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Contents:

• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• LGBTQ+ SUPPORT, SUPPORT GROUPS, GAY SUPPORT ORGANIZATNS
• THE REAL LIV OF GAY MEN
• GAY SUPPORT: WHERE TO FD LGBT HELP AND SUPPORT GROUPS
• ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
• GAY DISCRIMATN AND STIGMA AND HOW TO COPE
• I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?
• HOW TO GET A MAN (FOR GAY MEN)
• 13 BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, LOVE, CISG & ANYTHG ELSE
• OLD AND GAY: 9 ACTNS WE NEED TO TAKE NOW FOR THE AGG RABOW NATN

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

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. His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men.

But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil. 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.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

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

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

“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.

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.

LGBTQ+ SUPPORT, SUPPORT GROUPS, GAY SUPPORT ORGANIZATNS

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.

THE REAL LIV OF GAY MEN

“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.

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.

LGBTQ+ support groups and gay support anizatns are cril, pecially for people who, ially, fd difficult to e out as gay and n benef om the support of others.

GAY SUPPORT: WHERE TO FD LGBT HELP AND SUPPORT GROUPS

Gay support groups and anizatns work to support people of mory sexualy such as gay, lbian, queer, transgenr, and bisexual.

Some gay support anizatns are specifilly dited to supportg dividuals while others foc on rights issu and gay polics as well. Some people feel very alone when they e to the realizatn that they are gay, but the fact is, they are not alone. In addn to puttg a person touch wh others like them, gay support groups also make people feel fortable knowg that when they share rmatn about themselv, they are tellg others who have lived the same experience.

In gay support groups, no one is judged for their sexualy and is only supported.

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

For example, they are available any lotn, at any time of day and they n be the first step for those not prepared to talk face-to-face wh other gay dividuals yet. One place onle gay support groups n be found is through Thoands of people are members of the onle support groups which ver everythg om g out to parentg to beg transgenr.

Another onle gay muny is at Here, there are gay support groups, as well as plac to socialize. The GLBT Natnal Help Center is a gay support anizatn that ns gay support helpl, gay youth support as well as peer-support chat and ntas a database of gay rourc. We mt re eply about the abe of our brothers prison and we mt re eply about the liv led by our gay brothers.

GAY DISCRIMATN AND STIGMA AND HOW TO COPE

Certaly ignorg the liv of gay men is what the palads of the gay movement want to do. If others peek behd the curta of the whe-picket-fence-homosexualy they have built up for public nsumptn, support for the movement would wher and probably die.

I LIKE GUYS BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE GAY. HOW DO I STOP BEG GAY?

The active gay man and the prisoner are our brothers and we have to be ncerned wh both. But look we mt, particularly sce we are beg asked to nsir that homosexualy is on par wh heterosexualy, that same-sex marriage and oppose-sex marriage n be the same, that gay sex n fact be spoal.

The arguments ma by our bt fenrs of man-woman marriage foc almost exclively on the fn of marriage and the rights of children to have both a mother and a father, and they explicly say their arguments have nothg to do wh the unrlyg qutn of homosexualy.

Even so, we should show greater regard for our gay brothers by payg more attentn to their liv. Recently I was readg an excellent mancript of an upg book by long-time Crisis Magaze ntributor Robert Reilly on how the gay movement has moved through our stutns and our culture.

HOW TO GET A MAN (FOR GAY MEN)

Lee lived as an out and active gay man for gog on three s and what he scrib is not only sane but also eply heartbreakg. Lee wr about a gay bookstore At, Texas lled Lobo’s where if you look the ont wdow you see bookshelv full of books, gay books certaly but books.

He said such an arrangement was perfect for the big lie that active homosexualy was normal and non-threateng to any straight person lookg the ont wdow. Lee wanted love, gay love to be sure, but love that fell le wh Christian sexual ethics, that is to say a lifelong emotnal and sexual bond. He read the fluential 1976 book The Church and the Homosexual wrten by a Catholic prit that explaed how the Church wrongly terpreted all those referenc the Bible nmng homosexualy.

” Father McNeill later wrote an tobgraphy which he explaed he lived a wily promiscuo gay life far removed om any notn of Christian sexual ethics, gay or otherwise. “Dozens of well-meang people assured me that there was a whole, different world of homosexual men out there, a world that for some reason I uld never fd, a world of God-fearg, straight-actg, monogamy-believg, and fily-practicg homosexuals.

13 BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, LOVE, CISG & ANYTHG ELSE

He joed a Yahoo group loosely affiliated wh Digny, the “Catholic” anizatn that affirms gays their active homosexual way of life. ” He received “dozens of rpons, some of them que hostile and meang, and all but one—me—tellg him to go out and get laid bee that was what beg gay was all about.

” He said he wanted to meet other homosexuals like him for “iendship and romance.

The ugly realy Lee disvered his whole gay life was that this way of life is almost wholly about sex and plenty of . A gay man once told me he was a long-time relatnship but they never had sex anymore, jt masturbated ont of porn wh lots of actn outsi the relatnship.

OLD AND GAY: 9 ACTNS WE NEED TO TAKE NOW FOR THE AGG RABOW NATN

In his excellent mancript, The Gayg of Ameri: How Ratnalizg Homosexual Behavr Is Changg Everythg to be published next March by Ignati Prs, Robert Reilly lays out the horrific numbers. Some claim that homosexual behavr do not necsarily mean that male upl engage anal terurse.

Jefey Santover Homosexualy and the Polics of Tth that “The typil homosexual (needls to say there are exceptns) is a man who has equent episos of anal terurse wh other men, often wh many different men. “The most rigoro sgle study—the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study [1987]—reced nearly 5, 000 homosexual men and found that: ‘a signifint majory of the men … (69 to 82%) reported havg 50 or more lifetime sexual partners, and over 80% had engaged receptive anal terurse wh at least some of their partners the prev two years.