Plant Gay

Contents:

• 8 WAYS PLANTS ARE TEACHG GAY MEN TO LIVE MDFULLY & CARE FOR THEMSELV WHOUT JUDGMENT
• GAY PLANTS
• PLANT GAY
• GAYFEATHER (LIATRIS SPITA): CARE, GROWG GUI AND TYP (WH PICTUR)

8 WAYS PLANTS ARE TEACHG GAY MEN TO LIVE MDFULLY & CARE FOR THEMSELV WHOUT JUDGMENT

A pre-Stonewall gay bar at the rner of Christopher Street and Gay Street was lled The Flower Pot. Notably, a group of seven gay male wrers who met up regularly New York Cy 1980 and 1981 named themselv “The Vlet Quill.

As Looby not Flowers of Manhood, “daisy, ” “buttercup, ” and pecially “pansy, ” as well as the generalized “horticultural lad” were early twentieth century terms for “flamboyant gay men. The police eventually shut them all down, cludg a 1939 one Harlem that end a 70-year annual tradn (for more, see Gaylaw: Challengg the Apartheid of the Closet by William N. “Chncey pots out that while the pansy craze often drew on or reproduced the most meang stereotyp of male homosexuals, did, at tim, provi a space for some gay performers to speak about, to rist, and even to unter heterosexist prumptns about fairi and other queers, ” the film scholar Mark Lynn Anrson wr his 2011 book Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Scienc 1920s Ameri.

” This phrase, “the love that dare not speak s name, ” was later brought to promence as reference to homosexualy Wil’s gross cency trial 1895. The Lavenr Sre was a 1950s wch hunt for homosexual feral employe, much like the Red Sre was one for munists, as tailed “The Lavenr Sre and Empire: Rethkg Cold War Antigay Polics” by the historian Naoko Shibawa. I was recently eyeg up the plant sectn a store and reflectg on the relatnship some gay men have wh plants.

GAY PLANTS

I realized that gay men who loved plants and garng seemed to be a “thg, ” and that there was somethg about the relatnship which ma unique. You might even be faiar wh the term “plant gay” to scribe gay men who love plants. Search onle about gay men and plants, and you’ll fd a number of bs and social media acunts where gay men exprs their fondns for plants.

So ’s clear that some gay men have a special relatnship wh plants, but what exactly is happeng this relatnship, and what might be the benefs?

Below I’ve listed some of the unique ways that gay men n benef om plants. Plants teach about nurturance and re Sadly, a lot of gay men grew up not gettg the level of nurturance and re that they need to velop a solid sense of self-worth.

PLANT GAY

Plants affirm the sensive and rg parts of ourselv When I’m unsellg gay men, they’ll regularly tell me that as children, their rg and sensive quali were rejected by fay or classmat for beg “too feme. ” This rejectn n ntribute to gay men feelg ashamed about the parts of themselv, even as adults. This is particularly relevant for gay men.

Bee gay men are more likely to face mental health challeng, their mental health may be more likely to benef om plants. This is a cril remr for gay men bee many gay men grew up wh the msage that their needs were not important.

This n be a wele lson for gay men who have not been treated passnately by others, and then unrstandably have difficulty practicg self-passn.

GAYFEATHER (LIATRIS SPITA): CARE, GROWG GUI AND TYP (WH PICTUR)

Mdfulns n be pecially important for gay men, bee many gay men place a high expectatn on how productive they feel they should be.