Contents:
- JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
- LLIE JORDAN TELLS SHANIA TWA 'GOD MA ME' GAY, WHY HE 'QU GOG' TO CHURCH: 'I'M NOT A MISTAKE'
JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL
The acclaimed edian out as gay his new HBO special, “Rothaniel, ” a few years after he first referenced relatnships wh men a prev film for HBO. In an terview wh Shania Twa on the first anniversary of her Home Now Rad show on Apple Mic Hs, Jordan, 66, opened up about his childhood and what was like to be gay growg up a relig fay, as he talked about his recently released Company's Com'.
LLIE JORDAN TELLS SHANIA TWA 'GOD MA ME' GAY, WHY HE 'QU GOG' TO CHURCH: 'I'M NOT A MISTAKE'
"When I'm beg very dramatic, I say, 'Well, I grew up the church, but I walked away, ' bee the whole gay thg me around. After Stonewall, Johnson -- who intified as gay and a "transvte" durg her lifetime but is nsired a mother of the trans rights movement -- helped found the Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari to advote for trans people years before other anizatns did. Johnson, she beme an early activist wh the Gay Liberatn Front wh weeks.
He also embraced a role as a lear the LGBT movement as founr of the Internatnal Court System, one of the olst ntuoly nng activist groups fightg for gay rights. Sarria 1961 beme the first openly gay ndidate for polil office when he ran for the San Francis Board of Supervisors. Kicked out of a clerk posn at the FBI for beg gay, Lee Brewster moved to New York and beme a major part of the Greenwich Village scene, openg Lee's Mardi Gras Boutique, the first store terg primarily to cross-drsers.
Dog so, she provid a home for many who were rejected by their fai and wanted to be a part of New York's thrivg gay scene. A performer for s Irish clubs, sometim as Panti or Panti club queen end up makg the biggt splash the mastream world the daytime persona of Rory O'Neill durg an terview on RTE's Saturday Night Show when he acced a number of Irish journalists of homophobia.