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• GAY PASS
• FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
• TOP 20 BT GAY PASSWORDS
• HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

GAY PASS

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FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS

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TOP 20 BT GAY PASSWORDS

Is gay passé?

Can you be homosexual whout beg gay? Bryan Lowr (over at Slate), who dissects and theoriz on the advent of gay culture, s fluence on (cismale) inty, and the attempts to fe, and embrace, a world where homosexualy is creasgly accepted. The number of "straight dus" on Grdr now probably outnumber the on who self-intify as by Avenger at 11:41 AM on May 12, 2015 [1 favore] I've always wonred about 20th-century performers and characters whose mannerisms read as mp or gay to morn dienc, like Jack Benny, or Dr.

If not, did gay culture spawn mp, or was mp subsumed to gay culture? *ugh*geeks*ugh*posted by Punkey at 12:10 PM on May 12, 2015 [4 favor] I remember beg totally taken aback when my first le manger - and the first openly gay man I got to know well - sneergly dismissed "the faggots".

HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY

)posted by fluffy battle kten at 12:55 PM on May 12, 2015 [2 favor] Beg a heterosexual man, I was always a tourist that space, but beg gay seemed to give you a ticket to that space.

Now those tickets are stg by mikeh at 1:19 PM on May 12, 2015 There was a classic SNL sketch where Dana Carvey played "Lyle, the effemate heterosexual" that to md when readg by Renoroc at 1:52 PM on May 12, 2015 Someone's ternalized homophobia don't give you the right to qutn their inty.

If you n dismiss someone's straightns for beg a superficial reactn to homophobia, why should I revere the hanky or unrground gay balls as symbols of the culture that saved me? Posted by as mon as sectici at 2:58 PM on May 12, 2015 [3 favor] The thor actually mak exactly the oppose pot later the article, where he's talkg about how queer sensibili are actually shaped substantially if not primarily by people outsi of the whe masc gay male middle-class i, like, e.

Black gay and trans muni. (Unfortunately, this isn't to say that mastream gay culture is particularly welg to actual trans people, people of lower socenomic stat, and/or people of lor, of urse.

) He also floats the ia that the gay men like Sullivan and Silver who have, paratively, the most privilege, not the least, may actually be the quickt to dismiss gay/queer culture as by en forme poire at 5:07 PM on May 12, 2015 [3 favor] The Amerin/European thg is a good pot though, he don't really explore that here and I'd be cur to see what kds of phenomena people om other gay cultur would scribe as central to a gay/queer by en forme poire at 5:16 PM on May 12, 2015 [2 favor] But I have seen Auntie Mame, and I loved by jb at 7:53 PM on May 12, 2015 I see as an exercise tersectnaly. The gaybro's emancipatory ndn is, "I am ee when the stat quo accepts me" (a person who all rpects no different than the typil person other than that I have same-sex sex). The queer's ial is, "I am ee when the world is tly liberal" (wh my gayns servg as a potentiatg stance or drivg example of revolutnary social change).

However, as long as the tersectnal aspect exists, is not a fone ncln that this schism will always be this by polymod at 8:35 PM on May 12, 2015 [3 favor] Gay is like a mask now, to wear or not.