An open letter to my fellow whe gay cis men: there should be no "returng to normal" after this.
Contents:
- GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
- IF MANHATTAN’S GAY PRI PARA IS TOO MUCH, GIVE BROOKLYN PRI A TRY
GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
* gay pride is too much *
Some people have been sharg imag of queer ins and homophob alike wearg exprsns of disapproval—RuPl owng on the phone, Ltle Edie rantg Grey Garns, Aunt Lydia swlg The Handmaid’s Tale. If policians, rporatns, and police are okay wh the gays, why march at all?
Gay sire, the exprsn of trans and fluid inti, and asexualy each suggts different ias of what a “productive” life looks like. The HIV/AIDS crisis was—and still is—worsened by stigmas agast gay sex. Moreover, homophobia roots self a sense of revulsn—a notn that certa kds of sex and bodi are weird, unnatural, and wrong.
IF MANHATTAN’S GAY PRI PARA IS TOO MUCH, GIVE BROOKLYN PRI A TRY
Some people are simply sayg “yuck” to people wearg the same amount of cloth you’d expect to see at any beach—and “yuck, ” of urse, is exactly how homophob react to gay Cisg the age of nsentStep back, though, and the objectns bee almost reassurg. 7 percent of high-school stunts say they’re gay, bisexual, or not sure of their orientatn. Some may even have been enuraged by seeg a gay-themed T-shirt at Target, or a drag queen a yogurt mercial.
But even though the nversatns that muted this lumn for six weeks are nowhere close to beg over, I do feel like some thgs that me up durg that time of ntemplatn are worth sayg now — particularly to my fellow whe gay cis out more stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activistsHowever, the ghost of Larry Kramer very much remaed my own head as I ma my way through a Pri month unlike any other. I spent a few quiet afternoons readg his 1978 but novel Faggots, a satiril (yet clearly tobgraphil) look at the liv of gay men 1970s New York Cy that he wrote jt before AIDS ma him a figurehead of Amerin activism.
Followg a man his late 30s (based on Kramer himself) who is seekg out a lovg, long-term relatnship a sea of hedonism, the novel has a clear msage: gay men need to start lovg each other stead of beg so obssed wh gettg fucked up and (lerally and figuratively) fuckg each other.