movie 2006. No, this is about the ballero — my word for him — I met and what he reprented to a lonely gay kid Southern California 1984, a kid who had never before met another gay person.

Shortly after “Not Our Fate” premiered, Jt Peck, Cy Ballet’s rint choreographer, further challenged ballet’s genr norms when he adapted the woman’s role the pas ux at the heart of his 2017 “The Tim Are Racg, ” pairg Stanley wh Daniel Applebm, a 32-year-old gay soloist wh the you didn’t know much about classil ballet, you might thk ’s an obv home for queer artists and narrativ, but ’s more plited than that: Ballet, of urse, has always had gay dancers and choreographers and homoeroticism, but ’s an artistic disciple shaped by tradn.

Masc Femme Butch KweenThere’s a hashtag for everythg on Instagram; when you type #gayballet, you will e across men tights and trag shorts, and eventually you might fd Jam Whi, most likely bare-chted wh a large scratch tattooed on his ribs. For the choreographer Lar Lubovch’s 2015 productn of “Othello, ” Whi didn’t want to waste the opportuny of workg wh a gay llaborator — his Iago was fed wh what he lls “queer rage. ReprentHarper Watters, 26, is many thgs: acclaimed Hoton Ballet soloist; son of two former llege profsors; host of a backstage chat show lled “The Pre Show” on his YouTube channel; a black gay man om New Hampshire now livg Texas; a lean, ventive artist who danc wh the eedom that om knowg who you are; a vourer of pop culture.

HOW A GROUP OF GAY MALE BALLET DANCERS IS RETHKG MASCULY

In many ways, this uld be a live-stream of two young gay men gettg ready for a night out at the bars, but over the urse of the 16.

Drsed as a swan hunter, Watters talks to the mera a butch tone and says he and Stark are about to go out and do “boy thgs” like scg women and fightg, but then they lgh and return to their natural voic — distctly, unapologetilly gay — and clarify, “a different kd of boy thg.

Johnsey, who male pronouns, says he and others felt harassed bee “we don’t live up to some mascule ial of what a gay man is. ClubFly provis a gay bar, club, nightlife, and GLBT center mapper for Fort Lrdale, Florida and the rt of the US filtered by t-dance Fort Lrdale gay bars and clubs are mapped the gayborhood wh an overview, tags, ntact tails, webse, social media lks, trans/walkg directns, and drivg directns. If the events picted the story were to happen tomorrow California, they would be said to be harmony wh, and required by, that State’s new laws about teachg gay rights the schools.

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The homosexualists would rise to the fense of the same-sex dance class, and they would acce their opponents of beg narrow-md, tolerant, and bigoted – and the media would play that way.

This special Pri edn is chock-full of updated gay anthem classics as well as current Hoe Mic tracks that are perfect for Sunday afternoon revelg or ankly, anytime you want somethg a ltle ls hard-htg than our tradnal circu and anthems sets.

Droppg this now will allow for the creatn of Gay Anthems For a New Generatn 2021 wh a (hopeful) release by this upg Sunday but don’t hold to that. If we n clear the slate — will buy some time to start the Apple Mic transfer that was discsed the Gay Pri Edn 2021 last week and is gog to be a long ted procs. Wh a diverse range of mic genr, cludg EDM, Dis Hoe, Peak Hour, Circu Anthems, Gay Anthems, Trash Dis, and Dance Classics, Party Favorz ters to all your dance mic needs.

SUNDAY TEA DANC, A PROUD GAY TRADN WORTH REVIVG

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. She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance.

In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s. 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.

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“Be wh gay people, help the movement, help unmask the li beg told about , rrect the notn of homosexualy as a sickns and prent as is, a betiful way to love.

In 1969, she and another activist, Nancy Tucker, spun off a newspaper of their own, The Gay Bla, which beme the Washgton Bla, the untry’s olst L. 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 whole notn of gay people publicly exprsg their sentiments that fashn was beyond nceptualizatn until we started dog , ” the Mattache Society’s -founr, Frankl E.

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”Her send film, “Gay and Proud, ” documented the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Para 1970, a memoratn of the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg Manhattan. “Gay and Proud” shows a much larger, and shaggier, gatherg of protters takg a more ant stance the para, chantg fiantly and wavg plards wh msag like “I am a lbian and I am betiful. J., Vcenz regnized her sexualy early on, she said a 2008 terview, and “ beme paful after a while to realize that I was gay and I didn’t know anyone else who was gay.

But after a stt as an edor the book publishg dtry, she cid to jo the Army, part bee she had heard was “a hotbed of gay people, ” acrdg to Ms. Farman’s putative hotbed, however, had a policy banng gay people om service, and she was thrown out while trag as a nropsychiatric technician at the Walter Reed ary hospal the 1970s, Dr. Vcenz ran a weekly discsn ssn lled the Gay Women’s Open Hoe, which functned as a marketplace of ias and sanctuary of sorts for lbians the Washgton area.

GAY WE WEEKEND WAS THE SUMMER WE TASTG EVENT OF 2023

“I fd a privilege to work wh gay people who are, general, so much more urageo, novative and open to new ias than the average straight person, ” she told Gay Today. It was Washgton — not Bethda, Md., where is we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the New York edn wh the headle: Lilli Vcenz, a Trailblazer the Gay Rights Movement, Di at 85.

"It wasn't meant to be this homoerotic thg, " Grabeel said of stume swap, "But I thk that Kenny knew a ltle b more about how that was gog to e out. To gay lennials the ia of gog to a bar while light out is unheard of; fact, gog to a gay bar to meet new people and socialize is almost unheard of. Our iends at recently posted a terrific article by Will Kohler*, “The Very Gay History of the Almost Lost Tradn of the Sunday Tea Dance.

THE ARTISTS ARE PRERVG THE HISTORY OF A DANCE STYLE GAY MEN CREATED ’70S-ERA L.A.

“Gay people, of urse, were still largely unrground the 50s, but was the discreet speakeasi that social (nonpartnered) dancg was evolvg. By the late 60s, gay men had tablished the Fire Island Cherry Grove and also the more subdued and “closeted” P (off of Long Island, New York) as a summer rort of sorts.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

It was illegal at that time for bars to ‘knowgly sell alhol to homosexuals’ and bis many of the venu there were not licensed as ‘night clubs’ or to sell alhol. *Will Kohler is a noted LGBT historian, wrer, blogger and owner of A longtime gay activist, Will fought on the ont l of the AIDS epimic wh ACT-UP and ntu fightg today for LGBT acceptance and full equaly.

Karri Saaren: One of the greatt bars Paris, gay iendy on sunday, si the most fantastic park Paris, l Butt Chmont, to drk and dance unr the sun. Although there are gay men the dance world (as there are all “worlds”), ’s only recently that we’ve started focg on the sexualy of men who dance. Gay_D, Apr 2023Dner was lovely, we were met by tour gui, taken to a b after dner, got off for the Eiffel tower, had to wa the ra and given an unrealistic timele to go up to the Tower and get back to the b by 9.

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The Tea Dance has been wrten up var forms here is one:The History of Tea Dance by Will Very Gay History of the Almost Lost Tradn of the Sunday Tea DanceMany gay men unr the age of 30 are totally cluels of almost lost tradn of the Sunday Tea Dance. Eventually, this led to everyone sort of dancg on their the late 60s, gay men had tablished the Fire Island Cherry Grove and also the more subdued and “closeted” P (off of Long Island, New York) as a summer rort of sorts.

Sce there were no lbians around to change partners wh, gay men veloped the “dancg apart” style that clubgoers everywhere now take for 28, 1969…the Stonewall Rts mark the fiery birth of the so-lled “morn gay rights movement”. Followg (and part perhaps spired by) the ath of gay in Judy Garland, (as the urban legend go) patrons of the Greenwich Village waterg hole The Stonewall Inn fought back agast another a very long le of vlent police raids, eventually barridg the police si the bar and settg off three nights of rtg.

The “snapped stiletto heel heard around the world”as some ll is memorated today wh Gay Pri celebratns held around the end of, the tea dance moved om the Fire Island P to Greenwich Village. While the Fire Island gays tend to be rich upper-class preppi, the downtown gays of Christopher Street and the Village were workg-class and they tend to party at night. Gays the post-Stonewall era were nscly rebellg agast the effete stereotyp associated wh the manicured, sweater-wearg, tea-drkg gays of the Fire Island set.

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Gay men still had afternoon/early eveng danc — ually on Sundays, orr to make the most of one’s weekend while still beg able to get up for Monday morng’s downtown gays rejected the term tea dance as beg too effete and opted for the supposedly butcher t-dance, and promoted “t-shirts and nim” as the stume of choice.

By the mid 70s, the “Christopher Street Clone” look (short cropped hair, mtache, plaid shirt over a tight whe t-shirt, fad nim jeans that showed off your ass) had ma the trans-ntental trip om New York Cy to Los Angel (gays Hollywood) and, of urse, to San Francis (follow the Yellow Brick Road and leads to Castro). It brought wh the tea dance phenomenon, which is slowly dyg out and is nothg of s former self and may plac is all but Kohler is a noted LGBT historian, wrer, blogger and owner of A longtime gay activist, Will fought on the ont l of the AIDS epimic wh ACT-UP and ntu fightg today for LGBT acceptance and full equaly. Manoel had long known he was gay, but was stck by experiencg that for the first time — to the pot where he turned to his iend and said: “I n’t.

(Dania Maxwell/Los Angel Tim) The movements also nodd to how they had grown up at a time when beg gay meant not beg “allowed to exprs love, ” Manoel explas. From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

TMP EXPLAS HIS LOVE OF ‘Y.M.C.A.,’ WHICH HE CLAIMS IS THE ‘GAY NATNAL ANTHEM’

Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.

At the time, shownner Lren S Hissrich nied any homoerotic unrton, explag that this was "jt an example of male iendship" be fair, if any bottom was gog to receive pliments om straight men, would be the extremely pert and ed lovely one that belongs to Henry Cavill. And when they were fally rned after an extend absence, Jaskier got his k off the first chance he uld get, showg off his newly-sculpted abs a bid to imprs Geralt and remd him of what he'd been missg out aga, The Wcher team nied any homoerotic unrton between the pair. After Nightmare of the Wolf tossed a blk-and-you'll-miss- gay character lled La, the Blood Orig prequel wove multiple queer storyl around Meldof's lost love, Gwen, and Nathaniel Curtis' "Fancy Gay J" (as the st liked to ll him).

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But the cx of all is that homophob n no longer ny Jaskier's queerns, so stead, they argue 's wrong bee 's not fahful to the source, Jaskier isn't queer the books, that's te, but where's the outrage for the many other chang that Netflix has ma to The Wcher then? Speakg jt recently to Gay Tim, Batey mented on this "very vol negative space wh the fandom, " potg out that 's "actually the mory, " not the majory, who feel this way.

We hope he's right bee do seem absurd to object agast a queer-d character beg revealed as queer a world where basilisks and chernobogs are readily accepted as the Jaskier sgs his new gay banger, their love is "not a want, 's a need". 10 plac sorted by traveler favorGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissWhat travelers are saygMarta CLisbon, Portugal2 ntributnsIf you're Barcelona and searchg for a bar to go found . Alongsi a team of unrgraduate and graduate stunts at X Universy Toronto, I’ve spent the last year explorg the work of the Gay Communy Dance Commtee (GCDC), a volunteer anizatn that hosted dance parti Toronto om 1981 to 1992.

Durg s nearly 12-year tenure, the GCDC raised over $250, 000 to support the work of the AIDS Commtee of Toronto, Buddi Bad Tim Theatre, the Canadian Gay Archiv (now The ArQuiv), Gays and Lbians of the First Natns of Toronto (now 2 Spired People of the First Natns), Lbian Mothers’ Defence Fund, The Body Polic (a gay and lbian magaze) and ZAMI (one of the first anizatns Canada specifilly for lbian and gay people of lour). Durg a when lbian and gay muni experienced substantial harm the forms of homophobic vlence, the HIV/AIDS epimic, moralistic reprentatns of gay life and ernment agenci that were dismissive or explicly hostile, the group allowed LGBTQ2+ people to regnize a shared belongg and power.

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It’s no cince that the most famo rt queer history took place at The Stonewall Inn, one of the few gay bars New York Cy that allowed same-sex dancg to soul and funk mic — genr that embody experienc of rhythm and groove and feelgs of beg the moment, llectively, on the dance floor. GCDC danc enabled people to perceive the sheer size and spe of the cy’s lbian and gay liberatn projects — as well as their place wh . This is one of the many forc that kd of tilts nightlife, which dampens dancg durg this homophobic perd where men start to be more nervo about their performanc of this seems mostly specific to whe men.

But beg exprsive wh your body is not somethg boys are raised to do; they are raised to be fearful of beg lled gay and movg their hips and their bodi.

It proclaims, “No matter gay, straight or bi / Lbian, transgenred life / I’m on the right track, baby / I was born to survive. "20"I'm Comg Out" by Diana Ross20"I'm Comg Out" by Diana RossCred: AmazonApparently, Chic's Nile Rodgers was spired to wre this funky 1980 dance h for Diana Ross after seeg multiple drag queens drsed as the sger at a New York gay club.