Boxer Turned Porn Star Yusaf Mack On Life Out Of The Ring And The Closet

You might remember the strange outing of Yusaf Mack. The Philadelphia pro-boxer appeared in a gay porn, but claimed that he’d done so against his will — he was drugged! But then he backtracked and said that there was no coercion after all, and he’s just plain old bi. And then he dropped another bombshell. He’s not bi at all–he’s full-blown gay, and showed off some pretty gay photos.

Related: Professional Boxer Who Appeared In Gay Adult Film Says He Was Drugged, “Can’t Remember A Thing”

Yusaf seems to be settling a little more comfortably into his role as an openly gay performer these days, and is appearing in some new scenes with the Reality Dudes Network. Specifically, he’s working under the umbrella of Reality Thugs, a title which he addressed in a recent interview with Gawker. He’s also partnering with Cash Models, a cam site.

Related: Shocking: Boxer Comes Out As Bi, Says He Wasn’t Drugged In Gay Sex Tape After All

Queerty caught up with Yusaf recently to talk about his career. He’s a man of few words — in other interviews, he said that his time as a boxer has affected his ability to speak — but he was still able to shed some light on his experiences over the last few months.

 

What kept you in the closet for so long?

Boxing and the kids.

Did you ever do anything gay before coming out?

Nope.

Why did you initially say you’d been drugged?

I was ashamed.

What changed your mind after that?

Just being real with myself. I was tired of lying.

What did you say when you finally came out to your family?

I told them who I am.

How has your family reacted to the news?

They said we still love you. Whatever you’re into, that’s you.

How have other boxers reacted?

They shy away from me. Treat me different.

They’re not happy about it?

Friends and people who love me turned on me.

Did you hear from other gay athletes after you came out?

No.

Have you had a chance to date men since coming out?

No.

Are you going to?

No, the business I’m in, when I’m on camera, I do what I do for business. When I’m not in front of the camera, I’m a single dad.

In an interview a few years ago, you said “my interest is trannies” — did you hear from anyone who objected to that word?

No, not really. In the interview, I was like, I was sorry for not using the word trans. I have nothing against nobody.

Are you still boxing?

I gave that up.

Do you like the new porn you’re doing?

I love it. Hopefully I’ll be able to take care of my family. I wanna go long range with this.

Do you get recognized in public for being a boxer or for the porn or for both?

From boxing, “you’re the boxer who was in that porn.”

Do you have advice for other gay athletes?

If you didn’t come out yet, come out to your family. They’re going to accept you or reject you. The only thing you can do as a person is be you. Friends and family, they’re going to love you for who you are. Gay or straight, they’re going to love you.

How do you like working with Cash Models?

All the way baby. I love working with them. Hopefully I plan on going to the top.

How about Reality Dudes?

I love all of it. I’m willing to work with everybody. I’m going to the top. All the way up to the top.

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Rapper Boosie Badazz Goes on Vile Anti-Gay Rant: ‘TV Is Forcing Kids to Be Gay’ – WATCH

A rapper by the name of Boosie Badazz recently accused TV shows and their producers of trying to “make everybody f**kin’ gay.”

Boosie made the remarks in an interview with VladTV.

Via HipHopDX:

“They trying to make everybody f**kin’ gay,” Boosie Badazz said. “That’s what I think. They’re putting it on our culture. They’re putting it everywhere. Gay stuff is everywhere. And I think they just trying to do it to make a monetary gain. They’re not doing it for the gays. They’re not really fans of the gays. They’re doing it for monetary gain, man. They trying to make money off these people, man. You got cartoons that have gays. On cartoons. Like these are kids. Let kids make they own decision if they wanna go that way…You’re forcing them to be gay.”

Boosie later clarified that he has nothing against the gay community, but is more concerned with the effects such shows will have on children. He also shared his belief that in the next 10 years, the gay population will increase dramatically.

“It wasn’t like that when I was coming up,” he said. “The Ninja Turtles wasn’t kissing…If you wanna be gay, that’s your decision. That should be your [decision]. That shouldn’t be put on a child who mind is not developed to think for their self anyway at that age. It shouldn’t be put on a child. And it’s gonna show in the world. You’re gonna have–I say in 10 years, you gon’ have damn near half the population gay. Because of what they put on TV. It’s because of how they forcing it.”

Asked how he would react if his son came out as gay he said, “I don’t hate gay people but don’t force it on people to be gay man.” He added, “I would slap his ass back straight” and, “I would kick his ass and maybe he will release he is not gay…But no man, my sons are young but they love women.”

This is not the first time Boosie has blasted the representation of homosexuality on TV. From a report in November of last year: 

“Since I’ve came home ever time I turn on the Tv some gay sh*t on,” Boosie Badazz writes [on Instagram] under a caption of a gay couple on VH1. “I try to watch love n hip hop (gay sh*t)tried to watch empire (gay s*t) walked n on a cartoon doing gay sh*t a f***** cartoon kids watch tv I guess next they go have a f****** gay channel for kids saying if U want to be gay watch this tune n smh f*****up world n my eyes ( but everybody don’t agree smh).”

Watch Boosie’s interview, below.

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Watch Matt Damon Hilariously Prank Strangers, Jason Bourne-Style

Damon is Bourne again.

Fourteen years after the first adaptation of the popular action spy thriller series based on Jason Bourne, a character from Robert Ludlum’s novels, Matt Damon is back in the fifth installment of the film series, this time simply called Jason Bourne.

Bourne is a former CIA super spy who suffers from psychogenic amnesia and does everything he can to find out who he is, while running away from CIA agents who want to kill him.

To promote the release of the new film, Matt Damon partnered up with Omaze, an online charity auction organizer to raise money for water.org, a nonprofit aid organization cofounded by the actor whose goal is to bring safe drinking water and sanitation to certain areas of developing countries.

In a Los Angeles park, a stranger hands unsuspecting people a cell phone from which they start getting spy-like instructions from Damon such as tying their shoelaces, collecting an envelope from a guy on a bridge or buying a $14 hotdog. It’s the classic Jason Bourne scenario, only the people being filmed have no idea Mr. Bourne himself is on the other end of the line.

The result is a funny set of pranks, and for those who follow the instructions, a most unexpected ending.

Check out the video below:

Even though Jason Bourne is the fifth installment of the series, this will be fourth time Matt Damon stars in the movie. In 2007, after finishing his third film, The Bourne Ultimatum, Damon told Variety he wouldn’t do a fourth one: “We have ridden that horse as far as we can,” he said.

Here’s a look at the Bourne Evolution:

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Pat McCrory Would Rather Defend Discrimination Than Protect North Carolinians From Zika

The governor asked to divert emergency funds to cover the law’s defense in numerous legal challenges.

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NBA, Charlotte Hornets: We Do Not Support the Proposed 'Fix' to HB 2

A new version of the bill would allow trans people to “prove” their gender by providing a “certificate of sex reassignment.”

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Is This Gay Ex-Mormon American Man The True Heir To British Throne?

This has all the makings of a paperback Dan Brown thriller you start on a flight to JFK and only get 40 pages into because you left it on your flight to JFK.

The true heir to the British crown could actually be a gay ex-Mormon from Salt Lake City, reports say.

Charles, William and George may have some competition, though the story does require a certain degree of eye squinting to see clearly.

But who doesn’t love some good royal intrigue?

King George III, you’ll remember from your elementary school history class, was the ruler during the time of US independence. He had a son, conveniently named King George IV, who may have had an illegal marriage around the late 1700s to a Roman Catholic woman named Maria Fitzherbert.

When the Prince rose to the throne, the marriage would have been annulled. But Fitzherbert may not have gone along with the plan so willingly, because the two more than likely had a child.

James Knight Ord the III could be the descendant of that child.

“They tried to get her to sign the back of her marriage certificate that she had no issue, that there were no children of issue from the marriage and she, of course, refused to do so,” Ord told Fox 13.

“Our family would have been the rightful heirs of the crown, but we were sent off packing,” he added.

Ord has a husband and four adopted kids, and isn’t looking to stir and actual drama with his maybe-royal blood. Plus, even if it turned out to be true, the family has long since lost its claim to the throne.

But we’re sure it makes for some juicy conversation at their family reunions.

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Your Clingy Gay Stalker Just Found His Perfect Soundtrack – WATCH

The Zutons’ 2006 song “Valerie”, famously covered by Amy Winehouse (twice!), has gotten a makeover that reimagines it as being about a clingy and crazy gay stalker.

Singer and composer Kevin DeKimpe reworks “Valerie” and creates “Anthony” to tell the story of a gay man who instantly falls in love Princess Anna-style with a guy he just met–and also decides that he is going to call his new beau ‘Anthony’ even though that’s not his name. And apparently, that’s something he does on the regular.

So think of it as a gay pop song version of Isla Fisher’s character in Wedding Crashers.

via GIPHY

Watch, below.

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Pope Benedict Says He Broke Up ‘Gay Lobby’ at the Vatican – VIDEO

Pope Benedict XVI says that during his time as Pontiff he was able to break up an alleged ‘gay lobby’ within the Vatican.

Benedict made the assertion in his new memoir The Last Conversations, set to be published in September.

Reuters reports:

In the book, Benedict says that he came to know of the presence of a “gay lobby” made up of four or five people who were seeking to influence Vatican decisions. The article says Benedict says he managed to “break up this power group”.

Benedict resigned following a turbulent papacy that included the so-call “Vatileaks” case, in which his butler leaked some of his personal letters and other documents that alleged corruption and a power struggle in the Vatican.

Italian media at the time reported that a faction of prelates who wanted to discredit Benedict and pressure him to resign was behind the leaks.

Much has been made of the so-called ‘gay lobby’ over the years. At the time of Benedict’s resignation from the papacy in 2013, it was reported that the existence of this group heavily influenced Benedict’s decision to become the first pope in history to step down. 

Benedict himself says his decision to resign was based on health reasons.

When Pope Francis was elected as Benedict’s successor he acknowledged the existence and influence of a ‘gay lobby’, saying, “There is talk of a ‘gay lobby’ and it’s true, it exists. We have to see what can be done.” In 2014, a cardinal said that Francis has been trying to “purify” that lobby–a statement which suggests Benedict was unable to break up the gay power group as he claims.

At least one former high ranking member of the clergy, Krzysztof Charamsa, the gay priest who was fired by Pope Francis after coming out as gay, has denied the existence of a gay lobby.

Watch a report from the AP on Pope Francis’ acknowledgment of a gay lobby as well as a trailer for PBS’ Frontline report Secrets of the Vatican, which chronicles the workings of the gay lobby (and is an absolute must-watch), below.

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Dolly Parton, Ozone Hole, Rafael Nadal, Shark Sonogram, Nancy Grace, Zac Efron: NEWS

2016 ELECTION. Bill Clinton’s tarmac meeting with Loretta Lynch causes political fracas: “The reaction to the meeting was so politically fraught that Ms. Lynch is expected on Friday to announce that she will rely on the recommendations of career prosecutors and the F.B.I for the outcome of the email investigation. The conversation lasted roughly 20 minutes, and Ms. Lynch’s husband was present for it. But Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, pounced on the news in a radio interview on Thursday.”

DECISIONS. Gay Italian man awarded $30K over denial of partnership visa: “The European Court of Human Rights has stated that Italy’s refusal to grant Douglas McCall a residence permit violated he and his partners rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. The Strasbourg court held that to deny same-sex couples residence permits on ‘family grounds’ was discrimination.”

ENDORSEMENTS. Hillary Clinton has Dolly Parton’s vote: “Hillary might make as good a president as anybody ever has,” Parton admits. “I think no matter if it’s Hillary or Donald Trump, we’re gonna be plagued with PMS either way — presidential mood swings!” she jokes. “But I personally think a woman would do a great job. I think Hillary’s very qualified. So if she gets it, I’ll certainly be behind her.”

POSTERIORS. Rafael Nadal caught with his pants down.

DEPARTURES. Nancy Grace leaving Headline News. “Grace, 56, broke the news ‪Thursday morning to her staff of 18 — some of whom have been working with her since the late 1990s, when she got her start co-hosting on Court TV with the late Johnnie Cochran — at the network’s CNN Center headquarters in Atlanta, where Grace shoots the majority of her shows. New York-based staffers learned of her departure simultaneously via video conference call.”

MUSIC. Apple in talks to acquire Jay Z’s Tidal music streaming service: “Apple is exploring the idea of bringing on Tidal to bolster its Apple Music service because of Tidal’s strong ties to popular artists such as Kanye West and Madonna. The talks are ongoing and may not result in a deal, these people said. Terms of the potential deal aren’t known.”

EARTH. The ozone hole is healing, say experts. “The researchers said they had found “fingerprints” indicating that the seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica, a cause of concern since it was discovered in 1984, was getting smaller. Although the improvement has been slight so far, it is an indication that the Montreal Protocol — the 1987 treaty signed by almost every nation that phased out the use of chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs — is having its intended effect. Full recovery of the ozone hole is not expected until the middle of the century.”

FROM THE WOMB. Scientists capture Tiger Shark sonogram. “After landing at 12.5 foot, pregnant tiger shark, the team does an ultrasound to discover she’s carrying 20 well-developed pups!”

HIGHLIGHTS. What’s up with Zac Efron’s hair?

EERIE. Here’s what it sounds like to enter the magnetic fields of Jupiter. “NASA is celebrating Independence Day this year by putting a spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter. The space agency’s Juno mission is slated to arrive at the massive planet on the night of July 4th, after having traveled across more than 1.7 billion miles of space over the past five years. Once Juno arrives, the probe’s main engine will fire, slowing the spacecraft down and placing it into orbit around Jupiter. It’s an important event for the mission, especially since NASA has only one shot at getting it right. If Juno flies past Jupiter, the mission will be blown.”

FRIDAY FLESH. NYC based writer, model, and actor Donnie Dae.

 

 

 

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