The pk pound has generally been fed as the spendg power of gay men and lbians, or as lucrative target market urted by some savvy marketers. Dr Jt Bengry discs how gay nsumers have been targeted sce at least the 19th century.
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- BRENDAN FRASER TO PORTRAY 600-POUND GAY MAN THE WHALE
- THE 600-POUND GAY MAN: HOW ACTOR STT GREER BAR IT ALL THE WHALE
- EDBURGH GAY MENS' SNA LNCH £50K FUNDRAISER SPERATE BID TO SURVIVE THE PANMIC"AS EDBURGH'S LAST GAY MALE SNA WE ARE ASKG FOR YOUR HELP", SAID THE POUND ON THEIR GOFUNDME PAGE.EDBURGHLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYHILARY MCHELLEDOR18:42, 29 OCT 2020BOOKMARKTHE POUND IS EDBURGH'S ONLY GAY MALE SNA. (IMAGE: THE POUND)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
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- ‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
BRENDAN FRASER TO PORTRAY 600-POUND GAY MAN THE WHALE
Philly actor Stt Greer tak on the role of a 600-pound gay man Theatre Exile's productn of "The Whale." * pound gay *
Lucky for gay/bi men, there are que a number of who know exactly how that feels.
It seems like every gay guy out there is a bottom, and when you thk you've met someone who's fely a He too is a bottom. Brendan Fraser is set to star a whale of a The Whale, the 52-year-old actor will portray Charlie, a 600-pound, middle-aged gay man tryg to retablish a bond wh his 17-year-old dghter. Aronofsky's The Wrtler and Black Swan led their stars to the Osrs, although his most recent productn, Mother!, starrg Jennifer Lawrence, was met wh mixed 's stg announcement, first reported by Deadle, at a time of bate over the appropriatens of straight actors takg gay rol.
Jam Corn was recently slammed by crics for his "gayface" performance The Prom.
THE 600-POUND GAY MAN: HOW ACTOR STT GREER BAR IT ALL THE WHALE
"As Edburgh's last gay male sna we are askg for your help", said The Pound on their GoFundMe page. * pound gay *
Davi clared that the parts should be rerved for gay actors. "They are not there to 'act gay' bee 'actg gay' is a bunch of s for a performance. About 80% of people intified as gay/homosexual.
Greer stars the productn at Theatre Exile, and took the time to chat wh about what s like to play the monstro character, and what kd of reactn someone like Charlie would get the morn gay “muny. ”Obvly, this is a play, but there’s so much to be said about body image the gay muny.
EDBURGH GAY MENS' SNA LNCH £50K FUNDRAISER SPERATE BID TO SURVIVE THE PANMIC"AS EDBURGH'S LAST GAY MALE SNA WE ARE ASKG FOR YOUR HELP", SAID THE POUND ON THEIR GOFUNDME PAGE.EDBURGHLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYHILARY MCHELLEDOR18:42, 29 OCT 2020BOOKMARKTHE POUND IS EDBURGH'S ONLY GAY MALE SNA. (IMAGE: THE POUND)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
How do you thk 600-pound Charlie would be viewed by other gays?
He is gay, but he was married to a woman and has a dghter. I thk gay or straight, he’s pretty much had body issu all the has been the most difficult part of playg this role for you? Edburgh gay sna The Pound - a discreet late night bathhoe Edburgh's New Town - have lnched a £50, 000 fundraisg mpaign a bid to survive the ongog ronavis lockdown, which do not perm them to reopen.
"The venue needs help orr to survive the lockdown and as Edburgh's last gay male sna we are askg for your help! " While tradnal gay snas like The Pound have dwdled populary due to the rise of apps like Grdr and Scff (and an creased cultural acceptance of the LGBT muny), many gay men enjoy the social environment of a sna. From polil march to huge ftivals takg over ci for a party you’ll never fet, Pri serv as a remr that the gay muny are here; and they’re loud, proud and ready to spend, spend, is the pk pound?
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The phrase ‘pk pound’ first appeared the Guardian newspaper 1984 and is often ed to scribe the purchasg power of the LGBT muny, wh particular emphasis on gay mal, (or to e their handy marketg assignatn, DINK – double e/no kids) lour pk has been synonymo wh the gay muny sce the 1970’s when was reclaimed post-World War II after ncentratn mp prisoners, specifilly those termed to be homosexual, wore a pk triangle to tegorise their ‘kd’ or ‘breed’.
In s first rnatn the most symbolic gay emblem, the rabow flag, ntaed a pk stripe symbolisg ‘sexualy’.
Estimated to be worth £6 billn per year the UK, the pk pound’s purchasg power is viewed as a substantial asset to the UK many gays the village? 7% of that sample size intified as lbian, gay or bisexual. Whichever statistic you choose to believe, ’s clear that there are livg, breathg – and heavily populated – gay muni across the untry.
‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
Soon after the spendg power of the gay muny was intified, brands joed the party… wh mixed firm Absolute lnched rabow loured vodka bottl and publicised recip for cktails wh nam such as Absolute Out and Absolute Proud. Pkwashg volv pani unrtakg a ncerted PR effort to appear gay-iendly to accs the pk pound, while not necsarily practisg what they preach. A first-class example om retailer Target, who ran an advert the USA featurg a gay uple, but were later found to have donated sh to an anti-gay polician 2011.
Was this a guilty attempt at washg away the anti-gay nnotatns? There have also been episos where pani have dipped their to the gay-iendly water, only to face a backlash om nservative anti-gay movements. Hez ran an advert 2008 that showed two men kissg and the backlash ed Hez to scrap the advert, angerg the LGBT muny and makg a mockery of their pro-gay bs are more tactful.