LGBTQ Pri Month: Oy Vey, Why Are So Many Jews Gay? | Wter Watch

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• 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?

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ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?

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. 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.

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

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.

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

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GAY RIGHTS

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.

GAY GILBERT(I)

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. 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.

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

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).

” 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.