A Queer Proposal: Is David Sedaris Gay?

HOW GROWG UP GAY SHAPED THE LIFE AND REER OF DAVID SEDARIS
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AFTER GRADUATG OM ART SCHOOL 1987, HE DREW ATTENTN FOR PUBLIC READGS OM HIS DIARI, LEADG TO AN ACCLAIMED APPEARANCE ON NPR 1992. SEDARIS SOON BEME THE BT-SELLG THOR OF SUCH BOOKS AS BARREL FEVER, NAKED AND ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY, EARNG A VOTED FOLLOWG FOR HIS HILAR RELLECTNS OF HIS EARLY YEARS, FAY LIFE AND EXPERIENC FOREIGN UNTRI.EARLY YEARSDAVID RAYMOND SEDARIS WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 26, 1956, JOHNSON CY, NEW YORK. HE WAS THE SEND OF SIX CHILDREN BORN TO SHARON AND LOU SEDARIS, AN IBM ENGEER WHO EVENTUALLY MOVED THE FAY TO RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLA.SEDARIS GRADUATED OM SANRSON HIGH SCHOOL RALEIGH, WHERE HE PERFORMED PLAYS AND WRTLED WH THE REALIZATN HE WAS GAY. HE BRIEFLY ATTEND WTERN CAROLA UNIVERSY AND THEN KENT STATE UNIVERSY, BUT BY 1977 HE HAD DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL TO HCHHIKE AROUND THE UNTRY.AROUND THIS TIME, SEDARIS BEGAN KEEPG A DIARY. HE KNEW HE WANTED TO BE A WRER BY AGE 25, AND HONED HIS CRAFT WHILE ATTENDG THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTUTE OF CHIGO. AFTER GRADUATG 1987, HE TGHT WRG PART TIME AND BEGAN READG OM HIS DIARY AT A CLUB. ONE READG UGHT THE ATTENTN OF IRA GLASS OF CHIGO PUBLIC RAD, WHO VED SEDARIS TO APPEAR ON HIS PROGRAM, THE WILD ROOM. FAMO AUTHORAFTER MOVG TO NEW YORK CY THE FALL OF 1991, SEDARIS FOUND JOBS AS A HOECLEANER AND PARTMENT STORE ELF TO SUPPORT HIS WRG.IN DECEMBER 1992, SEDARIS APPEARED ON NPR, READG HIS STORY "THE SANTALAND DIARI," WHICH REUNTED HIS EXPERIENC AS A CHRISTMAS ELF AT MACY'S PARTMENT STORE MANHATTAN. WH MONTHS OF THE BROADST, SEDARIS'S SAYS BEGAN TO APPEAR SUCH MAGAZ AS HARPER'S, THE NEW YORKER, AND ESQUIRE. HE ALSO BEGAN MAKG REGULAR APPEARANC ON NPR, NOTG THE SUDN CHANGE OM "HAVG 50 LISTENERS TO 50 LN LISTENERS."SEDARIS'S FIRST BOOK, BARREL FEVER (1994), WHICH CLUD "THE SANTALAND DIARI," WAS A CRIL AND MERCIAL SUCCS, AS WERE HIS FOLLOW-UP EFFORTS, NAKED (1997), HOLIDAYS ON ICE (1997) AND ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY (2000). HE BEME KNOWN FOR HIS BGLY FUNNY RELLECTNS OF HIS YOUTH, FAY LIFE AND TRAVELS, MAKG SEMI-CELEBRI OUT OF HIS PARENTS AND SIBLGS. ADDNALLY, HE ENJOYED SUCCS THROUGH LLABORATNS WH YOUNGER SISTER AMY SEDARIS, THE TWO WRG A SERI OF PLAYS AS “THE TALENT FAY.”SEDARIS PUBLISHED DRS YOUR FAY CORDUROY AND DENIM 2004, AND THE FOLLOWG YEAR HE EDED THE ANTHOLOGY CHILDREN PLAYG BEFORE A STATUE OF HERCUL. IN 2007, A D NTROVERSY AROSE WHEN A NEW REPUBLIC ARTICLE CHARGED HIM WH FABRITG MANY OF HIS STORI, THOUGH THE ALLEGATNS ULTIMATELY HAD LTLE EFFECT ON THE THOR'S POPULARY.FOLLOWG WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED FLAM (2008), SEDARIS WENT SLIGHTLY OFF URSE WH SQUIRREL SEEKS CHIPMUNK (2010), A LLECTN OF ANIMAL FABL. HE RETURNED TO HIS WNG FORMULA OF BGRAPHIL SAYS WH LET'S EXPLORE DIABET WH OWLS (2013).SEDARIS NTU TO TOUR SUPPORT OF HIS BOOKS, WH HIS READGS DRAWG HUGE CROWDS. HE ALSO NTRIBUT SAYS TO THE NEW YORKER. HIS NEXT BOOK, A LLECTN OF DIARY ENTRI DATG BACK TO 1977, IS SCHLED FOR A MAY 2017 RELEASE.AWARDS AND PERSONALIN 2001, SEDARIS WAS AWARD THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERIN HUMOR AND NAMED HUMORIST OF THE YEAR BY TIME MAGAZE. HE HAS ALSO EARNED THREE GRAMMY NOMATNS FOR D VERSNS OF HIS WORKS, AND 2008 HE WAS AWARD AN HONORARY DOCTORATE BY BGHAMTON UNIVERSY NEW YORK.THE THOR HAS BEEN WH LONGTIME BOYIEND HUGH HAMRICK, AN ARTIST AND SIGNER, SCE THE EARLY 1990S. AFTER LIVG TOGETHER NEW YORK CY, PARIS AND TOKYO, THE UPLE RIS WT SSEX, ENGLAND.HIS SISTER, AMY SEDARIS, IS ALSO A WELL-KNOWN EDIAN AND {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
A QUEER PROPOSAL: IS DAVID SEDARIS GAY?
LET’S SAY GAY

HOW GROWG UP GAY SHAPED THE LIFE AND REER OF DAVID SEDARIS

He ntued, “I started as a homosexual, beme gay, then LGBT, and now queer. The irony all of this is that ’s supposed to be a rejectn of “bary” — yet each label, self, is actually bary: you’re gay or not gay, you’re genr-fluid or not, etc. Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #life #davidsedaris #gay stori and more.

Sedaris graduated om Sanrson High School Raleigh, where he performed plays and wrtled wh the realizatn he was gay. I'm not really to the gay scene. I sort of met my boyiend so I'd never have to set foot a gay bar for the rt of my life.

“Isn’t he a noted gay? He claims he’s seen his inty’s label shift several tim throughout his 65 years—om “homosexual” to “gay” to “LGBT” to “queer. ” the old man yelled at the fun-makg of morn nventn through absurdy is self-nscly goofy, albe cranky and maybe a ltle irrated at havg to acmodate groups that one don’t necsarily thk one ow any fealty to (spe the ntributns of lbians and trans people to gay liberatn).

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AFTER GRADUATG OM ART SCHOOL 1987, HE DREW ATTENTN FOR PUBLIC READGS OM HIS DIARI, LEADG TO AN ACCLAIMED APPEARANCE ON NPR 1992. SEDARIS SOON BEME THE BT-SELLG THOR OF SUCH BOOKS AS BARREL FEVER, NAKED AND ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY, EARNG A VOTED FOLLOWG FOR HIS HILAR RELLECTNS OF HIS EARLY YEARS, FAY LIFE AND EXPERIENC FOREIGN UNTRI.EARLY YEARSDAVID RAYMOND SEDARIS WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 26, 1956, JOHNSON CY, NEW YORK. HE WAS THE SEND OF SIX CHILDREN BORN TO SHARON AND LOU SEDARIS, AN IBM ENGEER WHO EVENTUALLY MOVED THE FAY TO RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLA.SEDARIS GRADUATED OM SANRSON HIGH SCHOOL RALEIGH, WHERE HE PERFORMED PLAYS AND WRTLED WH THE REALIZATN HE WAS GAY. HE BRIEFLY ATTEND WTERN CAROLA UNIVERSY AND THEN KENT STATE UNIVERSY, BUT BY 1977 HE HAD DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL TO HCHHIKE AROUND THE UNTRY.AROUND THIS TIME, SEDARIS BEGAN KEEPG A DIARY. HE KNEW HE WANTED TO BE A WRER BY AGE 25, AND HONED HIS CRAFT WHILE ATTENDG THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTUTE OF CHIGO. AFTER GRADUATG 1987, HE TGHT WRG PART TIME AND BEGAN READG OM HIS DIARY AT A CLUB. ONE READG UGHT THE ATTENTN OF IRA GLASS OF CHIGO PUBLIC RAD, WHO VED SEDARIS TO APPEAR ON HIS PROGRAM, THE WILD ROOM. FAMO AUTHORAFTER MOVG TO NEW YORK CY THE FALL OF 1991, SEDARIS FOUND JOBS AS A HOECLEANER AND PARTMENT STORE ELF TO SUPPORT HIS WRG.IN DECEMBER 1992, SEDARIS APPEARED ON NPR, READG HIS STORY "THE SANTALAND DIARI," WHICH REUNTED HIS EXPERIENC AS A CHRISTMAS ELF AT MACY'S PARTMENT STORE MANHATTAN. WH MONTHS OF THE BROADST, SEDARIS'S SAYS BEGAN TO APPEAR SUCH MAGAZ AS HARPER'S, THE NEW YORKER, AND ESQUIRE. HE ALSO BEGAN MAKG REGULAR APPEARANC ON NPR, NOTG THE SUDN CHANGE OM "HAVG 50 LISTENERS TO 50 LN LISTENERS."SEDARIS'S FIRST BOOK, BARREL FEVER (1994), WHICH CLUD "THE SANTALAND DIARI," WAS A CRIL AND MERCIAL SUCCS, AS WERE HIS FOLLOW-UP EFFORTS, NAKED (1997), HOLIDAYS ON ICE (1997) AND ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY (2000). HE BEME KNOWN FOR HIS BGLY FUNNY RELLECTNS OF HIS YOUTH, FAY LIFE AND TRAVELS, MAKG SEMI-CELEBRI OUT OF HIS PARENTS AND SIBLGS. ADDNALLY, HE ENJOYED SUCCS THROUGH LLABORATNS WH YOUNGER SISTER AMY SEDARIS, THE TWO WRG A SERI OF PLAYS AS “THE TALENT FAY.”SEDARIS PUBLISHED DRS YOUR FAY CORDUROY AND DENIM 2004, AND THE FOLLOWG YEAR HE EDED THE ANTHOLOGY CHILDREN PLAYG BEFORE A STATUE OF HERCUL. IN 2007, A D NTROVERSY AROSE WHEN A NEW REPUBLIC ARTICLE CHARGED HIM WH FABRITG MANY OF HIS STORI, THOUGH THE ALLEGATNS ULTIMATELY HAD LTLE EFFECT ON THE THOR'S POPULARY.FOLLOWG WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED FLAM (2008), SEDARIS WENT SLIGHTLY OFF URSE WH SQUIRREL SEEKS CHIPMUNK (2010), A LLECTN OF ANIMAL FABL. HE RETURNED TO HIS WNG FORMULA OF BGRAPHIL SAYS WH LET'S EXPLORE DIABET WH OWLS (2013).SEDARIS NTU TO TOUR SUPPORT OF HIS BOOKS, WH HIS READGS DRAWG HUGE CROWDS. HE ALSO NTRIBUT SAYS TO THE NEW YORKER. HIS NEXT BOOK, A LLECTN OF DIARY ENTRI DATG BACK TO 1977, IS SCHLED FOR A MAY 2017 RELEASE.AWARDS AND PERSONALIN 2001, SEDARIS WAS AWARD THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERIN HUMOR AND NAMED HUMORIST OF THE YEAR BY TIME MAGAZE. HE HAS ALSO EARNED THREE GRAMMY NOMATNS FOR D VERSNS OF HIS WORKS, AND 2008 HE WAS AWARD AN HONORARY DOCTORATE BY BGHAMTON UNIVERSY NEW YORK.THE THOR HAS BEEN WH LONGTIME BOYIEND HUGH HAMRICK, AN ARTIST AND SIGNER, SCE THE EARLY 1990S. AFTER LIVG TOGETHER NEW YORK CY, PARIS AND TOKYO, THE UPLE RIS WT SSEX, ENGLAND.HIS SISTER, AMY SEDARIS, IS ALSO A WELL-KNOWN EDIAN AND {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

The ascenncy of “gay” occurred the ‘40s, the before the one which Sedaris was born. Gee Chncey wr at length Gay New York about the “reanizatn of sexual tegori and the transn om an early twentieth-century culture divid to ‘queers’ and ‘men’ on the basis of genr stat to a late-twentieth-century culture divid to ‘homosexuals’ and ‘heterosexuals’ on the basis of sexual object choice. As standards changed and, at least New York, the “fairi” lost the tolerance that they experienced the “gay” ‘20s, they were maligned, and all that went wh them—cludg their labels—beme bad.

I don’t know the exact semantic history, but I n assume that this is very much like “gay” g to be ed as a pejorative for anythg stupid or bad (what Hilary Duff warned about), this is all to say that David Sedaris’ argument is dumb and his piece was bad.

You uld jt say “gay. I started as a homosexual, beme gay, then LGBT, and now queer.