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WHY JOSH THOMAS IS PHG FOR MORE GAY SEX ON TV
Although Aaron and Thomas preface exprsns of affectn wh the phrase “no homo” that Aaron wh his other iends, Thomas rejects the typ of vlent homosocial bondg that Aaron’s other iends engage . Mortified by this event and aaid of losg a iendship that stas him, Aaron nsirs unrgog a memory erasg procre to fet he is gay.
But Aaron isn’t so much tryg to fet a sgle person who broke his heart as he is tryg to fet his sexualy and all the tragedi that may e om growg up gay a small-md neighborhood. In the se of Silvera’s novel, the goal is to fet onelf, or, this se, to re-engeer memory so that you’re loted a moment when you didn’t know that you were gay. In his drive to annihilate his gay self, Aaron uld be figured as what Sara Ahmed has termed an “unhappy queer.
The qutn impli that the Leteo doctors have no objectn to homosexualy but perform the procre bee they see as nnected to a web of events that cl Aaron to self-harm. What he fot was his earlier relatnship wh a neighborhood boy, how the two were gay bashed while ridg the subway home, how his father dragged him out the apartment by his shirt llar when he me out, and how he found his father ad his bathroom. After breakg out his native Atralia wh the semi-tobgraphil edy Please Like Me, a dryly funny portra of a newly out gay twentysomethg which ran for four seasons, Josh Thomas lnched his first Amerin seri earlier this year: Freeform's crilly acclaimed half-hour, Everythg's Gonna Be Okay.