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• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
• ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
• STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• GAY MEN HAVG SEX WH WOMEN?

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

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.

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

Strictly has featured a female same-sex uple before, boxer Nila Adams and Katya Jon, who peted durg the 18th season 2020, but Whae and Rabe (who both intify as gay) will be the show's first gay male pair.

TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH

Tom Holland has been fend by fans over The Crowd Room backlash ( Picture: Apple TV)Tom Holland has been fend by fans om homophobic backlash over a sex scene The Crowd Room.

Another agreed: ‘People makg homophobic jok about this need to unrstand that the hallmark of a good actor is lettg yourself be open to new rol that challenge you.

‘The way how y’all are rpondg to Tom Holland actg a f**kg SHOW is beyond juvenile and homophobic, ’ fumed a third, and their cri were thankfully echoed by so many others. In what felt like a historil re-enactment of classic 1970s’ curta-twchg, 189 viewers plaed to the BBC about two men partnerg each other on primetime telly, and was hard to know what to lgh at first: the Mary Whehoe tone of the plats, the statement on Instagram by one of the dancers – realisg the full dramatic potential of the moment – that “love knows no boundari”, or the ia that the spectacle of two men dancg uld ever be the gayt thg about Strictly.

ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS

Nohels, there was somethg vaguely fortg about the fact that, particularly the ntext of the recent LGBT teachg row, mastream culture at least, plats of this kd about gay reprentatn seem outdated to the pot of schools, of urse, the battle rag on. I looked up the wordg of Sectn 28 and was amazed to fd that, until was overturned 2003, not only did ban lol thori om “promotg” homosexualy, but that, like somethg drafted by the Wtboro Baptist Church, banned “the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”. Bt to refer them to Alan Partridge: “For cryg out loud, if I really uldn’t bear to nsort wh homosexuals, do you really thk I’d have pursued a reer televisn?

HOME News Royal Showbiz & TV Sport Comment Fance Travel Entertament Life & Style TV & Rad Celebry News NEIL JONES - who is a Strictly Come Dancg profsnal - has spoken out to ny speculatn that he is gay 18 months after edian Seann Walsh jibed, "I'm the guy who kissed a gay man's wife", followg his smooch wh the dancer's tranged wife Katya Jon. Katya Jon talks 'te soulmate' after Neil Jon splNeil Jon nfirms sexualy after Seann Walsh's Katya Jon kiss jibe (Image: GETTY•WENN)Neil Jon and Katya Jon spl last year (Image: GETTY)Seann reportedly ma a jibe about his kiss wh the Rsian dancer durg a stand-up performance Kenngton edian was reported to have said: “You know who I am now motherf****r, I'm the guy who kissed a gay man's wife. Adams said at the time that was "a brilliant step the right directn" marked a shift by the BBC after had ially led out same-sex upl, wh boss then sayg 2019 that the broadster would be "pletely open" to droppg the requirement for mixed pairs gog move sparked a backlash after two male profsnal dancers were partnered together for a stand-alone number 2019, wh more than 300 viewers lodgg plats about their BBC reported that some viewers found "offensive to feature two men dancg as a pair" after Johann Rabe, who is gay, danced wh lleague Graziano di said he hoped his dance partner would be "up for a challenge, as I want our rout to clu lots of spectacular lifts" lifts are ctomarily performed a mixed pair, wh the male partner leadg and liftg the ordarily lighter female performer, but danc such as the Argente Tango and the Ldy Hop have a tradn of men dancg wh Argente Tango is believed to have evolved as a dance for male pairs – a fact judge Craig Revel Horwood has prevly poted out fence of cludg same-sex upl on will jo prevly announced nttants, cludg Robert Webb, of the edy duo Mchell and Webb, mician and thor Tom Fletcher and TV prenter AJ Odudu, on the show.

“Jt to see two men or two women dancg together, ’s not necsarily about sexualy, ’s jt about timacy and rpect, ” Whae told the cln of same-sex upl on Strictly also skewers the homophobic trope that same-sex relatnships are somehow appropriate for fai. The four-part te crime seri, now streamg, foc on four victims, gay men the 1990s, who were murred, dismembered, their remas found garbage bags along a New Jersey highway. Adapted om an Edgar-wng 2021 book also lled “Last Call” by director Anthony Caronna and producer Howard Gertler, what ultimately emerg is an unsttg portra of the vlence done not jt to a gay quartet but to gays, lbians, trans people general.

STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?

We pay particular attentn to how the dancers’ genr and sexualy are nstcted, and whether the media reprentatns promote the visibily of gay men on TV and dispt the heteronormativy of partner dancg. SCD’s persistent adherence to tradnal partnerships, spe s cln of openly gay celebri and judg, draws om a long-standg tradn the UK of viewg ballroom dancg as a dance between a male lear and a female follower (Harman, 2019; Harman & Wong, 2020) send programme which forms part of our analysis, Dancg on Ice (DoI), is also a Brish televisn show aired on ITV.

Studi have also harnsed Inclive Masculy Theory (IMT) (Anrson, 2009; Anrson & McCormack, 2018) to explore the cln of gay men uple dance, and how heterosexual male dancers enact plex and dynamic masculi on and off the dancefloor. In turn, Anrson (2009) theorized that ‘orthodox’ forms of masculy (based on homophobia, pulsory heterosexualy, and anti-femy) had lost their hegemony, and a spectm of orthodox and clive masculi now -existed. The thors intify how the procs of learng to move their hips sensuo and suo ways (an activy historilly associated wh femy and by associatn homosexualy Anglo-Amerin whe culture), the young men’s performanc of masculy bed and dynamilly shifted between orthodox and clive masculi.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Drawg upon IMT, Richardson (2018) also claims that performance-level ballroom dancg the UK is a relatively gay iendly environment wh many openly gay participants. At the same time, rearch suggts that figure skatg and ballroom dancg, ncern over male performanc of effemacy persists due to beg read as a signifier of homosexualy (Adams, 2011; Richardson, 2018).

We also discsed the potential nsequenc of the reprentatns terms of homophobia, sexism, effemophobia, and the visibily and normalisatn of male/male dance partnerships and LGBT + reprentatn.

This theme foc on how the media reports nstcted Bra as a progrsive and clive society, and posned viewers who plaed about the male/male dance partners as a homophobic mory. This theme explor how the media reports selectively reprented the male/male dance upl’ embodied teractns, celebratg their iendships as bromanc, while simultaneoly -centrg the dance performanc as romantic or (homo)sexual.

GAY MEN HAVG SEX WH WOMEN?

1 ‘We’re Movg Tune wh Progrsive Society’Commentg on the cln of male/male partnerships SCD and DoI, the majory of articl prented the cln as reflective of rced levels of cultural homophobia and creased support for the LGBT + muny, both on the show and wir Brish society. The SCD producers were also reported the Daily Mail, Inpennt, BBC News and Guardian to be “pletely open to the prospect of cludg same-sex pairgs between our celebri and profsnal dancers the future” (Davi, 2019; McGregor, 2020; O'Connor, 2020; Rk, 2020) life story of Johann Rabe, one of the gay-intifyg SCD dance profsnals who danced the male/male partnership, was mobilised by journalists The Sun, Telegraph and Inpennt to argue that male/male dance partnerships played a signifint role creasg the acceptance of LGBT + people on the programme and creasg wir LGBT + visibily (McPhee, 2019; Swa, 2019; Young, 2019).