“I can only say that the person I am now is not the person I was then. : This site is the web's best repository of the biggest tall men After all, I'm 6'2' and so only 6'3' or above is tall to me. “Even a decade ago, when the country was in a very different place, but I cannot take any of that back,” she said. In concluding her statement, Reid said she is still growing and that she was not then aware of the “great people” in the LGBT community and stressed that she “likes to think I’ve gotten better over time.” Recalling a friend from college, Reid said he told her that he was gay, to which she remembers having a “knee-jerk reaction” that it was “so disappointing to the women he could have married.” Reid said that her reaction caused her unnamed friend not to speak to her for months. “I look back at the ways I talked about people and gender identity and sexual orientation and I wonder who that even was, but the reality is, like a lot of people in this country, that person was me.”Īttributing her past statements to her previous “conservative views on LGBT issues,” Reid said that some of her close friends growing up later came out as gay but were initially hesitant to tell her based on how she might react. Those tweets were wrong and horrible,” Reid said on Saturday. “I apologize to my friends and I want to apologize to the trans community and to Ann. While still refusing to accept that the past posts were written by her, Reid did apologize for a handful of old tweets in which she attacked conservative commentator Ann Coulter with transgender stereotypes, calling Coulter a “dude” and writing “I like my drag queens fierce.” On Saturday, Reid backtracked from that claim. POLITICO previously reported that the network forwarded a statement from a “cyber-security expert” hired by Reid, who supported the host’s claim that the posts on her former The Reid Report blog had been manipulated. The progressive host’s alleged past posts from a defunct personal blog, which contain language critical of gay marriage and claims homosexual men prey on “impressionable teens,” led to a social-media backlash against the host, who hired cybersecurity experts to investigate whether the blog archives had been manipulated.
I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things, because they are completely alien to me, but I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and I have written in the past, why some people don’t believe me,” Reid said at the top of her show, “AM Joy.” “I have not been exempt from being dumb or cruel or hurtful to the very people I want to advocate for. For many, these images represent a small fragment of LGBT history that was repressed and concealed for so long.MSNBC host Joy Reid apologized on Saturday for her past comments about the LGBT community, but the liberal commentator was still reluctant to admit she’d written old blog posts attributed to her. There is little information about the individuals in the photos and it is quite extraordinary that these images still survive - as many old photos of homosexual couples are believed to have been purposely destroyed by family members.Īlthough it is unknown whether the people in these unique photos were related, gay or just friends - the tender and close relationship between the men pictured is poignantly evident. The images, taken from various websites, capture Victorian and early-twentieth century males in intimate positions - and showing a daring amount of openness with one another for the time.
At a time when homosexuality was a criminal offence and harsh sentences were brought down upon gay men, these images of male affection from the 19th century are truly remarkable.Įmbracing each other, holding hands and reclining together, these incredible black-and-white photographs provide a rare glimpse into men showing physical love to other men in the 1800s and early 1900s.