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Contents:
- INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED
- THE DANGER OF INSTAGAYS
- I'VE UNFOLLOWED 90% OF THE INSTAGAY ACUNTS I ED TO LURK ON AND 'S MA ME FEEL 100% BETTER ABOUT MY BODY
- INSTA GAY (OFFICIAL TRAILER)
- INSTAGAY
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED
Wh thoands of followers, extravagant liftyl and nonstop gym selfi, Instagays are easy to envy. But their rise marks a gay cultural shift, promptg big qutns about what all those nocent snapshots might mean. * www insta gay *
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.
THE DANGER OF INSTAGAYS
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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.
I'VE UNFOLLOWED 90% OF THE INSTAGAY ACUNTS I ED TO LURK ON AND 'S MA ME FEEL 100% BETTER ABOUT MY BODY
INSTA GAY is a drama-edy about a lennial gay reelg after a break-up wh a popular fluencer. Based on a story veloped by Tommy Do and Simon Paluck,… * www insta gay *
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. 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.
INSTA GAY (OFFICIAL TRAILER)
a gay male who boasts an excs of followers and lik on his Instagram profile. He might have acquired his onle populary by diligently farmg followers, retag followers om another platform like tumblr, or even through purchasg engagement om a third-party app. There is a 99.9% chance that he has tonomoly labeled his acunt as a bs profile, dited by the “public figure,” “personal blog,” or “entreprenr” subtl. Other fg characteristics clu havg nspicuo elective surgeri (namely fillers), extravagant/outrageo hairstyle and lor, abe of self-tanner, unreasonably filled- eyebrows, and excsive wheng of teeth to the pot of translucence. A master of misdirectn, the stagay refully nstcts an onle persona that portrays himself as attractive, fun, rich, outgog, happy, and nfint; realy, he is typilly pla, sperate, awkward, secure, prsed, and more often than not—tragic." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * www insta gay *
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. 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.
INSTAGAY
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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.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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. “When I me out, my fay took my phone and puter away so I uldn’t nnect wh other gay people.