Heléne's character feeds [his nervo] gay lghter bee he wants to be validated by her.
Contents:
- HIGH MATENANCE GIV US A BRILLIANT DENSTCTN OF THE “GAY BT FRIEND” TROPE
- HOW HIGH MATENANCE SUBVERTS THE STEREOTYP OF THE GAY MAN–STRAIGHT WOMAN RELATNSHIP
- HIGH MATENANCE’S ASSHOL MAX AND HELéNE ON TOXIC RELATNSHIPS, RUPL, AND THE SYNDROME OF GAY LGHTER
HIGH MATENANCE GIV US A BRILLIANT DENSTCTN OF THE “GAY BT FRIEND” TROPE
“Olivia,” the fifth webiso of High Matenance, troduc Max (Max Jenks), a gay twentysomethg “wastg away retail,” and his roommate and... * high maintenance gay episode *
“Olivia, ” the fifth webiso of High Matenance, troduc Max (Max Jenks), a gay twentysomethg “wastg away retail, ” and his roommate and bt iend, Laey (Heléne Yorke). That was: until the HBO episo “Meth(od)” fally challenged our perceptn of the trope of the “gay bt iend. In effect, Act 2 of “Meth(od)” plays like a reful medatn on the gay bt iend TV trope.
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HOW HIGH MATENANCE SUBVERTS THE STEREOTYP OF THE GAY MAN–STRAIGHT WOMAN RELATNSHIP
We’ve seen untls straight women wh their gay bt iends on TV but never like this.
High Matenance’s Max and Laey are a faiar pair of misanthrop: a gay male and straight female duo where each enurag the other’s rottenns a game of one-upmanship. We’ve seen untls straight women wh their gay bt iends, but never que like this.
HIGH MATENANCE’S ASSHOL MAX AND HELéNE ON TOXIC RELATNSHIPS, RUPL, AND THE SYNDROME OF GAY LGHTER
The episo begs at a bachelorette party, wh Max as the token gay male among a gaggle of blons. “Back off bch, get your own gay hband, ” Laey terjects.
In pop culture, gay men have often figured as accsori to straight women (or straight men), and High Matenance, Max willgly plays that role. He’s an embodiment of a televisn trope: the helpful gay man.
There was a leral show built on the ncept of the helpful gay man—Queer Eye for the Straight Guy—but he exists a plethora of TV shows om The Real Hoewiv of Atlanta to, most signifintly, Sex and the Cy. (Realy has, turn, mimicked pop culture, wh straight women lookg for “their gays” and gay men performg as a way to be validated.