Jason Whel’s Fat Gay Men, reviewed.

Contents:

• LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
• GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
• I’M A FAT GAY MAN. I KNOW. PLEASE STOP TELLG ME
• BIG GAY PALS
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE

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I’M A FAT GAY MAN. I KNOW. PLEASE STOP TELLG ME

The imag I saw of gay men were no better. There was the effortlsly mascule Jack McPhee on Dawson’s Creek, the h teen show of my generatn, and the tall, sexy Brian and prec blond twk Jt on Queer as was before Alex Newell or Daniel Franze or Ady Del Valle provid any pl-size role mols for young gay boys.

Gay magaz, which clud eher waifish twks or mcled jocks, ma me feel like I would never belong, never be sired, never be worthy even my own muny. I mataed a relatively healthy weight for most of my twenti, though I was still regularly the fattt person the gay club. Yet acrdg to one survey, 77 percent of gay men have felt judged or objectified bee of their body, wh 58 percent reportg prsure to look attractive.

It’s cliché to say , but only bee is te: the prsure to be th or to be f is lerally killg gay men like me. If, like me, you’re a fat gay man, remember that there is no right or wrong way to be gay. Big Gay Pals.

BIG GAY PALS

The troubl and triumphs of fat gay men. For a group of people bond over a shared stigma, the gay muny do an awful lot of stigmatizg self.

All those maxims about pri and self-acceptance n obscure the fact that the world of gay men is a celly stratified place.

Then, at the bottom of the ladr, li the rt—those gays wh too much fat to cut at the top, and not enough furry virily to make the middle. Behold: the fat gay men. In his lively (and fabuloly tled) Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Polics of Stigma, Jason Whel, a genr studi profsor at Pace Universy, attempts to rcue the guys om the bottom of the homosexual heap, to cidly mixed rults.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

Billed as an ethnographic study, Fat Gay Men is as much a semi-ic romp as is an amic treatise. The fat gay men scribed Fat Gay Men are tired of beg ostracized by their muni—so they ci to ostracize themselv stead. In an attempt to pe the stigma of rpulence, fat gay men wear as a badge of honor.

Whel’s book foc primarily on Girth and Mirth, a natnwi social club of fat men who hang out wh each other to dodge the strsful expectatns of the larger gay muny. Then the fat gay men go home—and the troubl start aga. At gay pri paras, Girth and Mirthers draw an equal amount of cheers and jeers.

So the fat gay men ghettoize themselv further, stickg to their own clubs and bars, remag largely visible, rdoned off om the gay muny at large.

Some big men grow bter om their social secln and traduce their more toned brethren; Whel scrib one glum meetg where a Girth and Mirther sourly nmns th gay men as hollow, ke-snortg party animals. For some fat gay men, self-acceptance is a zero-sum game.