Will Young: My story of how I overme gay shame and found my peace | Eveng Standard

Contents:

• WELE TO THE ‘GAY SHAME PARA’: AN HTX QUEER COMEDY SHOW
• WILL YOUNG: MY STORY OF HOW I OVERME GAY SHAME AND FOUND MY PEACE
• GAY SHAME WH SHERIA MATTIS, ELY KREIMENDAHL AND AMANDA SEYIED
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
• LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]
• MALAYSIA FTIVAL NCELLED AFTER MATTY HEALY SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS AND KISS BANDMATE
• TEN PK POUNDS FOR A GAY-BASHG

WELE TO THE ‘GAY SHAME PARA’: AN HTX QUEER COMEDY SHOW

Wele to the Gay Shame Para, a Hoton-based bi-weekly edy show hosted by queer edians, open to all who dare to attend.

WILL YOUNG: MY STORY OF HOW I OVERME GAY SHAME AND FOUND MY PEACE

Wele to the Gay Shame Para, a Hoton-based bi-weekly edy show hosted by queer edians, open to all who dare to attend—nothg is off lims durg this night of edy, om jok about gay gossip queens to the rise of robotic sex dolls. Hosted at The Secret Group, the East Downtown performance venue and bar notor for s edy shows and ocsnal emo dance parti, the Gay Shame Para v edians om across the spectm—and the natn—to be their most thentic selv any hysteril, rnchy, or queer way they please. “Jamal and Drew both started about two years ago and there weren’t really a lot of gay people dog stand up when I started, so we were jt drawn to each other, ” Morrissey says.

“I thk people who aren’t gay n relate to the same kds of fights that my ex and I would have. I don’t thk gay jok are that much different than straight jok. ” -Gay Shame Para host Bob Morrissey.

Sce startg the show late last year, the Gay Shame Para, which rived s name om the annual worldwi radil Gay Pri event, has gaed a loyal followg, wh more atten g every week.

GAY SHAME WH SHERIA MATTIS, ELY KREIMENDAHL AND AMANDA SEYIED

When to the craft, none of the Gay Shame Para edians are aimg to be sensive or morally admirable wh their jok; stead, they e the stage to vent about their daily tratns a hilar manner wh no punch pulled. Charmg edian and bisexual -host Jamal Rahal kept the room howlg as he scribed his experience of brgg a female date around his gay iends, imatg their judgmental reactns, then tacklg the pure nfn om his straight iends who labeled him gay. Although the hosts are queer, Gay Shame Para don’t ny straight ally edians om performg—as the show’s tagle reads: “Stand up om gays, probable gays, and people we wish were gay.

” Morrissey explas that the show would have ls longevy if only LGBTQ edians were allowed to perform, nsirg the small prence of gay edians the cy. Morrissey adds that, his opn, the te value of beg a gay edian is the abily to relate to all people.

“Jt bee I’m talkg about a gay relatnship, I’m not only talkg about gay people, ” he says. I thk people who aren’t gay n relate to the same kd of fights that my ex and I would have. At the end of the day, the Gay Shame Para aims to create a space where edians n fortably hone their craft while beg hont about their daily liv.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

Wh plans to expand the show beyond Hoton and Texas, to ve more edians, and to create merchandise for the cult followg, Gay Shame Para has only jt dipped s to to the waters of buildg a ee, queer, rnchy experience. “I thk I would jt be a lot creepier if I weren’t talkg about beg gay, the kd of stori I tell, ” Morrissey lghs.

For more on the Gay Shame Para, vis. They are unlikely to say that his story has been one of gay shame that has blighted his life.

And yet, says the 42-year-old mician, whose new book To Be a Gay Man, has jt e out paperback, “gay shame was a part of my life om the age of six. But then when I did the Homo Sapiens LGBT podst, a lot of people were talkg about the topic of gay shame.

LIVG AUTHENTILLY THE LGBTQ COMMUNY: HOW TO MOVE PAST “GAY SHAME” [VIO]

Rupert, younger by 10 mut, died by suici Augt 2020, a subject still so paful that we have agreed not to talk about , although Young do believe that his anxiety stems part om beg put separate cubators at boys were sent to Wellgton College, where, at 16 Young told someone he was gay for the first time.

“Bee the heteronormative thkg at the time was how on earth uld someone who plays sports so well be gay? ” He scrib his amazement at seeg a Gay Pri para and longg to jo , but his sense of self-hatred prevented Young wng Pop Idol 2002 / PAAfter Pop Idol, Young, then only 22, publicly “me out” — an exprsn he but hat — to pre-empt a newspaper threateng to do the job for him.

MALAYSIA FTIVAL NCELLED AFTER MATTY HEALY SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS AND KISS BANDMATE

It’s hard today to prehend how distrsg that mt have been, but admtg those days to beg a gay pop star was askg to be abed; even his publicists urged utn.

TEN PK POUNDS FOR A GAY-BASHG

”To Be a Gay Man is out now paperback (Virg Books, £9. Homosexualy is a crime Mlim-majory Malaysia. Rights groups have warned of growg tolerance agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr vios posted on social media late on Friday, Healy was seen kissg bassist Ross MacDonald after cricizg Malaysia’s stance agast homosexualy a profany-lan speech to the ftival dience.