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Contents:

• É VERDA QUE UM DOIS IRMãOS SIAM SE CLAROU GAY?
• ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?
• CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY N.F.L. PLAYER, HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL EVERYMAN
• CREATOR OF TV'S FIRST (GAY) REALY SHOW AN AMERIN FAY HAS DIED
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY GILBERT(I)
• LGBTQ PRI MONTH: OY VEY, WHY ARE SO MANY JEWS GAY?

É VERDA QUE UM DOIS IRMãOS SIAM SE CLAROU GAY?

Over the years, was home to a plethora of gay l legends, om EM Forster and Edward Carpenter to Patricia Duncker and Stephen Fry. Not only has fed the homosexual imagatns of a host of thors, but s spac and streets have been central to queer polil anisg. On Saturdays they all put on their bt bell-bottoms and head to the Anchor, home to the bt gay club the Forster is the first person most people thk of when they thk of queer Cambridge.

Forster’s pneerg gay love story unfolds agast the backdrop of the cy’s lh parks and languid are also the settg for Edward Carpenter’s reflectns on his gloomy youth at Try Hall College – the third stop on the trail.

The Cy, LiverpoolCreated for the Homotopia ftival, this seri of atmospheric podsts tak you on an art crawl around Liverpool guid by LGBTQ+ voic., Love, Inty, LondonA virtual trail for the ancient history buff, this marvello seri explor the hidn queer history of objects om the Brish Mm. However, as celebry’s private liv beme creasgly public and homosexualy stigmatized, there would be a arth of LGBTQ Lato Lover reprentativ for s. End they go home to their wiv and male adult performers who go "gay for pay, " a term ed to scribe gay porn which two (or more) otherwise straight dus have sex on mera, the above scenar is jt another day at the Male Porn Stars Are Straight — But They Have Sex Wh Men for a LivgSource: YouTubeThis week, MTV is airg an episo of Te Life explorg the liv of two such performers, and their stggl to balance the seemgly nflictg mands of their profsnal and personal liv.

ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?

In straight porn, the pay for men is notorly lower than the pay for women, so "gay porn [actors] general make a lot more than straight porn, " Damian McKnight, the CEO and producer of the succsful gay-for-pay se Broke Straight Boys, told the Daily Dot last year. In a book that me out earlier this year, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, thor Jane Ward argued that male sexualy is a lot more fluid than most of are willg to acknowledge. " she prevly told said, adult entertament publicist Mike Stabile told Mic that he believ the sexualy of a gay-for-pay porn star is likely to be a b more flexible than your average joe.

"They seemed to have more of a fluid sexualy, or were jt extremely sexual, even if they intified as straight their private liv, " he said of the gay-for-pay actors he's worked wh the past. "Of urse, there are some who are jt bee of the money, guys who sist on havg loud cellphone nversatns wh their girliends while on-set, or beg homophobic. That's a ltle more plited, as some believe that gay men's tenncy to fetishize straight men engagg gay sex stems om a ep-rooted place of self-loathg or shame.

CARL NASSIB, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY N.F.L. PLAYER, HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL EVERYMAN

"Bee of ternalized homophobia (which typilly looms large before and durg the early g-out procs), they're more often lookg for men who act mascule, " thor Joe Kort wrote 2013 for the Huffgton Post. For stance, when gay-for-pay porn star Chris Tyler was asked by the Village Voice what the harst part of his job was, he answered:"Takg a 10-ch-pl dick. "Talk about workg hard for the out the full preview for MTV's Te Life: I'm a Gay for Pay Porn Star below:Source: YouTube.

"The rabow ia, I nnot say that was Gilbert's ia, " says Lynn Segerblom, now a Los Angel-area rint, who was, wh Baker, chair of the ratns mtee for the 1978 Gay Freedom Day celebratn. "Later that week, while he and Jon were dancg to a band at the Cow Palace, Baker was imprsed wh the diversy of the crowd: hippi, bikers, punks, gay mcle boys, butch lbians. Another is that creatg them was an arduo task -- but a labor of work took place at what was then the Gay Communy Center at 330 Grove San Francis.

She also put stars on one of the flags, makg a gay "stars and strip, " g wood blocks to prt the the dyeg, she not, you uldn't jt leave the fabric the vat; you had to be movg around. Segerblom took her life a different directn, movg to Los Angel to pursue her dream of an actg reer, then workg a bs that created murals and and others also note that jt a few months after Gay Freedom Day of 1978, the San Francis gay muny had more than flags to ncern them-- November of that year, Milk, the cy's first out elected official, and Mayor Gee Mosne were shot to ath Cy Hall by Dan Whe, a disgntled former member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, where he served wh Milk. "The flags were a rponse to the hatred of Ana Bryant and John Briggs, " referrg to the sger who beme an antigay activist and the man who sponsored a ballot proposn that sought to keep gays and lbians om teachg California public schools.

CREATOR OF TV'S FIRST (GAY) REALY SHOW AN AMERIN FAY HAS DIED

Publicida -Mensagem palhada pelas res sociais afirma que um dois irmãos siam xifópagos se clarou homossexual, gerando um “problema” em família? ) Then was Ellen DeGener on her eponymo ABC show—though she would later actually e out as a lbian, breakg down barriers and makg room for everyone om the gays of Will & Grace to the ridg, wng, losg, cheat', kissg, thkg, dreamg women of The L before them, and fely before the 's-hip-to-be-queer characters of Riverdale and Runaways, LGBTQ kids didn’t have many folks on TV or movi to mol themselv after.

” The list uld go on, but the ia is the same: people who don’t often get reprented media tend to attach themselv to someone that's close his book The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on TV, Stephen Tropiano lls the “gay-straight” characters, people who may seem queer but are prented as straight. “There were no gay men or lbians livg next door to the Rirdos and the Kramns or wag to be rcued on Gilligan’s Island, ” Tropiano wr. Around the same time, ss began to vote sgle-episo story l to mature subjects and them, such as racism, alholism, abortn, anti-Semism, and homosexualy.

GAY RIGHTS

Before ss like All the Fay, Barney Miller, and M h the airwav, gay viewers had to settle for shows exhibg a certa ‘gay appeal. A show like Murphy Brown or The Dick Van Dyke Show uld have gay-but-not characters whom queer dienc uld see themselv if they squted enough, but who never actually had to be gay, let alone sayg they were. Durg s nearly -long n, the show had several queer characters, Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) herself kissed a woman on-air a 1994 episo, and had one of the first-ever gay weddgs on primetime a year later when Leon (Mart Mull) married Stt (Fred Willard).

GAY GILBERT(I)

” When Roseanne retorts that the fay isn’t bigoted bee they’ve “already me to terms wh the fact that you were gay” her dghter quickly rponds “I’m not gay! Bert and Ernie, who've been on Same Street for 25 years, do not portray a gay uple, and there are no plans for them to do so the future.

Though 's impossible to p down where the "Bert and Ernie are gay" mor began, one potential source is The Real Thg, a 1980 Doubleday book by Kurt Anrsen. In this book (which purports to be "A gui to separatg the genue om the ersatz, the men om the boys, and the wheat om the chaff"), Anrsen mak the whimsil claim that among homosexuals, Bert and Ernie are "the Real Thg":.

LGBTQ PRI MONTH: OY VEY, WHY ARE SO MANY JEWS GAY?

He om a football fay, was a standout at Penn State and has tght his teammat about personal Miller/Getty ImagPublished June 22, 2021Updated June 25, 2021Las Vegas Rairs fensive leman Carl Nassib walked outsi his home Wt Chter, Pa., looked directly to his phone and did somethg that he said he hoped would one day no longer be a few brief sentenc, the 28-year-old Nassib me out as gay. L., his ach and his peers the league for their rpect and acceptance, and acknowledged that many gay people before him did not receive that same support.

An Amerin Fay, the 1973 doceri that exvated the ner liv of the Santa Barbara-based Loud fay, troduced dienc to TV's first openly gay character Lance Loud, the fay's elst son. Most signifint to Amerin dienc, was Gilbert's optg to profile a fay wh an openly gay son, who was a lightng rod the culture wars -- both beloved by many viewers and loathed by the media, acrdg to is nsired to be the first realy TV star. The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. And durg World War II, the Nazis held homosexual men ncentratn mps, brandg them wh the famo pk triangle badge, which was also given to sexual predators.