How To Be Gay — David M. Halper | Harvard Universy Prs

Contents:

• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• DO YOU THK LANZ IS GAY? (SPOILERS)
• TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE
• ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
• HOW TO BE GAY
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• MONTREAL GAY CHRONICL: LUS KDLE EDN
• GAY YOUTH CHRONICL COMPLETE CHRONOLOGY SERI
• IS MYL TURNER GAY?

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others. Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

Explicly nceived as a haven for gay men, was known for s youthful clientele, celebry patrons, and notorly hedonistic vibe; beme even more of a draw wh the openg of “The Backlot, ” an adjacent performance venue that featured some of the biggt “A-list” acts of the era. Built on stunng, powerful mil performanc and peppered wh surprisg and revelatory historil terpretatn – as well as edic banter and form-transcennt dience teractn – wove a narrative piled om “between the l” of monly-held history, exposg thgs like the sual bigotry at the heart of many of Ameri’s earlit popular songs and the misogyny and homophobia that has ntued to permeate s mic until the prent day; an hour was dited to each , wh Mac cked out an elaborate new era-specific stume – signed by longtime llaborator Mache Dazzle and rporatg humoro referenc to Amerin life each of the 24 s vered the show – for each one; each hour, one of 24 onstage micians would part the stage, until Mac, alone and unacpanied except for a ulele, was left alone to perform origal songs for the fal hour. SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

"Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments. Sunday’s “Great Midwtern Trendkill” event wasn’t the first time out gay pro wrtler AC Mack stepped to a Naptown All-Pro Wrtlg rg, but will be his last. He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month.

DO YOU THK LANZ IS GAY? (SPOILERS)

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"However, the latt episo, which was expected, ed uproar soon after s Holland's fans are quick to jump his fense by praisg him for takg a darg role and also poted to the prev Spir-Man actors' Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield, on-screen gay characters after a trend NotMySpirman was started on Twter.

TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE

While she will first and foremost be remembered as an inic wrer of gothic horror — most notably for her Vampire Chronicl seri — her advocy for LGBTQ rights and steadfast support of her enthiastic, gay fan base would bee an sential part of her legacy. At the time, she was mourng the loss of her 5-year-old dghter, Michele, one of her two children wh poet Stan the book failed to imprs crics, beme an immediate mercial succs, large part bee of s populary among gay rears. François Duhamel / Sygma via Getty ImagIn an terview wh The Daily Beast 2017, Rice said she was “very honored” that people thought “Interview Wh the Vampire” — which was adapted to a film 1994 starrg Tom Cise and Brad Pt and is currently velopment as a TV seri — was a gay allegory.

“I thk I have a gay sensibily and I feel like I’m gay, bee I’ve always transcend genr, and I’ve always seen love as transcendg genr, ” she said the 2017 terview, regardg the pervasivens of queer characters her wrg.

ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE

”'Fear Ameri'Rice’s ti to the LGBTQ muny were epened and ma more personal when Christopher me out as gay after graduatg om high Advote ran a ver story about Christopher 2000, which he said he thought his mother took his g out harr than his father did, bee of what he perceived as her havg a stronger sire, relative to his father’s, to have grandchildren someday.

HOW TO BE GAY

For her part, Rice said that she was “shocked” by the revelatn, bee she “thought he was straight, ” and that she worried about him havg to face difficulti due to homophobia, but said his g out didn’t dimish her love for him. Bishops were gog to e out agast same-sex marriage … that they were actually gog to donate money to feat the civil rights of homosexuals the secular society. No one rais an eyebrow if you suggt that a guy who arrang his furnure jt so, rolls his ey exaggerated disbelief, lik techno mic or show tun, and knows all of Bette Davis’s bt l by heart might, jt possibly, be gay.

But if you assert that male homosexualy is a cultural practice, exprsive of a unique subjectivy and a distctive relatn to mastream society, people will immediately prott. David Halper, a pneer of LGBTQ studi, dar to suggt that gayns is a specific way of beg that gay men mt learn om one another orr to bee who they are.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

Inspired by the notor unrgraduate urse of the same tle that Halper tght at the Universy of Michigan, provokg cri of outrage om both the right-wg media and the gay prs, How To Be Gay trac gay men’s cultural difference to the social meang of style. Far om beg terred by stereotyp, Halper nclus that the geni of gay culture ris some of s most spised featur: s atheticism, snobbery, melodrama, adoratn of glamour, ritur of women, and obssn wh mothers.

He said some members of his team disagreed wh the urse of actn but they took a vote and ultimately released a statement which Spacey revealed he was gay. ” She might get herself to trouble by dt of not unrstandg the new l, or an excs of termatn, but she’s neher hapls nor a target, and she mak two good iends almost stantly — Ashley (Cosette Her) and Yoshy (Noah Ri), who, is all but explicly stated, will grow up gay.

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“How To Be Gay is…wrten by a gifted thker and wrer who has e to see that there is not jt a polil and sexual gay culture (s foundatnal event the rtg outsi the Stonewall Inn 1969), based on gay inty rather than sensibily, but also a nonsexual gay culture, based on mos of feelg and exprsive artifacts. “[Halper] provotively argu that when to fg what means to be a homosexual man, sex is overrated… Culture matters more… [How To Be Gay] is never a bore… [It] explor a fundamental kd of gay sensibily… Halper teas an enormo amount out of [a] scene [ Mildred Pierce], cludg the sense of ‘glamour and abjectn’ gay dienc fd [Joan] Crawford, and how the film packag the ‘transgrsive spectacle of female strength, tonomy, feists and power.

GAY YOUTH CHRONICL COMPLETE CHRONOLOGY SERI

’ …He is excellent, too, on how classil tragedy is nearly always about men, or fathers and sons… Dozens of siar arguments are rehearsed How To Be Gay. “How To Be Gay celebrat[] the sharp-elbowed mp culture that many now nsir obsolete… How n someone be gay whout havg seen Mildred Pierce or The Wizard of Oz? As he pots out, sexualy is the area where gay men differ least om straight men… Gay taste is somethg more sgular, probably lked to cipient feelgs of dissiary om one’s peers… Halper is right to fend the old ruals and the lgo and body language that go wh them… So long live mp, and all the other cultural pursus that gay people have tradnally embraced.

Perhaps the historic votn to theatre, opera, high fashn, and other venerable discipl will wher away, but seems likely that many gay kids will still feel the trma of difference and go on seekg refuge artier spher. Halper speaks of a ‘tensn between egalarian ethics and hierarchil athetics’ gay taste; he se as a snobbery not of class but of knowledge, open to all who n hold their own.

“[A] provotively tled cril cri r… To summarize Halper’s amb book is tricky, but thk of as an exploratn of the tensn between the official Pri Para, celebratg post-Stonewall gay inty, and the Drag March, celebratg pre-liberatn gay culture… Halper is at his bt when criqug the current assiatnist mol of gay-rights activism, wh s nial of any cultural terts or athetic pots-of-view that ht of femy or mps or of the ‘stereotypilly gay. ’ His cultural history of how this attu emerged the 1970s will be surprisg to those who view the gay-rights movement as a nsistently posive progrsn; Halper argu nvcgly that as butch mascule styl beme ever more mandatory, both for attractg sexual/romantic partners (no femm, no fats!

IS MYL TURNER GAY?

’ …How To Be Gay is tellectually rigoro [and] entertag… Halper monstrat that those gays who do still intify wh Bette and Joan, drag and drap, Auntie Mame and Annie Lennox have somethg important to ntribute to our ever more homogeno world.

…Halper is plyg his own twist on the faiar ia that by aligng themselv wh certa forms—flamboyance, abject glamour, exaggerated femy—gay men implicly challenge the uptight s of a patriarchal culture… Gay culture, for Halper, isn’t really attached to any given person’s experience; rather, ’s a set of tactics, adopted behavrs, and strategi imbrited a much larger social field… Frivoly, irony, superficialy, thenticy, flamboyance, snobbishns, exquise taste: How To Be Gay works hard to unpack the stereotypil characteristics of gay male culture and succeeds monstratg how the tat of pathology and the rise of a post-Stonewall ethos of hypermascule self-termatn nspire to shut down a ank quiry to the persistence of such ‘faggy’ tras.

“What is marvelo is Halper’s rich analysis of many aspects of this gay cultural life, showg the distctive ways mak e of straight culture… This is not meant to be a ffee-table book, encyclopedia or ‘how-to manual’: the already exist. Halper has wrten a monumental work… In tail, the book explor the emotnal and personalized subjectivy scribg what is at the re of gay culture and the nermost feelgs of what is to be ‘gay.