Gay girl’s gui to the 2023 Women’s World Cup - Outsports

Contents:

• THE UNSETTLED PLACE OF THE GAY TEEN FILM HISTORY
• GAY TEENS ON TV: A TIMELE
• WATCH A TEENAGE BOY FD A STACK OF GAY PORN IN ADAM BARAN’S ADORABLE SHORT FILM ‘JACKPOT’
• GAY TEENS IN A HOSTILE WORLD
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

THE UNSETTLED PLACE OF THE GAY TEEN FILM HISTORY

The Unsettled Place of the Gay Teen Film HistoryPrr to the recent boom movi about queer kids, their stggl played out boundary-phg die films and entertag sikick rol. Courty of NeonOn this past New Year’s Day, the mician Hayley Kiyoko christened the year to e as “20gayteen.

GAY TEENS ON TV: A TIMELE

In this month’s issue of The Atlantic, I wrote about the proliferatn of gay teens recent, wily seen movi: the h rom- Love, Simon, the buzzy nversn-therapy dramas Boy Erased and The Mistn of Cameron Post, and the Bt Picture nomee Call Me by Your Name and wner Moonlight. In ntent and style, the works vary wily, but they share a somewhat rerved, ut tone as they portray kids g to unrstand their homosexualy.

WATCH A TEENAGE BOY FD A STACK OF GAY PORN IN ADAM BARAN’S ADORABLE SHORT FILM ‘JACKPOT’

Gay kids have long shown up mastream high-school edy, jt not as stars.

All about the phenomenon of the “gay bt iend.

The Mistn of Cameron Post and Boy Erased leralize the way that homophobia n rip people away om the tradnal visn of teenagerdom—the backseat make outs, the backwoods keggers—and send them on drab reprogrammg missns which the kids end up policg and punishg themselv.

GAY TEENS IN A HOSTILE WORLD

Last year’s absorbg die drama Beach Rats, for example, portrayed a closeted Brooklyn bro who (spoiler alert) helps his iends mug a guy he meets on a hookup appeal of the lightweight Love, Simon, though, was imagg that a gay kid might fall fortably to a faiar g-of-age groove: ocsnally mortifyg, but never actually trmatic.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

In both s, lettg the gay hero thrive reli on an ialized—even parodic—progrsive utopia.