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Contents:
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
- ARE MORY MEN MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY? WHY?
- CNCHG THE NUMBERS ON BLACKS' VIEWS ON GAYS
- GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
- BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
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ARE MORY MEN MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY? WHY?
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CNCHG THE NUMBERS ON BLACKS' VIEWS ON GAYS
Gay history is Black history. * black people are gay *
It shows that the gay and lbian muny is more diverse than many believe, and shows that many young men of lor feel empowered to intify as they feel most fortable.
Blow asks, "Could be that some men of lor have ls at stake fancially that uld be jeopardized by intifyg as gay than their whe unterparts? When Jason Colls, a journeyman NBA center, announced that he was gay, many mentators who appld his disclosure still nodd to the ia of heightened opposn to gay rights among black people.
"The hyper-mascule ials forced upon young black boys be wh the homophobia of the black church to create a perfect storm of shame and secrecy, " Rob Smh wrote at Salon, as he tailed his trmatic attempt to e out to his mother. "What mak the NBA unique is that almost 80 percent of the players are black, and black men are notor homophob when to one of their own. " "Homophobia the black muny — ed, even among the lears of the civil rights movement of the 1960s — was some of the most vilent and stubborn of all, and there are still some who rent the equatn of the gay rights movement wh their stggle, " wrote Charl P.
GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
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" med Greg Lewis, a polil scientist at Geia State Universy who has published several studi on the views of blacks and wh on homosexualy. And as he cnched some numbers, he found that black opn on gays — to the extent that there's a "black opn" on anythg — isn't really easy to fe. You've got to hold a bunch of disparate ias your head at once; Lewis found that black folks are ls likely than whe people to believe that homosexualy is "not wrong at all" (25 percent to 40 percent).
The "black church, " long held up as the vector for black opposn to homosexualy, clus many outspoken clergy members who have been stmental to same-sex marriage iativ.
And spe the ntentn that the NBA is a haven of notorly antigay black men, the profsnal hoops universe has been nearly uniformly supportive of Colls' cisn to e out. ) Last year, NPR's Corey Da spoke to All Thgs Consired's Audie Cornish jt after Print Obama's announcement to put the shiftg black support on gay marriage to ntext. "A Pew rearch poll recently showed that black opposn to gay marriage is now down to 49 percent om 2004 when was at 67 percent, " he said.
BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
And obvly then we had the electn of Print Obama, and sce then, more young voters have e to the electorate who are more open to gay rights. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.
'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".