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Contents:
- KEY & PEELE'S MARRIAGE EQUALY SKETCH IMAG A DIFFERENT KD OF GAY PANIC
- GAY WEDDG ADVICE
- JORDAN PEELE BE THE FACE OF GAY MARRIAGE THIS ‘KEY AND PEELE’ SKETCH
- ‘KEY & PEELE’ PRENTS THE MOST UNFORTABLE GUY AT A GAY MARRIAGE TOWN HALL MEETG
- ‘KEY & PEELE’ PRENTS THE MOST UNFORTABLE GUY AT A GAY MARRIAGE TOWN HALL MEETG
KEY & PEELE'S MARRIAGE EQUALY SKETCH IMAG A DIFFERENT KD OF GAY PANIC
Key & Peele take on the gay marriage issue wh a sketch that's like an In & Out remake. * key and peele gay rights *
Gay rights prevailed, but as many advot have poted out, there's plenty of work to do before the untry achiev universal above sketch is how Key & Peele hop to keep the nversatn gog. The C-Span mera mak a stop at all typ of nstuents: a young person, an old person, an Asian person, a Hispanic person, a straight person, and a gay person. The twist: Key's face of gay Ameri is Jordan Peele, who is unsure how he beme the face of gay sketch is a thkpiece wag to happen.
GAY WEDDG ADVICE
Dave Chapelle didn’t jt offend the LGBTQ muny wh his latt standup special. He betrayed the legacy of the Black ic tradn he hered. Some of the most inic Black edians were eher gay or affirmed them their performanc. * key and peele gay rights *
Do Peele's character really need to re if he's misintified as gay? The 2014 Key & Peele sketch “Gay Weddg Advice” centers around the Johnsons, a black fay preparg for a relative’s upg gay weddg.
While pokg fun at an ignorant hoehold’s well-tentned attempts to support the marriage of a gay relative, the sketch skillfully criqu both the nuclear fay stcture and the popular stereotyp associated wh queer inty.
“Gay Weddg Advice” begs wh Larry Johnson, played by Jordan Peele, leadg a Johnson fay Q&A. ” In need of “a ltle help wh the particulars of a gay weddg, ” Larry has enlisted the help of Gary, a gay -worker (and not Larry’s iend, as Larry is quick to clarify), to answer the fay’s qutns preparatn for the event.
JORDAN PEELE BE THE FACE OF GAY MARRIAGE THIS ‘KEY AND PEELE’ SKETCH
* key and peele gay rights *
If anythg, Larry’s anx disposn further echo the llective uneass that the Johnson fay feels towards the prospect of a gay weddg, and queerns general. Once troduced, Gary thanks the Johnson fay for their support of Co Delroy, as seems that they are willg to te themselv about somethg as “crazy” as a gay weddg. Still, Larry’s refal to ll Gary a iend not only suggts that Larry is unfortable wh Gary’s queerns, but also reveals that Larry don’t know many gay people the first place, forcg him to ll on an acquatance to broach this sensive topic.
‘KEY & PEELE’ PRENTS THE MOST UNFORTABLE GUY AT A GAY MARRIAGE TOWN HALL MEETG
The legalizatn of gay marriage leads to some grand planng. * key and peele gay rights *
So even before the qutns and answers beg, the first mute of “Gay Weddg Advice” sets up the scenar of a queer man surround by a fay that both fears associatn wh homosexualy and has sparse teractn wh queer people. While “Gay Weddg Advice” superficially pok fun at the disorientatn ed by queer relatnships wh black fai, the Johnsons’ qutns also reveal the persistence of harmful stereotyp associated wh queer intifitn.
Throughout the urse of the Q&A, the Johnson fay’s qutns bee creasgly obte, and the spectator nnot help but empathize wh the Gary as only gay person the room.
One might thk that someone who was repulsed by the ia of a queer fay, as so many of the Johnsons are, would also reil at gay entertament.
‘KEY & PEELE’ PRENTS THE MOST UNFORTABLE GUY AT A GAY MARRIAGE TOWN HALL MEETG
But “Gay Weddg Advice” driv home a fer pot:that those who nsume queer culture wh pleasure n still be horribly tolerant. Before he officially begs the advice ssn, Gary succctly clarifi, “I jt wanted to say, basilly, that a gay weddg is jt like straight weddg. “Now, none of are gay, so I assume we would all s the straight sectn.
” Clearly, this member of the Johnson clan did not absorb Gary’s troductory remark, revealg that he still perceiv gay weddgs as fundamentally anthetil to straight weddgs. ” But spe Gary’s sistence that gay weddgs are jt like straight weddgs, the fay’s qutns only grow creasgly offensive — and hilarly absurd. ” While Gary kdly assur him that jazz hands are not required at gay weddgs, the young man nspicuoly looks away om Gary durg their exchange, his lack of eye ntact revealg not only his disfort but his unwillgns to engage wh the subject matter at hand.
An Amerin dis group of the late ‘70s, the Village People are a prime example of how gay creativ breached popular culture the dis era, their mic beg hs outsi of the queer muny. While the songs n serve as proud gay anthems, they also rell the historil modifitn of queer performance by heterosexual culture — the Johnsons’ unrstandg of queerns seems to rive largely om the appropriated piec of gay culture embedd wh the Amerin mastream.