NPR's Leila Fal speaks wh Juan Carlos Cz, a gay Chilean man who is a survivor of clergy sex abe, about remarks by Pope Francis that crimalizg homosexualy is "unjt."
Contents:
- JUAN GABRIEL WAS MEXI’S GAY IN — BUT HE NEVER SPOKE OF HIS SEXUALY
- POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
- JUAN ES GAY
- IS JUAN DIXON GAY? FD OUT THE TTH ABOUT HIS SEXUALY!
- WHY WAS SAID THAT JUANPA ZURA IS GAY?
- EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: HALF BROTHERS STAR JUAN PABLO ESPOSA ON BEG THE GAY ROLE MOL HE NEVER HAD “GROWG UP COLOMBIA A VERY MACHO CULTURE THERE WAS ALWAYS THIS STIGMA AROUND BEG GAY”
JUAN GABRIEL WAS MEXI’S GAY IN — BUT HE NEVER SPOKE OF HIS SEXUALY
* juan is gay *
” Juan is far ls certa his iends would be acceptg or supportive: “One of my good iends isn’t raggly homophobic but mak ments like, ‘I don’t want you lookg at me like that. He is certa that about 75% of his erotic, sexual fantasi volv men (he watch lots of gay porn), which ntrasts wh the 90% of his romantic csh that have been wh women. Ined, the label self simplifi a que plex young man and mystifi his own unrstandg as he words such as “mostly gay” to scribe his sexualy, “mostly straight” to scribe his romantic self, and “bisexual” to spl the difference.
But this simplifitn is not unique to the bisexual label, as I will illtrate future posts wh young adults who intify as straight and lbian/gay. He never spoke about his sexualy, yet was wily assumed to be ’s no surprise that the sger was an in Mexi’s gay subculture.
But how was that he me to be celebrated by the untry’s Catholic, nservative and often homophobic mastream?
POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
"If you're handsome and betiful, well, people are always gog to say that you're gay." * juan is gay *
He mataed that posture to his later years spe a shift public opn on gay and transgenr never married, nceived four children via artificial sematn wh a female iend and repeatedly refed to answer qutns about his sexualy, even after a male former personal secretary wrote a book allegg they had a romantic 2002, a few years years before Mexi Cy legalized gay marriage, the famoly effemate sger shut down a journalist who asked if he was gay. Although Gabriel never publicly claimed the gay muny, that muny certaly claimed him, wh his romantic Spanish-language ballads belted late to the night drag bars on both sis of the borr.
Many gay fans saw d msag the lyrics of Juan Gabriel’s songs, such as “Es Mi Vida” (“It’s My Life. At some schools, his name was ed as an anti-gay lled Juan Gabriel subversive.
JUAN ES GAY
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“You ma homophobic people sg and dance. ”Mexi has changed nsirably om the days Juan Gabriel was begng his 2005, the feral ernment stuted an anti-homophobia mpaign.
Gay and lbian characters now appear on Mexin ss and soap operas. And public opn polls show Mexin people are warmg toward gay marriage, which is legal several stat and Mexi Cy. “Homosexualy kd of me out of the closet, but Juan Gabriel never did.
Pope Francis' LGBTQ ments are not surprisg but scere, gay Vatin adviser says. An openly gay advisor to the Vatin says he's not surprised by Pope Francis' claratn that "beg homosexual isn't a crime. In his first terview sce the ath of former Pope Benedict XVI, Francis told the Associated Prs that laws crimalizg homosexualy are "unjt" and that Catholic bishops should apply "tenrns" and help ease discrimatn by welg LGBTQ people to the church.
IS JUAN DIXON GAY? FD OUT THE TTH ABOUT HIS SEXUALY!
The late, inic sger-songwrer Juan Gabriel never officially me out as gay, but on the anniversary of his ath, LGBTQ Lato wrers reflect on the posive impact he had on their liv. * juan is gay *
Cz says the church's sistence that homosexualy is "s, " a posn embraced by the pope, is "shameful, " although Cz says the pope appears to be tryg to shift the church's relatnship wh the LGBTQ muny.
WHY WAS SAID THAT JUANPA ZURA IS GAY?
And he shifts this, you know, wordg, like you said , Leila, but he highlights how important is that 's more sful, you know, havg thgs agast your neighbor or beg uncharable, or crimal towards the gay muny, that's sful. While Gabriel was admired for his artistic flamboyance, effemate persona, and athetic fiance of machista culture, he never intified as gay any terviews or rerds.
EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: HALF BROTHERS STAR JUAN PABLO ESPOSA ON BEG THE GAY ROLE MOL HE NEVER HAD “GROWG UP COLOMBIA A VERY MACHO CULTURE THERE WAS ALWAYS THIS STIGMA AROUND BEG GAY”
In a rerd terview, reporter Fernando Del Rcón boldly asked Gabriel if he was gay. In rponse, Gabriel stated, “All art is feme […] look, if you’re handsome and young and betiful, well, people are always gog to say that you’re gay.
Juan Gabriel never tamed his feme appearance nor his flamboyant dancg, spe the gay mors throughout his reer.