In this week’s newsletter: From the ntemporary Christian scene to rap battl, Sounds Gay explor what mic means to LGBTQ+ people. Pl: five of the bt niche podsts
Contents:
- REPUBLINS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT CRIMAL DIVISN WH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY
- IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
REPUBLINS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT CRIMAL DIVISN WH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY
In his closed-door posn last month, Ziegler told lawmakers that he is gay, and phed back agast the notn om some right-wg figur that his sexual orientatn fluenc his polics or his job. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. Anonymo whistleblower, who prevly ttified before the Hoe Ways & Means Commtee last month, is expected to reveal his inty as a 13 year-special agent wh the IRS’ Crimal Invtigatn Divisn and as a "gay Democrat married to a man, " acrdg to his prepared ttimony obtaed by Fox News whistleblowers have alleged officials at the Jtice Department, FBI and IRS terfered the vtigatn to Hunter Bin and said cisns the se seemed to be "fluenced by polics.
What Kev Maxen has done, g out as gay, makg him what's believed to be the first publicly out male ach major Amerin men’s profsnal sports, is brave enough.
Photograph: Erik Voake/NETFLIXSounds GayWily available, episos weeklySarah Esoff promis to take listeners to a “trans moshp and a heated rap battle” her betiful and surprisg podst about queer people whose liv have been transformed by mic. First up is an exploratn of the ntemporary Christian scene and how billed self as rebell unterculture the face of the gay, lbian and femist 1990s.
IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
The ath of a gay police officer durg the Troubl sends rippl through Northern Ireland’s LGBT muny Blood on The Dance Floor. Some gays weren’t feelg the ‘Rh’ after watchg the vio for Troye Sivan’s new song — and the Atralian pop star says he now unrstands why.
Last week, Sivan marked his anticipated mil eback wh the release of sexy, gay, o-to-poppers earworm “Rh, ” and wh arrived a horny, gloryhole-featurg vio that had some queer people divid over the body diversy (or lack thereof) wh . Some, cludg the homosexual journalist wrg this story, cricized Sivan for optg for exclively skny, mostly whe men his visual. And as I tweeted after watchg the visual for the first time, seemed to ph the WeHo gay-endorsed narrative of “how whe gays choose to view queer people as a whole … jt whe twks and chiseled bodi.
Charli XCX — Sivan’s “1999” llaborator and gay-man godss — shared her own thoughts on the nversatn, scribg gays’ ask for body diversy art as “borg disurse. It’s tertg that twks and f bodi are viewed as “mon athetics” to Charli, and fat or non-skny gays are not though. Anywhomst, the gays are exced for the new era of Troye Sivan.