There’s been excement about Q’s queer revelatn ‘No Time to Die’ but the anchise’s first gay characters appeared all the way back 1971’s ‘Diamonds Are Forever’. Fifty years on, Adam Bloodworth talks to the actors who played Mr Wt and Mr Kidd about why they’re worth celebratg
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- LGBTQUTNNAIRE: GET TO KNOW KIDD KENN, THE RISG GAY RAPPER READY TO CHANGE HIP-HOP
- 9 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT KIDD KENN, THE OPENLY GAY RAPPER WHO MA HISTORY AT THE BET HIP HOP AWARDS
- MEET KIDD KENN, CHIGO’S HOTTT OPENLY GAY 15-YEAR-OLD RAPPER
- ‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
- PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
- KID ROCK HOMOPHOBIC SLUR (AGA) A SNI TWEET ABOUT LOVG HIS GAY IENDS
- KID CUDI FANS SLAM GAY MORS AS SGER ROCKS WEDDG DRS AT CFDA
- RE-EXAMG THE FAMO GAY SUBTEXT OF ‘BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID’ 50 YEARS LATER
- LGBTQUTNNAIRE: GET TO KNOW KIDD KENN, THE RISG GAY RAPPER READY TO CHANGE HIP-HOP
- 9 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT KIDD KENN, THE OPENLY GAY RAPPER WHO MA HISTORY AT THE BET HIP HOP AWARDS
- JAM BOND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REVEAL NO TIME TO DIE MA ME TEAR UP
- GAY PORNSTAR : TOP 25 HOTTT GAY PORNSTARS
LGBTQUTNNAIRE: GET TO KNOW KIDD KENN, THE RISG GAY RAPPER READY TO CHANGE HIP-HOP
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9 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT KIDD KENN, THE OPENLY GAY RAPPER WHO MA HISTORY AT THE BET HIP HOP AWARDS
Adults who intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual are more likely than adults who intify as straight to experience ser thoughts of suici, mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos and they are more likely to e substanc like alhol or dgs, acrdg to a new US ernment report. * kidd gay *
Jos the many NBA kids who have e out to the world like Magic Johnson’s elst son EJ is gay, saiah Thomas’ son, and Michael Jordan‘s dghter. This isn’t to give eher of those away, but to divulge a third: that Bond’s handy gadget man, Q, is gay. )All of which mak gay henchmen Mr Wt and Mr Kidd back 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever, all the more remarkable.
To give some ntext, 1970, the year the film was shot, 70 per cent of Amerins thought homosexual relatns were wrong, while the UK was only three years to Wt and Mr Kidd were played by Bce Glover and Putter Smh, two straight men, but even then they reportedly riled Connery. Glover, who is now 89, remembers the star beg unfortable wh homoerotic jok durg the shoot.
MEET KIDD KENN, CHIGO’S HOTTT OPENLY GAY 15-YEAR-OLD RAPPER
Sger Kid Rock is doublg down on g an antigay slur at a ncert, assertg a nonapology tweet that 'he has a lot of love for his gay iends.' * kidd gay *
“He didn’t know me, so he thought I was gay.
Villas throughout cema history have tend to reflect current “fears” and attus, and homosexuals have a long history of beg vilified. It’s a topic wrer Vo Rso explor his semal 1981 book The Celluloid Closet, which ns through onscreen queer stereotypg om the Sixti to the Eighti, om Dr Frank-N-Furter The Rocky Horror Picture Show to Sharon Stone’s bisexual Cathere Tramell Basic and director Guy Haton were rponsible for nceivg the characters for the screen and feels as if they med edy orr to create gay characters sued to themselv and mastream dienc of the time.
“I didn’t want to be that kd of clichéd gay guy, ” Glover rells, thkg perhaps of the mpns of Richard Burton and Rex Harrison’s gay barbershop uple 1969’s Stairse.
‘I KNEW WAS A URAGEO THG TO DO’: THE CUR STORY OF BOND’S FIRST GAY VILLAS
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”Lowbridge-Ellis go so far as to pots out that much about the characters is, actually, “unniably homophobic”.
From the way Mr Wt was dispatched wh a bomb up his backsi to the obv fact that here were two straight men makg margalised gay men the butt of their jok, ’s easy to argue how Wt and Kidd were explog the LGBT+ muny rather than supportg by simply beg onscreen, the duo had reprented the gay muny – and ma a whole crowd cludg myself feel seen – whether their creators had tend to or not.
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PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
Dpe creasg acceptance of the LGBTQ+ muny, at least some circl, adults who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual are more likely than those who intify as straight to have ser thoughts of suici and mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos, and they are more likely to mise substanc like alhol or dgs, acrdg to a new US ernment report. And about a third of all bisexual people and gay mal said they had a problem wh a substance e disorr the year before they filled out the survey, the report found.
However, gay, bi and straight men seemed to have siar substance e patterns: There was no difference smokg between straight and gay mal, for example, and the rate of bge and heavy drkg the month before they took the survey was the same among gay, bi and straight men.
KID ROCK HOMOPHOBIC SLUR (AGA) A SNI TWEET ABOUT LOVG HIS GAY IENDS
Jeremy Kidd, a psychiatrist who has worked on studi to improve health out for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer populatns.
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“LGBT dividuals experience addnal strs as a rult of discrimatn and stigma, stigma both at the societal level but also the way that livg a society that privileg heterosexualy that has homophobic laws and polici to sort of teach LGB people even to view themselv as ferr, ” Kidd said.
Bisexuals may face more challeng bee they may be experiencg mory strs a way that is different om people who intify as gay or lbian, he said.
RE-EXAMG THE FAMO GAY SUBTEXT OF ‘BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID’ 50 YEARS LATER
“For stance, you n image beg environments that might be validatg of people who have gay and lbian inti but might eher not regnize bisexual inty – so they are sort of visible that space – or might be really validatg of dividuals wh bisexual inty, even while the environment is affirmg or at least a ltle more ntral to folks who are gay or lbian, ” Kidd said.
Over the past three to five years, the homema gay porn market has crystalized and gone mastream. The followg list was culled by Domic Ford, the creator of JtForFans, and reprent the most followed gay acunts on the platform -- he also did a list of trans performers.
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Kid Rock, shown at a 2019 ncert Texas, isn’t apologizg for a homophobic slur he ed over the weekend.
(Amy Harris / Invisn / Associated Prs) Is Kid Rock sorry for the homophobic slur he hurled durg a weekend performance Tennsee? The sger jt doubled down on the hateful word a mockg tweet about lovg his gay iends.
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“Eher way, I know he has a lot of love for his gay iends and I will have a talk wh him. ”Kid Rock, a Tmp supporter, has often referred to himself as a libertarian who is socially liberal but fislly nservative and prevly has exprsed his support for gay another recent move guaranteed to tick off a number of people, Kid Rock ved untouchable untry mician Man Wallen to perform at his Nashville honky-tonk May, right before Wallen posted a new song, “Thought You Should Know, ” on was the mullet-sportg sger-songwrer’s first shot at a public performance sce his dtry-wi ncellatn Febary, which me after he hollered the N-word at a buddy after a dnken night out.
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Fans slam trolls for qutng rapper’s sexualy Kid Cudi’s fans are slammg the trolls for spreadg basels mors about the rapper beg gay jt bee he wore a drs to an award ceremony.
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One tweeted, “Jt bee kid cudi out here rockg drs nfince, don’t mean he’s gay…. Can y’all stop this”Another add, “when are y’all gonna realize the “gay agenda” don’t exist and Lil Nas X & Kid Cudi don’t acunt for every famo black man the world”One fan wrote, “people like you are so brawashed by fashnl, that you nt believe that people are drsg feme whout beg gay. Broke out onto the natnal stage April when Parada entered the Tag Team Twk Gntlet wh fellow Bad Bchez partner Jai Vidal at EFFY’s Big Gay Bnch.
Whether ’s tentnal or not—and statistilly speakg, sometim is, given that gay people have always existed—homoerotic subtext is sometim the only way for to fd reprentatn, pecially among the classics.
It’s perhaps one of the most celebrated wterns and one of the most celebrated buddy pictur—two genr that are, as a generally agreed upon le, pretty homoerotic. But on my rewatch of the film 2019, I me away wh the distct imprsn one pot has been missg om this nversatn: The subtext Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is not so much gay—or perhaps, ’s better to say, not jt gay—but bisexual and polyamoro. Though there’s still a long way to go, gay and lbian relatnships beg more and more monplace film and TV.