The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal.
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OPN | KAMS IS SO STRAIGHT ’S GAY
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Gay men? Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. “Three out of 10 women unr the age of 25 nsir themselv to be gay or transgenr.
Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are.
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” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic.
Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer. And so are homosexualy, bisexualy and beg ’s been an objective crease the number of visible L.
This is the first time Amerin history that gay and trans people have been able to live as themselv any real way, wh jobs and marriag and dogs and ts and visibily. Senr lumnist Nathaniel Langley argu that the bar is so straight that is gay. Before ftivi arrive, your pregame featur several Charli XCX tun alongsi ABBA anthems — you’re gay.
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Beyond beg another hypermascule Camptown bar, KAMS be our gay bar for those stunng, homosocial sends. A gay home wh an absurdly straight space. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a scholar genr studi and queer theory, characteriz homosocialy as social bonds between those of the same sex.
Siarly, Sedgwick not a “homoerotic ntuum” — a progrsn of sir between the same-sex driftg to homosexualy. Particularly between men, male timacy wh homosocialy emerg as “male bondg” — “dus jt beg dus” behavr.