17 Signs You're Actually Gay (and Jt Don't Know It)

Contents:

• BRO WE GET IT YOU'RE GAY MEME GENERATOR
• WE GET IT ALREADY: YOU'RE ALL MUCH BETTER GAYS THAN THE GUYS ON THAT FIRE ISLAND REALY SHOW
• AM I GAY? ?️‍?
• 17 SIGNS YOU'RE ACTUALLY GAY (AND JT DON'T KNOW IT)

BRO WE GET IT YOU'RE GAY MEME GENERATOR

Sometim gay-male pop culture has a way of peratg the gay-male rners of the ter like a ckle rippg through a cktail party. This is sometim warranted—gay men (and gay women and bi people and trans folk) clocked Roland Emmerich’s ahistoril abomatn Stonewall the send the trailer h the ter. OffEnglishEarlier this week, Logo released a trailer for s upg realy show about life on the East Coast gay mec of Fire Island (specifilly s P sectn).

It’s a magil place, where anythg seems possible, pecially if your fn of anythg is limed to gog to the beach, gog to parti, kikig wh fellow gays over cktails and other substanc, and havg p amounts of sex wh what feels like an fe amount of potential partners. It’s a pestrian beach town full of geo archecture and acplished men (who are mostly whe and mostly affluent) that has retaed s stat stretchg back to at least the ‘60s as a refuge for gay men spe the nsirable societal progrs achieved the last half century. Historilly signifint, culturally rich, spiratnal (semal gay lerature like Andrew Holleran’s Dancer om the Dance and Larry Kramer’s Faggots chronicled s pre-AIDS culture), athetilly breathtakg, astonishgly horny, Fire Island is your one-stop shop for the multus of privileged gay so, nothg the trailer for Logo’s Fire Island was particularly shockg.

It featur a bunch of young, good-lookg gay guys dog what young, good-lookg gay guys go to Fire Island to do, albe through a PG-rated filter and prented wh flattened nuance, per realy TV’s tennci (and a 90-send trailer’s necsy of flatteng further). Fire Island is a vatn statn, and the ial vatn necsarily means checkg your bra at s rponse I saw my Facebook and Twter feeds om fellow gays seemed particularly bothered by this show.

WE GET IT ALREADY: YOU'RE ALL MUCH BETTER GAYS THAN THE GUYS ON THAT FIRE ISLAND REALY SHOW

This sentiment’s absurd potential is realized an op-ed the Advote today tled, “Logo’s Fire Island Contribut to Gay Ameri’s Moral Decle.

It worri about what young gay people will make of this show (“What effect uld have on gay preteens who have yet to e out? It worri about what straight people will make of this show (“How may fluence someone’s opn of the LGBT muny who has yet to actually meet a gay person real life? Incintally, a tenncy amongst gay men that I fd way more obnox than beg a dnk, horny dumbass is pretensn.

AM I GAY? ?️‍?

As a public person, I take the way people perceive me serly, and not jt bee of my own self-rpect, but for my rpect for the LGBT muny as a urban gay culture is fed part by s abundance of optns. You n’t, for example, pletely dismiss the potential jealoy some gays might feel when they see other gays on TV. I’ve received feedback on my work about my gay life and perceptn of gay culture that eher impli or stat, “You shouldn’t get to have this platform, ” bee the person who’s tellg me this seems to thk he’s more servg.

17 SIGNS YOU'RE ACTUALLY GAY (AND JT DON'T KNOW IT)

Sometim I get the sense that gay guys get so ed to beg exceptnal that the alienatn that om growg up different mutat to a sense of entlement—“I’m the one who’s really special. Last week, the Huffgton Post published an article on gay lonels that spent thoands and thoands of words fg morn gay male ennui, which clud a robt discsn of how mean gay men n be to one another.

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