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Contents:

• NEAL GAY
• DIARY OF A GAY PORN STAR
• BT JIM GAY INTERVIEWS ON PODSTS OR AUD ABOUT JIM
• IS JIM NORTON GAY? A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE EVINCE
• JIM GAY

NEAL GAY

(Photo: Lda Kalles/Foc Featur/Courty Everett Collectn)Earlier this year, the Universal-backed Bros hoped to go where no major stud edy had gone before by beg the first LGBTQ rom- starrg two out gay actors — Billy Eichner and Le Macfarlane — to top the box office charts. (Some nservative mentators ma siar arguments after Walt Disney's new animated adventure, Strange World — which featured out gay edian, Jaboie Young-Whe, as the pany's first out gay teenager — unrperformed s openg weekend, reportedly stg Disney upwards of $100 ln.

)Flash-forward a few months, and Universal's specialty label, Foc Featur, is releasg s own LGBTQ love story wh out gay actors ont and center: Spoiler Alert, produced by and starrg former Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons.

DIARY OF A GAY PORN STAR

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"For his part, Parsons says he was specifilly drawn to Spoiler Alert bee afford him the opportuny to portray one-half of a gay uple that don't get to live out a picture-perfect "happily every after" story. "I feel like I've spent so much of my life seeg movi that pict that, but they're not normally about a gay uple. ""And to go through that experience wh Ben, another gay actor, was even more of a profound experience that I expected to be, " Parsons ntu.

Narrativ around queer history are often told om the perspective of major astal centers of queer activism, such as the Stonewall Rts New York Cy or the openly gay Harvey Milk nng for office San Francis. But activists and historians across the untry this week are mourng lear Jim Toy, wily believed to be the first person Michigan to publicly e out as gay, who died Jan. He said that he did not even know what the words homosexual or gay meant until someone told him years later that he was gay, which he nied for some time longer.

BT JIM GAY INTERVIEWS ON PODSTS OR AUD ABOUT JIM

While livg Ann Arbor and workg as a church mic director 1970, he said he saw a notice for a “gay meetg” at St.

He said although he was aaid that if he went to the meetg, that would mean that he was actually gay, he went and beme a foundg member of the Detro Gay Liberatn Movement (DGLM). A few months later, he -found of the Ann Arbor Gay Liberatn Front (AAGLF).

IS JIM NORTON GAY? A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE EVINCE

He said he had never spoken public before, but he scribbled some not on a notepad, and he troduced himself wh his name, his age, and said that he was gay.

The rally was vered by lol media, and is wily believed that Toy is the first person the state of Michigan to publicly e out as gay.

“Like many Asian Amerins of his generatn, the racism as well as the homophobia that Jim faced led him to prott jtice and opprsn not only here the Uned Stat, but also overseas, ” Sh said. There, he served as -ordator together wh Cynthia Gair and as gay male advote om 1971 to 1994. The office was later renamed the Spectm Center, which recently celebrated s 50th anniversary, and currently works for the ncerns of transgenr, bisexual, lbian, gay, and queer stunts and alli.

JIM GAY

He -thored the cy of Ann Arbor’s first “Lbian-Gay Pri Week Proclamatn, believed to be one of the first issued by any erng body the U. He said that the 1970s, took a to nvce many groups to list lbian before gay as LG stead of GL which he saw as sexist.

Jim Toy speakg on a panel for the U-M Lbian Gay Male Bisexual Programs Office (now Spectm Center). “Neal Gay’s profsnal roo reer began as a nttant Atoka, Okla., 1945.