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THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
The global rponnts said 30 percent of such visuals pict gay men as "feme"; 29 percent show LGBTQ+ people rryg the rabow flag; 29 percent portray lbians as "mascule"; and 28 percent such visuals pict gay men as "flamboyant. Yet the mpaign leav a lot to be sired; “crics note that queer people of lour, trans, genrqueer and genr nonnformg youth, and lbians have not been spiratnally hailed by [the project] the same way as whe gay male liberals” (Puar). One predomant crique revolv around Savage’s own subject posn as an abled, monied, whe, cis man who is also gay– a subject posn whose experienc preclu those of trans, poor, POC, disabled, and non-man embodiments and is “a mandate to fold to urban, neoliberal gay enclav” which already privileg bodi like Savag’ (Puar).
The assiatnist polics of the vios and the e of gay kids’ suicis “highlightg an exceptnal class of aspiratnal gay cizens at the expense of others” that Savage employs further disurag dissent and diversy orr to pat the gay muny (and queer futury) as a monolh of whe acceptabily and a sense of achievg some mythic normalcy. There is more power, we argue, the elimatn of such “narrow versns of what means to be gay, and what means to be bullied, that for those who nnot intify wh but are neverthels still targeted” as are picted the It Gets Better Campaign (Puar). Featurg many queer characters, HIV+ characters, characters of lor, and poor characters, their teractns give sight to not only media portrayals of queer people who fall outsi of the acceptable mold of whe, abled, upper-middle class gays.