All over the web people are argug over whether or not Rabow Dash is gay. This discsn has popped up the RD shippg thread, but I figured was so ntroversial served 's own thread. After all, we'll ship anythg whether we thk 's straight or not, but many people thk that...
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- WHY IS THE CONVICTED MURRER OF A GAY MAN BEG CELEBRATED AT A MAJOR METAL FTIVAL?
- GAAHL SAYS EMPEROR'S FST WAS HIS FIRST SUPPORTER WHEN HE CAME OUT AS GAY
- ‘LOVE & HIP HOP’ STAR MIMI FST IS DATG A WOMAN BUT DON’T LL HER GAY
WHY IS THE CONVICTED MURRER OF A GAY MAN BEG CELEBRATED AT A MAJOR METAL FTIVAL?
Jan Gay was ahead of her time--an openly queer woman who spearhead some of the first studi of lbians. She's largely been fotten. Until now. * jan faust gay *
Des before a formalized queer activist movement popped up, a rearcher named Jan Gay cid to seek liberatn a different way. For Gay, the rearch was a sort of Trojan horse.
GAAHL SAYS EMPEROR'S FST WAS HIS FIRST SUPPORTER WHEN HE CAME OUT AS GAY
Bard “Fst” Ehun, nvced of the btal murr of a gay man, is beg celebrated as a headler at a major metal ftival. Why is this happeng? * jan faust gay *
Gay saw her study as a subtler type of activism—a way to document the many shas of queer inty, but also to show the world that queer people were far more like the rt of society than they had been given cred. What ma her rearch all the more radil is that Gay herself was openly a lbian. Today, we have many ways to remember Gay: as a picture-book thor, a nudist lear, and the one-time roommate of Andy Warhol.
‘LOVE & HIP HOP’ STAR MIMI FST IS DATG A WOMAN BUT DON’T LL HER GAY
"I don't know anyone the Norwegian black metal scene that is agast gays," acrdg to the former Goroth ontman. * jan faust gay *
In honor of the 100th anniversary of her birth this year, I have renstcted parts of Gay’s life through material held at the Library of Congrs and the Johns Hopks Medil Archiv, as well as om letters sent to me om a fay member of Gay’s. The glimps of Gay’s legacy highlight how early queer people envisned rearch as a way to advote for their muny—and how they were nohels erased om that From Harper's BAZAARFour upl of women pose for a photo, .
1910 (Photo by Kirn Vtage Stock/Corbis via Getty Imag)Kirn Vtage Stock//Getty ImagJan Gay was born wh the name Helen Reman on Febary 14, 1902 Leipzig, Germany.
Gay’s father, Ben Reman, was a proment doctor and anarchist activist, who also had a hab of womanizg. Gay was born while her mother revered om mental health Gay moved to the Uned Stat, she studied at Northwtern Universy. In 1927, to distance herself om her father, she changed her name to Jan Gay—eher as a nod to the dual meang of the word gay, or, more likely, as a reference to her mother’s fay.
In a new terview, Gaahl reveals that Fst, who murred a gay man, supported him when he me out." name="scriptn * jan faust gay *
(Gay was her maternal grandfather’s middle name.
) Around the same time, she met Eleanor Byrn, an illtrator who eventually took on the psdonym Zhenya Gay. Gay also beme an early figure the nudism movement: She served as the director of the Out-of-Door Club, a nudist lony of 50 people Highland, New York, where she enuraged rearchers to study the psychologil differenc between nudists and people who wore cloth.
In 1932, she published On Gog Naked, a book that blends Gay’s own experience of nudism wh a larger history of the nudism movement.