Nate Berk and Jeremiah Brent on Gay Reprentatn

Contents:

• NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH BRENT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG 'TWO GAY DADS' ON HOME MAKEOVER TV: 'WE BELIEVE OPENG UP THE DOORS'
• HOW 2 LOVELY GAYS BEME THE DARLGS OF THE TERR SIGN WORLD
• HOW 2 LOVELY GAYS BEME THE DARLGS OF THE TERR SIGN WORLD
• A WORLD OF PRI: GAY DIGNERS TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE AND CHALLENG
• HOW GAY MEN FED 20TH-CENTURY TERR SIGN

NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH BRENT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG 'TWO GAY DADS' ON HOME MAKEOVER TV: 'WE BELIEVE OPENG UP THE DOORS'

Nate Berk and Jeremiah Brent on the Importance of Beg 'Two Gay Dads' on Home Makeover TV: 'We Believe Openg Up the Doors'. "It's a renovatn show, but you're also gettg to e to the liv of two gay dads and their fay, so that's a great thg and of self, " says Brent, who weled dghter Poppy, 2, wh Berk March 2015.

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HOW 2 LOVELY GAYS BEME THE DARLGS OF THE TERR SIGN WORLD

It was the post of this apartment, SE23 2LG, that led to the pair beg nicknamed 2 Lovely Gays by their iends. “We set up 2 Lovely Gays 2014, and have been workg full-time as signers ever sce. ’ I like that – 2 Lovely Gays is nice, the word lovely is nice, but nice n also be excellent.

2 Lovely Gays lov and loath. It’s an old stereotype: the gay terr signer. Ltle data exists regardg how many gay men are out the sign dtry around the world, but ’s whout a doubt a iendlier dtry than, say, profsnal sports.

HOW 2 LOVELY GAYS BEME THE DARLGS OF THE TERR SIGN WORLD

And no matter the profsn, clearly the experience of gay men tersects wh other forc—race and class power dynamics, ageism, health, geography—and differs om the experienc of other members of the muny, cludg lbians and trans/non-bary/genr nonnformg sign profsnals. But on the ocsn of World Pri month, Interr Dign reached out to gay men around the physil and virtual worlds to get a sense of where thgs stand today, om Tulsa to Turkey. “There are que a lot of gay upl livg eely and accepted, ” he says, “but not mentned a lot by the neighbors.

Homosexualy to them was a very big al.

A WORLD OF PRI: GAY DIGNERS TALK ABOUT ACCEPTANCE AND CHALLENG

They have a posive gay role mol around them as they’ve grown up, and that’s a powerful thg. They may even, like Saghian, e to see a gay inty as a benef.

“The stereotype has always been that the bt signers are gay men, ” he says. And Orlando, was supposed to be at the Pulse nightclub the night of the anti-gay terror massacre 2016. Montreal thor John Potv was rearchg his new book about the hom of famo gay men around the same time he married his hband December 2010, the home of a close gay iend.

“I’d been thkg about this for half a , and what fascated me about the gay male upl were their liv together, ” Potv says. “Much of what is wrten about gay life and queer inty is geared at the public sphere. Bachelors of a Different Sort giv rears an si look at turn-of-the century bachelorhood by offerg se studi of the private liv and hom of several proment gay bachelors livg Bra.

HOW GAY MEN FED 20TH-CENTURY TERR SIGN

“Although [gay men] have been wrten out of the histori of sign and the home, a profound sense of muny was fed as a rult of [them] livg the hom, ” Potv says. Bachelors of a Different Sort begs wh Bra’s Crimal Law Amendment Act om 1885, monly known as the Labouchere Amendment, which ma “gross cency” — read: homosexualy — a crime punishable by imprisonment (look no further than the trial of Osr Wil) and vers the years up to 1957. “Ironilly, Coward’s style beme a template for jazz-age glamour and gay style.

Potv will explore this lbian athetic a future book but first wants to explore how the cliché of gay men as signers and terr rators began.

But gay mal go to the tra bee be a safe i for them to work , signg and ratg hom for — and the irony is pable — tradnal nuclear fai.