Rememberg Tallywackers, Dallas’s ‘Hooters for Gay Men’ - Eater

Contents:

• JOE BIN’S AWKWARD ‘GAY WAER’ REMARK IRKS CROWD AT LGBT EVENT
• ‘GAY WAER’ AND ‘NICE-LOOKG GUY’: JOE BIN’S HISTORY OF AWKWARD STUMBL AROUND INTY GROUPS
• WHEN WILL JOE BIN STOP USG THE “GAY WAER” AS A STAND- FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS?
• GOD BLS GAY WAERS!
• FIRST DAT: WHO IS THE NEW GAY WAER?
• AFTER A WAER WAS STIFFED ON TIPS FOR BEG GAY, THIS TIKTOK STAR OM BATH SPIRED THOANDS OF DONATNS FOR LGBTQ NONPROF

JOE BIN’S AWKWARD ‘GAY WAER’ REMARK IRKS CROWD AT LGBT EVENT

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‘GAY WAER’ AND ‘NICE-LOOKG GUY’: JOE BIN’S HISTORY OF AWKWARD STUMBL AROUND INTY GROUPS

Joe Bin ma an awkward reference to a “gay waer” while speakg at an event hosted by an LGBT rights advote Seattle, a report said Sunday. The printial hopeful was referencg public sentiment on gay rights over the urse of his reer on Saturday when he ma the bonehead ment, acrdg to CNN. Bin med that five years ago if someone a bs meetg Seattle “ma fun of a gay waer” people would have let go.

Bin ntued, sayg that if a person ma a homophobic joke 2019, “that person would not be ved back. The event was hosted by PR executive Roger Nyh, a lear the Seattle gay rights muny. “Thk of the credible, physil, moral urage took to stand up and fight back, ” Bin said about the Stonewall rts, which took place 50 years ago this weekend and helped spark the gay rights movement.

WHEN WILL JOE BIN STOP USG THE “GAY WAER” AS A STAND- FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS?

Openg May 2015 the Dallas gayborhood of Oak Lawn, the rtrant’s lotn unsubtly implied a target mographic of thirsty homosexuals; firsthand acunts affirm that the clientele was ed, fairly gay, but also featured a mix of genrs, straight women among them. But Boxers f self as a gay sports bar — Tallywackers never sold self so precisely, and was spirually closer to a Hooters format than a bar. “Oglg men skimpy unrwear” maybe not the end goal of femism or gay rights, but there’s certaly an imbalance to be rrected: Ameri’s gays and girls should have that same opportuny afford to the Hooters crowd.

The “gay waer” anecdoteAt a fundraiser Seattle durg the cy’s pri celebratns, Bin sought to praise the muny for s advancement on gay rights.

Acrdg to pool reports, Bin said if someone at a bs meetg Seattle "ma fun of a gay waer" five years ago, people would have jt let were heard the crowd while someone yelled “Not Seattle, ” fense of the cy’s reputatn as an acceptg place for LGBT exprsed tratn at Bin appealg to gay stereotyp by mimickg a gay waer speakg wh a lisp and an effemate Moodie-Mills, a polil strategist who is gay, phed back on Bin’s lack of awarens of Seattle’s support for the gay muny. She tweeted:“Seattle had a GAY MAYOR 5 years ago and now has a LESBIAN MAYOR office. Bin’s ‘gay waer’ ment on LGBTQ rights falls flat Seattle”4.

GOD BLS GAY WAERS!

”While Bin has been polics longer than anyone else on the left seekg the Oval Office, he risks his chanc of gettg the untry’s hight posn bee he is petg wh people who ronate wh margalized groups far better than he Bin is gog to w the nomatn, he will need the support of women, people of lor and the gay muny. Acrdg to the Natnal Gay & Lbian Chamber of Commerce, LGBTQ entreprenrs own 1.

This past Saturday, ont of a roomful of donors at a Seattle fundraiser, former vice print turned current Democratic printial ndidate Joe Bin claimed that jt five years ago, if someone at a bs meetg “ma fun of a gay waer, ” people would have let go, acrdg to a pool report of the event. First of all, as some have poted out, Seattle had a gay mayor 2014, and currently has a lbian mayor office. ) Sendly, acrdg to Poli’s Dan Diamond, this isn’t the first time Bin has trotted out the “gay waer” b.

FIRST DAT: WHO IS THE NEW GAY WAER?

In 2014 — which, 2019, he jt emed the cut-off year for homophobic remarks pole pany — Bin dated the hypothetil scene as takg place 1999.

AFTER A WAER WAS STIFFED ON TIPS FOR BEG GAY, THIS TIKTOK STAR OM BATH SPIRED THOANDS OF DONATNS FOR LGBTQ NONPROF

” Bee, as Bin put , this was “appropriate behavr” – the nsens would have been that ’s OK to make fun of someone who is gay. Bin has told versns of the “gay waer” anecdote, wh varyg receptn, recent years. At the fundraiser, as before, Bin reportedly remarked that tim have changed — sayg that if someone ma homophobic ments today, “that person would not be ved back” — ntug his pattern of amazement at the progrs we’ve ma the last five years, jt like he did … five years ago?

Still, that the harassment of a “gay waer” has emerged as Bin’s persistent rhetoril ctch when to LGBTQ rights is perhaps not too surprisg: So much of mpaign optics is about “electabily” vis-à-vis relatabily — nnectg to the everyman, the heart of “real Ameri. By makg a rtrant the se of an argument about who is culturally “wele” a public space, Bin aims broadly for the ubiquo and the universal, albe a somewhat dated way that brgs to md the “that’s so gay” ads of the ghts. Time is a flat servg tray, and policians repeat the same quips and ai-approved stori all the time, but if Bin wants to actively avoid beg seen as out of touch and tone af, perhaps he should fd a new way to talk about LGBTQ rights than this strange, outdated, “gay waer” b?