Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen out as gay a first for US-based pro leagu

Contents:

• EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: NETFLIX IS A JOKE STAND-UP STAR MATTEO LANE “I’M JT TALKG ABOUT WHAT I LIKE & IF HAPPENS TO BE SUPER GAY, GOOD!”
• JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?
• GUY BRANUM IS THE FAT GAY COMIC GODSS THE WORLD NEEDS RIGHT NOW
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• HASHTAGS FOR #GAYEDIAN
• ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BLAMEITONKWAY: IS HE GAY?

EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: NETFLIX IS A JOKE STAND-UP STAR MATTEO LANE “I’M JT TALKG ABOUT WHAT I LIKE & IF HAPPENS TO BE SUPER GAY, GOOD!”

Fluent five languag, wh a sgg range of six octav, pup good looks, and charisma for days, Matteo Lane is already a gay hearthrob (as a quick glance at his Instagram will nfirm) and fast beg a New York stand-up edy stutn, regularly performg at the legendary Comedy Cellar the Wt Village. He -hosts the h podst, Insi the Closet, wh fellow NYC edian Emma Willmann, sharg their experienc of beg gay ics mastream culture. Ahead of his Netflix Is A Joke shows, Matteo Lane had an exclive chat wh The Queer Review’s edor Jam Klemann about why Joan Rivers was rponsible for him gettg to stand-up, how he was able to keep preformg when New York’s door edy venu were closed, why Stand Out at the Greek is gog to feel like a fay rnn, and who his gay in for life is.

When you were startg out stand-up, I image you looked out at the edy landspe and noticed that there weren’t any proment gay male edians at that time.

JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?

“I thk stand-up edy is so associated wh straight men—and very few women—to the extent that if you were gay or queer 15 or 20 years ago and gettg edy was like, why?!

Matteo Lane -hosts the h podst, Insi the Closet, wh fellow NYC edian Emma Willmann, sharg their experienc of beg gay ics mastream culture. A lot of your jok relate to beg gay, n you give me an sight to how you approach tellg those jok about yourself or observg behavur the gay muny?

GUY BRANUM IS THE FAT GAY COMIC GODSS THE WORLD NEEDS RIGHT NOW

I’m talkg about myself on stage and so why lim myself to talkg about thgs based on how other people are gog to perceive and whether ’s too gay or not, who r?!

It’s more of an appreciatn for the art form as opposed to thkg, let me do this joke bee the people are gay or let me do that joke bee the people are straight. The pair talk about livg and travelg together, and a recent episo revealed they would be vatng on Fire Island, which has a famo gay scene, wh proment gay Jewish okbook thor Jake Cohen.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

The Variety article was born of Rosenfeld’s epeng belief that ’s possible to merge his Orthodox and gay inti more publicly — somethg that he has long done as a ngregant and sometim-ntor at the Morn Orthodox synagogue he attends the East Village.

For Rosenfeld, there’s no tensn between Jewish observance and beg gay — although his articulatn of why reveals an awarens of the pa that others might feel tryg. When Rosenfeld shared the Variety article on his Instagram page, the vast majory of the nearly 800 ments left by fans and iends showed support for his public embrace of his gay inty.

HASHTAGS FOR #GAYEDIAN

Sce he has started addg gay material to his repertoire, his dienc have been creasgly LGBTQ, like at some of the “Holidazed” shows he performed December at Sony Hall New York.

They also said they were surprised by how weled they felt as a gay uple at a Republin event, and remarked on how many of the polil figur and donors they met were exced to show them pictur of all the other gay upl they knew.

” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BLAMEITONKWAY: IS HE GAY?

This is the first time Amerin history that gay and trans people have been able to live as themselv any real way, wh jobs and marriag and dogs and ts and visibily. ”My Life as a Godss spans Branum’s journey om an unually large, unually smart, unually effemate child to his unlikely Hollywood ascendance, as an openly gay edian and wrer for legends like Joan Rivers, Chelsea Handler, and Mdy Kalg. ” He wrtl wh Delir, Eddie Murphy’s sually homophobic edy special, which both pelled him towards a reer stand-up and sparked self-hatred.

Whatever Troye Sivan is, ’s at least good that the person sgg about sex is sgg about gay sex and ’s an actual gay person who you uld have sex wh.

I thk we are hungry for ’ve said that as a fat gay ic, gay people qutn why you’re given a microphone to speak on their most ways, beg fat is perfectly fe stand up. But when I was first on Chelsea Lately, the reactns were eher “He shouldn’t be there, he’s too gay, ” or “He shouldn’t be there, he’s too fat, gay guys aren’t like that. The people we’re ed to seeg on raised platforms at gay bars are gogo dancers and drag queens, jt needg sexualizatn or some kd of distance to make fortable.