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Contents:
- A RERD YEAR FOR LGBTQ REPRENTATN FILM — FOR GAY WHE MEN
- WHE GAY MEN ARE HRG OUR PROGRS AS A QUEER COMMUNY
- ARE MORY MEN MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY? WHY?
- ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
- PENIS SIZE AND PREFERRED SEXUAL ROL AMONG GAY MEN
A RERD YEAR FOR LGBTQ REPRENTATN FILM — FOR GAY WHE MEN
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"Though whe gay men rema the most reprented LGBTQ-clive films, even their cln may not be taken for granted as progrs, as more than half of all LGBTQ characters received ls than three mut of screen time, acrdg to the report. "For example, 'Wonr Park, ' we see gay parents droppg their kids off to mp, which is a nice moment, but there's also a huge amount of opportuny to move beyond small moments that dienc n easily miss. ”No Jtice, No Pri and Black Liv Matter–affiliated groups reprised the prott ci across the untry throughout the Capal Pri nontatn and others like have laid bare a growg chasm wh the LGBTQ+ muny between olr activists and younger; between gay whe cisgenr men who feel like they n celebrate post-marriage equaly and those who fear for their liv unr a Tmp admistratn; between those whose biggt stumblg block life is beg gay and those who feel their eedom is ntgent not only on LGBTQ+ rights but also on issu like police reform, reproductive rights, and enomic equaly.
”But as dtups ed by groups like No Jtice, No Pri show — as well as other velopments, like the addn of a brown stripe to Philalphia’s LGBTQ pri flag; and scuffl over the cln of Israeli flags at monstratns — that not everyone is happy wh the LGBTQ+ movement’s foc on tersectnaly, which has foreground discsns of privilege, police btaly, sexism, racism, and anti-trans BeckSome gay whe cisgenr men are startg to tune out. “You have gay whe men who are no longer volved activism or muny work bee they jt get shouted down by mory activists who want to racialize everythg, ” said Jamie Kirchick, a right-leang journalist and visg fellow at the Brookgs Instutn. “Whe gay man has bee an ephet, ” he the amic fn of tersectnaly may be narrow, s meang has broaned as s age has spread across var social jtice movements.
WHE GAY MEN ARE HRG OUR PROGRS AS A QUEER COMMUNY
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ARE MORY MEN MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY? WHY?
”Kirchick said tersectnaly has ma the work of some LGBTQ+ anizatns herent, cg groups like Gays Agast Guns, which spng up after the Pulse massacre Orlando last year.
“You n support gun ntrol, but I don’t see what that has to do wh beg gay, ” Kirchick said.
“And the notn that gay-rights groups should be weighg at all on [the] abortn issue is prepostero. ”Erasg Gay Whe Cisgenr Men?
ALL THE OPENLY GAY MALE CELEBS WHO ARE OUT, PROUD & SMOK’ HOT
But even some progrsive gay whe men say they feel alienated om a movement they see beg more radil, particularly onle, where the tenor of nversatn is often uncivil. This clus downplayg the role of gay men the 1969 Stonewall rts that kicked off the morn-day LGBTQ-rights era. “People lerally say that gay whe men have done nothg for the movement for the last 50 years, ” he said.
”But Olson, who is gay and married, add that the ternal nflict the LGBTQ+ movement is currently experiencg — and the drop-off participatn om those at the top — was to be expected after marriage equaly. A gay whe married man, he said he “showed up for marriage and looked at issu that followed and stepped back out. Durg the marriage fight, he worked wh black fah lears who supported gay marriage.
Uned by the Vietnam War, was an “credible era of dialogue” between social-jtice groups of starkly different Gay Liberatn Front marched wh the Black Panthers and participated antiwar monstratns. “Homophil, ” as they lled themselv back then, took on issu like police reform at a time when law enforcement routely entrapped gay men stgs. The movement was not only far more centralized than today, when several large LGBTQ+ advocy anizatns wh lots of money generally set the agenda; was stacked wh crics of palism, cludg munists like Harry Hay, who -found early homophile anizatn the Mattache Society.
PENIS SIZE AND PREFERRED SEXUAL ROL AMONG GAY MEN
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“This Is Not a Pole Thg”To those experiencg opprsn on several onts — those at the tersectns — the sensibili of gay whe cisgenr men seem bi the pot. ” He noted that AIDS activism the 1980s and 1990s — which gay men and their alli chaed themselv to ernment buildgs and performed die-s on the streets of major ci — was hardly pole. ” said Moore, who lled on LGBTQ anizatns to endorse Black Liv Matter on Alli, Our SelvNot all gay whe cisgenr men see the LGBTQ+ movement’s tersectnal turn a negative light.
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