Sometim gay-male pop culture has a way of peratg the gay-male rners of the ter like a ckle rippg through a cktail party. People stop and look and roll their ey unison telegraphg their superry and, ironilly, dividualy. Rhg to judge is almost always done the spir of…
Contents:
- AM I GAY?
- 17 SIGNS YOU'RE ACTUALLY GAY (AND JT DON'T KNOW IT)
- WE GET IT ALREADY: YOU'RE ALL MUCH BETTER GAYS THAN THE GUYS ON THAT FIRE ISLAND REALY SHOW
- HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
AM I GAY?
Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you. * you're already gay *
But many people assume sexual orientatn is fairly stable—that whether you’re gay or straight, you’re “born this way, ” and that’s what you’ll be fely isn’t always the se. This is pecially te for men; while bisexualy among women is slightly more socially acceptable (albe bee ’s fetishized and often viewed as an "experiment"), men often have to ntend wh the belief that bisexualy, as Carrie once put on Sex and the Cy, is “a p stop on the way to gay town. Studi show that bisexual people are at a higher risk of prsn, anxiety, and experiencg vlence than their gay, lbian, and heterosexual unterparts.
Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc. “Am I gay?
Beg gay is really no big al. It’s the twenty first century and if someone’s gog to be a judgmental ltle hoe, then they don’t serve to be your v gay life. So if you n relate to the signs then you’re actually gay (you jt don’t know yet).
17 SIGNS YOU'RE ACTUALLY GAY (AND JT DON'T KNOW IT)
One of your top ten experienc was at a Pri para where you were surround by the most tertg, fun strangers you have ever enuntered, and no one you knew was there to judge you, or the only people you knew there were gay. You sometim thk about what would be like to tell your parents, extend fay, and iends that you are gay.
You believe equaly, love diversy, have liberal views, and are mted to seeg gay marriage legalized every untry. Are you gay, whout even knowg ? Even if every em on the list applied to you, don’t mean you’re gay.
WE GET IT ALREADY: YOU'RE ALL MUCH BETTER GAYS THAN THE GUYS ON THAT FIRE ISLAND REALY SHOW
Remember that sexualy is not limed to gay and straight. If you are gay, I really, really hope you know , and enurage you to be your te self.
Sometim gay-male pop culture has a way of peratg the gay-male rners of the ter like a ckle rippg through a cktail party. This is sometim warranted—gay men (and gay women and bi people and trans folk) clocked Roland Emmerich’s ahistoril abomatn Stonewall the send the trailer h the ter. ‘Surf Girls Hawai’i’ is the Real-Life ‘Blue Csh’ We’ve Waed 21 Years ForOffEnglishEarlier this week, Logo released a trailer for s upg realy show about life on the East Coast gay mec of Fire Island (specifilly s P sectn).
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
It’s a magil place, where anythg seems possible, pecially if your fn of anythg is limed to gog to the beach, gog to parti, kikig wh fellow gays over cktails and other substanc, and havg p amounts of sex wh what feels like an fe amount of potential partners. It’s a pestrian beach town full of geo archecture and acplished men (who are mostly whe and mostly affluent) that has retaed s stat stretchg back to at least the ‘60s as a refuge for gay men spe the nsirable societal progrs achieved the last half century. Historilly signifint, culturally rich, spiratnal (semal gay lerature like Andrew Holleran’s Dancer om the Dance and Larry Kramer’s Faggots chronicled s pre-AIDS culture), athetilly breathtakg, astonishgly horny, Fire Island is your one-stop shop for the multus of privileged gay so, nothg the trailer for Logo’s Fire Island was particularly shockg.
It featur a bunch of young, good-lookg gay guys dog what young, good-lookg gay guys go to Fire Island to do, albe through a PG-rated filter and prented wh flattened nuance, per realy TV’s tennci (and a 90-send trailer’s necsy of flatteng further). Fire Island is a vatn statn, and the ial vatn necsarily means checkg your bra at s rponse I saw my Facebook and Twter feeds om fellow gays seemed particularly bothered by this show. This sentiment’s absurd potential is realized an op-ed the Advote today tled, “Logo’s Fire Island Contribut to Gay Ameri’s Moral Decle.
It worri about what young gay people will make of this show (“What effect uld have on gay preteens who have yet to e out?