Otter is a term ed by gay men, referrg to a subset of men who blend the physil and social tras of both bears and twks, both vokg and fyg tradnal...
Contents:
- AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP
- CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
- A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP
* gay classifications bear otter *
In the spir of batg stereotyp by reclaimg and celebratg them, BBDO NY Art Director Jam Kuczynski and illtrator Pl Tuller have created a “Gui to Gay Stereotyp, ” a seri of silk screened imag pturg the sence of your neighborhood gay posters, released this week as we head to Pri season, celebrate the recent Supreme Court cisn on DOMA. They prent portras of gay stereotyp cludg the The Bear, The Otter, The Twk, The Twunk, The Drag Queen, and The Butch. The posters are available for $18 each, and some of the proceeds will go to the “Thk B4 You Speak” mpaign, which supports LGBT teens and rais awarens about homophobia and the e of terms like “That’s so gay, ” “Dyke” and “Faggot.
”Kuczynski says he found himself a gay bar one night listeng on some dus talkg about what stereotypil tegori they belonged . As many members of the LGBTQ+ muny will know, an "otter" is a word ed to scribe a th and hairy gay man.
And if you're still nfed, here's your mi gay glossary so that you may never make Jam Mart's mistake:. Bear - A gay man who tends to be large, hairy, butch and sometim mistaken as heterosexual.
CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
Cub - A young gay man who is often hairy and heavy-set, and likely to grow to a bear.
Otter - A hairy yet lean gay man; not que as hairy as a bear and not que as young as a twk.
Flamer - A particularly effemate or mp gay man. Twk - Like a chicken, he is a gay man who is generally small and youthful, wh ltle facial or body hair.
A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
Chicken - A young or young-lookg gay man (or sometim an unrage boy) who is often pretty the face and sexually naive.
The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture.
It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they like the world at large may stereotype gays as mcg wrist flippers wh great taste bent on givg everyone they meet a make over.