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.
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THE GENERIC GLORY OF GAY INSTAGRAM
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THE DANGER OF INSTAGAYS
Urban Dictnary f an “Instagay” not as any gay guy on Instagram, but rather those gay guys who bee famo on the social media platform for beg “attractive, fun, rich, outgog, happy, and nfint. ” The rt of the Instagays are basilly distguishable om Ian and Rex. Instagays’ self-prentatn is clearly homosexual, but not necsarily feme.
INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED
Effemacy on gay Instagram serv to affirm masculy: Beg touch wh one’s feme si is evince of nfince one’s manhood. As femist theorist Marilyn Frye wr The Polics of Realy, “gay male affectatn of femy is a ser sport which men may exercise their power and ntrol over the feme.
” The Instagays give not so much a performance of effemacy as a mastery over Instagram is, basilly, an arms race of self-refement.
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