Instagays, Unfiltered

Contents:

• INSTA GAY (OFFICIAL TRAILER)
• INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED
• I'VE UNFOLLOWED 90% OF THE INSTAGAY ACUNTS I ED TO LURK ON AND 'S MA ME FEEL 100% BETTER ABOUT MY BODY
• THE DANGER OF INSTAGAYS
• GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY (QUEER IAS/QUEER ACTN) PAPERBACK – MAY 8, 2012
• THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC. GOALS AND TENTNS

INSTA GAY (OFFICIAL TRAILER)

The other night, a stranger wh an ambiguo-lookg avatar and a private acunt DMed me on Instagram to tell me he was gay. He then asked how I rencile my homosexualy wh beg Mlim (he'd likely jt seen a vio about my relatnship wh my Mlim father. I wished him luck and signed off, “Congrats, beg gay is great.

Meang the box of a succsful Instagay—the burgeong cult of betiful gay men on Instagram, wh follower unts that reach to five or six digs—mt be undated. Chanc are, if you’re a gay man, you eher follow or have enuntered an Instagay onle. ”Perhaps unsurprisgly, the Instagay phenomenon is often cricized for beg vapid and misreprentg morn gay life.

INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED

It seems like many Instagays know each other, and so their world is unique.

Dpe some ridicule, there’s no shortage of Instagays who have crossed the elive 500, 000 follower mark, om wrer/director Max Emerson to Jt and Nick, a gay uple based Ptsburgh.

I'VE UNFOLLOWED 90% OF THE INSTAGAY ACUNTS I ED TO LURK ON AND 'S MA ME FEEL 100% BETTER ABOUT MY BODY

Ask a gay man to close his ey and picture one, and he might see Charl-Lrent Marchand, a 26-year-old former nway mol studyg to be a pastry chef. He broke 400, 000 followers last not unlike his peers, brands faiar to any Instagay follower are peppered throughout Charl’ feed, om Daniel Wellgton watch to the datg app Chappy.

And while gay culture has always slavishly worshipped unrealistic ias of bety, om physique mol magaz and the cult of Tom of Fland, Instagay culture may take this worship to a new all, Instagays are algorhmilly-librated thirst traps, a new kd of social media star whose fame is predited on a heady batn of sculpted abs and the lavish trappgs of “fluencer” culture.

THE DANGER OF INSTAGAYS

What if the are our new gay ins? Is the superficialy of Instagay culture really somethg they should look up to?

How many of them are reachg out to Instagays for help through dark tim, as they do to me? I sought to ask the Instagays directly.

GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY (QUEER IAS/QUEER ACTN) PAPERBACK – MAY 8, 2012

And if you’re lookg for Instagays, there’s one surefire way to fd them: On New York-based artist John MacConnell’s page, where he’s sketched hundreds of men, most of whom are Instagays, their unrwear or DMg John, 33, to talk about his experience, he ved me over to his Nola apartment.

By the time I climbed six flights to reach him, I had sweat through my whe drs shirt, and no filter uld glamorize me—I was the oppose of an Instagay. I ask if he thks his work ntribut to body dysmorphia the gay muny. He’s an artist, this is his art, and the role—if any—that Instagays play body dysmorphia wh our muny is almost impossible to ’s more fortable talkg about the good he’s seen om Instagram.

And he talks about his upbrgg, and I’m surprised to learn he spent high school gay nversn therapy, twice a week for three years.

THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC. GOALS AND TENTNS

“When I me out, my fay took my phone and puter away so I uldn’t nnect wh other gay people. Maybe his feed—and maybe the Instagays—are more harmls than people thk.