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.

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

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.

EVINCE EMERG THAT JAX FROM VANRPUMP RUL IS SECRETLY GAY

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.

THE GAYT THGS TO HAPPEN ON VANRPUMP RUL

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. 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.

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

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.

VANRPUMP RUL: JAM KENNEDY LOS IEND OVER GAY LIE

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

But those obssed wh all the gay sh Vanrpump Rul will never fet. 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. Gayer still: “I lerally have to pay you to have sex wh me, ” Katie says as she throws Tom sgl.