The Male GaYze movie rmatn
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THE MALE GAYZE
* the male gayze *
(No wonr Cate Blanchett, an terview for the 2015 live adaptatn of “Crella, ” misheard a qutn about the “Disney villa gaze” as “Disney villian gays. The appearance of Channg Tatum and his Magic Mike XXLbun-chums Matt Bomer and Adam Rodriguez on a float at Los Angel Pri shakg their money-makers for the highly appreciative LGBT crowd last month seems to have marked a watershed moment the Cy of long after Tatum's float disappeared to the heat haze of Santa Moni Boulevard the Hollywood Reporter ran a piece by Merle Gsberg, formerly of Ru Pl's Drag Race, about the way straight male performers like Tatum have gone "beyond metrosexualy" (characterized by THR as "dulgg feme-seemg pedicur and hair products") and now want to be read as "gayish. "Gsberg argued that far om beg ightened of gay attentn and gay "tat" as days of yore, straight men the days actively -- or is passively?
-- seek out, tickle, and tease the male gayze on Pri floats and Out magaze vers, and by talkg about which other male actor they'd do if they did guys. The piece also looked at how this phenomenon of furly flirty "straight homos" -- or "stromos" as was dubbed -- is blurrg the l of sexualy and jammg gaydar.