Tag: closet

Disgraced former Republican congressman Aaron Schock has now sunk even lower. If you can believe it. Schock, who recently sparked outrage via shirtless gay romp photos from Coachella, was spotted in WeHo earlier this week, chatting up a twink sandwich with bleached blonde hair at the pool of the Standard Hotel (a place that I can tell you from personal experience is a hotbed for man-on-man action). Published on the Instagram account @eelarson,...

CBC’s Jessi Cruickhank sat down with a panel of youngsters to talk about gay pride, coming out of the closet, gay marriage, and gay celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, Anderson Cooper, Ricky Martin, and more.

In a new survey of 1,615 straight and gay workers by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 46% of LGBTQ employees stay closeted in the workplace because they are afraid of being stereotyped, damaging business relationships or making folks feel ‘uncomfortable.’ That’s a drop of only 4 points from 50% ten years when the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Degrees of Equality report was issued in 2008. Of the straight respondents, half said there aren’t any LGBTQ employees at their place of employment. According...

Meet Sleazy Michael. He’s a 59-year-old male escort from Cambridge who appeared in a recent episode of The Sex Business in the U.K. Before becoming a sex worker 13 years ago, Michael says he lived a “very nice middle-class lifestyle.” That is until his wife discovered pictures of him engaging in gay sex acts on the family computer and chased him around the kitchen with a knife. “For 23 years I was like a time bomb about to go off,” he...

Martin is 86-years-old, who spent much of his life in the closet. He spent most of his life as a photographer, admiring the male body, but never fully able to assert his sexuality and live life to the fullest as a gay man. It wasn’t until he was 85 that he realized the he needed to essentially ‘come out’ and fully express himself as a gay man. For much of his life he searched for a partner whom he...

Do you think having an out gay footballer will help young LGBTI people? An Australian comedian who shared his story of having sex with a closeted footballer says its time one came out of the closet publicly. In his own words, Joel Creasey is ‘Australia’s 7th most famous gay man’ and he shared the story of his sexual exploits in his 2017 book, Tasty. Creasey slept with a footballer from the Australian Football League (AFL). AFL is a football code in invented...

"I wasted so much energy trying to manipulate my sexuality." Ricky Martin can totally relate to the homophobic oppression that pervades The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. https://instagram.com/p/Bg4nqe0AdTh/?utm_source=ig_embed Martin played Antonio D’Amico, fashion icon Gianni Versace’s longtime partner, in the ’90s-set FX drama series. In a new Attitude cover story, he discusses his deep personal connection to the character. “The level of injustice that we as a community were dealing with back then was heavy,” says the 46-year-old Puerto Rican performer,...

One of the most anticipated movies this year is the film Love, Simon, which opens in theaters nationwide on Thursday. The film centers around a character named Simon Spier (played by Nick Robinson) who is trying to keep a huge secret from his family and friends: that he's gay. When that is threatened, he must face everyone and come to grips with his true identity. Whereas Nick is straight in real life (although he recently revealed that the movie helped him...

'I was crying, but it made me feel so good, so real, and I’d never, ever felt that,' revealed the Olympic skier He didn’t win a medal at the Winter Olympics, but Gus Kenworthy has become a national hero in the US. Kenworthy made history at the PyeongChang games, when he kissed boyfriend Matt Wilkas on live TV. Now he’s revealed all about his personal experiences of coming out as a gay man. People magazine have launched Coming Out, a series exploring how...

"You’ve made my life complete." After a lifetime in the closet, a pair of elderly veterans have finally found happiness together. During a recent Storycorps interview, 100-year-old World War II veteran John Banvard and his husband, 72-year-old Vietnam vet Gerard “Jerry” Nadeau, revealed that although they’ve been together for almost 25 years, their relationship never quite felt legitimate until they made it public. The pair met in 1993, nearly a decade after Banvard’s wife of more than 35 years passed away. Neither...

Coming out of the closet is an incredibly difficult thing to do for anyone. Some of us have it easier than others, but the freedom in doing so is universally the same in that it gets the biggest weight we have on our shoulders off. It may be difficult for friends and family members to accept who you truly are after you have done so, but the feeling of being your authentic self is something that each LGBTQ person should...

Justice League and Fantastic Beasts Star Ezra Miller talked about some of the opposition and adversity he faced when he came out as queer. It might be hard to imagine that there was ever a time when actor Ezra Miller wasn’t comfortably proclaiming his queerness by kissing male fans and posting creatively nude photos to celebrate Pride. That said, even Ezra Miller was in the closet at one point. But back in 2012, he spoke to OUT and said, “I’m Queer,”...

Organizers claimed 80% of Goa's LGBTI community was still in the closet Goa, the Indian coastal town and popular tourist destination is about to host its first pride parade. Organizers hope the Goa Rainbow Pride Walk 2017 will help to raise awareness about LGBTI issues. ‘It is happening for the first time in Goa. We want to create awareness about the rights of the LGBT community,’ organizer Alexander Fernandes told the Indian Express. ‘There are several wrong notions about the community, which need...

October 11th is a pivotal day for the LGBT community, as it is officially National Coming Out Day. No matter what your age is or when you did it, we all remember when we came out and the story behind one of the hardest decisions of our life. Regardless of the path that you have taken to come out and be your authentic self, know that no matter what, there are people around you that will love you for who...