We speak to those who self-intify as gaycels about datg apps, gay stereotyp, and body shamg
Contents:
- INVTIGATG THE SID RISE OF THE GAY CEL
- THREAD: WAS ELLT RODGER GAY?
- ELLT RODGER GAY? FOX NEWS GUT SAYS ‘HOMOSEXUAL IMPULS’ MAY HAVE TRIGGERED SHOOTGS
- FOX NEWS ‘EXPERT’ SUGGTS ELLT RODGER WENT ON SHOOTG SPREE BEE HE’S GAY
INVTIGATG THE SID RISE OF THE GAY CEL
Robi Ludwig, appearg on a Fox News panel discsg Ellt Rodger‘s mass shootg said that the cint may have been triggered over the killer’s “homosexual impuls. Could the mass shootg really have been ed by homosexual impuls? “And then I started to have a different ia: Is this somebody who is tryg to fight agast his homosexual impuls?
Invtigatg the sid rise of the gay cel | Dazedâ¬…ï¸ Left Arrow*ï¸âƒ£ Asteriskâ StarOptn Slirsâœ‰ï¸ MailExWe speak to those who self-intify as gaycels about datg apps, gay stereotyp, and body shamg. They expect gays to date anyone who looks our way, yet they’re allowed to be picky!
” – an anonymo ‘gaycel’.
THREAD: WAS ELLT RODGER GAY?
But very ltle has been wrten about the ty proportn of gay men among them, and ’s worth askg: who are they?
He feels prsed, disnnected om the gay muny, and ostracised by his fellow cels, who rpond to his nihilistic posts wh the argument that ‘gaycels’ are always ‘volcels’ (voluntarily celibate), a ratnale which stems om the unte stereotype that gay guys n always get laid. It’s why gay culture has a rich history of ttagg and cisg – men were forced to fuck vertly for fear of prosecutn, so they end up dog so ways that straight people emed ‘seedy’. Lotn-based hook-up apps were ially created for gay men – Grdr was the first, lnched back 2009 – who were arguably ls obliged to follow cultural norms – aga, bee marriage and adoptn were off the table for centuri.
ELLT RODGER GAY? FOX NEWS GUT SAYS ‘HOMOSEXUAL IMPULS’ MAY HAVE TRIGGERED SHOOTGS
It’s easier for gay men to assiate to heteronormativy (or homonormativy), and the pendulum has swung the other way, too: now, the lotn-based formula of hook-up apps is mon on straight datg platforms. Gay sex is still amed as more available than straight sex, but that’s arguably ls te than ever – and even then, ’s obvly not available to all gay men.
Anyone wh a Grdr profile n attt that ’s full of shamg and discrimatn, and that gay bety standards are arguably even higher than the hyper-chiseled, Insta-male mol norm.
FOX NEWS ‘EXPERT’ SUGGTS ELLT RODGER WENT ON SHOOTG SPREE BEE HE’S GAY
In other words, beg gay don’t guarantee you a fuck. Redd er xeverxsleepx, who also self-intifi as a gay cel, nfirms this.
In xeverxsleepx’s experience, most other cels he has spoken to onle were straight, “anti-gay”, and likely to downvote gay ers. Another anonymo poster often was to the threads to offer solace bee he n empathise – he ed to intify as a gay cel too.
Incints like the prove that there’s more to beg a gay cel than a lack of sex. But now, ‘cel’ is cultural shorthand for a muny bound largely by rage and misogyny – and, cintally, the same is often (although not always) te of ‘gay cels’, who generally glorify masculy and vilify femy the same way as their straight unterparts.