The tth behd Twter’s favore stereotype about gay men, as explaed by GQ ntributor Louis Stapl.
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WHY DO GAY MEN WALK SO FAST?
In May, several former TikTok employe told The Wall Street Journal that the pany tracked ers who watched gay ntent. A Gordon von Steer-directed mic vio dropped alongsi the song, settg the ter ablaze for s heady pictn of a sticky, sexy, very gay summer.
His srlet templ suggt he’s eher taken a big ol’ huff of the poppers his song oh-so-cleverly referenc, or he’s the thro of homosexual exultatn (anal). The image remds of the work of Peter Hujar, specifilly Orgasmic Man, 1969, a photo that was recently repurposed for the ver of another gay cultural artefact, the Hanya Yanagihara novel A Ltle Life. The mic vio for “Rh” is a gay men’s mag e to life, as if Andy om Toy Story kept a stack of XY the rner over Woody and Buzz.
A reference to the XY chromosome found blogil mal (a tad sentialist, but we move) XY magaze was a youth-foced gay magaze found Wt Hollywood 1996, and featured chiselled lads edorials full of brash, primary lours.
HOW NYC’S GAY BARS THRIVED BEE OF THE MOB
It’s homoerotic and ’s goofball-d, like sports fans who get dnk at the Euros and ci to moon and slap their iends’ bums until the blood vsels burst at the surface.
It’s got all the trappgs of a Caravagg patg – the drama, the dynamism, light and sha, pretty gay boys.
Caravagg was, of urse, a gay man himself, so ’s not too far-fetched to suggt they’d slip the reference .