GQ vtigat the reasons why a simple iced ffee—a drk for all seasons, when you thk about —is so gay.
Contents:
QUEER FéS AND GAY MYLK
* oat milk gay *
‘Oat k is gay’Plant-based cuise and queer inty have always tersected.
Eher n make you a target – I’ve been harassed more often (though ls vicly) for my dietary choic than beg queer and nonbary – but they also lay foundatns for fés and gay mylk. As someone wh eliac disease, K, a queer Londoner and ffee lover, bemoans s ubiquy, sayg they feel more alienated now than before the trend for some, oat k has bee a light-hearted signifier for queerns the same way that makg almond k has been termed a “gay right of passage”. The hippi also ed the rabow as a symbol of peace durg protts and may have helped set legal precent for gay marriage.
Queer fés and gay mylk. Bars played ccial rol as muny health centr durg the HIV and AIDS crisis and the nascent movement for equaly, back when the public still lled “gay rights”. It’s obv, people rpond: He’s gay.
WHY IS ICED COFFEE SO GAY?
But none of that matters, after all; what was clear to the rner of the Inter known as Gay Twter, and to the se Gay Star News, was that this man was jt exercisg his rights—nay, his duty—as a gay man to drk iced ffee. Iced ffee, you see, is gay culture [ed. Note: n nfirm] a piece published last October on the LGBTQ webse New Now Next, was noted that for the past two years on social media there’s been a steady flow of jok and mem about the gay muny’s affy for iced ffee.
Acrdg to NNN, iced ffee is gay bee: portabily (cute cups), easy nsumptn (’s ld) and ctomizatn (you n pump full of sugar, or sugar-ee syp that is fely not givg you diabet).
The se pared to the stereotype of suburban moms and their nsumptn of pot grig; iced ffee is a gay ctch. While ’s hard the days to tly unrstand why anythg be a meme (this is wavg at the Babadook), there are a lot of portable, easily ctomizable thgs that e cute packagg that aren’t so closely aligned wh the gay muny. (Although lookg back, actually, that was pretty gay.