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Contents:

• FACT CHECK: IS JOHN BOYEGA GAY IN REAL? SHIRTLS PHOTO GONE VIRAL
• 'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
• 15 BT GAY AND LGBTQ PORNSTARS 2023
• THE STORY BEHD THE INIC PHOTO OF GAY DADS KISSG
• GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?

FACT CHECK: IS JOHN BOYEGA GAY IN REAL? SHIRTLS PHOTO GONE VIRAL

Is John Boyega gay? While John Boyega has portrayed homosexual characters on-screen, such as Fn Star Wars, his personal life has remaed a source of trigue for many fans. He has always openly talked about his gay Star Wars characters.

'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT

He is not publicly out as gay bee if he looks at his datg life, he has always dated a woman openly. He is totally straight his datg life but still, is not clear that is he is gay or not.

So we should assume as he is not homosexual real life till he says clearly. Now scroll down to the next Boyega has always been supportive of gay sexualy. He has always taken a stand for people who are gay or lbian.

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.

15 BT GAY AND LGBTQ PORNSTARS 2023

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".

THE STORY BEHD THE INIC PHOTO OF GAY DADS KISSG

Captured through the non-nformist spe of the gay male gaze, the soon-to-be-published photobook X is a 10-year photographic culmatn of the multidimensnal male subject. Charl Moriarty spoke wh PROVOKR on his foc of the male subject, notg, "As a gay man, 's hard not to be trigued wh men and their many varied molds -- and 's never jt one thg that I feel drawn to [...

It is precisely this faceted humany that photographer Stt Pastfield, a gay man himself, sought to pture Gay Ameri, travelg 54, 000 across 50 stat three years to weave a powerful, profoundly human taptry of 140 fathers, brothers, sons, and iends om all walks of life, religns, ethnici, and backgrounds, who happen to be homosexual mal.

From lawyers to artists to teachers to farmers, his perceptive, eply personal portras pat a layered picture of ntemporary gay (male) life, the first-ever large-sle photographic survey of gay men always tell you to shoot what you love, and that objective led me to this project.

GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?

I cid that I would fd and meet a gay man om every state, listen to their stori, and photograph them the hope that I uld turn that material to a book that would change people's opns and te -- the book that I wish had existed when I was a lad. I wanted to produce a profound llectn of ordary, proud, out gay men who would otherwise never fd the spotlight. He wr the preface:A year before my father's ath [om lung ncer], I started gog to a regular group-therapy ssn for gay men New York Cy.

This year we celebrate our 13th anniversary Voice has a fantastic terview wh Pastfield, which he reflects on the role the Inter played patg a tly dimensnal portra of gay Inter played a big part how I found people. I thk most outspoken gay men and all facets of the LGBT muny are those people who fed themselv very much by beg gay and they have that issue that they really want to share wh the world.

Ten, maybe 20 years ago, I'm not que sure how I would have found the same men bee they're not gog to gay muny centers, most of them. They're not out at a lot of gay bars or clubs urban areas. That I was really able to nnect wh a lot of gay men that are for the most part unr the radar and what most see of the gay muny.