“Incg Joy: A Conversatn wh Ross Gay,” January 11 | River Ci' Rear

Contents:

• "LEARNG TO BE GAY" WH MR REGULAR OF RCR
• 'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY
• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• PREVIEW “BROS” #TRAILER ABOUT AN OPENLY GAY MAN, BILLY EICHNER WRER AND STAR OF THIS NEW ROMCOM DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER #NOTTOMISS #INTHEATERSSOON #BROSMOVIE
• AM I GAY?
• “INCG JOY: A CONVERSATN WH ROSS GAY,” JANUARY 11

"LEARNG TO BE GAY" WH MR REGULAR OF RCR

Brian clarified that he is misexual, a form of grey asexualy which misexuals "[do] not experience sexual attractn until they have formed a strong emotnal nnectn wh a prospective partner", intifyg as gay a tweet on Natnal Comg Out Day 2021. I sometim fet that there are fellow gays that realize they are really gay far later life than most, thank you for sharg your experience TheKeipatzy Ill watch the vio.

But I've recently gotten volved wh a man who didn't realize he was gay until he was his already married wh two young were divorced and amibly -parentg well before he met me, before anyone thk me a homewrecker. I n't image what mt have been like for him to go om not really talkg about himself his vios at all to makg a vio tl "Learng to be gay, " talkg about somethg so tensely personal, but I have to gus took a lot of urage. I've been subscribed for years and when he mentned he was gay a review a few months ago, my ial thought was yeah that tracks.

Weeks after his trip to Mosw, Kosski published a ntroversial paper which he showed how face-analysg algorhms uld distguish between photographs of gay and straight people. ”In a paper published last year, Kosski and a Stanford puter scientist, Yilun Wang, reported that a mache-learng system was able to distguish between photos of gay and straight people wh a high gree of accuracy. Prented wh two pictur – one of a gay person, the other straight – the algorhm was traed to distguish the two 81% of s volvg imag of men and 74% of photographs of women.

'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY

Human judg, by ntrast, were able to intify the straight and gay people 61% and 54% of s, rpectively. “I was jt shocked to disver that is so easy for an algorhm to distguish between gay and straight people, ” Kosski tells me.

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

’ Photograph: Jason Henry/The GuardianNeher did many other people, and there was an immediate backlash when the rearch – dubbed “AI gaydar” – was previewed the Enomist magaze. ) There was also anger that Kosski had nducted rearch on a technology that uld be ed to persecute gay people untri such as Iran and Sdi Arabia, where homosexualy is punishable by ath. His fdgs are nsistent wh the prenatal hormone theory of sexual orientatn, he says, which argu that the levels of androgens foet are exposed to the womb help terme whether people are straight or gay.

“Th, ” he wr his paper, “gay men are predicted to have smaller jaws and chs, slimmer eyebrows, longer nos and larger foreheads... He be prickly when I prs him on Rsia, potg to s dire rerd on gay rights.

PREVIEW “BROS” #TRAILER ABOUT AN OPENLY GAY MAN, BILLY EICHNER WRER AND STAR OF THIS NEW ROMCOM DIRECTED BY NICHOLAS STOLLER #NOTTOMISS #INTHEATERSSOON #BROSMOVIE

(A uple of days later, Kosski tells me he has checked his slis; fact, he says, he didn’t tell the Rsians about his “AI gaydar”. But when I heard people ravg about the show, wrten by Rsell T Davi, I was stck by how many of them admted to knowg ltle about the epimic – and the stctn wreaked among the gay muny. That’s bee, even today's much more acceptg society, the history of the gay and lbian muny is largely a fotten history.

For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans. It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years. My novel is ridg on a wave of tert that dat back the UK to 2017 and the 50th anniversary of the begng of crimalisatn of homosexualy.

AM I GAY?

That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist. Over on Instagram, The Aids Memorial shar photos and stori of people – predomantly gay men – who died of the disease, wrten by those who loved them. You’d not tch many queer al mers jottg down their memoirs – Crystal JeansHowever, 's fictn that’s very much drivg the phenomenon of brgg "lost" stori of gay life om the past to light.

Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End).

In the theatre, Matthew Lopez's exploratn of gay male history The Inherance triumphed London before transferrg to New York, where opened the year after a well-received revival of Mart Crowley's semal 1968 play Boys the Band.

“INCG JOY: A CONVERSATN WH ROSS GAY,” JANUARY 11

Most recently, the ter explod wh behd-the-scen photos of Harry Styl om the shoot of new film My Policeman, an adaptatn of Bethan Roberts's 2012 novel starrg the pop superstar as a closeted gay man the 1950s. However, as a way of explag the mystery surroundg why Harry left behd everythg he knew, Gale imaged a suatn which he was forced to leave as a rult of a gay affair beg exposed. Crystal Jeans's latt novel is The Inverts, which tells the story of two bt iends – one a lbian, the other a gay man – who enter to a fake marriage the 1920s.

This was another reason I wrote The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle; I wanted to tell the story of one ordary young gay man tryg to exprs his love for another at a time when this would not have been accepted. But I also wanted to ntrast this disturbg, sometim horrifyg picture wh what life n be like for a gay man wh today’s much more acceptg society the UK – and celebrate how much progrs we’ve ma.