‘Queer Eye’ Rep, Season 2, Episo 1: ‘God Bls Gay’

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‘QUEER EYE’ AND THE FORMERLY STRAIGHT GUY WHO IS NOW A GAY DAD

Watchg the new Queer Eye as a new(-ish) gay man and father created some nflicts for our wrer, and now he unrstands why. * eye one gay *

In this eight-episo season, the “Fab Five” — gay men who are experts groomg, fashn, culture, sign and okg — pile to a new pick-up tck to sur the Atlanta area for lonely and msy men. Bravo’s classic Queer Eye for The Straight Guy aired 2003 and was nsired darg simply by displayg gay and heterosexual men teractg on televisn.

Queer Eye and gay reprentatn.

The new Queer Eye do, however, succeed celebratg diverse reprentatns of gay men. The origal show was guilty of “gaystreamg, ” the ia that gay personali need to adhere to stereotyp and downplay differenc. Classic Queer Eye’s gaystreamg placed heterosexual culture at s centre, and downplayed the Fab Five’s liv, inti and sexualy.

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’ Heterosexualy fas om the show’s foc when they makeover a gay man. The producers have shifted the foc om simple teractns among gay and heterosexual men to episos that tentatively addrs broar issu of genr, race, relign and polics. However, the show follows the general trend of the past few s, where gay men have bee most visible and accepted society through their role as nsumers.

Bravo's origal Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was a groundbreakg realy seri for Amerin first eratn of Queer Eye premiered July 2003 and featured five gay men who were experts their given fields. The origal st nsisted of Carson Krsley (the "fashn savant"), Jai Rodriguez (the "culture vulture"), Kyan Douglas (the "the groomg gu"), Ted Allen (the "food and we nnoissr"), and Thom Filicia (the "sign doctor") many ways, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was one of the first popular realy seri to troduce several different typ of gay men to mastream dienc.

QUEER EYE SEASON-TWO PREMIERE REP: A PLACE CALLED GAY

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For a untry that still wrtled wh acceptg LGBTQ+ people, the OG Queer Eye for the Straight Guy show proved that hetero guys had no reason to feel threatened if they hung out wh gay men — and they may even be able to learn a thg or two om 2018, Netflix rebooted the show wh a slightly tweaked tle, Queer Eye. Instead, they'd now help all kds of people: women, other gay men, upl, and more. AJ had lost his father not too long ago, and his Queer Eye journey helped him e out as gay to his stepmother.

GAYDAR: EYE-GAZE AS INTY REGNN AMONG GAY MEN AND LBIANS

Not to mentn, one fell swoop, his stepmother learned that AJ was not only gay, but had a long-term partner named Dre! Losg his father before he was able to e out, and not feelg nfince his prentatn as a gay man were jt two of the obstacl the team were charged wh helpg him overe. “Queer Eye, ” the Netflix reboot of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, ” featur a new st … and some of the same old stereotyp about homosexual men.

As a profsnal full-time gay man, I’m obligated to wre about Netflix’s recent reboot of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

The origal seri aired on Bravo om 2003-2007: a kschy and lorful ltle show which five fabulo gay men kidnapped a slovenly straight du and tght him the ways of the Gay Force. The gays would give the straight slob a makeover: a ol haircut, some better outfs, tips on healthy eatg and entertag, even a renovated bachelor pad. They’d then reveal their Crfella to all his iends and fay, who would cheer and appld, and marvel at how those magil gays had sprkled their fairy dt and transformed their pal to a man who was dashg and cultivated — but still straight, Thank God.

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It celebrated gay men and everythg they brought to the table even if was skill sets that were largely affirmatns of stereotyp.

You’d thk I — a straight-livg-but-gay-stgglg guy who didn’t know a pocket square om a Kleenex — would’ve been eply unfortable watchg the show back then.

I’m an out/proud gay man, married to another du, wh a teenage dghter who’s a stnch supporter of equaly for all. While g out later life obvly has challeng, one of s more fun aspects has been explorg different parts of pop culture I didn’t really appreciate before — the gay parts. Over the last few years, I’ve enjoyed watchg gay-themed movi and TV shows whout havg to act like was foreign terrory.

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