Maybe 'that's so gay' is actually ok for young people to say

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• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• SHIFTG THE FOOD NARRATIVESUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"AMERI, YOUR FOOD IS SO GAY: THE ANNOTATED VERSN","SCRIPTN":"MY QUEER FOOD CLASSIC OM 2013, WH NOT AND RRECTNS.","IMAGE":[{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"}],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2023-06-07T22:21:08+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2023-06-07T22:21:08+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":TE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"JOHN BIRDSALL","URL":","SCRIPTN":"WRER ON FOOD.","INTIFIER":"ER:715081","IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"SHIFTG THE FOOD NARRATIVE","URL":","SCRIPTN":"FOOD STORI OF PLEX INTY, NOT FORTG CLICH\U00E9S.","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":1000},"INTIFIER":"PUB:784359","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}}SHARE THIS POSTAMERI, YOUR FOOD IS SO GAY: THE ANNOTATED COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERAMERI, YOUR FOOD IS SO GAY: THE ANNOTATED VERSN
• THIS IS SO GAY
• THAT'S SO GAY
• WHAT DO YOU SAY TO “THAT’S SO GAY” AND OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ COMMENTS?
• RON “DON’T SAY GAY” DESANTIS PLOTS MAJOR SHAKP AMID REPORTS HIS CRAPPY MPAIGN IS “ON THE BRK”
• "THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
• WE N THANK GAY ACTIVISTS FOR TODAY’S EPIMIC OF TRANS NFN

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Maxen origally ntacted gay NFL player Carl Nassib Febary 2022, who then nnected Maxen wh Outsports. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U.

Kev Maxen me out as gay an terview wh Outsports.

I wrote this say 2013, after edor Chris Yg said y to my hasty, half-ass pch for Lucky Peach magaze’s Genr issue: an say on the fluence of gay food wrers the U.

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My piece, “Ameri, Your Food Is So Gay, ” was momento on a uple of levels, personal and cultural. And my dad always hated bulli— tmped his ambivalence about the gay thg. Three gay guys—Beard, Richard Olney, and Craig Claiborne—would bee archects of morn food Ameri.

It’s food that tak pleasure serly, as an end self, an assertn of polics or a human birthright, the product of culture—this is the legacy of gay food wrers who shaped morn Amerin lonels of Craig Claiborne, 1979.

THIS IS SO GAY

I first stggled wh that task the late ’80s, when I was wrg about food for the Sentel, a now-funct gay weekly San Francis. My edor, the late Eric Hellman, would always ask, “Is there a gay sensibily? ”As I was fallg love wh Lou’s Roquefort burgers, a gay activist New Mexi named Harry Hay was lnchg a movement lled the Radil Faeri— they’d go off for days-long Faerie Circl the wilrns, like all-male mi Burng Mans, only wh psilocyb-fueled circle jerks.

Hay was a founr of the early gay rights group the Mattache Society.

THAT'S SO GAY

By 1970, he’d e to the ncln that gay men were spirually different om straight on—homosexuals had always been shamans and prophets, jeered, beaten ad, or barely tolerated, livg on the margs. (Hay, who died 2002, was anti-assiatnist, meang he would have been horrified to see the current stggle for gay people to achieve hetero marriage.

) Gay guys were artists, form-givers, shapers of the broar culture that hated them. I don’t totally buy Hay’s theory of queer exceptnalism, but my edor’s qutn—is there a gay sensibily? Even San Francis, gayt cy Ameri, homophobic dicks got all the prime le posns the plac I worked.

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO “THAT’S SO GAY” AND OTHER ANTI-LGBTQ COMMENTS?

In one kchen, was a nng joke that the salad statn was rerved for women and “effemat, ” meang gay boys like me. On the si, I told myself, I’m fuckg better than all of there was a gay sensibily, you uld fd on the ld le when I was okg, where every plate I put up had a fierce edge born of imposed isolatn.

RON “DON’T SAY GAY” DESANTIS PLOTS MAJOR SHAKP AMID REPORTS HIS CRAPPY MPAIGN IS “ON THE BRK”

He grew up Marathon, Iowa, and expatriated to Paris to bee a pater, a or two after great gay expats like Jam Baldw famoly ped Ameri’s racism and pry. Though he was officially closeted until 1982, the date of his rather strange, gimlet-soaked tobgraphy, A Feast Ma for Lghter, Claiborne lived the life of the gay profsnal mid-twentieth-century Ameri: officially a “bachelor, ” sexlsly flntg his taste and discernment, the Mr. One of the bsers workg that night was a young gay guy wh boyish Amerin looks.

But as for gays breakg out Amerin rtrant kchens, exprsg a queer pot of view their okg—well, apart om a few mavericks like Elizabeth Falkner—that hasn’t really happened. Pastry—like the ld le I was relegated to back my day—remas a safe space for gays the kchen.

He found another boyiend, a short Canadian who drove a purple AMC Greml and who nobody liked, not even my mom (she thought he was “too gay”). The phrase “that’s so gay” has tradnally been unrstood as homophobic.

"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG

Stonewall argu that the phrase has a harmful effect on young lbian, gay and bisexual people’s tn and well-beg. Yet the ial fdgs om my terviews wh 40 gay youth om four universi suggts a more plex picture, wh no clear agreement on what the phrase means or s effects. Consir Joe, a 19-year-old gay stunt at an ele universy.

He said: “I thk breaks down barriers between the straight and gay muny… I e a lot. ” Siarly, Neil, gay and aged 18, said: “I don’t fd rogatory any way, probably bee I say as well. How are we to unrstand a phrase that olr people fd homophobic, but many younger people do not fd offensive and even e themselv?

WE N THANK GAY ACTIVISTS FOR TODAY’S EPIMIC OF TRANS NFN

My tert the phrase “that’s so gay” veloped when I rearched straight male stunts at sixth form lleg. The young men had openly gay iends, supported gay rights and nmned homophobia. Yet several of them would also say “that’s so gay” when trated.

Given that labellg the stunts homophobic would be ridiculo, was val to nsir how they were g this language and the reasons why. All of the men my rearch sisted that they did not tend to be homophobic when they ed the phrase.