Omar Sharif Jr. Com Out as Gay, Half-Jewish: 'Am I Wele Egypt?' - ABC News

Contents:

• HOW A GAY COUPLE ON A NETFLIX SHOW STOLE MY HEART
• MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT
• OMAR LTLE IS THE GAY STICK-UP MAN WHO ROBS DG ALERS FOR A LIVG THE WIRE
• A LIST OF JAM DEAN’S (ALLEGED) GAY LOVERS
• OMAR SHARIF JR. COM OUT AS GAY, HALF-JEWISH: 'AM I WELE EGYPT?'
• RE-WATCHG OMAR: MOHA, BLACK GAYNS AND SHIFTG MEDIA RECEPTN ALED L. MART, JR. / UNIVERSY OF IOWA
• HALF JEWISH, GAY AND DCENDANT OF AN EGYPTIAN LEGEND: OMAR SHARIF JR. TELLS ALL NEW MEMOIR
• FIRST PERSON: HOW THIS GAY LATO THERAPIST RELAT TO HIS LGBTQ+ CLIENTS THROUGH HUMOR

HOW A GAY COUPLE ON A NETFLIX SHOW STOLE MY HEART

I scribe as a “licly tty show about wealthy teens” to Gossip Girl fans, as a “drool-worthy stash of real tate porn” for those who loved Big Ltle Li, and as an “engrossg murr mystery” for those who like the time-hoppg stcture of procrals like How to Get Away Wh no matter who I’m talkg to, I always strs one particular factor (two, rather): Omar and Anr, two (unspeakably attractive) gay characters who, over the urse of the season, somehow fd a way to be together spe everythg pullg them the seri’ fg queer relatnship, ’s not sayg much that Omar and Anr’s love affair stood out to me the most. (After all, I am a gay man. ) But wasn’t jt the fact that Omar and Anr were gay that drew me to their orb.

Éle is notable for alg wh gay timacy a ank, realistic way — particularly when pared to other high school shows (perhaps asi om Riverdale, whose imprsive exploratn of gay cisg culture the show’s send season serv mentn) — allowg Omar and Anr to have real sex and, more importantly, show the act as somethg explicly sexy. Knowg his father would likely disown him if he knew he was gay, Omar rorts to alg dgs to save up enough money to pe om unr his father’s opprsive any worthwhile televisn uple, Omar and Anr e om perfectly mismatched backgrounds.

MAN WHO SAYS HE WAS OMAR MATEEN'S GAY LOVER SPEAKS OUT

ORLANDO -- A man who says he was Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's gay lover is speakg out followg the attack on Pulse nightclub that left 49 people ad, and dozens more an terview wh Univisn anchor Maria Elena Salas, the man -- who was lled "Miguel" to protect his inty -- said he first met Mateen on the gay datg app Grdr. Miguel said an terview wh Univisn that Mateen, who was killed by police durg the rampage on the Pulse nightclub early on June 12, was gay.

"He hate gay Puerto Rins for all the stuff he did to him, " Miguel said. "Miguel said that Mateen's wife knew he was gay, and that his father forced him to an arranged add that he and Mateen also talked about relign.

OMAR LTLE IS THE GAY STICK-UP MAN WHO ROBS DG ALERS FOR A LIVG THE WIRE

Gay, trans, bisexual... Addnally, other media outlets have heard several stori of Mateen poppg up and nversg wh men on gay datg Van Horn, 71, said Mateen was a "regular" at the popular Pulse Horn, a retired pharmacist, said he met Mateen once, and the younger man talked about his ex-wife. Asked about his son's sexual orientatn last week, Seddique Mir Mateen said he did not believe his son was gay.

"This to me suggts somebody that may have had sexual inty issu and may have actually been stgglg wh the ia that he himself was gay and that would add a different motive and a different perspective on the se, " O'Toole said. David Simon explas: "I thought Omar, as an unaffiliated character, uld be boldly and openly homosexual a way that a gay man wh the anised dg tra or wh the police partment uld not be.

"Yeah, he's gay, but that's not the thg you're gonna remember him for if you meet him down an alley.

A LIST OF JAM DEAN’S (ALLEGED) GAY LOVERS

It's that shotgun that will have you worried, not his gayns.

"In the hood, pecially among the black muny, homosexualy is taboo, " he says. His last movie, Giant, h theaters sixty-five years ago this culture has endlsly reimaged Jam Dean om the moment he died—he is straight, bisexual, and gay; sensive and aggrsive; misunrstood and manipulative; victim and predator; the bt of and the worst.

OMAR SHARIF JR. COM OUT AS GAY, HALF-JEWISH: 'AM I WELE EGYPT?'

Ple Kael, then a risg film cric, plaed 1955 that watchg him was like stumblg onto the vulgar eroticism of homosexual cisg grounds—“grossly explic, ” too dulgent of boys and their “toerotic” fixatns. Too often, his negative experienc epted , aggrsive, or dangero behavr, what Bast spected was Dean’s way of takg revenge on a society that wronged Hollywood mors started as soon as Dean ma the papers, whispers that he was bisexual or gay.

His stud, Warner Bros., promoted him alongsi Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter, two closeted gay men, as their most eligible bachelor.

RE-WATCHG OMAR: MOHA, BLACK GAYNS AND SHIFTG MEDIA RECEPTN ALED L. MART, JR. / UNIVERSY OF IOWA

Much k would be spilled over the years tryg to p down his sexualy—straight, bisexual, gay, asexual all found their advot—but he risted labels, not least bee the labels were tied up bigger qutns of masculy and manhood.

In those days, “homosexual” was synonymo wh a mpy, effemate stereotype he uldn’t intify wh. “I’m not a homosexual, ” he told a reporter who asked if he was gay, “but I’m not gog through life wh one hand tied behd my back. In the heart of the homophobic ’50s, he and director Nicholas Ray quietly weaved a queer love story to his most famo film, Rebel whout a Cse, a movie filled wh qutns about what masculy meant the postwar world.

” Roger Ebert only acknowledged s homoeroticism prt 2005, and mimally at that. Somerset Mgham read and unrstood, as did future gay activist Jack Frscher. “Jam Dean was mascule; he was blond; he was hot; he was California; he was Amerin; he was gay, ” Fristcher relled of his teenage fatuatn.

HALF JEWISH, GAY AND DCENDANT OF AN EGYPTIAN LEGEND: OMAR SHARIF JR. TELLS ALL NEW MEMOIR

”“I’m not a homosexual, ” he told a reporter who asked if he was gay, “but I’m not gog through life wh one hand tied behd my back. Worse, after the Stonewall Rt signaled the start of the gay rights movement, openly queer men like culture crics Parker Tyler and Jack Babc claimed Dean as an in of gay liberatn.

His picture hung gay bars. Gay magaz and newsletters discsed his sexualy, and San Francis’s first leather bar, Fe-Be’s, missned a statue of a biker that remoled Michelangelo’s David as a leather-clad Jam Dean. A generatn of wrers, both straight and gay, began claimg he was a sexual predator, a socpath, someone who should be shamed for his sex life, which they wrongly envisned creasgly baroque ways.

FIRST PERSON: HOW THIS GAY LATO THERAPIST RELAT TO HIS LGBTQ+ CLIENTS THROUGH HUMOR

Bgrapher Venable Herndon alleged that Dean had been a gay sex worker for whom no act was too gradg or too extreme. But, of urse, that’s only part of Williams’ Simon, creator of the show, once told me that whenever someone asked him why he ma Omar gay, he would rpond: Why did we make the other 19 characters straight?

It’s a brilliant unterpot, one that nonts whout antagonizg, while touchg on the theme of the first LGBTQ equaly march on Washgton, back 1979: We are clus the ‘ jt didn’t talk about for people to accept the premise that the most feared man one of Baltimore’s most dangero neighborhoods was openly gay, the actor portrayg him had to first breathe life to an asphyxiated versn of Black masculy. Said was “as gay as was Black, not that was exclively eher.