‘RuPl’s Drag Race All Stars’ Makeover Rep: Reclaimg Gay Slurs

Contents:

• IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
• IS SYD MCGEE GAY? ARE SYD AND SHEA A FAKE COUPLE? DREAM HOME MAKEOVER UPDATE!
• REALY SHOW HBANDS GET GAY MAKEOVER

IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?

Contrary to var reports, Syd is not gay as he is currently married to Shea. It’s puzzlg that mors have emerged claimg that Syd is gay. The basis of such mors is unclear, but we n nfirm that Syd is not gay.

Somehow, the origal “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” premiered on Bravo two s ago this month, prentg five gay men – each specializg a specific liftyle area – as they scend upon a (ually) heterosexual male subject need of some support, whether was wh clothg choic, groomg, anizatn or perhaps an unrlyg issue around self nfince. It was a novel take on the makeover ncept, not only terms of beg one of the first monstroly succsful programs the then-nascent realm of realy TV, but also one of the first tl to feature not one – but five – gay people as the leads.

(For ntext, had only been five years sce the s “Ellen” got nceled, shortly after the ma character played by Ellen DeGener me out as gay. Krsley agreed, sayg, “We meet people all the time who are probably their thirti now, who say, ‘I me om a very nservative fay, we were very relig, “Gay” was not somethg that was ever spoken about our home, and your show allowed to at least have that nversatn, if not make easier for me to e out.

IS SYD MCGEE GAY? ARE SYD AND SHEA A FAKE COUPLE? DREAM HOME MAKEOVER UPDATE!

He add that of urse, isn’t only gay people who approach them wh spiratnal msag, and that at the time the origal show aired, the st saw how their visibily as gay people wh a larger straight world was beg received firsthand.

“For many people, we were the first real, live, real life gay people that they actually enuntered, ” Krsley observed. You’re the first gay person I met! “Of urse you’ve enuntered gay people!

REALY SHOW HBANDS GET GAY MAKEOVER

And anythg gay the zegeist has the potential to bee policized, then and now. “And we were a very nocuo group of five gay men helpg a straight guy try to get the job, or the look, or the girl.

And for those who cricized the origal seri for rercg stereotyp by havg a gay fashnista or bety expert swoop to tidy thgs up, Colls creds his rint foodie Allen for a memorable moment at the show’s first NBC upont Los Angel back 2003, when he faced a slew of reporters and had the perfect retort. “Ted fally grabbed , really grabbed a hold of the answer, which was like, ‘Yeah, we are, as a matter of fact, owng the clich around the fact that gays have a different perspective, have a unique visn and perspective of a lot of different thgs. Explag their choice, host RuPl said, “From the early days of the gay liberatn movement, to the AIDS crisis, to today, our queer sisters have always shown up when the LGBTQ muny need them the most.

Yet, they still only prent a few kernels of tertg week, that me om the queens—all gay men—chattg wh their lbian fay about the plited subject of reclaimg certa slurs. ”Then, Amanda posed an tertg qutn, which remas a hot-button issue wh queer circl (and the Drag Race fandom self): “Do you guys thk that lbians n say ‘fag’ and that gay guys n say ‘dyke, ’ or that should only be kept wh those groups to say? ” Kandy Me mentned that her own mother is a butch lbian, whom she refers to as a dyke, but also pletely unrstands why lbians would not want a gay man to say .

The gay experience and the lbian experience—though trsilly lked by queerns—are herently different.