Ross Mathews: I Realized I Was Gay wh Barbra Streisand & More From Man Up!

Contents:

• ROSS MATHEWS: GAY PEOPLE 'WANTED ME OFF TV'
• ROSS GAY
• ROSS MATHEWS: I REALIZED I WAS GAY WH BARBRA STREISAND & MORE FROM 'MAN UP!'
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• COMEDIAN COREY HOLB CLAIMS RICK ROSS IS GAY!!
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

ROSS MATHEWS: GAY PEOPLE 'WANTED ME OFF TV'

Hannah Gadsby, for example, speaks about growg up as a lbian Tasmania, where homosexualy was illegal until 1997. And Bowen Yang beme the first Asian-Amerin and third openly gay st member on "Saturday Night Live. Risg to fame followg her special "Nate, " Gadsby has phed edy to new levels by weavg together personal stori, art history lsons, and sthg monologu — routely takg hs at men and the chronicl her childhood growg up as a lbian Tasmania, where homosexualy was illegal until 1997.

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ROSS GAY

Joel Kim Booster often jok about beg raised a homogeno Southern town. He often jok that he knew he was gay before he knew he was 's sce lnched a succsful stand-up reer — appearg on "The Late Late Show Wh Jam Corn, " "Late Night Wh Seth Meyers, " "CONAN, " and more. Booster ntued, "I'd look at myself and say, 'Why am I treated like a send-class cizen the gay muny?

When Ross Mathews started his reer as “Ross the Intern” on “The Tonight Show wh Jay Leno, ” there were only a small number of LGBTQ people on TV and gay men, Ross says, weren’t happy wh him reprentg them. Jefey Masters: I thk Jay Leno would be acced of gay bashg today. He was potg out the obv, but he also put me on his show for 13 years, so there was a method behd the madns, I Thkg about you on Chelsea Lately and your show, I’m shocked by how recent was bee still felt subversive to see an out gay man on TV, one that’s not tryg to butch I jt never gave a flyg fuck what people thought or thk.

ROSS MATHEWS: I REALIZED I WAS GAY WH BARBRA STREISAND & MORE FROM 'MAN UP!'

I thk that me embracg what I am, which is this pl size, unapologetilly, openly gay person, woke some people How did you navigate beg visibly gay and not rg what people thought wh the fact that ’s not always safe to be perceived to be gay? Where even I, who was followg the North Star of beg gay, said, “Well, I gus I should try this bee that’s what I’m suppose to do. ” So, I did and wasn’t my cup of tea, but I tried When I’m out and I hear someone who sounds gay, I thk, “Oh, I’m safe here.

HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'

When I first started on The Tonight Show, I got a lot of hate mail and the majory of the hate mail was om gay people, sayg, “You’re settg the movement back. I’m embarrassed to be gay bee you’re reprentg .

They wanted me not to reprent them, gay people. Sce Mathews, who jok, "I've been gay sce birth, " first appeared as Ross the Intern on The Tonight Show Wh Jay Leno, 's been part of his missn to be visible and reprent for those g up behd him.

COMEDIAN COREY HOLB CLAIMS RICK ROSS IS GAY!!

"I remember beg a kid a farm town and realizg I was gay and then askg myself, What do a gay grown-up person look like? "I remember thkg, God, I have to s down and talk to him bee he knows I'm gay, jt bee, you know, I'm on TV. "But I wonr if he's ever seen a gay uple or somethg.

He is openly gay, sayg he uld never have been “ the closet while workg on televisn”. Several producers told him he was too gay when he left the Tonight Show and he turned down a lot of stuff bee he said the producers wanted him to be different, which he said wasn’t gog to happen. It’s all about “advice and LOLs om the gay bt iend you wish you had and know you need.

Unfortunately, beme a sad time of loss for Ross, bee, May 2020, he lost his beloved mother, Gaye, to breast ncer. As a gay guy, he creds his fay and particularly his mother wh beg acceptg and open wh him. Ross Gay is terted Gay wants to unrstand Gay is cur about Gay studi joy.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

~Ross Gay is the thor of four books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; Be Holdg, wner of the PEN Amerin Lerary Jean Ste Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award. • Barbra Streisand helped him e outMathews talks openly about his sexualy and how he me to the ncln he was gay.

“I realized I was gay the shower one day wh Barbra Streisand. To which Ross Gay rponds word and ed, how n we not be joyful, pecially a moment like this? We practice tenrns and mercy part bee to unrstand that we are all sufferg is one qualy of what Ross Gay lls “adult joy.