Gay Baker: Don’t 'Force' Someone to Bake a Cake for You

Contents:

• 27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH
• ‘THEY DON’T HAVE TO BAKE A CAKE FOR YOU’: BAKER TO HIS ‘FELLOW’ GAYS AND LBIANS
• I'M GAY & I BAKE. BUT DO THAT MAKE BAKG "GAY"?
• BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
• PUT AS GAY IN? MEM AS A TACTIC RSIAN LGBT+ ACTIVISM
• STEPHEN COLBERT CHATS WH 'ANTI-GAY BAKER' WHO WON'T USE L, G, B, T OR Q ON CAK

27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH

27 Gay Mem Sure To Make Anyone Lgh.

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homophobia. A self-scribed gay baker named Jse Bartholomew has e out fense of Christian bakers who cle to bake k for same-sex weddgs. “I bake weddg k for a livg, and I nnot tell you how disgted I am wh my fellow gay and lbian muny, that they would stoop so low to force someone to bake a ke for them who simply don’t agree wh them, ” Bartholomew said.

‘THEY DON’T HAVE TO BAKE A CAKE FOR YOU’: BAKER TO HIS ‘FELLOW’ GAYS AND LBIANS

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I'M GAY & I BAKE. BUT DO THAT MAKE BAKG "GAY"?

IntroductnIn 2016, an image of Print Vladimir Put wearg make-up and superimposed on a gay pri flag was banned Rsia. Footnote 2 Yet the image has appeared on Rsian social media an apparent crique of both gay rights and Put. The Rsian state and s lears are equently put to nversatn wh homosexualy, but the valence of the disurse shifts by first sectn of this chapter exam the image closer tail, nductg a semtic analysis of how a picture be memetic, able to travel across space and time.

We nsir the subject of the gay clown image self, Footnote 3 Rsian Print Vladimir Put, as a cril space wh the terpretive polysemy of prott.

We exame how the realms reflect the nttatn over homosexualy Rsia. We emphasize that the explic shift om behavr (fg sexual acts between subjects) to performance and imag (pecially those suggtive of Put’s “non-standard sexual orientatn”) recenters the genr bate wh an thorarian range, reifyg homophobic propaganda and jtifyg anti-gay state policy. Poutg Put, Pop Art, and Polil Portras: Symbols and Syntax of a MemeIn this sectn, we explore the emergence of the Put as gay clown meme.

BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'

The image buted on social media outsi of Rsia the ntext of foreign reactns to the 2013 Rsian anti-“gay propaganda” law No.

Footnote 4, Footnote 5 On Augt 23, 2013, a Getty photographer at a prott outsi the Rsian embassy Madrid photographed a protter wh a sign pictg Put’s face bold make-up superimposed over a rabow flag wh the words “STOP HOMOFOBIA” [sic] scribed on his forehead. Footnote 6 Here, the image appears (sans the scriptn “STOP HOMOFOBIA”) on a poster, above a ptn readg ( Rsian): “Electors of Put are like. homosexuals; there are many, but among my iends there are none.

”Footnote 7 While the Mistry of Jtice listg oms “obscene vobulary” om the origal quote, the implitns of the msage’s polil lcul are clear: Put voters are homosexual and Put’s their man. Homophobia imbu the anti-Put msage wh the partisan polil language of and them. The Put as gay clown meme is an eratn of a dynamic seri of siar mem nveyg polil meang by appropriatg material om other social disurs.

PUT AS GAY IN? MEM AS A TACTIC RSIAN LGBT+ ACTIVISM

Footnote 8 Put’s “Regular Joe” scenar is red as “gay, ” “drag, ” or otherwise flux (Wood 2016, p.

STEPHEN COLBERT CHATS WH 'ANTI-GAY BAKER' WHO WON'T USE L, G, B, T OR Q ON CAK

Footnote 9 Iteratns of the Put meme which rporate text, such as those wh “STOP HOMOFOBIA” stenciled across Put’s forehead, also ploy a strategy of trangement. More recently, the image ronat wh strategi such as “queerg the Queen” that have been documented at LGBT+ pri paras the UK; both functn as an example of the ntradictory existence of “shared” and “modifyg” gay inti wh the space of public activism (Ammaturo 2016; Armstrong 2002) such, votn of the pop art athetic ntribut to the subversive qualy of the meme two ways. ”Disurs of Sexualy and Rsian PolicsThis sectn suat the Put as gay clown meme wh a material and symbolic ntext, explorg the way which the meme shifts across the four realms intified Table 9.

In Realm II, “Patrtic Homosexualy, ” we explore the possibili of a disurse of patrtic homosexualy bridgg the state and civil society. Fally, we fe Realm IV as “Heteronormative-homophobic Opposn Polics, ” where we explore how opposn to Put enjos the nmnatn of homosexualy public disurse. We see the meme of Put as a gay clown shift between the last two realms—“Queerg the Ristance” and “Heteronormative-homophobic Opposn Polics”—movg om the material level Wtern protts 2013 to the symbolic level of the viral image, and back to the material/legal level where is banned Rsia I: Homophobia Rsian Polics and the Heteronormative StateIn this sectn, we trace the way which issu of queer inty are prent on material and symbolic levels Rsian polics.