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Contents:

• GAY TT (MALE ONLY): THE TTH AWAS, MEN!
• HOW TO TELL IF YOUR BOYIEND IS GAY
• IS MY FRIEND GAY QUIZ
• HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• IS MY BOYIEND GAY? 10 SIGNS TO HELP YOU TELL FOR SURE
• IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
• IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• GUY FIERI’S TMP PHOTO OP HAS PEOPLE RECKONG WH HIS POLICSTHE NEW ELLEN/BUSHTWTER NATURALLY HAD A LOT TO SAY (AND A LOT OF RECEIPTS TO PULL) AFTER THE TYPILLY APOLIL MAYOR OF FLAVORTOWN CHATTED UP THE FORMER PRINT.LRA BRADLEYSENR ENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED JUL. 10, 2023 4:22PM EDT JEFF BOTTARI/ZUFFA LLC VIA GETTY IMAGFOR MOST OF HIS REER, GUY FIERI HAS MANAGED TO KEEP HIS BRAND RELATIVELY APOLIL. NOW THAT HE’S BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED WH DONALD TMP, HOWEVER, THE BLEACH-TIPPED CELEBRY CHEF MIGHT BE STARTG TO FEEL THE HEAT.ON SATURDAY, FIERI WAS PHOTOGRAPHED MEETG THE RECENTLY DICTED FORMER PRINT AT THE T-MOBILE ARENA LAS VEGAS DURG UFC 290. NBC NEWS REPORTS THAT THE TWO CHATTED AT THE MIXED MARTIAL ARTS EVENT, WHERE TMP WAS ALSO SPOTTED TALKG TO MEL GIBSON AND MARK WAHLBERG. TURNG POT USA CREATIVE DIRECTOR BENNY JOHNSON TWEETED OUT A PHOTO OF FIERI AND TMP TOGETHER ON SUNDAY, WRG, “2024 UNY TICKET.” FIERI’S FACE IS NOT VISIBLE ENOUGH THE PHOTOS TO GGE HIS EXPRSN, BUT HE N BE SEEN FACG TMP WH HIS HAND ON THE FORMER PRINT’S ARM. REPRENTATIV FOR FIERI AND DISVERY, WHOSE WORKS RRY FIERI’S SERI, DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RPOND TO THE DAILY BEAST’S REQUT FOR MENT.UNSURPRISGLY, THE TMP PHOTO HAS SET FLAVORTOWN ON FIRE. SIWAYS GLANC NOW ABOUND ON TWTER, CLUDG OM THE VIRAL ACUNT POP CRAVE, WHICH SHARED THE PHOTO WH THE Y PTN, “GUY FIERI GREETG CRIMAL FENDANT DONALD TMP AT UFC 290 LAS VEGAS.” MEANWHILE, WHE STRIP ONTMAN JACK WHE SHARED PHOTOS OF FIERI AND OTHER CELEBRI WHO REPORTEDLY MET WH TMP AT UFC AND LLED THEM ALL “DISGTG.” “ANYBODY WHO ‘NORMALIZ’ OR TREATS THIS DISGTG FASCIST, RACIST, N MAN, DISGTG PIECE OF SH TMP WH ANY LEVEL OF RPECT IS ALSO DISGTG MY BOOK,” WHE WROTE ON INSTAGRAM. “THAT’S YOU JOE ROGAN, YOU MEL GIBSON, YOU MARK WAHLBERG, YOU GUY FIERI. THIS IS A STATEMENT OM ME, NOT A DISCSN/BATE.” THE IRE SURROUNDG FIERI FEELS LIKE AN ECHO OF SOMETHG WE SAW BEFORE, WHEN ELLEN DEGENER WAS PHOTOGRAPHED PALLG AROUND WH FORMER PRINT GEE W. BH AT A DALLAS COWBOYS GAME 2019. THEN, LIKE NOW, A RELATIVELY BENIGN CELEBRY’S POLICS HAVE BEEN THST TO THE LIMELIGHT, REPLACG FANS’ BLISSFUL, FORTG IGNORANCE WH SKEPTICISM.THE NTROVERSY OVER FIERI’S PHOTO OPP HAS ALSO RURFACED SOME OF HIS PAST NTROVERSI. IN 2021, THE AV CLUB DOCUMENTED THE DERS, DRIVE-INS AND DIV HOST’S RISE AS A MORN FOLK HERO THANKS TO HIS FUNDRAISG EFFORTS DURG THE PANMIC. AT THE SAME TIME, WRER MATT SCHIMKOWZ POTED OUT, FIERI REMAS A “POLIL RORSCHACH TT” WHO SKIRTS DIRECT QUTNS ABOUT HIS PERSONAL VIEWS. ON ONE HAND, FIERI N SOMETIM GTURE TOWARD PROGRSIVE ALLYSHIP—LIKE THE BERNIE SANRS MEME HE POSTED 2021 WH THE PTN, “NOT ME. US.” SIX MONTHS AFTER POSTG THAT MEME, HOWEVER, FIERI SLD RTRANT WORKERS WHO HAD NOT RETURNED TO WORK DURG AN TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORK TIM. RATHER THAN ADDRS WORKERS’ NCERNS ABOUT THEIR JOBS—WHICH EATER POTED OUT AT THE TIME CLUD COVID RISK, LOW WAG, AND PALTRY CHILDRE AND SICK LEAVE—HE PARED THEM TO SPOILED CHILDREN. “WHY WOULD YOU GO AND EAT BROCLI,” FIERI ASKED, “IF YOU JT GOT TO EAT DOROS?” FANS ON SOCIAL MEDIA HAVE ALSO POSTED ARTICL ABOUT THE SNARL OF ALLEGATNS THAT EMERGED MORE THAN A AGO, WHEN FORMER DERS, DRIVE-INS AND DIV PRODUCER DAVID PAGE SUED FOOD NETWORK FOR BREACH OF NTRACT. THE WORK UNTERSUED MONTHS LATER, ALLEGG THAT PAGE HAD MA THE WORKPLACE “TOLERABLE” FOR STAFF. THE PARTI EVENTUALLY SETTLED, AND TWO MONTHS LATER, PAGE BLASTED FIERI WH SEPARATE ALLEGATNS.IN A 2011 CY PAG ARTICLE PRERVED BY THE INTER ARCHIVE, PAGE ALLEGED THAT FIERI MA HOMOPHOBIC MENTS DURG DDD’S PRODUCTN. AT ONE POT, PAGE ALLEGED, THE HOST SAID, “YOU N’T SEND ME TO TALK TO GAY PEOPLE WHOUT WARNG! THOSE PEOPLE WEIRD ME OUT!” THE EX-PRODUCER ALSO CLAIMED THAT FIERI HAD MA AN ANTI-SEMIC REMARK TOWARD HIM DURG A MOARY DISPUTE, THAT HE ED LEWD HUMOR THE WORKPLACE, AND THAT WHEN CUTTG THE SHOW TOGETHER, DDD EDORS NEED “TO WATCH GUY’S EYELE, BEE ’S ALWAYS ON BREASTS.”FIERI CLED TO MENT ON THE CY PAG ARTICLE. AFTER THE ARTICLE’S PUBLITN, A REPRENTATIVE FOR FIERI TOLD EATER, “GUY’S REPUTATN SPEAKS FOR SELF. HE’S A STANDUP GUY WHO DO RIGHT BY PEOPLE. HE WOULD NEVER MAKE THE KD OF MENTS ATTRIBUTED TO HIM THIS STORY, AND ANYONE WHO KNOWS OR HAS EVEN MET HIM KNOWS THAT. THAT MR. PAGE MA THE SADLY SPERATE STATEMENTS SAYS MORE ABOUT HIM THAN DO ABOUT GUY OR ANYONE ON THE FOOD NETWORK TEAM.”A “SOURCE WH KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUATN” ALSO TOLD EATER THAT PAGE’S ALLEGATNS WERE “FANTASI,” AND THAT THE CY PAG ARTICLE WAS FULL OF “OMISSNS,” “BASIC ERRORS,” AND “PLETE FABRITNS.” MEANWHILE, A SOURCE POTED OUT TO GOTHAMIST THAT FIERI’S LATE SISTER WAS HOMOSEXUAL AND THAT HIS LONGTIME BS PARTNER AND CLOSE IEND IS ALSO JEWISH.FOR NOW, ONLY TIME WILL TELL HOW THE TMP PHOTOS WILL AFFECT FIERI’S BRAND: WILL THIS TANK THE GOODWILL HE BUILT DURG THE PANMIC, OR N HE RI OUT BY KEEPG QUIET? THE STATE OF THE UNN FLAVORTOWN, MEANWHILE, REMAS SHAMBL. LRA BRADLEY
• MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

GAY TT (MALE ONLY): THE TTH AWAS, MEN!

If you're a woman, you may have noticed thgs about your boyiend that lead you to believe he's gay or terted men.

Keep readg for a thorough list of potential signs that your boyiend might be gay.

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR BOYIEND IS GAY

There are many reasons why someone might act this way, so this by self is not a surefire sign that he’s gay. If you believe your boyiend lov and r for you but he "seems to be gay, " keep md that he uld be bisexual, pansexual, or terted men. There are several inti which someone n be terted more than one genr, so don't thk he's "jt gay".

If you stumble upon evince of gay porn on his puter or phone, though, that may be a ltle different. If he’s gay, he might thrive on other men’s attentn, equently touch or hug them, or exchange flirty ments wh them (pecially about their physil appearance). Notice if he equently hangs out wh his gay iends, or jos them on nights out at LGBTQ+ bars and clubs.

IS MY FRIEND GAY QUIZ

” Notice if he acts unfortable around gay men, regularly mak homophobic ments or jok, or liberately never talks about anythg remotely gay. If his relativ are highly anti-gay, he may not feel safe or wele to e out to them. He might also be wrtlg wh ternalized homophobia or self-loathg bee of the nflict between his inty and his upbrgg.

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR GUY FRIEND IS GAY

An enunter his teen or llege years is more likely to mean he’s gay or queer than an experience later life, which uld have more plex explanatns. Don’t rely on gay stereotyp like an effemate voice or walk, flashy or tight clothg, his TV and mic preferenc, or beg a neat eak to terme your boyiend’s sexualy.

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

There are many gay men that exhib none of the tras, as well as many straight men that do.

This is a quiz that n tell you whether both (you and your iend) are gay or not. You may want to know if your iend is gay, but there may be a good reason why they're stayg closeted. For example, his fay may be vlently homophobic and by cidg that he's gay, you may out him by accint by treatg him different or implyg somethg whout meang to.

If you're tryg to figure out if your iend is gay bee you want to date him (as a woman), 's important to remember that jt bee he might be terted men don't mean he's not terted women. Another important thg to remember is that 's not very important whether or not he's gay. One of the theori about why some people are gay has to do wh the hormon that they're exposed to before they're born.

IS MY BOYIEND GAY? 10 SIGNS TO HELP YOU TELL FOR SURE

The hormone exposure levels may manift actual, physil ways which n be a vague ditor that a guy might be gay. It is possible that your guy iend is not gay but stead falls somewhere else on the Ksey sle of unirns and awomens.

Although some people the gay culture may put on a certa voice or a way of speakg, your iend talkg a siar or "effemate" way is still not a very good way to judge. Everyone n enjoy different thgs; jt like a woman might enjoy watchg football, guys n also enjoy thgs that are more monly associated wh women or the gay muny.

The movi he watch and the mic he listens to are also not fair methods to gge if he is straight or gayer than Elton John and Gee Takei put together. There's the stereotype that if a guy is a good drser or if he spends a bunch of time on his hair, he's gay.

IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND

Sometim you might assume that jt bee a guy only hangs out wh girls or jt bee his bt iend also seems gay, then he might also be gay.

Subtly brg up subjects that show him that you're okay wh your iends beg gay and that he don't need to hi his nature around you. You n talk about another iend that is gay or even jt about someone hypothetilly g out if you don't know someone who's gay. He do a great job of showg people that there's more to gay people than all those offensive stereotyp.

IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?

But if he is gay, he will probably tell you once he's fortable and feels like he tsts you.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

This is the bt way to fd out if someone is gay and much ls offensive than makg assumptns about them. Say somethg like, "You know you're stuck wh me as a iend no matter what, but I jt have to ask bee I don't want to make assumptns and e to the wrong nclns: are you gay?

GUY FIERI’S TMP PHOTO OP HAS PEOPLE RECKONG WH HIS POLICSTHE NEW ELLEN/BUSHTWTER NATURALLY HAD A LOT TO SAY (AND A LOT OF RECEIPTS TO PULL) AFTER THE TYPILLY APOLIL MAYOR OF FLAVORTOWN CHATTED UP THE FORMER PRINT.LRA BRADLEYSENR ENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED JUL. 10, 2023 4:22PM EDT JEFF BOTTARI/ZUFFA LLC VIA GETTY IMAGFOR MOST OF HIS REER, GUY FIERI HAS MANAGED TO KEEP HIS BRAND RELATIVELY APOLIL. NOW THAT HE’S BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED WH DONALD TMP, HOWEVER, THE BLEACH-TIPPED CELEBRY CHEF MIGHT BE STARTG TO FEEL THE HEAT.ON SATURDAY, FIERI WAS PHOTOGRAPHED MEETG THE RECENTLY DICTED FORMER PRINT AT THE T-MOBILE ARENA LAS VEGAS DURG UFC 290. NBC NEWS REPORTS THAT THE TWO CHATTED AT THE MIXED MARTIAL ARTS EVENT, WHERE TMP WAS ALSO SPOTTED TALKG TO MEL GIBSON AND MARK WAHLBERG. TURNG POT USA CREATIVE DIRECTOR BENNY JOHNSON TWEETED OUT A PHOTO OF FIERI AND TMP TOGETHER ON SUNDAY, WRG, “2024 UNY TICKET.” FIERI’S FACE IS NOT VISIBLE ENOUGH THE PHOTOS TO GGE HIS EXPRSN, BUT HE N BE SEEN FACG TMP WH HIS HAND ON THE FORMER PRINT’S ARM. REPRENTATIV FOR FIERI AND DISVERY, WHOSE WORKS RRY FIERI’S SERI, DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RPOND TO THE DAILY BEAST’S REQUT FOR MENT.UNSURPRISGLY, THE TMP PHOTO HAS SET FLAVORTOWN ON FIRE. SIWAYS GLANC NOW ABOUND ON TWTER, CLUDG OM THE VIRAL ACUNT POP CRAVE, WHICH SHARED THE PHOTO WH THE Y PTN, “GUY FIERI GREETG CRIMAL FENDANT DONALD TMP AT UFC 290 LAS VEGAS.” MEANWHILE, WHE STRIP ONTMAN JACK WHE SHARED PHOTOS OF FIERI AND OTHER CELEBRI WHO REPORTEDLY MET WH TMP AT UFC AND LLED THEM ALL “DISGTG.” “ANYBODY WHO ‘NORMALIZ’ OR TREATS THIS DISGTG FASCIST, RACIST, N MAN, DISGTG PIECE OF SH TMP WH ANY LEVEL OF RPECT IS ALSO DISGTG MY BOOK,” WHE WROTE ON INSTAGRAM. “THAT’S YOU JOE ROGAN, YOU MEL GIBSON, YOU MARK WAHLBERG, YOU GUY FIERI. THIS IS A STATEMENT OM ME, NOT A DISCSN/BATE.” THE IRE SURROUNDG FIERI FEELS LIKE AN ECHO OF SOMETHG WE SAW BEFORE, WHEN ELLEN DEGENER WAS PHOTOGRAPHED PALLG AROUND WH FORMER PRINT GEE W. BH AT A DALLAS COWBOYS GAME 2019. THEN, LIKE NOW, A RELATIVELY BENIGN CELEBRY’S POLICS HAVE BEEN THST TO THE LIMELIGHT, REPLACG FANS’ BLISSFUL, FORTG IGNORANCE WH SKEPTICISM.THE NTROVERSY OVER FIERI’S PHOTO OPP HAS ALSO RURFACED SOME OF HIS PAST NTROVERSI. IN 2021, THE AV CLUB DOCUMENTED THE DERS, DRIVE-INS AND DIV HOST’S RISE AS A MORN FOLK HERO THANKS TO HIS FUNDRAISG EFFORTS DURG THE PANMIC. AT THE SAME TIME, WRER MATT SCHIMKOWZ POTED OUT, FIERI REMAS A “POLIL RORSCHACH TT” WHO SKIRTS DIRECT QUTNS ABOUT HIS PERSONAL VIEWS. ON ONE HAND, FIERI N SOMETIM GTURE TOWARD PROGRSIVE ALLYSHIP—LIKE THE BERNIE SANRS MEME HE POSTED 2021 WH THE PTN, “NOT ME. US.” SIX MONTHS AFTER POSTG THAT MEME, HOWEVER, FIERI SLD RTRANT WORKERS WHO HAD NOT RETURNED TO WORK DURG AN TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORK TIM. RATHER THAN ADDRS WORKERS’ NCERNS ABOUT THEIR JOBS—WHICH EATER POTED OUT AT THE TIME CLUD COVID RISK, LOW WAG, AND PALTRY CHILDRE AND SICK LEAVE—HE PARED THEM TO SPOILED CHILDREN. “WHY WOULD YOU GO AND EAT BROCLI,” FIERI ASKED, “IF YOU JT GOT TO EAT DOROS?” FANS ON SOCIAL MEDIA HAVE ALSO POSTED ARTICL ABOUT THE SNARL OF ALLEGATNS THAT EMERGED MORE THAN A AGO, WHEN FORMER DERS, DRIVE-INS AND DIV PRODUCER DAVID PAGE SUED FOOD NETWORK FOR BREACH OF NTRACT. THE WORK UNTERSUED MONTHS LATER, ALLEGG THAT PAGE HAD MA THE WORKPLACE “TOLERABLE” FOR STAFF. THE PARTI EVENTUALLY SETTLED, AND TWO MONTHS LATER, PAGE BLASTED FIERI WH SEPARATE ALLEGATNS.IN A 2011 CY PAG ARTICLE PRERVED BY THE INTER ARCHIVE, PAGE ALLEGED THAT FIERI MA HOMOPHOBIC MENTS DURG DDD’S PRODUCTN. AT ONE POT, PAGE ALLEGED, THE HOST SAID, “YOU N’T SEND ME TO TALK TO GAY PEOPLE WHOUT WARNG! THOSE PEOPLE WEIRD ME OUT!” THE EX-PRODUCER ALSO CLAIMED THAT FIERI HAD MA AN ANTI-SEMIC REMARK TOWARD HIM DURG A MOARY DISPUTE, THAT HE ED LEWD HUMOR THE WORKPLACE, AND THAT WHEN CUTTG THE SHOW TOGETHER, DDD EDORS NEED “TO WATCH GUY’S EYELE, BEE ’S ALWAYS ON BREASTS.”FIERI CLED TO MENT ON THE CY PAG ARTICLE. AFTER THE ARTICLE’S PUBLITN, A REPRENTATIVE FOR FIERI TOLD EATER, “GUY’S REPUTATN SPEAKS FOR SELF. HE’S A STANDUP GUY WHO DO RIGHT BY PEOPLE. HE WOULD NEVER MAKE THE KD OF MENTS ATTRIBUTED TO HIM THIS STORY, AND ANYONE WHO KNOWS OR HAS EVEN MET HIM KNOWS THAT. THAT MR. PAGE MA THE SADLY SPERATE STATEMENTS SAYS MORE ABOUT HIM THAN DO ABOUT GUY OR ANYONE ON THE FOOD NETWORK TEAM.”A “SOURCE WH KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUATN” ALSO TOLD EATER THAT PAGE’S ALLEGATNS WERE “FANTASI,” AND THAT THE CY PAG ARTICLE WAS FULL OF “OMISSNS,” “BASIC ERRORS,” AND “PLETE FABRITNS.” MEANWHILE, A SOURCE POTED OUT TO GOTHAMIST THAT FIERI’S LATE SISTER WAS HOMOSEXUAL AND THAT HIS LONGTIME BS PARTNER AND CLOSE IEND IS ALSO JEWISH.FOR NOW, ONLY TIME WILL TELL HOW THE TMP PHOTOS WILL AFFECT FIERI’S BRAND: WILL THIS TANK THE GOODWILL HE BUILT DURG THE PANMIC, OR N HE RI OUT BY KEEPG QUIET? THE STATE OF THE UNN FLAVORTOWN, MEANWHILE, REMAS SHAMBL. LRA BRADLEY

Article SummaryXTo tell if your guy iend is gay, notice whether he refers to other guys as attractive, which uld be a sign that he’s gay.

Pay attentn to how much he talks about women a romantic or sexual way, sce a lack of tert women uld suggt he’s gay. If you’re still unsure, try talkg to him about gay men to see how he rponds. For stance, say somethg like, “Not that I md eher way, but I was jt wonrg whether you're gay?

MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX

” For more tips, cludg how to show your iend that you’re okay wh gay people, read on! 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.

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. Believg that your boyiend might be gay is a tricky suatn to have to nont, and, if you’re readg this, we n image that you’re feelg very this article, we’ll explore how to know if your boyiend is gay, and how to approach the suatn a way that works for you both. Speak to a certified and experienced relatnship ach to help you figure out whether your boyiend is gay and what to do about .

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

This might happen particularly wh gay men and he’s subnscly flirtg as a way to explore his sexualy. However, if you’ve ught him watchg gay porn (or porn of solely men), might be somethg he’s terted on some level. It’s hard to know om this alone, but might be a sign that your boyiend is gay, or at least terted men some way.