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- CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
- GAYT PLAC IN WT VIRGIA FOR 2020
CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
As his name suggts, Otterj draws his greatt spiratn om the slenr, hairy, beard, and often tattooed gay male subculture known as otters -- but not exclively. The men his photographs are unabashed exhibnists lookg for a place to f to a gay culture that has creasgly turned s back on a sexually aware world where leather and cisg are forms of liberatn. What do you ll a homosexual redneck?
GAYT PLAC IN WT VIRGIA FOR 2020
“In the predomantly workg-class and sometim ral spac where Powell’s straight and gay characters vort together, shoot the sh, or knock each other to the ground, homophobia n exist alongsi iendls and hospaly toward gays, and anti-homophobia n rerce patriarchy. Padgett Powell has a hab of sayg provotive thgs, and one such le that stck me was, “I am gay every way except the sex. ” While an unrgraduate at the Universy of Florida, where Powell teach creative wrg, I thought he was tryg to charm people like his lleague David Leavt and myself (we are both gay, cludg the sex).
Powell’s life and fictn are hyper-mascule and southern, and is reasonable to argue that they are not nsired paragons of gay culture. By trackg the chang reprentatns of same-sex sexualy, masculy, and homophobia between Powell’s early “Rough South” fictn of the 1980s and early 1990s and his twenty-first century fictn, which has a more playful attu or even disregard of genr expectatns, we observe the blurrg and equivotn of hyper-masculy and male femy, of “macho” and “pansy.