More! Gay! Trash!
Contents:
- FALLY, GAYS HAVE THEIR OWN TRASHY, MARRIAGE-DEFILG REALY SHOW
- NETFLIX’S ‘THE ULTIMATUM: QUEER LOVE’ IS NOTHG BUT GAY TRASH, BUT ’S ALSO PROGRS
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
FALLY, GAYS HAVE THEIR OWN TRASHY, MARRIAGE-DEFILG REALY SHOW
Sure, the upl are gay. “There’s no rrelatn to anythg gay or to anythg queer — like, ma no sense.
Ten years ago, for gays most parts of the Uned Stat, marriage was more an emotnal and spirual proposn than a legal agreement. But over the urse of a sgle , the natnal landspe for gay marriage has radilly changed. It is well past time, then, for gays to publicly file the stutn, as the straights have before them, wh a trashy realy show.
A few members are practiced therapy-speak, leadg them to soberly analyze fellow participants’ behavr terms of trmas and triggers—a taste of te gay life wh the make-believe settg of the show. This predictable oute ntraliz what I image would be, om a productn and marketg perspective, the primary sellg pot of a gay romance realy show: the possibily that a participant uld end up wh any of the others.
NETFLIX’S ‘THE ULTIMATUM: QUEER LOVE’ IS NOTHG BUT GAY TRASH, BUT ’S ALSO PROGRS
But gay marriage is still so young—I uldn’t shake the feelg that the participants were hung up on the same one-size-fs-all relatnship stcture that has disappoted straight people for generatns, when they uld be tryg somethg new. Bee I knew, mid-way through a week of chattg about the “gay trash” we’d all bee obssed wh, that I had to wre about this show.
And, while I love the stori too, that’s not exactly accurate to the gay experience. That’s bee — spoiler alert — gay people are jt as erratic and turbulent as straight people.
The queer daters are prented the same way as the heterosexual on, and gay nnectns are not fetishized. Maybe that’s why so many people who don’t actually want to have gay sex intify as queer.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
All of the young people on the show appear to be stgglg wh both ternalized homophobia, and many of them are dub about genr. Major profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay. Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward.