The right to a ary burial for gay spo was guaranteed natnwi wh the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015, but only a handful of known same-sex ary upl are buried across US natnal cemeteri. For most, the right to such an honor has been hard won.
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- 'GRAND ARMY' EPISO 4: SID'S GAY STORYLE LACED WH STEREOTYP NOT AS FLHED OUT AS JOEY OR DOM'S ARCS
- FIRST ACTIVE-DUTY GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT
- FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
'GRAND ARMY' EPISO 4: SID'S GAY STORYLE LACED WH STEREOTYP NOT AS FLHED OUT AS JOEY OR DOM'S ARCS
Sid Pakam's story has been clunky om the very first episo, om his reluctant teractns wh girliend Flora, to the nversatns wh his tradnal Indian fay png their hop on their male 'heir' rather than their dghter, to his gay inty * gay couple grand army *
"The seri also featur a gay storyle via Sid, an Indian-Amerin jock who is tryg to figure out his sexualy while beg a part of the toxic, overly hetero, and mascule environment that is the Grand Army swim team. '"He ntued:"My olr brother is gay and I have known that for a very long time and like my head I was like, 'I know everythg about this. But Sid Pakam's story has been clunky and laced wh stereotyp, om the very first episo, om his reluctant teractns wh girliend Flora, to the nversatns wh his tradnal Indian fay png their hop on their male 'heir' rather than Meera their dghter, to now, his gay inty.
FIRST ACTIVE-DUTY GAY COUPLE MARRIED AT WT POT
So, he also his 'I'm gay' rd the most cynil e of mory crentials yet on the show.
FOR GAY UPL HOPG FOR A ARY BURIAL, THE FIGHT FOR LOVE DON’T END WH ATH
We never see his anxns around his inty or even a reactn to the at boys of his swim team who equently crack homophobic jok. Sid is shown to be an ultra-ut guy, focsed and prepared, even jammg his door before jackg off to gay porn. Ahead of today’s global lnch of Grand Army on Netflix, The Queer Review’s edor Jam Klemann spoke exclively wh Amir Bageria about takg on the role of Sid, the rearch he did cludg talkg to his olr brother who is gay about g out, and his love for Brokeback Mounta and Frank Ocean.
One of the thgs that stck me is that the high school is set up as not beg a homophobic environment, bee there’s a bisexual character who’s already out and we see that he’s largely accepted, so seems like Sid’s reluctance to e out is more to do wh thgs gog on his own life, faial expectatns and maybe his own feelgs about beg gay. My olr brother is gay and my parents are the bt, they’re lerally my number one fans and I love them wh all my heart, and they were so amazg at beg as acceptg as they possibly uld be wh my brother. “And as far as g out, there’s a scene on Master of None, where one character out and her mom starts cryg and she’s sentially sayg ‘You’re already Ain Amerin, you’re a woman, and now you’re gog to add gay on top of that?!