Stale take: Why did they make the BBC's Merl so gay?
Contents:
- 9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
- MARK MCGRATH FALLY OK WH BEG CALLED ‘SUGAR GAY’ ALL THE TIME
- DEMOCRATIC HOE PRIMARY KENTUCKY PS OPENLY GAY MAYOR AGAST FEMALE FIGHTER PILOT
- IS JOHN MCGRATH GAY?
- MARK MCGRATH WIFE, KIDS, FAY, AGE, HEIGHT, B, IS HE GAY?
- 'EXTREMELY DISAPPOTG': SUTS BOOT OPENLY GAY TROOP LEAR
- BOY SUT TROOP LOS CHARTER OVER GAY LEAR
- BOY SUTS SHUTS DOWN SEATTLE METHODIST TROOP FOR RETAG GAY SUTMASTER GEOFEY MCGRATH
- LAW SCHOOL’S NEW LEAR ONCE A LAW BREAKER FOR GAY RIGHTS
- TTH ABOUT COL MAN’S GAY RUMORS AND WEDDG WH KATIE MCGRATH
- MARK MCGRATH FALLY OK WH BEG CALLED ‘SUGAR GAY’ ALL THE TIME
9 COUNTRY MIC ARTISTS WHO HAVE COME OUT AS GAY
Mark McGrath now embrac beg lled “Sugar Gay” after years of nsirg the moniker harassment. * gay mcgrath *
In se you missed the news om last year, the Brothers Osborne ontman me out as gay, sayg his fay and close iends have known for que some time, but he wants to be his full self at this pot his reer.
Here are 9 untry artists/members of the untry mic world who have e out as gay over the years. — Sugar Ray volist and TV personaly Mark McGrath admted today that he now embrac beg lled “Sugar Gay” after years of nsirg the moniker harassment, stunned sourc nfirmed.
I ed to look at as an sult, but now ’s ol to be gay.
MARK MCGRATH FALLY OK WH BEG CALLED ‘SUGAR GAY’ ALL THE TIME
Lexgton Mayor Jim Gray was one of the first openly gay Kentuckians elected to public office. He spent the majory of his reer turng a fay nstctn bs to a global firm. And he says Nancy Pelosi needs to go as the Hoe Democratic lear. * gay mcgrath *
I mean, always was… but ’s like the fans have fally ught up to how progrsive I’ve been all along, ” said the sger, who was quick to pot out he’s not actually gay.
“But I’m not gay at all. The nickname first surfaced publicly when McGrath was the subject of a viral vio the early 2000s, which he aggrsively nonts a teen that yelled out “Sugar Gay!
DEMOCRATIC HOE PRIMARY KENTUCKY PS OPENLY GAY MAYOR AGAST FEMALE FIGHTER PILOT
Is John Mcgrath Gay? Come and disver what has been stated lately about this and what is John Mcgrath sayg about this. * gay mcgrath *
“I thk part of is he’s jt happy to be regnized at all the days — lately, he’s bee so pole to anyone llg him ‘Sugar Gay, ’ or even mistakg him for the sger of Matchbox 20. Lexgton Mayor Jim Gray was one of the first openly gay Kentuckians elected to public office. He is also Lexgton’s first openly gay mayor.
John Mcgrath has never ma any public statement about this, so all mors about if John Mcgrath is gay rema pletely unfound and unproven. Neverthels, speculatns over whether John Mcgrath is gay or not are still prent certa rners of the tabloids and on var webs, once aga whout any solid foundatn.
The g out of John Mcgrath would greatly benef untls homosexuals around the world who are still the closet.
IS JOHN MCGRATH GAY?
The Boy Suts of Ameri cut ti wh an openly gay Sutmaster Seattle after disverg his sexual orientatn. * gay mcgrath *
Although John Mcgrath has never admted to beg gay, the media always nsirs the likelihood of one day reportg on the other. We'll be more than happy if you share wh any h news about the qutn - Is John Mcgrath gay?
Mark McGrath B, AgeFay Life: Wife and KidsIs Mark McGrath Gay? McGrath has two children (tws) wh his wife, a son named Lydon Edward, and a dghter, Hartley Grace, born April 29, Mark McGrath Gay? SEATTLE—The Boy Suts of Ameri on Monday banned an openly gay Sutmaster om the anizatn, sayg s natnal policy barred gay adults om McGrath, 49, lear of Troop 98 Seattle’s Raier Beach neighborhood, is believed to be the first gay adult to be booted om the Boy Suts of Ameri sce held a ntroversial ballot last May allowg gay youth—but not adults—to participate one of the untry’s most popular youth anizatns.
The Suts had severed ti wh gay adults prev years, before the vote to adm gay youth, but McGrath, an Eagle Sut, had been hopg for a different rponse this new era of Sutg.
MARK MCGRATH WIFE, KIDS, FAY, AGE, HEIGHT, B, IS HE GAY?
The cisn bars a church-sponsored troop south Seattle om g logos, uniforms or nam associated wh the Boy Suts as long as the gay sutmaster remas charge. * gay mcgrath *
“They are plag that the problem [his stat as an openly gay man] is a distractn to Sutg and they don’t seem to unrstand that the distractn is self-flicted. McGrath today and based on the rmatn he provid, the Natnal Council has revoked his registratn, ” Smh Monday, McGrath believed himself to be the only openly gay Sutmaster the natn, havg won approval last fall to n a troop spe the anizatn's ban agast gay adults. McGrath said he didn't hi his sexual orientatn om Sutg lears, but Seattle’s top BSA official told NBC News that she never knew he was gay.
Koyle Kendrick, a gay teen, was prevly a Boy Sut and attend the meetg to nsir jog a gay-iendly DiCampo / for NBC NewsMcGrath said startg the un was not a publicy stunt but a bid to serve youth and rejo the ntent discsn around gay and lbian adult membership.
Talkg about the gay and lbian issue is not the biggt part of what we do—'s the smallt part. ”In recent years, the Suts have wrtled wh the qutn of whether or not to allow gays to s ranks.
'EXTREMELY DISAPPOTG': SUTS BOOT OPENLY GAY TROOP LEAR
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The ntroversy me to a head last year after the Boy Suts' Natnal Council voted to allow gay youth as of Jan. McGrath’s Troop 98 is part of the BSA's Chief Seattle Council, which said late Sunday that didn't quire about his sexual orientatn—as directed by BSA policy—when he applied for a learship posn, acrdg to Sharon Moulds, the uncil’s top profsnal said she found out McGrath was gay only after NBC News ntacted her.
McGrath, a married Eagle Sut who has been wh his hband for 20 years, said he worried his sexual orientatn would sk the effort sce openly gay Sutmasters prev years—before the vote to adm gay youth—have been booted om McGrath knows this om his own experience, too. At age 22, after revealg to the lears of his Seattle-area troop that he was gay, McGrath said they rcd an Asst. It was the most paful part of his cisn to e out as gay, he said, and led to his exmunitn the next year om the Mormon church that had sponsored his Boy Sut un.
That end his relatnship wh the anizatn he had advanced through sce he was a child—or so he stgglg wh rejectn om his Mormon elrs, and after seeg his intil tw brother Dave, who is straight, mpaign for gays to be admted to Sutg, McGrath thought was time he do what he uld to help brg about change: He cid to start an clive lears chat after a troop meetg at Raier Beach Uned Methodist Church Seattle, Wa., on March 27, 2014. Speakg out about gay and lbian ncerns Sutg “don’t mean drowng out the other issu, ” he add. “I wouldn't have a Boy Sut troop unls we did this way, ” Corsaro said, notg that many gay upl live the muny.
BOY SUT TROOP LOS CHARTER OVER GAY LEAR
The official bgraphy of Jam McGrath, who joed Wtern Michigan Universy College Law School, Lansg, as print and an a year ago says: “His foc has been on public health and the law issu, particularly the law’s effect on the health of populatns wh ltle or no polil power, cludg lbian and gay, transgenr, and tersexual legal issu.” * gay mcgrath *
The fact that McGrath is gay is among the first piec of rmatn given to parents whose children jo.
”“One of the thgs that’s different now wh our troop om when I was a youth the Suts, was there were no intifiable gay or lbian adults, ” McGrath said, rellg the isolatn and shame he felt as a teen when he thought he was the only gay person parents and their boys gathered last Thursday at the church for the weekly Boy Suts’ meetg said they had no problem wh McGrath’s sexual orientatn. He didn’t thk McGrath’s sexual orientatn was a big al and said his beg out was “settg a great example” by showg he wasn’t aaid to be un currently unts only heterosexual boys among s ranks, but a gay teen, 17-year-old Koyle Kendrick, said he plans to jo after he fish his end-of-year exams. He’d left another troop 2013 that he didn’t feel was gay iendly and looked forward to havg a gay Sutmaster.
”Yet seeg another gay lear kicked out of Sutg was tough, said Zach Wahls, -founr of Suts for Equaly, which advot for cludg gay adults the Boy Suts.
BOY SUTS SHUTS DOWN SEATTLE METHODIST TROOP FOR RETAG GAY SUTMASTER GEOFEY MCGRATH
The Irish actor Col Man is mored to be gay. Learn tail about the 'Merl' actor's love life, relatnships, weddgs, and more. * gay mcgrath *
He has prevly said his group allows gay adults and youth to participate, but they n’t “flnt” their sexualy.
Sutmaster of his son's Troop 325 2012 bee he is gay. ”The BSA has no plans to review s membership policy on gay adults, Smh said on Monday. ”Are you a gay youth Sutg?
LAW SCHOOL’S NEW LEAR ONCE A LAW BREAKER FOR GAY RIGHTS
AdvertisementSKIP Thompson/Associated PrsApril 21, 2014SEATTLE — The Boy Suts of Ameri, which voted last year to allow gay suts but not openly gay sut lears, has revoked the charter of a church-sponsored troop here for refg to fire s adult gay sutmaster. The cisn, which one gay rights anizatn said was a first sce the policy change last year, sentially bars the Raier Beach Uned Methodist Church and s 15 suts om g logos, uniforms or nam associated wh the Boy Suts as long as the sutmaster and Eagle Sut Geofey McGrath, 49, remas church’s pastor, the Rev. ” The bate over whether to allow gays sutg has been a grim one for the Boy Suts, which has prid self for generatns on s assertns that sutg builds character and tegry, even as revelatns recent years about sexual predators the ranks have explod urt s and news verage.
TTH ABOUT COL MAN’S GAY RUMORS AND WEDDG WH KATIE MCGRATH
Last year’s policy shift, to allow gay youths, sharply divid the relig muny McGrath, who is on vatn Italy, said a telephone terview that discsns were already begng about what might e next for the youth anizatn at Raier Beach. He said there were boys om immigrant fai, cludg om Asia and Ai, as well as two boys wh gay fathers.
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 15 of the New York edn wh the headle: Sut Troop Los Charter Over Gay Lear.
In a startlg and discrimatory move, the Boy Suts of Ameri (BSA) revoked the charter of Seattle Troop 98 and Pack 98 for s refal to remove gay Sutmaster Geofey McGrath. “The Boy Suts’ cisns only serve to hurt a group of boys who need the valu and learship of someone like Sutmaster McGrath, ” said Zach Wahls, Executive Director of Suts for Equaly, a natnal anizatn dited to endg the BSA’s ban on gay members and lears.
MARK MCGRATH FALLY OK WH BEG CALLED ‘SUGAR GAY’ ALL THE TIME
But every Sunday night for years, my fay unknowgly tuned to some of the most homoerotic sh I have ever seen. BBC’s Merl, a show about a gay ltle wizard and his blon bisexual jock boyiend.
That don’t sound very gay at all, you might be sffg! How on earth uld this awaken the fir of homosexualy a 10-year-old girl, you may ponr! Gay.
I genuely thk Guevere was tegral to my gay awakeng. BBC Merl untentnally havg not one but two tensely homoerotic iendships? And the gay cherry on top is that Arthur lerally di Merl’s arms at the end of the seri.