Miss Manners: Nosy women at retirement muny ask rint ‘are you gay?’ durg dner

Contents:

• AM I GAY?
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER
• 5 ANCIENT CIVILIZATNS WHERE IT WAS OKAY TO BE GAY
• WHAT IF EVERYONE WERE GAY?

AM I GAY?

“The perpetuatn of the ia that bisexualy isn’t a big enough al to be talked about is one of the reasons some people don’t e out, ” they, n lead people to hi any biphobia, homophobia, or queermia they might face their personal or profsnal life due to their sexualy. Before we tell you even more about old Hollywood stars who were secretly homosexual, please like this vio and subscribe to our channel for more unique and fascatg stori. Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr.

Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.

He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay.

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

’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. “I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them.

Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy. Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done.

The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.

PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?

“Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth.

McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely. In Team Ameri, the 2004 puppet edy om the creators of South Park, there’s a scene that satiriz the prevalence of gay-themed stage plays of that era (Angels Ameri, Rent, etc. Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected.

Addrsg MPs, the prime mister said: "Many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment all while bravely servg this untry.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

"The LGBT Veterans Inpennt Review, led by Bra's first openly gay judge Lord Etherton, began last year and heard about the experienc of 1, 145 veterans between 1967 to 2000. Acrdg to the report, the Mistry of Defence said at the time that jtifitn for the policy clud "matenance of operatnal effectivens and efficiency" - but the report said there had been an "prehensible policy of homophobic bigotry" the armed forc. It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly.

Carol Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life. "Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer". Likewise, while a gay male may not reproduce, ’s been noted that his female relativ are often more reproductively succsful, so ’s theorized that one gene that may ntribute to homosexualy when rried by a man also ntribut to reproductive succs when rried by a woman.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

As Alan Chambers, print of Exod Internatnal (the once preement but now funct ex-gay therapy program), put 2012, “The majory of people that I have met, and I would say the majory meang 99. If you have had romantic experienc or fantasi volvg people who are the same genr as you, then there is a good chance you are gay or bisexual, but 's okay if you're a ltle nfed.

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. The Amerin Instute of Bisexualy web se quot Michael Urie of Ugly Betty (pictured), who intifi as "queer" the Febary Advote:I've been a relatnship for a while now, and if you jt met the two of together we'd be ‘gay.

That's why ‘gay' never seemed mak sense that the terms "straight" and "gay" n feel rtrictive for some people, but is llg all people bisexual the solutn? It is possible to suggt that everyone has some potential for attractn to both sex, but sce most people* never act on , this is pretty someone says that they are straight, or (gay/lbian) then for you to sist that they are "really" bisexual but perhaps jt don't realise is to ny them their self-inty.

5 ANCIENT CIVILIZATNS WHERE IT WAS OKAY TO BE GAY

Bisexuals: Puttg The B Back In LGBT [Guardian]Related: FAQ - Bisexualy and Bisexuals [Alliance of L-Bi-Gay-Transgenr and Straight Ally Stunts at Michigan State Universy] BRC News Flash [Bisexualy Rource Center]. Dpe this strangt of notns, don’t seem very likely that everyone is gog to sudnly start fectg over to the other si jt bee gays are gettg to beg treated as equals. Another good reason to love thy gay neighbour: He’s probably helpg to make sure that your grandchildren don’t have to fight another world war for natural rourc.

In this article:It’s easy to fet that homophobia is a relatively morn terventn bee heteronormative history obscur LGBT+ figur and tri to portray non-heteronormative genrs and sexuali as if they’re tth is that if you go back far enough time, you’ll fd that neher homophobia nor any of our current ias about genr and sexualy norms are many ancient civilizatns that we know of where was okay to be gay, and likely even more that have been lost to history. Acknowledgg this history is an important remr that LGBT+ people have always existed and that, for most of human history, they have been loved and accepted for who they tend to thk of homophobia as dated and archaic. Homophobic slurs and sentiments are thgs of the past that nservativ rolutely hold on to, lt society fall to the horrors of women lovg women and beg happy for ntrast, beg open to people of all genrs and sexual orientatns is the progrsive thg to be.

However, if we are to go back time far enough — say, up to 3000 BC — history seems to suggt somethg else entirely: homophobia, like heterosexualy as a ncept, is a relatively morn trouble is, a lot of ancient LGBTQ+ history has been obscured over the years.

WHAT IF EVERYONE WERE GAY?

Some tails, too, have simply been lost what historians n attt to is that homosexualy and same-sex relatnships have been around for as long as humans have been around, and we are prent every documented culture across the globe — jt different ways. The Māori have takatāpui, a term tradnally ed for same-sex timate partners that has now bee somethg of an umbrella Tagalog, you have the babaylan, shamans who were eher women or genr-crossg men and were revered before the Philipp me to be “disvered” and named after a Spanish clu pot to one thg: If we go back to what nservativ like to thk of as “the good old days” of moral virtue and then go further back another few hundred years or so, the people of ancient history weren’t all that cis or straight (though they are no ls virtuo for ) as a speci, we never were — whether ’s cross-drsg and genr-crossg, or same-sex partnerships and, though ’s impossible to actually go back time to check for ourselv, here’s what we know so far about ancient civilizatns where beg gay may have been okay.

Her prits and prits not only had relatns wh both men and women, but they were also trans people sometim-father-sometim-uncle Enki was the god of wisdom, h water, and magic who ma people of a third genr, who were neher male nor, send om the right, is picted here wh water and fish flowg om his when to mortals, The Almanac of Inntatns pots out that gods were pretty ambivalent about whether or not your partner is the same genr as you are, and there are prayers for both hetero and homosexual fact, the gods are much stricter about class: Trouble will e to you if you have a relatnship wh someone who is above or below your stat — whether or not you’re straight. Ancient ChaEmperor Ai and Dong Xian, by Chen Hong Shou (17th century)’s evince that homosexualy was not only wispread, but also tolerated Ancient Cha. Ancient IndiaHomosexualy and non-nformg genr inti were not only prent Ancient India, but sacred texts have shown that they were the eight different kds of marriage that existed the Vedic system, for stance, one between two men or two women was known as “gandharva” or celtial — “a unn of love and habatn, whout the need for parental approval.

We n see this the overtly homosexual imagery of sculptur found Madhya Prash’s Khajuraho templ, built sometime the 12th homoerotic sculptur are jt a few of the templ’ piec pictg everyday life — showg how relatnships between two men, two women, or sometim more, were Que Ancient Honorable MentnsThe thg wh history is that a lot of pends on what humans have been able to prerve for historians to study centuri later, and this enavor is an ongog procs.