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Contents:

• IS NICK ROBSON GAY? 'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT!
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• FORMER GAY ADULT FILM STAR JASPER ROBSON DEAD AT 21
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• LOVE, SIMON REVIEW – HEARTWARMG GAY ROMANCE
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• ‘LOVE, SIMON’ TRAILER: A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD STUD FALLY MA A GAY COMG-OF-AGE MOVIE
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• ‘LOVE, SIMON’ STARS SAY GAY TEEN ROMANCE WILL SAVE LIV

IS NICK ROBSON GAY? 'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT!

Nick Robson stars the new movie Love, Simon about a high-school stunt’s g out journey and fans might be wonrg if the actor is gay or straight real life. Ellen asked Nick if he hated at all to play a gay character and he said that he went back and forth wh director Greg Berlanti about . “First of all, I’m gay, ” he said, “and this movie is gog to be gay non.

"Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon. PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn. Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d. ”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove.

Two months after he officially retired om the gay porn dtry, Jasper Robson has died at the age of 's not yet clear what felled Robson, who suffered om a heart ndn, acrdg to Towleroad.

FORMER GAY ADULT FILM STAR JASPER ROBSON DEAD AT 21

Robson is the third young gay porn star to die recent months.

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

LOVE, SIMON REVIEW – HEARTWARMG GAY ROMANCE

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

‘LOVE, SIMON’ TRAILER: A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD STUD FALLY MA A GAY COMG-OF-AGE MOVIE

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. A high-school kid is about to e out as gay. Here the hostily is refully quaranted to a uple of obvly homophobic boys, whose narrative functn is to be trounced and then tacly fiven.

The only other out gay kid the school is almost impossibly wty and well-adjted, nearly middle-aged his droll posure. Contug his streak of novels-to-films, Nick starred wh Amandla Stenberg the 2017 romance Everythg, Everythg (2017), and played the tle role of a gay teenager the well-received 2018 dramedy Love, Simon (2018) was born Seattle, Washgton, to Denise Podnar and Michael Robson. It tackl the highly pervasive yet equally ntroversial materials like homosexualy and "down-low" the Black Amerin muny.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

It’s very rare for a major Hollywood stud to produce and distribute a g-of-age story centered around a closeted gay teenager. The kds of stori are nothg new to pennt film (see “Pariah, ” “Myster Sk, ” and more), but major studs have long avoid puttg a gay protagonist ont and center.

The Homo Sapiens Agenda. A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments. SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

"We are also actually gay furri, I've seen untls people doubt that aspect of our group.

‘LOVE, SIMON’ STARS SAY GAY TEEN ROMANCE WILL SAVE LIV

"Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!

Rope may be known to most as Hchck's experimental attempt to shoot an entire film what appears to be a sgle shot, but 's also the filmmaker’s gayt. The classic psychologil thriller is about a gay uple who murrs a man, then throws a dner party g the ad body's tnk as the buffet — que lerally "be gay, do crime, " Hchck-style. Of urse, this was 1948, and that queerns is all subtext, but roars to the surface thanks to gay screenwrer Arthur Lrents's script and performanc by s notably gay leads, Farley Granger who plays Phillip Man wh an anx flamboyance, and John Dall, whose Brandon Shaw embodi a more rerved, posh queerns.

Often dubbed the gay Thelma & Louise, Gregg Araki's The Livg End follows the reckls road trip of two HIV-posive, anti-tablishment gay men who go on the n after killg a homophobic p.