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Osborne had a slight revelatn while speakg to <em>Time</em> Magaze<em></em> this past Febary. “I told [wrer Sam Lansky], ‘Beg gay is a very small part of who I am. There are a lot of other thgs that I thk intify me.” A lot of say that when we’re g out, whether out of ternalized homophobia or some vague sense of obligatn to straight people. Most of , the space of months or years or s, e to reevaluate that posn. For T.J., the shift me stantly, the middle of his g out terview. “He said, ‘Well, what if ’s not? What if ’s the biggt part of who you are?’ Even though was such a simple qutn, kd of shattered me. 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Osborne, lead sger of Brothers Osborne, the band he started wh his big brother John, is the first current, male, mastream untry artist to be openly gay. He had planned to let that terview be that: one and done. Play down on the red rpet, keep the foc on the mic. But now, four months after g out, T.J. Osborne is somethg even rarer and more signifint than an <em>out, gay, male, mastream</em> untry artist; he’s a public figure who’s explorg those qutns of inty, real time, right out loud. </p><p data-no-id="3" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Brothers Osborne has jt played their first big post-panmic show to a crowd of 25,000 at the Gulf Coast Jam Panama Cy Beach, Florida. It was their first appearance as a band sce playg the Halftime Show of the NFL Thanksgivg Day Classic back 2019—the night the lights went out Detro. “We’re on natnal televisn, about to play, and the whole thg go black,” he remembers. “We’re jt standg there. 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We were gog to rerd a new album," he says. "Then we me out to quarante.” Months later, T.J. was nervo for Gulf Coast Jam. “A ftival is always a mixture of people who are our fans and jt untry fans general. And I hadn’t played live so long: all of my go-tos, all the thgs I like to say on the fly to get through transns, I didn’t remember what I had ever said any of the shows.” </p><p data-no-id="6" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">There was also the small tail of sudnly beg a queer untry artist. “Country mic has a pretty nservative crowd, and we were playg down south, which is pretty nservative," he tells me. "But was awome. I felt like I uld take a breath and say ‘Okay, we’re dog this now. We’re back.’” </p><p data-no-id="7" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Though he’d been nervo about , the crowd took to Brothers Osborne’s newt sgle “Younger Me,” a eply emotnal song about tryg to nnect wh the secure, ightened child wh yourself. “I wanted to wre about the whole thg, but I didn’t want to be too on the nose, jt for the sake of not beg predictable,” he says. “But I did e out, and I did feel pelled to wre about , bee is one of the biggt, if not the biggt experience of my life.” T.J. and John wrote the song wh Kenll Marvel, “this, like, shaved head, Mossy Oak beard, big old wild drk’ whiskey kick’ ass kd of guy." Marvel, a untry songwrg veteran, is the proud dad of a gay son himself. </p><p data-no-id="8" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">“Younger Me” is a leap forward for untry mic. It opens wh ‘80s synths and builds to a crcendo that’s triumphant and vulnerable all at once. Naturally, took a few vol tak to get one where T.J. wasn’t cryg. “One of the l that still wrecks me is, <em>‘Younger me, way too young to pace a bedroom floor.’</em> When I thk of not jt 12, 13, 14 year old T.J., but 12, 13, 14 year old <em>anybody </em>pacg your bedroom floor at that imprsnable age, stuck your room wishg you uld be someone else, beg ashamed of yourself.” The ia of visibly upsets him, still. “It’s an emotn that’s way too powerful for someone that young to be experiencg that abundance. I jt want to fd that kid and say, ‘Buddy, you’re awome, and you have no ia how much of your youth you’re wastg wrapped up this thg that’s unfair.” </p><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om youTube. 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Or people not wantg anyone to know they’re a bottom, bee tops are more sirable.” T.J. lghs. “Which is hilar, bee who do we fuck if there’s no bottoms?” Gee Jon uld never. </p><p data-no-id="12" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">For someone on jt the other si of the closet door, T.J. has a clear view of what he’s left behd. “I was always workg. I got so fuckg good at . I didn’t realize that my bra, all day, every day was dodgg qutns, answerg qutns a certa way that would flip around so people ultimately wouldn’t ask me about relatnships. I uld do like <em>that</em>,” he snaps his fgers, still exudg a laid-back, nfint, untry-boy energy, even as he’s learng fundamental lsons about himself and his relatnship to the world at age 36, “I didn’t realize how exhstg was. It’s so much easier beg out.” Lsons like that shatter some people; some people never get to learn them.</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="13" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1eiql25">{text-align:center;marg:0rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><style data-emotn="css ow0dpz">{borr:0.3125rem solid #FF3A30;borr-radi:100%;ntent:'';display:block;height:2.1875rem;left:50%;marg:-0.99rem to 0 -1.33rem;posn:absolute;width:2.1875rem;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-ow0dpz eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css la9czl">{font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.625rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.75rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}{ntent:'"';display:block;font-fay:Lsanne,Lsanne-fallback,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:3.4375rem;le-height:0.72;font-style:alic;paddg:0.3125rem 0.875rem 0 0;}</style><blockquote class="css-la9czl e1pe3zr90">"I thk that’s been a problem the gay muny, wh the preference beg for mascule men. 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Where I was hopg to go, was more of a narrow lane,” he adms. “But now, untry is beg more diverse than ’s ever been. [Country is] beg one of the more diverse genr out there terms of the sound of the mic. You’re startg to see more people of lor and more varieti of people g to this genre, and we’re seeg how powerful that is and how much ’ll help prerve and save untry mic.”</p><p data-no-id="16" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Te, but we n’t ignore the fact that jt this year, Man Wallen got ught sayg the n-word on tape. His album <em>Dangero</em>, already at number one,<em></em> broke rerds by holdg the spot for 10 weeks amid the ntroversy. T.J.’s done some thkg about this too: “I thk as a society, we tend to rally behd people who are gettg negative feedback, Man beg the latt example. But if you look at R. Kelly and Michael Jackson, when those documentari were nng, their streamg numbers explod too. 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Ask me <em>then</em> to do a playlist for you. In June helps me a ltle, but n read a ltle like chary.” He shak his head, a wise and nny advote jt four months to beg out. “There's 11 more months where ’s fuckg hard as sh. So that’s a thg I’m tryg to figure out. Once this month is over, how do we ntue to get the support of the people who sh out to support someone for beg ncelled?” </p><p data-no-id="19" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Brothers Osborne got a nice ltle streamg bump the wake of the <em>Time</em> terview, but not on a Man Wallen level. “While I’ve been loved and accepted, there’s still a lot of hate for me and for people like me. We n’t fet that and act like our work is over. It’s still really hard.” He’s grateful for the chance to have the nversatns about inty, and ’s rehg to hear him do , but there’s still a band to promote. “I know I n talk about this June, but what about Augt when I’ve got Brothers Osborne stuff I want to talk about?”</p><style data-emotn="css 1oaqclt">{font-fay:Glanz,Glanz-fallback,Tim,Serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;marg-top:0.625rem;text-align:center;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.75rem;le-height:1.3;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.875rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.125rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="20" class="body-h4 css-1oaqclt et3p2gv0">Get unlimed accs to + a prt subscriptn wh <style data-emotn="css umdwtv">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#FF3A30;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:background 0.4s;transn:background 0.4s;background:lear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Esquire Select" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">Esquire Select</a>. </h2><p data-no-id="21" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Let’s not wa for Augt. 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Last year, thor Garth Greenwell suggted that Hanya Yanagihara’s A Ltle Life uld be the great gay novel that ntemporary culture was wag for. A few months later, Greenwell produced his own ntenr for that tle when his acclaimed What Belongs To Us was released. Around the same time, Alexanr Chee’s novel Queen of the Night was released. Thatt’s another beloved book that’s wily regard to be gay—if not subject matter, then sensibily.

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THE MEN WHO TURNED DAVE HOLM GAY

In the months sce g out, the Brothers Osborne star is rvg out a trail for gay men a way the genre hasn’t seen before. * dave holmes gay *

I'm not sayg the guys ma me gay, though they probably did; what I am sayg is that they st a shadow that stretched all the way to my adulthood. He is jt a grown man wh a thick outgrowth of cht hair a sensible pair of boxers Ameri's gay-iendlit cy. He has a goofy bt iend who wears equally mall-punky cloth, and their relatnship is eher kd of homoerotic or I jt remember that way bee I wanted to see them kiss.

Everyone the Volleyball Scene Top GunI mean, Top Gun is eply homoerotic, full stop; 's Tom Cise the Navy, for Pete's sake. Gayns had on target Ryan Sixteen CandlHere's how hot Jake Ryan Sixteen Candl is: all we know about him is that he ss idly by while his girliend throws a party that stroys his parents' hoe; he's a ltle b racist to Long D Dong (which, fairns, so is John Hugh); and he sends his blackout-dnk girliend home wh a boy who don't have a driver's license, wh the clear unrstandg that this boy is gog to at least try to have sexual terurse wh her.

NO SHA, BUT THERE’S A WRONG WAY TO MAKE A GAY ANTHEM

Attemptg to wre a gay anthem 2019 reeks of sweat and substandard self-awarens. Here's why artists like Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and others need some lsons on the right way to wre a song celebratg the LGBTQ muny. * dave holmes gay *

“I told [wrer Sam Lansky], ‘Beg gay is a very small part of who I am. ” A lot of say that when we’re g out, whether out of ternalized homophobia or some vague sense of obligatn to straight people. Osborne, lead sger of Brothers Osborne, the band he started wh his big brother John, is the first current, male, mastream untry artist to be openly gay.

Osborne is somethg even rarer and more signifint than an out, gay, male, mastream untry artist; he’s a public figure who’s explorg those qutns of inty, real time, right out loud. " Marvel, a untry songwrg veteran, is the proud dad of a gay son himself. “I thk that’s been a problem the gay muny, wh the preference beg for mascule men.

TAYLOR SWIFT'S 'YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN' VIO IS STRANGELY BOTH GAY AND SEXLS

In his new memoir, "Party of One," former MTV VJ Dave Holm chronicl his life lovg mic and growg up gay. * dave holmes gay *

"I thk that’s been a problem the gay muny, wh the preference beg for mascule men.

) One out gay rock star was a great leap forward, but R. "And I want to see gay fans feelg good and wele and fortable those crowds. “I didn’t thk I’d want to talk about beg gay this much.

Last night, Taylor Swift gave a gift to her queer fan base the form of a summertime gay anthem lled “You Need To Calm Down, ” and on behalf of a grateful muny, I mt say: thank you, Taylor! But attemptg to wre a gay anthem 2019 reeks of sweat and substandard self-awarens. The classics of the past— your “I Will Survive, ” your “It’s Rag Men, ” your “Pull Up To The Bumper”— they gave our gayns directly.

DAVE HOLM'S PARTY OF ONE IS THE LATT GREAT GAY AMERIN BOOK

Although Taylor Swift's 'You Need to Calm Down' vio livers the celebry meos, om Ellen DeGener and Laverne Cox to Jse Tyler Fergon and all five Queer Eye guys, #YNTCD is strangely sanizg gay culture. Here's why we're glad Taylor Swift is g her platform, but not the bt way for the LGBTQ muny. * dave holmes gay *

The days, LGBTQ wokens is a box to check off a marketg plan, and when there are perfectly pable queer artists out there, stg down as a straight person and settg out to wre a gay anthem is very much like tryg to give yourself a nickname.

Exhib A: eight summers ago, Lady Gaga exprsed herself wh the gay-power sgle “Born This Way, ” wh s rctn of queerns to a geic ndn and s shudrgly tone-af mandment “Don’t be a drag, jt be a queen. You’re the age of most pop mic nsumers, which is young, and beg openly gay n get you bullied or kicked out of your hoe? ) It is the thought that unts, I gus, but if your thought is that beg gay is like beg Lebane, maybe you aren’t fished trouble “Calm Down” the send verse, when Swift shifts her foc om Twter trolls to homophob.

‘HANDSOME DEVIL’ IS THE KD OF MOVIE JOHN HUGH WOULD’VE MA IF HE WERE IRISH, GAY, AND VERY INTO RUGBY

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You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web more troublg is the send pre-chos, which attempts to reason wh a shoutg homophobe thly: “Take several seats and try to rtore the peace/Control your urg to scream about all the people you hate/‘Cse sha never ma anybody ls gay.

” Well, I am here to tell you that sha has ma a lot of people a lot ls gay.

The homophobia that is at the root of our culture ti young queers up knots that take s to untie. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web the pantheon of gay anthems, I’m puttg “Calm Down” right alongsi “My Brother’s Gay (And That’s Okay! In , young pop sensatn ChaseDreams releas a song celebratg his brother’s homosexualy a way that is scere, supportive, and terrifygly unterproductive: “The way that he acts, the way that he talks, the way that he lghs and the way that he walks, ” ChaseDreams sgs, and then jt when you (and his brother Cary, still so poorly self-actualized he’s settlg for blowg his straight roommate) are ready for him to stop, he ntu: “the way that he ns, how he mov his hands, he’s gay even when he jt ss or he stands.

DAVID H. HOLM REF THE CLICHé GAY BT FRIEND TROPE IN "HIGH FILY"

” Any gay person who spent their adolcence policg every word, step, giggle and gticulatn—which is every gay person—felt the burn. Speakg of which, all this is happeng when the ’s gay anthem has already arrived, and ’s lled “The Joke.

” There is triumph the chos (“Let ‘em lgh while they n…I have been to the movi, and I see how ends: the joke’s on them”) and bee the vers lay out wh vastatg clary jt how much ls gay—and happy, and proud—sha mak a person, the triumph is earned. A gay anthem is absolutely still possible, but now that gay people are dog for themselv, whout direct reprentatn or d language, maybe the role of an ally is to take a seat (aga, jt the one!

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Like God Herself, I love a trier. It is a thrillg and still somewhat new experience to be part of the textual narrative pop mic, and I am lighted for the young queer kid who’s hearg the song and feelg seen, supported and nourished for the first time. It’s important! And the song has already lodged self my ontal lobe and kicked both of those new Bon Iver songs out of their seats. Between “Calm Down,” Katy Perry's “Never Really Over,” and the whole new Carly Rae Jepsen album, the 2019 pop sound palette seems to be “<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the Fletch soundtrack" class="body-lk css-umdwtv et3p2gv0">the Fletch soundtrack</a>,” and I am all the way here for . I will hear “Calm Down” at pool parti this summer, and I will sg along. It is nice. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="3" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1643r8a">{borr:none;marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;paddg:0rem;}</style><asi class="css-1643r8a e6pr2lz5"><style data-emotn="css m4kh8l">{display:le-block;font-weight:normal;marg:0rem;borr-top:0.25rem solid #15263D;paddg-right:1.1rem;paddg-top:0.4375rem;text-transform:lowerse;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.3;}</style><h6 class="css-m4kh8l e6pr2lz3"><style data-emotn="css 156fvc1">{borr-bottom:0.4375rem solid #FF3A30;borr-right:0.4375rem solid transparent;ntent:'';display:le-block;height:0;marg-right:0.5rem;width:0;}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-156fvc1 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 8lle59">{max-width:lc(100% - 120px - .625rem);}</style><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Story</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><style data-emotn="css c4s2gi">{paddg:0rem;marg:0rem;list-style:none;}</style><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><style data-emotn="css uoc2ww">{font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1rem;le-height:2rem;paddg-top:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.9375rem;le-height:1.3;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{le-height:1.4;}} a{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#595959;}</style><li class="css-uoc2ww e6pr2lz2"><style data-emotn="css 1bn7a5e">{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-directn:row;-ms-flex-directn:row;flex-directn:row;-webk-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webk-jtify-ntent:flex-start;jtify-ntent:flex-start;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;}</style><a href="/entertament/mic/a28034262/taylor-swift-you-need-to-lm-down-lgbtq-lyrics/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Taylor Swift Miss the Pot of Beg an Ally" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 1l0u1">{marg-right:0.625rem;height:to;}</style><img src="" alt="Performance, Entertament, Stage, Performg arts, Performance art, Dancer, Event, Public event, Fashn, Concert, " tle="Performance, Entertament, Stage, Performg arts, Performance art, Dancer, Event, Public event, Fashn, Concert, " width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Taylor Swift Miss the Pot of Beg an Ally</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><p data-no-id="4" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But attemptg to wre a gay anthem 2019 reeks of sweat and substandard self-awarens. 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The homophobia that is at the root of our culture ti young queers up knots that take s to untie. If “you will spend eterny Hell for your sexual orientatn,” or “God hat fags,” or even “don’t behave that way, son, you’re embarrassg me,” are exampl of sha, jt like a well-timed zger about a pair of pumps that don’t match a drs, sha has actually ma a lot of people a lot ls <em>alive</em>. It serv a more thoughtful analysis than a throwaway le your song about people beg mean to you on Twter, five sends before the le where you image me a gown. </p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">(Also, and now I’m jt beg npicky but I’m on a roll, “take <em>several</em> seats,” like “take wh a <em>huge</em> gra of salt,” explicly ntradicts the meang of the exprsn attempts to tensify. The are creepg to our vernacular unexamed, and mt stop here.)</p><style data-emotn="css 1u2hsbb">{posn:relative;paddg-bottom:56.25%;} .e1c5ygqq0{posn:absolute;top:0rem;left:0rem;width:100%;height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="iame" data-no-id="11" class="embed align-center css-1u2hsbb e1c5ygqq1"><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om Third party. 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But we are still at the dawn of a cultural era which queer people are able to tell their own stori. We only got Troye Sivan’s “Bloom,” our first mastream pop song about bottomg (unls you unt Toni Basil’s “Mickey”), ls than a year ago! It is an excg new time; let’s see what velops om for a moment before we shoehorn some self-servg allyship to a song about the pa of snake emojis a billnaire’s Twter mentns. </p><p data-no-id="18" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">I am aware that I am beg both a queen <em>and</em> a drag. Also, I am wrg this on a ferry to Provcetown where I am stg across om a du a GAYS FOR TRUMP t-shirt, so I know there are bigger fish to y. But “You Need To Calm Down” is ls a gay anthem than a Wells Fargo Bank tent at a Pri ftival: <em>You’re fabulo, and so is our troductory APR! </em>If “The Joke” is a gay anthem, “You Need To Calm Down” is a bachelorette party at the gay club. </p><p data-no-id="19" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Thanks for the support, thanks for g, but…like, n you jt not? </p><style data-emotn="css 2ok9l4">{marg-top:1.875rem;borr-top:th solid #595959;}</style><div data-jam-id="thor-b" class="css-2ok9l4 e13rjwo40"><style data-emotn="css f0b5z8">{display:grid;grid-template-lumns:to 1;grid-lumn-gap:0.625rem;paddg-top:1.25rem;paddg-bottom:1.25rem;clear:both;}</style><div class="css-f0b5z8 e19xk9rq8"><style data-emotn="css irehmq">{borr-radi:50%;height:60px;width:60px;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{width:40px;height:40px;}}</style><span class="css-irehmq e19xk9rq1"><style data-emotn="css o0wq4v">{width:100%;height:100%;borr-radi:50%;vertil-align:middle;object-f:ver;}</style><img src="" alt="Headshot of Dave Holm" tle="Headshot of Dave Holm" width="100%" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" class="css-o0wq4v e19xk9rq3" /></span><div><style data-emotn="css 3sqxrq">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;grid-gap:4px;-webk-align-ems:basele;-webk-box-align:basele;-ms-flex-align:basele;align-ems:basele;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;}</style><div class="css-3sqxrq e19xk9rq7"><span class="css-0 e19xk9rq5"><style data-emotn="css 1wrp370">{lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-lor:her;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-transform:upperse;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><style data-emotn="css 1mqxhpd">{lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;text-transform:upperse;lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-lor:her;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-transform:upperse;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href="/thor/9774/dave-holm/" class="e1c1bym13 css-1mqxhpd e1c1bym14"><span>Dave Holm</span></a></span></div><style data-emotn="css oqk32x">{lor:#161616;font-fay:Lsanne,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02rem;marg-top:0.625rem;text-transform:upperse;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.4;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.3;}}</style><div class="css-oqk32x e19xk9rq6">Edor-at-Large</div><style data-emotn="css 1b1navg">{display:-webk-box;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1rem;le-height:1.4;overflow:hidn;paddg-top:0.3125rem;-webk-box-orient:vertil;-webk-le-clamp:5;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{-webk-le-clamp:10;}}>*{display:le;} em{font-fay:CharterItalic,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} p{marg:0rem;} p a{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;} p a:hover{text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><div class="css-1b1navg e19xk9rq4"><p>Dave Holm is Esquire's L.A.-based edor-at-large. 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