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Contents:

• OP-ED: 6 GAY CLICHéS THAT ARE TOTALLY TE
• I’M A GAY CLICHé — AND THAT’S OK
• 4,829 GAY CLICHE STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE, & VIO CLIPS
• TOP 11 S CLICHéS UN POIL TROP RéCURRENTS SUR L GAYS
• GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
• THE TWO BIGGT CLICHéS GAY ROMANCE
• GAYCLICHE'
• DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T
• 14,208 GAY CLICHE STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

OP-ED: 6 GAY CLICHéS THAT ARE TOTALLY TE

Illtratns by Clarne GutierrezThe days gay culture is almost as played out as a Taylor Swift song om 2012.

I’M A GAY CLICHé — AND THAT’S OK

Naturally, we make every effort to rebe any rigid tegorizatn of what looks like to be a gay man bee we know there's no such thg as a one-size-fs-all "homosexual liftyle. But jt between gays, some of the clich are ad on the nose, whether we like or not. If you ask me, the bt way to bat the stupidy of thkg that all gay men are one certa way is to own our monali, make light of our likens and let the outsi world know that the gay clich are totally te...

Jt maybe not they way they are six gay clich that I thk we should nsir as totally 't Get Between A Gay Man and His DivaNo matter how elevated the dner guts or how sophistited the cktail party, we have all taken part a discsn about the new Beyonce vio, the latt Gaga album, or what Madonna is up to now. As much as the alterna-gays try to pe , we are all slav to our divas.

4,829 GAY CLICHE STOCK VIOS, 4K FOOTAGE, & VIO CLIPS

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So relax and jt adm , we all know jt how hung our iends are, and for good Men Make the Bt of FriendsThis monly uttered sentiment om the dnken girl at the bar will often make a gay man crge.

TOP 11 S CLICHéS UN POIL TROP RéCURRENTS SUR L GAYS

Roll that all up and give a scy homo disposn and you have some of the most fabuloly, fiercely loyal and unqutnably hont people you n fd. The homosexual movement has spent s dispellg the belief that all gays re about is sex.

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GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?

Oh, no, the gay life is way more plex than that, and so are our clich.

Although may not have always been the se, gay men are the livg legacy of the heartache, anguish and ultimate triumph of the AIDS epimic.

And many other veloped untri has bee somewhat tertwed wh the ny that HIV isn't a central theme that ti all gay men together is both an sult to those who have died om AIDS and an vatn for HIV to lampoon your world one way of another. And we all mt be part of the change that allows the gay muny to e out om unr the stigma of HIV for good.

THE TWO BIGGT CLICHéS GAY ROMANCE

There have been tim when I've stood alone a room emtg wty remarks, as upl and groups giggle and snter by, and I've realized the absolute horror: I am a gay cliche. Two, as I've mentned before (wty gays are so repetive), I'm the perennial wty gay bachelor, even now that you n have an actual weddg and ve loved on and serve meatballs.

They were your archetypal gay old maids -- always on fire wh a retort, but never the spotlight, pecially wh any signifint dancg partner to speak of. They were gay by nuendo rather than by claratn, which is hardly surprisg. Gay clich stem om the societal reali of the moment, as dictated by prsur and mor.

GAYCLICHE'

Showbiz people weren't openly gay back then, but they uld get away wh beg flamboyant and full of suggtn, wh the lims ascribed by munal "good taste. " As Lyn and Reilly showed , 's not jt the gay muny that creat the ia of what mak a "hot gay" of the moment. Each generatn seems to have a uple of gay clich or ials, one stemmg om the macho ethic and the other om the flamboyant one.

DO YOU SOUND GAY? WHAT OUR VOIC TELL – AND WHAT THEY DON’T

Even the '60s, when we were lovg wrist-flappg Pl Lyn as much as the straights were, we admired the mtached ial via the last gasp of mcle magaz (which pretend to be about fns), followed by an explosn of gay porn filled wh swaggerg sex hero. In the post-Stonewall '70s, gays ran on a hedonistic rampage, wh sex, dgs, and dis everywhere you turned. It was hard to look manly while dancg to songs like "Turn The Beat Around, " but the gays tried , plete wh leather outfs and the requise swls.

14,208 GAY CLICHE STOCK PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

At the height of this madns, the dis group the Village People nnily brought together six gay stereotyp, all machismo-lan, om the nstctn worker to the Amerin Indian. "Gay clon" were the norm up and down New York's Christopher Street, but glam rock explod at the same time.