An open letter to my fellow whe gay cis men: there should be no "returng to normal" after this.
Contents:
- GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
- IT'S TOO GAY HERE
- NO, 'S TOO GAY HERE
- TOO GAY
- FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS
GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
* it's too gay in here *
On Friday, April 24, stunts om across the untry will participate the 24th annual Day of Silence, a natnal stunt-led event where dividuals take a vow of silence to highlight the silencg and erasure of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) people at school. “They told me ’s ‘too gay, ’” said Ja*, the adult advisor of the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA; also sometim lled a Genr and Sexualy Allliance) at a high school on Staten Island.
Most of the 30 or so members of the club refe to wear the shirt school, fearg homophobic ments or other forms of victimizatn.
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Approximately 37% of schools across the Uned Stat have a Gay-Straight Alliance or siar club.
Discsg transgenr topics wh gay-straight allianc: Factors that uld promote more equent nversatns. But even though the nversatns that muted this lumn for six weeks are nowhere close to beg over, I do feel like some thgs that me up durg that time of ntemplatn are worth sayg now — particularly to my fellow whe gay cis out more stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activistsHowever, the ghost of Larry Kramer very much remaed my own head as I ma my way through a Pri month unlike any other. I spent a few quiet afternoons readg his 1978 but novel Faggots, a satiril (yet clearly tobgraphil) look at the liv of gay men 1970s New York Cy that he wrote jt before AIDS ma him a figurehead of Amerin activism.
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Followg a man his late 30s (based on Kramer himself) who is seekg out a lovg, long-term relatnship a sea of hedonism, the novel has a clear msage: gay men need to start lovg each other stead of beg so obssed wh gettg fucked up and (lerally and figuratively) fuckg each other.
TOO GAY
- Larry Kramer his but novelUpon publitn, Faggots was dismissed by many as puranil and self-loathg for s cricism of gay men's obssn wh vany, promiscuy and recreatnal dg e. And while, on one level, the book is a wild (if at tim problematic) wdow to an era of gay culture 40 years the past, also felt like had a lot to say about gay culture today.
FOR PRI MONTH, WE CELEBRATE STAR TREK’S GAYT MOMENTS
What even do mean to say "gay culture"? In mastream gay media, the phrase almost always refers to a fairly specific subset of the LGBTQ "muny" largely ma up of whe gay cis men — even though many of the battl won around queer rights were fought by people of lour, trans and genr-nonnformg folks, and queer women, and fact the morn Pri movement self was large part iated by Black trans women. If an imprsn of a monolhic "gay culture" fed by such a homogeneo mographic exists, is bee whe gay cis men have until very recently domated mastream reprentatn unr the LGBTQ umbrella and have, general, been hand a level of privilege the last that is wildly disproportnate to any other mographic unr said umbrella.