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MOTHER’S DAY FOR GAYS
* mother gay culture *
Fai typilly don’t live together anymore, but ballroom’s mment to helpg at-risk gay, trans and genr-nonnformg youth has stayed the same. ”Jon “Ambh” Nja met his ballroom mother, Akayla Nja, while attendg vogug class hosted by the Dallas-based nonprof Uned Black Ellument, which supports Black gay and bisexual young men.
GAY MEN AND THEIR MOTHERS: IS THERE A SPECIAL CLOSENS?
From 1720s London to RuPl’s Drag Race, gays have been “motherg” for much longer than you thk. When the song dropped earlier this month, one fan tweeted that s “mother” le was “enough to send my gay heart to overdrive”.
When GAY TIMES’ entertament edor Sam Damshenas asked Sarah Michelle Gellar about her passnate LGBTQ+ fanbase at a January lnch event for her new seri Wolf Pack, she psed to ask him: “Can someone please expla ‘mother’ to me?” Gellar has sce fully embraced this term of enqueerment by updatg her Instagram b to simply read “Mother”. In fact, the term, “has been a key ncept gay muni for s, if not centuri,” says Pl Baker, Profsor of English Language at Lanster Universy and thor of Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Bra’s Secret Gay Language.