WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA–The mastream acceptance of gays and lbians, a hard-won civil-rights victory gaed through s of stggle agast prejudice and discrimatn, was set back at least 50 years Saturday the wake of the annual Los Angel Gay Pri Para.
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- PEYTON MANNG COM OUT AS GAY FOR FOOTBALL
- SOCCER OFFICIALLY ANNOUNC IT IS GAY
- GAY-PRI PARA SETS MASTREAM ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS BACK 50 YEARS
- NEWLY OUT GAY MAN OVERDOG IT
- DANIEL CRAIG SAYS HIS 'GLASS ONN' CHARACTER BEG GAY 'JT FEELS RIGHT': 'IT'S NORMAL'
- HELL NOW A THRIVG EPICENTER OF GAY CULTURE
PEYTON MANNG COM OUT AS GAY FOR FOOTBALL
DENVER—In a stunng revelatn Friday that sent shockwav through the NFL, Brons quarterback Peyton Manng announced durg an emotnal prs nference that he is gay for football. * the onion gay coming out *
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DENVER—In a stunng revelatn Friday that sent shockwav through the NFL, Brons quarterback Peyton Manng announced durg an emotnal prs nference that he is gay for Expla Why The Earth Is FlatOffEnglish“For many years I’ve stggled wh hidg this secret, but after a great al of soul-searchg, I know ’s time to publicly acknowledge that, y, I’m gay for football, ” said Manng, who wiped away tears while admtg that disclosg his te feelgs about the sport provid a huge sense of relief.
“Deep down, I always knew that I was gay for football. ”Manng, who told reporters that he first experienced an overwhelmg attractn to football when he was 5 years old, said that he felt obliged to nceal his te personal and social inty, fearg that beg openly gay for the sport would be huiatg for himself and his four-time MVP said he ultimately cid to e out bee he wanted to be a role mol for kids who thk that beg gay for football somehow mak them different, strange, or ferr some way. “I was the only kid my high school who was gay for football, and that was very tough for me, ” Manng said.
SOCCER OFFICIALLY ANNOUNC IT IS GAY
Plagued for years by swirlg mors about s sexualy, soccer has fally e out, beg the world's first openly gay sport. * the onion gay coming out *
“But I thk they’d be surprised by how many of their favore NFL players are super gay for football.
”Archie Manng, retired New Orleans Sats quarterback and father of Peyton, nfirmed that he always knew his son was gay for football.
GAY-PRI PARA SETS MASTREAM ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS BACK 50 YEARS
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“I uld always tell that Peyton was gay for football when he was jt a ltle kid out on the field, ” said Archie Manng, addg that his fay lov and supports Peyton. ”At prs time, Peyton Manng was surprised by the immense outpourg of support om everyday Amerins who are also gay for football. WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA–The mastream acceptance of gays and lbians, a hard-won civil-rights victory gaed through s of stggle agast prejudice and discrimatn, was set back at least 50 years Saturday the wake of the annual Los Angel Gay Pri Para.
Participants Saturday's Los Angel Gay Pri Para, which helped change straight people's tolerant attus toward Expla Why The Earth Is FlatOffEnglish"I'd always thought gays were regular people, jt like you and me, and that the stereotype of homosexuals as hedonistic, sex-crazed viants was jt a stctive myth, " said mother of four Hannah Jarrett, 41, mortified at the sight of 17 tanned and oiled boys vortg jock straps to a throbbg techno beat on a float shaped like an enormo phall. " The para, anized by the Los Angel Gay And Lbian And Bisexual And Transvte And Transgenr Alliance (LAGALABATATA), was tend to "promote acceptance, tolerance, and equaly for the cy's gay muny.
NEWLY OUT GAY MAN OVERDOG IT
TOLEDO, OH—Dpe the fact that everyone he meets obvly assum he is gay, 34-year-old Toledo-area homosexual Jeremy Schut still thks he's the closet, lol sourc reported Tuday. * the onion gay coming out *
" Jt the oppose, however, was acplished, as the event nfirmed the worst fears of thoands of non-gay spectators, cementg their mds a bched and distorted image of gay life straight out of the most vilent right-wg hate lerature. Among the para sights and sounds that did timable harm to the gay-rights e: a group of obe women leather biker outfs passg out cloris-shaped lollipops to horrified onlookers; a man ary uniform leadg a submissive masochist, clad diapers and a baby bon, around on a dog leash; several Hispanic dancers rabow wigs and miskirts performg "humpg" motns on a mannequ drsed as the Pope; and a dozen gyratg drag queens see-through drs holdg penis-shaped beer bottl that appeared to spurt ejaculatn-like foam when shaken and poured onto passersby.
Timothy Oros, 51, a lol Walgreens manager whose store is on the para route, changed his attu toward gays as a rult of the event. ' and 'Hey, hey, we're gay, we're not gog to go away!
Allison Weber, 43, an El Segundo marketg nsultant, also had her perceptns and assumptns about gays challenged by the para.
DANIEL CRAIG SAYS HIS 'GLASS ONN' CHARACTER BEG GAY 'JT FEELS RIGHT': 'IT'S NORMAL'
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"My unrstandg was that gay people are jt like everybody else–cent, hard-workg people who re about their muni and have lovg, mted relatnships, " Weber said.
HELL NOW A THRIVG EPICENTER OF GAY CULTURE
Footage of the event was featured on telests of The 700 Club as "proof of the s-steeped world of homosexualy.
" A photo spread Monday's USA Today chronicled many of the event's vulgar displays–unrstood by gays to be tongue--cheek "high mp"–which horrified prevly tolerant people om ast to ast.
Henry Thorne, a New York Universy history profsor who has wrten several books about the gay-rights movement, explaed the misunrstandg. "After centuri of opprsn as an 'visible' segment of society, gays, embolned by the 1969 Stonewall uprisg, took to the streets the early '70s wh an '-your-face' attu. Conontg the worst prejudic of a world that didn't accept them, they fought back agast the prejudic wh exaggeratn and parody, reclaimg their enemi' worst stereotyp about them and turng them to symbols of gay pri, " Thorne said.