RHOSLC's Heather Gay's Book 'Bad Mormon': Biggt Revelatns

Contents:

• OP-ED: WHY IT MATTERS THAT DIANA NYAD IS GAY
• DIANA GAY FOUND 132 PEOPLE FLORIDA, CALIFORNIA AND 38 OTHER STAT
• NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’
• 6 WAYS DIANA ROSS HAS EARNED HER GAY IN STAT
• MIC'S GREATT GAY IN: DIANA ROSS OR DONNA SUMMER? | THE TYLT
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY RELLS HOW SHE MET JEN SHAH: BIGGT REVELATNS FROM ‘BAD MORMON’
• CARLOS III: ¿EL REY INGLATERRA GAY?, ASí SE LO HABRíA NFADO A LA PRCA DIANA

OP-ED: WHY IT MATTERS THAT DIANA NYAD IS GAY

My earlit memory of Prcs Diana is actually of myself, as a young gay boy, playg drs up.

Gay men, for example, are known for often makg ins out of famo women rather than gay male celebri.

He Judy Garland as an example: “When a gay man ‘intified’ wh Garland, he was wrg his way to the mastream culture which his own story uld never be told, ” he nnectns between Garland and Diana are obv. Amic Richard Dyer argu that this rejectn of “ordars” is key to to beg a gay in.

DIANA GAY FOUND 132 PEOPLE FLORIDA, CALIFORNIA AND 38 OTHER STAT

“Like Judy Garland, gay men are brought up to be ordary, ” he wr. “One is not brought up gay.

Her public life was punctuated by events cludg gay people: she he had close iendships wh Gee Michael, Gianni Versace and Freddie Mercury. It was reported that Mercury once drsed her up “drag” and snuck her to a gay bar (whether ’s te or not, the fact seems plsible speaks volum).

Elton John, another of her clost iends, famoly performed ‘Candle the Wd’ – a song origally wrten for tragic in Maryl Monroe – at her 1987, Diana was photographed shakg hands wh AIDS patients, many of whom were gay. Gay men were treated like pariahs, ostracized by fay and fired om their jobs. It would have been radil enough for a member of the royal fay to vis a hospal where patients beg treated for the so-lled “gay plague, ” but when the prcs removed her glov and shook their hands, she created a historic image.

NILE RODGERS: DIANA ROSS DIDN’T KNOW ‘I’M COMG OUT’ WAS ‘A GAY THG’

The prcs removg her glov – a garment the Queen is known for wearg while greetg her subjects – created a symbolic closens between Diana and gay men, which still exists 1991, Diana spoke at an AIDS nference. ” This is yet another part of Diana’s life that we have learned more about sce her ath, which LGBTQ+ people are particularly likely to intify Graham//Getty ImagDiana’s ath forms a key part of the gay love for her – and the subsequent queerg of her legacy.

In the aftermath of the AIDS crisis, generatns were raised to believe that gay men were sted to lead lonely liv and die young.

“Bury your gays” – a trope that se queer characters dyg at a much higher rate than straight characters – still lgers. There is a gay love of tragic operas about ‘fallen women’, the horror-film trope of the ‘fal girl’ and fictnal hero like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (who was lerally rurrected om the ad to fight another day).

6 WAYS DIANA ROSS HAS EARNED HER GAY IN STAT

Many of the rpons were unmistakably gay: “Me the locker room 9th gra pretendg I was focg on changg, ” wrote one gay man.

Of urse, fans have some spicns about champns like Taric beg gay, due to his flamboyant look and attu. Though his champn lore not a sgle ht is given to him beg gay, but maybe Rt will change that someday? In fact, she was iends wh Freddie Mercury, who snuck the late prcs to a gay club the '80s (via Bgraphy).

Acrdg to CheatSheet, Diana "really liked gay guys, " and this led her to workg out at a gay gym. "She really felt at ease wh gay men. She batted negative public perceptn of gay men and the vis, stead visg AIDS patients the '80s and shakg their hands (via Insir).

MIC'S GREATT GAY IN: DIANA ROSS OR DONNA SUMMER? | THE TYLT

This is no doubt why she found solace hangg out wh gay men: they unrstood her when no one else did. In the flurry of media verage tailg Diana Nyad's rerd-breakg swim om Cuba to Florida earlier this week, a plethora of publitns, cludg The Advote and the LGBTQ news blog I n, GayWr, referred to Nyad as openly is perfectly te that Diana is out, a few menters the blogosphere weren't thrilled that some media outlets mentned her sexual orientatn, as 's not directly relevant to her achievement. They spared me the hate mail this time, but I did receive a slew of trated rpons:"This is amazg and all, but why do people feel the need to add that she's 'openly gay'?

""Who r that she's 'openly gay'? It matters bee if we don't mentn that Diana Nyad is gay, will be assumed that she's straight. Newsweek's Lda Hirshman offered a particularly cril take:The 27 years she shared wh her "partner" were cril to the triumphant gay revolutn.

In the epic story of the gay revolutn, she was oh, so private. She uld have ma the natn say "gay.

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

"While her partner and her fay said she hadn't e out publicly bee she preferred to mata her privacy -- and bee beg openly gay uld have jeopardized her reer -- seems to have been universally agreed upon that 's important that she was gay. Sally Ri's "g-out" tght LGBTQ people, youth particular, that your sexual orientatn or genr inty do not have to bar you om great opportuni, even when takg the chance is was even clearer that inty is signifint when Tim Cook took over om Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple a uple years back, potentially makg him the most powerful gay man Ameri and one of the most powerful people, gay or straight, the untry. Media raged over whether to mentn that Tim Cook is gay, at least acrdg to several news outlets, naturally brgg Cook's sexualy to the foreont of discsn.

RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY RELLS HOW SHE MET JEN SHAH: BIGGT REVELATNS FROM ‘BAD MORMON’

Summg up perfectly, Felix Salmon of Rters wrote:There's no ethil dilemma when to reportg on Cook's sexualy: rather, the ethil dilemma not reportg , thereby perpetuatg the ia that there's some kd of stigma associated wh beg gay. And what's worse, we'll be implyg that we don't want to talk about the Tim Cook bacle even began, 's Joe Clark penned a gem I wish I uld have wrten:When you tell 's wrong to report on gay public figur, you are tellg gays not to e out of the closet and journalists not to report the tth.

CARLOS III: ¿EL REY INGLATERRA GAY?, ASí SE LO HABRíA NFADO A LA PRCA DIANA

(What you're tellg as gay journalists is even worse.