'13 Reasons Why' Ma Tony a Gay, Latx, Catholic Teen — Here's Why That Matters | Teen Vogue

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• '13 REASONS WHY' MA TONY A GAY, LATX, CATHOLIC TEEN — HERE'S WHY THAT MATTERS
• THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY IS THE STRAIGHTT GRAND THEFT AUTO EVER
• GAY TONY

'13 REASONS WHY' MA TONY A GAY, LATX, CATHOLIC TEEN — HERE'S WHY THAT MATTERS

Tony, who is Latx and (as we fd out later) gay, was at high risk of beg pigeonholed to the role of the diversy iend, a plot be hont, that’s where I thought Tony would end up. Tony, who is both, is a character that reprents an important part of the Latx muny, a facet I pletely regnized as a gay Latx Tony, I saw a faiar stggle to rencile gayns, machismo, and the Catholicism that is so prevalent our culture. He wasn’t jt aaid of acknowledgg his gayns.

When his voice cracked, and when he fally let his guard down, he was not met wh ridicule, but wh open a brown gay kid receive that kd of support at a moment of vulnerabily ma me want to stand up and clap, bee I knew how much I need to see that when I was younger. Your brand of charmg homosexualy, Tony, ’s kd of n out of steam. –Roc Pelosi, Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

This discsn of The Ballad of Gay Tony do nta spoilers.

THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY IS THE STRAIGHTT GRAND THEFT AUTO EVER

The Ballad of Gay Tony is the straightt Grand Theft Auto ever.

Neverthels, spe s tle, heterosexual sex acts are nsirably more mon than homosexual on The Ballad of Gay Tony. Lopez is a ladi man, unaaid to shake on the dance floor orr to get a ltle on the si, and he is also the number one of the man who owns the ntrollg share of Maisote 9, Gay Tony Prce. When The Ballad of Gay Tony was announced, I was certaly surprised, left wonrg if Rockstar had cid to feature a homosexual protagonist one of their gam.

That Gay Tony would not be the persona that players would be takg on was rather quickly ma clear Rockstar’s promotn of the game. Still though, Gay Tony is a most ccial character as the tle of the game impli, and his prentatn is fairly fascatg given Rockstar’s history of creatg rtoonish stereotyp of both gays and racial and ethnic groups as part of their parody-lan crime sagas. As the owner of a nightclub that is signified by a scriptn of an archectural space and signated by a number, Tony largely seems to be a kd of re-imagg, of Steve Rubell, the gay owner of Club 54.

GAY TONY

Unlike Rubell, a man referred to openly as Gay Tony is obvly not closeted (he also owns a gay nightclub lled Hercul), but Tony has been nng clubs sce 1987 very close to the year of Rubell’s ath om AIDS.

Club life is the central foc of The Ballad of Gay Tony, which brgs back to the sex act as a central ncern of this versn of GTA. In that sense, Gay Tony‘s sensibili are a b retrogra by lkg sexual habs wh crimaly.