14 Celebry Men Acced Of Beg Gay

Contents:

• FALSELY CLAIMG SOMEONE IS GAY IS NO LONGER FAMATN PER SE, N.Y. URT L
• 29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY
• FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SAYS HE’S GAY, REGRETS ANTI-GAY STANC
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• 14 CELEBRY MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY
• TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL

FALSELY CLAIMG SOMEONE IS GAY IS NO LONGER FAMATN PER SE, N.Y. URT L

Falsely accg someone of beg gay is no longer nsired famatn per se, a New York appeals urt led recently. ” Falsely claimg that someone is homosexual had also been lumped .

29 CELEBRI WHO SOME BELIEVE ARE GAY

"Eric Lh, LGBT Bar Associatn of New YorkIn late December, however, the Supreme Court of the State of New York’s Send Department — one urt below the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s hight urt — overturned that s-old precent when led that a false claim of homosexualy is no longer famatn per se.

FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SAYS HE’S GAY, REGRETS ANTI-GAY STANC

Mrice, began 2017, when Jean Renald Mrice, a pastor at the Gethsemane Seventh Day Adventist Church Brooklyn, publicly claimed at a church meetg of 300 people that a church elr, Pierre Delor Laguerre, “was a homosexual” and that he “disrpected the church by viewg gay pornography on the church’s puter, ” acrdg to the urt opn. Mlla, a 2012 lg by the Supreme Court’s Third Department that found that prev cisns labelg false claims of homosexualy as famatn per se were "nsistent wh current public policy and should no longer be followed.

" That cisn also led that “ nnot be said that current public opn supports a le that would equate statements imputg homosexualy wh accatns of ser crimal nduct or suatns that an dividual has a loathsome disease. Texas, which found that laws crimalizg homosexual nduct were unnstutnal, and the urt’s 2015 cisn Obergefell v. “Based on the foregog, we nclu that the false imputatn of homosexualy do not nstute famatn per se, ” the Send Department wrote s Dec.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

When given the opportuny, Lh said they will likely le the same way the Send and Third Departments the Uned Stat, whether false claims of homosexualy are nsired famatory per se is pennt on the state and, often, on the urt. Historilly, many stat nsired false accatns of homosexualy to be famatn per se, bee their state law crimalized homosexual nduct. Defamatn lawsus rultg om false accatns of beg LGBTQ — like the one brought before New York’s Send Department — are ls mon than they once were due to creasg acceptance of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people, acrdg to Brad Sears, executive director of the Williams Instute at UCLA School of Law.

Accg LGBTQ people of "groomg" or "recg" children to bee gay or transgenr is an age-old trope that feeds off fear.

14 CELEBRY MEN ACCED OF BEG GAY

"This is a classic trope of humanizatn and fear that has been ed agast gay people after after .... Thk about the lumny agast gay people throughout most of our lifetim: that gay people somehow are moltg kids, or after kids, or predatory.

TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL

" That ia propelled anti-gay activist and sger Ana Bryant's Save Our Children mpaign the 1970s. And led to a 1978 California ballot measure to ban gays and lbians om workg public schools, an iative spearhead by state Sen.

John Briggs, who promised, "We are gog to rtore moraly to the classroom and remove openly and blatant homosexuals om fluencg and teachg our young. But the homophobic attacks ntued, fuelg a moral panic.

Proposn 6, lled the Briggs Iniative, sought to ban gays and lbians om workg California public schools. "If somebody tried to mpaign today on endg gay marriage, they would get so ltle tractn outsi the most ge elements, and yet, even five years ago, that wasn't an extreme posn.... I thk this is a stupid, stupid argument to be makg, bee every day, more and more people know someone who is gay or transgenr.