NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to 90-year-old Hector Black about his life as a closeted gay man who didn't e out until he was 70 years old.
Contents:
- BILLY PORTER: ‘I'VE LIVED AS A BLACK GAY MAN FOR 50 YEARS AMERI. NOTHG SHOCKS ME'
- 90-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN RELLS LONG STGGLE WH HIS SEXUALY
- 5 BT GAY BLACK DATG S & APPS TO FD THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- SOME OLR GAY MEN DATE YOUNGER PARTNERS – BUT THE REASONS ARE MORE PLEX THAN YOU THK
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH
BILLY PORTER: ‘I'VE LIVED AS A BLACK GAY MAN FOR 50 YEARS AMERI. NOTHG SHOCKS ME'
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Many of his panns had survived both the AIDS crisis and heights of homophobia unknown to younger generatns.
90-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN RELLS LONG STGGLE WH HIS SEXUALY
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It's his life as a closeted gay man — a hband and a father — who didn't e out until he was 70 years old.
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SHAPIRO: 2015 was a revolutnary year for gay rights. When Hector Black was born 1925, the phrase gay rights didn't even The word gay was never even mentned, or even homosexual.
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SHAPIRO: We should warn you that a more offensive term for gay people shows up later this story.
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SOME OLR GAY MEN DATE YOUNGER PARTNERS – BUT THE REASONS ARE MORE PLEX THAN YOU THK
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There were few gay role mols public life even then.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.