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Contents:
- A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF GIRAFF, A SUBCULTURE FOR VERY TALL GAY MEN
- TALL GAYS (6'4" AND ABOVE) TELL ME...
- GAY PRI COLLECTN
A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF GIRAFF, A SUBCULTURE FOR VERY TALL GAY MEN
It said: "Mt be at least this tall to ri this ri, " as well as the name of the group: the Tall Gay Agenda. Even actor Evan Hoyt Thompson, the -founr of the Tall Gay Agenda, told me he's not entirely sure where me om. Thompson (6 feet 4 ch tall), his then-boyiend-now-hband Addison Smh (also 6 feet 4 ch tall) and their mutual iend Jt Ocean (6 feet 2 ch tall) were always hyperaware of their shared elevatn when they would go out on the NYC gay bar scene.
One night, they joked to some iends that they were the "Tall Gay Agenda, " and the TGA's first seed was didn't ci to grow that seed to an actual event until two years later — a cisn that, tertgly, was fluenced by a muny of short gay men.
"The spiratn me om 'Runt, ' [a] party that ed to happen at Nowhere Bar for short gay guys, " Thompson said. It was really his ia to do somethg siar, so we cid to have a gay bar takeover for guys that were 6 feet 2 ch and taller. While rearch has shown that tall straight guys have an overwhelmg advantage the datg market, a 2014 study about the height preferenc of gay men suggts that this privilege don't exactly transcend sexual orientatn.
TALL GAYS (6'4" AND ABOVE) TELL ME...
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Perhaps 's a ls severe example of the "boyiend tws" phenomenon, which gays are creepily attracted to men who uld be their clon: Lots of gay men are lookg for someone who's (lerally) on their level. "Lots of gay men are lookg for someone who's (lerally) on their level. "Back when I was datg, I would have given anythg for Tall Gay Agenda to exist bee I've always been attracted to taller guys.
GAY PRI COLLECTN
More than anythg, Thompson said that the group hop to brg like-md gay men (and their alli) together to foster a sense of nnectn that's missg om the mastream gay bar scene.
"It's really important to me to create an event where people feel fortable talkg to strangers and makg new iends — somethg that is sorely lackg most NYC gay bars and the cy general. Simply beg tall and gay are daily experienc, and relatg over shared experienc is maybe the easit way to stantly build rapport wh 's also worth notg that centerg this kd of a social group around a distct physil characteristic is kd of a signature gay thg. Peggg that subculture wh the name of a wild animal is probably even more of a signature gay thg.
From bears to otters to cubs, the phenomenon of gay sub-muni adoptg animal nam is so well-known at this pot that the Onn even gently spoofed back 2009, penng an article tled "Report: 65% Of All Wildlife Now Used As Homosexual Subculture Signifier. "Jonathan Katz, a queer studi scholar and profsor at the State Universy of New York at Buffalo, believ that the TGA is emblematic of all such gay subcultur. Whereas my tall stature is ually the one thg that f me to any given roomful of gay strangers, the TGA gave me a night which my height was the least unique thg about me.