What Do You Say to ‘That’s So Gay’ & Other Anti-LGBTQ+ Comments? - Welg Schools

Contents:

• THATS-KDA-GAY
• MEET THE GAYBROS
• WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ & OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ+ COMMENTS?
• ME AFTER I SAID THAT'S KDA GAY ON THE SUB REDD
• "STAR WARS IS KDA GAY" LYRICS

THATS-KDA-GAY

Thats-kda-gay. u/Thats-kda-gay. Meet the Gaybros.

They make the gay muny mad. After a ltle over a year existence, Gaybros now fds self at a promisg but uncerta crossroads.

As members of Gaybros—a Redd-based muny for gay guys wh tradnally manly terts like sports, huntg, and beer—the large majory of their bondg tak place through ment threads unr topics like “Ron Swanson vs.

MEET THE GAYBROS

Jam Bond” and “My Gay Card Has Been Revoked.

” someone I’m too ld to look toward explas, referencg the cy’s premiere gay sports bar. If the Gaybro’s missn statement is “a place for guys to get together and talk about, well, guy stuff. The r is classic pub, all dark woods and vtage trophi, but wh a cidly gay twist: Look even briefly at the hoe-ma baseball and football player posters ratg the walls, and more than sportsmanlike appreciatn for the athletic male form quickly be apparent.

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ & OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ+ COMMENTS?

From my perch by the rner at pile, I survey the scene: Gay men of an imprsive range of age, race, attractivens, body type, and ball-p embroiry shake hands and strike up nversatns. He has brought along a solidly built and more maturely handsome AIDS rearcher wh whom I spend a nsirable amount of time discsg the cle of gay social spac like the one we’re .

Given that the few gay spac that do rema are almost always segregated by race, age, and sexual type (twk, bear, leather, etc. Also worthy of note was the lack of excsive ciss wh the group; though gay men almost never stop flirtg entirely, this was clearly not, as multiple bros would tell me, a “datg service.

ME AFTER I SAID THAT'S KDA GAY ON THE SUB REDD

After the first round had been draed, I overhear my iend Jake—who I only found out was a Gaybro sympathizer after startg on this story and whose hband, Tim Ka, is one of the group’s morators—rpond scily to a ment about football players’ jock straps: “Now that’s a game I uld get to! Pl, I thought I’d earned a break om the prsure of all those firm handshak: The uple I was crashg wh had ved me to a gay hoe party promisg more faiar acutrements like cdés and Robyn mic, so I Google-mapped my way across Boston om bro to ‘mo. But as I glanced around at the Crate & Barrel brand of gayns on display this open-ncept, Hdu y-studd livg room, I felt, not relief, but a twge of doubt.

So read an stant msage om a lleague when he learned that I was gog to be chillg wh the Gaybros. My terlocutor was mostly jokg, of urse, but the kernel of tth h home: I was probably gog to have to butch-up my vobulary a b if I wanted to hang wh, much ls hope to unrstand, a group of fellow gay men who would willgly ll themselv “bros. When you look up the term Gaybro on Urban Dictnary, two extremely tellg fns appear.

"STAR WARS IS KDA GAY" LYRICS

The first—“a gay man who acts mascule and is terted guy stuff like sports, vio gam, ary issu, grillg, kniv, gear, workg out, gadgets, tech, etc …”—seems to have been lifted om the Gaybros missn statement.

The send is ls ntral: “Young mascule homosexual mal who exhib no effemate characteristics or terts and make a pot of gog on about how ‘normal’ they are. Gaybros have no gay iends bee they n’t relate to other gay people. Before meetg the Gaybros, the send fn was the only one I knew, and I am not at all alone.