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• WEEKEND STAR CHRIS NEW SAYS BEG OPENLY GAY HAS “RTRICTED” HIS REER
• OPENLY GAY ACTOR CHRIS NEW SAYS HE WON'T PLAY A CHARACTER DEFED BY HIS SEXUALY
• MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
• IS CHRIS EVANS GAY, BI, STRAIGHT, OR QUEER?
• KNOW THE REAL TTH OF CHRIS FROM MR BEAST GAY!
• SHOP THE BT OF 'THE RIGHT STUFF'!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTUREHOW UNTRY SGER CHRIS HOMAN IS SHOWG 'Y’ALL MEANS ALL' WH HIS MIC1:45WOMAN'S POWERFUL POST ON BEG A BLACK UNTRY MIC FAN GO BYCHRIS HOMANAPRIL 16, 2021, 4:02 AMYOU MIGHT NOT KNOW CHRIS HOMAN'S NAME YET, BUT THE PENNT UNTRY MIC SGER-SONGWRER IS MAKG WAV WH HIS NEW SONG, "BLUENECK" -- ONE HE SAID HE WISH HE HAD HEARD WHEN GROWG UP.THE SONG, WHICH DROPPED APRIL 7, FEATUR PROGRSIVE LYRICS -- PECIALLY FOR ONE THE GENRE -- SUCH AS: "CAN'T A UNTRY KID WANNA SEE THE GLASS CEILG SHATTER / WANNA SEE A WORLD WHERE BLACK LIV MATTER." EVEN JT THE TWO L TOUCH UPON THE NEED FOR BETTER REPRENTATN OF WOMEN AND BLACK ARTISTS UNTRY MIC, TWO POTS THAT HAVE BEEN DISCSED WILY RECENT YEARS.IN "BLUENECK," HOMAN, WHO IS GAY, SCRIB A PERSON LIKE HIMSELF, WHO IS A "LIBERAL REDNECK," SOMEONE WHO IS LIBERAL POLIL AND SOCIAL IOLOGY BUT LIV OR GREW UP A NSERVATIVE SETTG OR A "RED STATE."BELOW, HOMAN, 31, TRODUC HIMSELF TO THE WORLD A PERSONAL SAY FOR "GOOD MORNG AMERI," TAILG HIS JOURNEY LIFE TH FAR AND EXPLAG HOW, WH "BLUENECK," HE WANTS TO SHOW THAT UNTRY MIC N BE FOR EVERYONE. AS HE SGS, "I THK Y'ALL MEANS ALL AND I KNOW WE ALL / JT WANNA KNOW THAT WE BELONG."GROWG UP AS A GAY KID IMMERSED UNTRY MIC, ON A KANSAS FARM NEAR A TOWN OF ONLY ABOUT 200 PEOPLE, I CERTALY ALWAYS FELT DIFFERENT.WHILE I LOVED THE '90S UNTRY SONGS I WAS HEARG ON THE RAD AND PERFORMG AT SHOWS STARTG AT THE AGE OF 7, I KNEW EP DOWN THAT THEY NEVER TOTALLY APPLIED TO ME. IN "BLUENECK" -- MY NEW SONG THAT WENT VIRAL ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA APP TIKTOK AND WAS THE NO. 1 SELLG UNTRY SONG ON ITUN FOR A TIME LAST WEEK -- I WROTE THE SONG I WISH THAT I HAD HEARD GROWG UP. ONE WHICH, AS A LE THE CHOS SAYS, "Y'ALL MEANS ALL."AFTER G OUT AT 18 -- HAVG NEVER MET AN OPENLY GAY PERSON BEFORE -- I MOVED TO NASHVILLE TO ATTEND BELMONT UNIVERSY AND PURSUE MIC. BUT I QUICKLY HAD A REALIZATN: I ULD NTUE TO CHASE THE UNTRY MIC DREAM, OR I ULD LIVE MY H, OPENLY QUEER SK.I CERTALY DIDN'T THK I ULD DO BOTH. WHY WOULD I? I HAD NEVER SEEN DONE BEFORE OM AN UNKNOWN AND UNSIGNED ARTIST. SO I PUT MIC ON THE BACK BURNER FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS WHILE I GRADUALLY GOT MORE FORTABLE WH MYSELF.IN 2014, MY WORLD WAS FLIPPED UPSI DOWN WHEN I BROKE MY NECK A EAK FLATABLE WATERSLI ACCINT. AFTER ONE WEEK ICU AND A NE-HOUR SPAL FN SURGERY -- DURG WHICH I LOST NTROL OF THE LEFT SI OF MY BODY AT ONE POT -- I WAS SO CREDIBLY FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO WALK, WH HELP, OUT OF THE HOSPAL.TO SAY THAT EXPERIENCE WAS EYE-OPENG WOULD BE A MASSIVE UNRSTATEMENT. I REMEMBER CRYG TO A SPOONFUL OF MARONI AND CHEE, SO EXCED THAT I WAS ABLE TO FEED MYSELF -- EVEN IF I BARELY HAD ENOUGH STRENGTH TO DO SO. I SPENT THE NEXT THREE MONTHS A NECK BRACE AND ANOTHER THREE MONTHS AFTER THAT SLOWLY REGAG MY STRENGTH. BUT THE STRONGT THG I VELOPED OM THAT TRAGEDY WAS MY NEWFOUND PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE.I REMEMBERED THAT I HAD E TO NASHVILLE TO SG, PERFORM AND WRE SONGS -- NOT TO WORK A 9-TO-5 STG AT A PUTER ALL DAY LIKE I WAS DOG AT THE TIME. I JUMPED AT THE FIRST CHANCE TO LEAVE MY SK JOB AND PLAY SHOWS FOR A LIVG, TOURG ACROSS THE UNTRY AND PLAYG AT 150-PL LLEG.WHEN THE LLEGE SHOWS SLOWED DOWN, I FOCED ON -WRG WH OTHER SONGWRERS TOWN -- WHICH I WOULD DO EVERY DAY, UNPAID, BEFORE WAG TABL AT NIGHT TO PAY THE BILLS. THOUGH ONLY PART-TIME NOW, I STILL WA TABL.AS I NTUED TO GROW TO MYSELF -- PECIALLY THIS WILD LAST YEAR -- I STARTED TO UNRSTAND THAT I ACTUALLY HAD QUE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THE GENRE THAT CLAIMS TO BE "THREE CHORDS AND THE TTH” YET SHUTS OUT A LOT OF TTHS OM BEG TOLD. AS SOMEONE WHO SPENT A LARGE PORTN OF MY LIFE FEELG EXCLUD OM UNTRY, WHERE THE WORD "EEDOM” IS ED AND IDOLIZED EQUENTLY, I SAW AN OPPORTUNY AND NEED FOR CHANGE THAT WOULD MAKE SOME MORE FOLKS CLUD, EE AND SAFE TO BE THEMSELV.SO WHILE THE OVERWHELMGLY POSIVE RPONSE -- MORE THAN 4 LN LLECTIVE VIEWS AND NEARLY 100,000 FOLLOWERS ON TIKTOK -- TO THE SONG I WROTE ABOUT BEG A "RED STATE BLUENECK” JT A MONTH AGO HAS BEEN A PLEASANT SURPRISE, ALSO MAK PLETE SENSE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD FEEL SEEN WHEN GIVEN A SPACE THAT THEY'VE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO SHE BEFORE.THIS "BLUENECK” HAS SO MUCH MORE TO SAY, AND N'T WA TO MAKE THE "Y'ALL" UNTRY MIC FALLY MEAN "ALL."YOU N FOLLOW CHRIS HOMAN ON FACEBOOK, TWTER AND TIKTOK. "BLUENECK" IS AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY AND ON ITUN.UP NEXT CULTURE—THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023ACTOR DANNY TREJO CELEBRAT 55 YEARS 'CLEAN AND SOBER'AUGT 25, 2023PRCE'S 'DIAMONDS AND PEARLS' TO BE REISSUED WH PREVLY UNHEARD TRACKSAUGT 25, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023ACTOR DANNY TREJO CELEBRAT 55 YEARS 'CLEAN AND SOBER'AUGT 25, 2023PRCE'S 'DIAMONDS AND PEARLS' TO BE REISSUED WH PREVLY UNHEARD TRACKSAUGT 25, 2023
• CHRIS KELLY AND SARAH SCHNEIR’S NEXT SERI WILL BE A LERAL GAY FEVER DREAM
• CHRIS GAY
• GAY FILM ‘PASSAG’ GETS SLAPPED WH AN NC-17 RATG
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

WEEKEND STAR CHRIS NEW SAYS BEG OPENLY GAY HAS “RTRICTED” HIS REER

Chris New has said that beg openly gay has harmed his reer. The actor, who starred alongsi Tom Cullen the crilly-acclaimed gay drama Weekend, ma the ment while discsg the phenomenon of straight actors playg gay rol wh The Guardian.

“I’m known as beg an out gay actor. “In my work, I am creasgly allowed to engage my culture only when that engagement centr on beg gay. As a rult of feelg pigeonholed by his sexualy, Chris says he’s begun to turn down rol that revolve around beg gay.

OPENLY GAY ACTOR CHRIS NEW SAYS HE WON'T PLAY A CHARACTER DEFED BY HIS SEXUALY

“For Weekend, and pecially Lookg, I wanted as many gay actors as possible, ” said.

“Tom Cullen Weekend or Rl Castillo Lookg may not have been gay real life but they pletely unrstood and related to the psychology of their rol. Its timate, highly naturalistic style pturg 48 hours of a burgeong love affair between two men (played by New and Tom Cullen) herald a h approach to film-makg, and to tellg gay stori. He had already realised he was gay by 14, but told no one — a secret that further isolated him.

MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)

It was only later that he told them he was gay. After Weekend was released, he had gay fans burstg to tears ont of him.

Known for his stage and televisn work his native England, Chris New mak his big-screen but as Glen, a nfint and cheeky artist, Weekend, out Brish filmmaker Andrew Haigh's ftival favore about two gay men who meet at a London nightclub and spend the next 48 hours havg sex, sharg their stori, and barg their souls. New, a 30-year-old gay actor, stars oppose straight actor Tom Cullen the naturalistic romance, which opened September 23 the U. "[Lghs] I'm not really sure how that n work, but I like character Glen, an artist, has a great le the film about his latt exhib: "The problem is that no one's gonna e see bee 's about gay sex.

The gays'll only e bee they want a glimpse of ck, and they'll be disappoted. I thk -- I n't really remember, bee we did so many versns of each scene -- but I thk we were gog to have a reference to gay films as well. We were gog say somethg like, "Gay films only ever get seen gay ftivals, " but we thought was too poted a reference.

IS CHRIS EVANS GAY, BI, STRAIGHT, OR QUEER?

We did worry that the film would be labeled a "gay film" and put to a ghetto, but the great thg is that has broken out, not only wh dienc but also wh crics.

KNOW THE REAL TTH OF CHRIS FROM MR BEAST GAY!

You often worry that crics might look at the film more cynilly than a normal dience, but their reactn has been credible, and 's enuragg the film to do better and break out of any pigeonhole that might be placed the gays who "want a glimpse of ck, " there is some brief male nudy the film. There has been cricism that the dg e and promiscuy shown the film perpetuat the stereotype that gay men are all dggy whor.

Those scen are what felt most like 's always a certa amount of ntroversy volved when a straight actor is st a gay role, primarily bee of an argument that 's stealg parts om gay actors.

SHOP THE BT OF 'THE RIGHT STUFF'!OPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTUREHOW UNTRY SGER CHRIS HOMAN IS SHOWG 'Y’ALL MEANS ALL' WH HIS MIC1:45WOMAN'S POWERFUL POST ON BEG A BLACK UNTRY MIC FAN GO BYCHRIS HOMANAPRIL 16, 2021, 4:02 AMYOU MIGHT NOT KNOW CHRIS HOMAN'S NAME YET, BUT THE PENNT UNTRY MIC SGER-SONGWRER IS MAKG WAV WH HIS NEW SONG, "BLUENECK" -- ONE HE SAID HE WISH HE HAD HEARD WHEN GROWG UP.THE SONG, WHICH DROPPED APRIL 7, FEATUR PROGRSIVE LYRICS -- PECIALLY FOR ONE THE GENRE -- SUCH AS: "CAN'T A UNTRY KID WANNA SEE THE GLASS CEILG SHATTER / WANNA SEE A WORLD WHERE BLACK LIV MATTER." EVEN JT THE TWO L TOUCH UPON THE NEED FOR BETTER REPRENTATN OF WOMEN AND BLACK ARTISTS UNTRY MIC, TWO POTS THAT HAVE BEEN DISCSED WILY RECENT YEARS.IN "BLUENECK," HOMAN, WHO IS GAY, SCRIB A PERSON LIKE HIMSELF, WHO IS A "LIBERAL REDNECK," SOMEONE WHO IS LIBERAL POLIL AND SOCIAL IOLOGY BUT LIV OR GREW UP A NSERVATIVE SETTG OR A "RED STATE."BELOW, HOMAN, 31, TRODUC HIMSELF TO THE WORLD A PERSONAL SAY FOR "GOOD MORNG AMERI," TAILG HIS JOURNEY LIFE TH FAR AND EXPLAG HOW, WH "BLUENECK," HE WANTS TO SHOW THAT UNTRY MIC N BE FOR EVERYONE. AS HE SGS, "I THK Y'ALL MEANS ALL AND I KNOW WE ALL / JT WANNA KNOW THAT WE BELONG."GROWG UP AS A GAY KID IMMERSED UNTRY MIC, ON A KANSAS FARM NEAR A TOWN OF ONLY ABOUT 200 PEOPLE, I CERTALY ALWAYS FELT DIFFERENT.WHILE I LOVED THE '90S UNTRY SONGS I WAS HEARG ON THE RAD AND PERFORMG AT SHOWS STARTG AT THE AGE OF 7, I KNEW EP DOWN THAT THEY NEVER TOTALLY APPLIED TO ME. IN "BLUENECK" -- MY NEW SONG THAT WENT VIRAL ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA APP TIKTOK AND WAS THE NO. 1 SELLG UNTRY SONG ON ITUN FOR A TIME LAST WEEK -- I WROTE THE SONG I WISH THAT I HAD HEARD GROWG UP. ONE WHICH, AS A LE THE CHOS SAYS, "Y'ALL MEANS ALL."AFTER G OUT AT 18 -- HAVG NEVER MET AN OPENLY GAY PERSON BEFORE -- I MOVED TO NASHVILLE TO ATTEND BELMONT UNIVERSY AND PURSUE MIC. BUT I QUICKLY HAD A REALIZATN: I ULD NTUE TO CHASE THE UNTRY MIC DREAM, OR I ULD LIVE MY H, OPENLY QUEER SK.I CERTALY DIDN'T THK I ULD DO BOTH. WHY WOULD I? I HAD NEVER SEEN DONE BEFORE OM AN UNKNOWN AND UNSIGNED ARTIST. SO I PUT MIC ON THE BACK BURNER FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS WHILE I GRADUALLY GOT MORE FORTABLE WH MYSELF.IN 2014, MY WORLD WAS FLIPPED UPSI DOWN WHEN I BROKE MY NECK A EAK FLATABLE WATERSLI ACCINT. AFTER ONE WEEK ICU AND A NE-HOUR SPAL FN SURGERY -- DURG WHICH I LOST NTROL OF THE LEFT SI OF MY BODY AT ONE POT -- I WAS SO CREDIBLY FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO WALK, WH HELP, OUT OF THE HOSPAL.TO SAY THAT EXPERIENCE WAS EYE-OPENG WOULD BE A MASSIVE UNRSTATEMENT. I REMEMBER CRYG TO A SPOONFUL OF MARONI AND CHEE, SO EXCED THAT I WAS ABLE TO FEED MYSELF -- EVEN IF I BARELY HAD ENOUGH STRENGTH TO DO SO. I SPENT THE NEXT THREE MONTHS A NECK BRACE AND ANOTHER THREE MONTHS AFTER THAT SLOWLY REGAG MY STRENGTH. BUT THE STRONGT THG I VELOPED OM THAT TRAGEDY WAS MY NEWFOUND PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE.I REMEMBERED THAT I HAD E TO NASHVILLE TO SG, PERFORM AND WRE SONGS -- NOT TO WORK A 9-TO-5 STG AT A PUTER ALL DAY LIKE I WAS DOG AT THE TIME. I JUMPED AT THE FIRST CHANCE TO LEAVE MY SK JOB AND PLAY SHOWS FOR A LIVG, TOURG ACROSS THE UNTRY AND PLAYG AT 150-PL LLEG.WHEN THE LLEGE SHOWS SLOWED DOWN, I FOCED ON -WRG WH OTHER SONGWRERS TOWN -- WHICH I WOULD DO EVERY DAY, UNPAID, BEFORE WAG TABL AT NIGHT TO PAY THE BILLS. THOUGH ONLY PART-TIME NOW, I STILL WA TABL.AS I NTUED TO GROW TO MYSELF -- PECIALLY THIS WILD LAST YEAR -- I STARTED TO UNRSTAND THAT I ACTUALLY HAD QUE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THE GENRE THAT CLAIMS TO BE "THREE CHORDS AND THE TTH” YET SHUTS OUT A LOT OF TTHS OM BEG TOLD. AS SOMEONE WHO SPENT A LARGE PORTN OF MY LIFE FEELG EXCLUD OM UNTRY, WHERE THE WORD "EEDOM” IS ED AND IDOLIZED EQUENTLY, I SAW AN OPPORTUNY AND NEED FOR CHANGE THAT WOULD MAKE SOME MORE FOLKS CLUD, EE AND SAFE TO BE THEMSELV.SO WHILE THE OVERWHELMGLY POSIVE RPONSE -- MORE THAN 4 LN LLECTIVE VIEWS AND NEARLY 100,000 FOLLOWERS ON TIKTOK -- TO THE SONG I WROTE ABOUT BEG A "RED STATE BLUENECK” JT A MONTH AGO HAS BEEN A PLEASANT SURPRISE, ALSO MAK PLETE SENSE THAT SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD FEEL SEEN WHEN GIVEN A SPACE THAT THEY'VE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO SHE BEFORE.THIS "BLUENECK” HAS SO MUCH MORE TO SAY, AND N'T WA TO MAKE THE "Y'ALL" UNTRY MIC FALLY MEAN "ALL."YOU N FOLLOW CHRIS HOMAN ON FACEBOOK, TWTER AND TIKTOK. "BLUENECK" IS AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY AND ON ITUN.UP NEXT CULTURE—THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023ACTOR DANNY TREJO CELEBRAT 55 YEARS 'CLEAN AND SOBER'AUGT 25, 2023PRCE'S 'DIAMONDS AND PEARLS' TO BE REISSUED WH PREVLY UNHEARD TRACKSAUGT 25, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—THOMAS RHETT AKS SHAR SUMMER ALBUM WH SWEET FAY PHOTOSAUGT 25, 2023SEE ARIANA GRAN PERFORM 'HONEYMOON AVENUE' TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF 'YOURS TLY,' HER BUT ALBUMAUGT 25, 2023ACTOR DANNY TREJO CELEBRAT 55 YEARS 'CLEAN AND SOBER'AUGT 25, 2023PRCE'S 'DIAMONDS AND PEARLS' TO BE REISSUED WH PREVLY UNHEARD TRACKSAUGT 25, 2023

Durg the dns, I read wh var actors; some of them were obvly gay, some of them weren't, and some of them we weren't sure. Maybe only straight actors should play gay rol bee then you know they're actg? Look, 's obv that people behave very differently toward Tom, beg a straight actor playg a gay role, than they do toward me, beg a gay actor playg a gay role.

It bor me a 's also a discsn the film about the shared gay experience of g out to one's fay. She said, "Jt don't mentn the gay thg.

CHRIS KELLY AND SARAH SCHNEIR’S NEXT SERI WILL BE A LERAL GAY FEVER DREAM

" I spoke to Alan about , and he took me asi and said, "Look, if you want to be really unhappy and feel like you're hidg somethg forever, then by all means don't mentn the gay thg.

If people are havg a nversatn about a room when they're talkg about stg -- "Oh, no, we n't have Chris New bee he's gay" -- then I never hear about , so don't really bother me. If I ever get any backlash for beg an out gay actor, they n eat my ass. Very often the scripts that e through the door for me are for gay rol, but 's up to me whether or not I take them.

I image that Weekend has ma you rather popular wh some gay men on Twter.

CHRIS GAY

I thk the most admirable thg about the Amerin gay marriag, like New York, is that you're actually gettg the word marriage. In Ameri, you guys have a lot more fight than we do over here, partly bee the antigay movement is so much more visible Ameri.

GAY FILM ‘PASSAG’ GETS SLAPPED WH AN NC-17 RATG

It's really tertg to watch the gay rights movement Ameri om over here.

“I’m known as beg an out gay. only when that engagement centers on beg gay. actors playg gay rol, New said: “I really don't md at all.

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

uld be fed as somethg a ltle more than jt gay. Wh the announcement this week that liberal journalist Steve Kornacki of Salon will take over weekend roundtable show, Up, MSNBC is addg s third openly gay anchor to the lp. Maddow, who is gay, often lled upon Kornacki as a Roberts, who was recently married to Patrick Abner New York, also hosts his own midday show on the channel and was before that anchor for The Advote's onle newsst, which is no longer productn.

It's 2011, after all, and I live Manhattan, surround social and profsnal settgs by gay people.