The tth behd Twter’s favore stereotype about gay men, as explaed by GQ ntributor Louis Stapl.
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WHY DO GAY MEN WALK SO FAST?
* walking gay *
Growg up, people would often tell me that I “walked gay.
” I ed to wonr how puttg one foot ont of the other uld seem gay, but I heard so equently that I accepted as tth. To fd out what else was gay, I looked to popular-culture, where I saw gay men mostly adherg to a fairly one-dimensnal set of stereotyp: fashnable, wty, effemate. Historilly, gay stereotyp have been even ls kd.
THE WALKG GAY
The tth behd Twter’s favore gay stereotype. * walking gay *
Yet today’s gay men aren’t as reliant on reprentatns crafted by others, wh social media helpg to mocratize storytellg by providg a platform for people to share their experienc.
Inevably, gay people beg active onle (Twter gays, I’m lookg at you) has ed new stereotyp to emerge. From “gays n’t drive” to “gays love iced ffee, ” new on seem to appear every day. Earlier this year, Vice wrer Jam Greig attempted to fact-check the “new gay stereotyp.
” GQ wrer Alim Kheraj also vtigated the gay love of iced ffee.
The Walkg Gay is based on the almost homonymo seri created by Robert Kirkman. In The Walkg Dead we see what life on Earth is like after a zombie apoc... * walking gay *
Both found the accuracy of the new trop difficult to prove, but explored their plex and often ntradictory that sense, the new(ish) stereotype that “gay men walk fast” is no different. If “walkg gay” really is a thg, seems that many gay people perceive speed to be a part of that.