Wh thoands of followers, extravagant liftyl and nonstop gym selfi, Instagays are easy to envy. But their rise marks a gay cultural shift, promptg big qutns about what all those nocent snapshots might mean.
Contents:
- INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED
- GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED
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GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
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Chanc are, if you’re a gay man, you eher follow or have enuntered an Instagay onle.
”Perhaps unsurprisgly, the Instagay phenomenon is often cricized for beg vapid and misreprentg morn gay life. It seems like many Instagays know each other, and so their world is unique. Dpe some ridicule, there’s no shortage of Instagays who have crossed the elive 500, 000 follower mark, om wrer/director Max Emerson to Jt and Nick, a gay uple based Ptsburgh.
Ask a gay man to close his ey and picture one, and he might see Charl-Lrent Marchand, a 26-year-old former nway mol studyg to be a pastry chef. He broke 400, 000 followers last not unlike his peers, brands faiar to any Instagay follower are peppered throughout Charl’ feed, om Daniel Wellgton watch to the datg app Chappy.
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
And while gay culture has always slavishly worshipped unrealistic ias of bety, om physique mol magaz and the cult of Tom of Fland, Instagay culture may take this worship to a new all, Instagays are algorhmilly-librated thirst traps, a new kd of social media star whose fame is predited on a heady batn of sculpted abs and the lavish trappgs of “fluencer” culture.
What if the are our new gay ins? Is the superficialy of Instagay culture really somethg they should look up to? How many of them are reachg out to Instagays for help through dark tim, as they do to me?