Roxane Gay's Pop Culture Of My Life: Vanrpump Rul and Edh Wharton |

Contents:

• JAM KENNEDY'S SEXUALY QUTNED ON 'VANRPUMP RUL' DURG GAY PRI EPISO
• JAM KENNEDY: GAY AFFAIR CONFIRMED BY VANRPUMP CO-STAR?
• EVINCE EMERG THAT JAX FROM VANRPUMP RUL IS SECRETLY GAY
• THE GAYT THGS TO HAPPEN ON VANRPUMP RUL
• 'JAM NEEDS TO COME OUT!' 'VPR' CAST BELIEV KENNEDY IS GAY AFTER DNKEN PDA WH MALE BFF
• VANRPUMP RUL: JAM KENNEDY LOS IEND OVER GAY LIE
• 'VANRPUMP RUL' STAR JAX TAYLOR’S ‘BOYIEND' REVEALS THE TTH ABOUT THE GAY RUMORS
• POP CULTURE OF MY LIFE: ROXANE GAY ON VANRPUMP RUL AND EDH WHARTON
• LISA VANRPUMP REFLECTS ON THE "HUGE RPONSIBILY" OF CELEBRATG GAY PRI WAKE OF THE ORLANDO SHOOTGS

JAM KENNEDY'S SEXUALY QUTNED ON 'VANRPUMP RUL' DURG GAY PRI EPISO

— the guys are open about cuddlg bed on boys’ trips, they aren’t aaid to say “I love you, ” and Jax Taylor wasn’t remotely fazed by mors about the nature of his relatnship wh an olr gay man when he began as a mol Miami — has always been rehg. So ’s perfectly possible that the iendship between Jam Kennedy and his gay BFF Logan is platonic.

In fact, would arguably be homophobic to assume otherwise. We next see Jam, Raquel and Logan celebratg Gay Pri at SUR’s annual post-para party, after Lisa Vanrpump troduc the crowd to hosts Billie Lee.

He is one of the re st members of Vanrpump Rul, the Bravo realy show set way gay Wt Hollywood that centers around the liv of straight—and that’s important—bartenrs and servers at Lisa Vanrpump’s SUR Rtrant. And as people creasgly qutn and ph agast antiquated notns of what means to be a man—and as the show reckons wh s place 2020, firg four st members volved racist cints—somethg strange has happened: The rtoonish star of a show about straights behavg badly a gay playground beme a pellg mol for a kr, gentler, more tolerant, and far more aggrsively groomed brand of masculy.

JAM KENNEDY: GAY AFFAIR CONFIRMED BY VANRPUMP CO-STAR?

As he matured, still this world of Wt Hollywood bars and parkg-lot fights and msy AF iends, he beme somethg like the grown-up of the gayns of the world which they worked was always there—a centerpiece of each season is the SUR staff's participatn L.

But 2020, as the storyl changed om partyg feathered wgs on a Pri float to gettg married and buyg ho, the st’s creasgly tenuo relatnship to their muny has felt more and more the show’s fanbase, which skews heavily female and gay male, murmurs of disntent wh the show's reprentatn, or lack thereof, started buildg season six, which featured Billie Lee, a trans woman a mor role that lasted only two seasons.

EVINCE EMERG THAT JAX FROM VANRPUMP RUL IS SECRETLY GAY

It reached phony levels the summer of 2019, while the current season was filmg, when BuzzFeed reported that Sandoval's stars Jax Taylor and Brtany Cartwright planned to have an outspokenly homophobic pastor officiate their for-TV weddg. But Bravo has not fired, or publicly reprimand, Taylor for his racist abe of Stowers, nor has the work taken any meangful actn agast him and Cartwright for their plan to give a homophobic pastor a natnal platform by featurg him as the officiant of their televised weddg.

Patrick McDonald first broke out realy TV as a st member on the Logo TV seri Fire Island, which featured six gay men sharg a hoe for a summer gaytn.

THE GAYT THGS TO HAPPEN ON VANRPUMP RUL

Ariana Madix addrsed recent mors suggtg she and longtime boyiend Tom Sandoval are secretly gay earlier this week while celebratg the premiere of the 10th season of Vanrpump Rul. "I’m not gog to not say he’s gay, ” Stowers said of Jam a recent terview wh Radar Onle. I'm more of aReal Hoewiv girl than a Vanrpump Rul one, but even I know that the latter's star Jax Taylor is a piece of garbage -- he once claimed he n't be homophobic bee half of his iends are gay.

"Taylor has a history of homophobic ments, tellg some one Twter that they were "the type of guy who is [a] at and claims he lov women, but secretly is bendg over his roommate 'Chad' while wearg boat sho. And listen, if Jax is gay, this article is obvly not to bash him.

'JAM NEEDS TO COME OUT!' 'VPR' CAST BELIEV KENNEDY IS GAY AFTER DNKEN PDA WH MALE BFF

It is also one of the gayt shows on televisn. A’s annual pri para, or bee of Lisa Vanrpump beg an “in” the gay muny. As most of the people date wh the group, the le between relatnships and iendships n seem muddled, and wh the amount the people drk, ’s evable that their latent homosexual sir e out.

Here li the basic ntradictn of Vanrpump Rul: they’ll perform gay actns, while holdg their inti are 100% straight. And ’s also not gay that upon receivg vios of the girls kissg, the men ci to kiss each other as well.

But those obssed wh all the gay sh Vanrpump Rul will never fet.

VANRPUMP RUL: JAM KENNEDY LOS IEND OVER GAY LIE

I’m not sayg that a guy wearg a muumuu mt be gay, but I am sayg that Tom Schwartz is gay, at least a ltle b, and that the muumuu is an extensn of that. Tom Sandoval is tly the gay gift that keeps on givg. But there is somethg distctly gay about a man, shamed over his dnken trysts, gyratg his hips over his fiancé while beg egged on by all their iends.

'VANRPUMP RUL' STAR JAX TAYLOR’S ‘BOYIEND' REVEALS THE TTH ABOUT THE GAY RUMORS

Gayer still: “I lerally have to pay you to have sex wh me, ” Katie says as she throws Tom sgl.

' 'VPR' Cast Believ Kennedy Is Gay After Dnken PDA Wh Male BFFSource: BravoJan. ETSource: BravoVanrpump Rul star Jam Kennedy's dnken love nfsn for his openly gay bt iend has created que a stir among fans. Vanrpump Rul Celebrat Gay Pri.

POP CULTURE OF MY LIFE: ROXANE GAY ON VANRPUMP RUL AND EDH WHARTON

Everyone is havg a blast at Gay Pri. The gay mors about Jam Kennedy and his bt iend Logan Noh me to a head on Monday night's episo of Vanrpump Rul.

Gay mor: Jam Kennedy was told by Jax Taylor on Monday's episo of Vanrpump Rul that his bt iend Logan Noh was tellg people they were sleepg togetherJax Taylor thought the news was hilar llg Jam' girliend Raquel Leviss 'dumb as rocks' for not realizg. On a recent episo, Taylor was forced to nont mors that he is secretly gay.

The gay mors reached a fever pch onle when fans found a photo of Taylor and another man that referred to them as “boyiends. “People project sometim that mols and actors are gay bee of their close mararie or iendship.

LISA VANRPUMP REFLECTS ON THE "HUGE RPONSIBILY" OF CELEBRATG GAY PRI WAKE OF THE ORLANDO SHOOTGS

If you see two guys molg nu together for Bce Weber, people project that they mt be gay. Sandoval has always attempted to prent himself as someone who stands up for what’s right, takg showy stands like gog out of his way to affirm Madix’s bisexual inty or llg out Taylor’s tentn to hire an anti-gay pastor to officiate his weddg. Roxane Gay, cultural cric and thor of Bad Femist and Difficult Women, tak EW's Pop Culture of My Life quiz and opens up about her love for Vanrpump Rul and Edh Wharton.