- Former Washington Redskins football player Dave Kopay came out as a gay man on this day in 1975 (he later published an autobiography that addressed being a closeted athlete). Recently Kopay donated a million smackers to build an LGBT student center at the University of Washington.
- Gay mag Genre admitted to faking a "reality couple" (with a Playgirl Man of the Year, no less) on the cover of a recent issue focusing on long-term relationships. (Queerty broke and Towleroad then added to the story.) Well, I've had a longer-term relationship with Playgirl than with pretty much anything else, so it kind of works for me.
- Keith Boykin penned an impassioned piece on his blog today about the recent decision of the Clearview Chelsea theater to pull gay African-American comedy Dirty Laundry from its screen after its first week amidst allegations of box-office box-stuffing. (We reviewed the film last week.)
- DirecTV has pulled the plug on the absolutely crazy soap Passions (which has had its share of gay goings-on), after picking it up at a yard sale from NBC earlier this year. Could possibly regift to Oxygen.
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on Tue, 2007-12-11 16:37.
The Shame of the Gay Community
One of the first things I noticed when I came out was all the straight people on gay magazine covers. The message these magazines are sending is that gay people are not good enough. It's a continuation of thousands of years of oppression in which gay people are molded by straight people. Every gay magazine has a straight cover model who inside the pages proceeds to tells us (gay people) what we are. We need to figure out who we are.
Instinct magazine is the only gay magazine that regularly puts gay people on it's cover. If you are going to buy a gay magazine buy Instinct. Send a message to the other gay magazines to put more gay people on the covers.