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Contents:
- IT’S TIME TO LEGALIZE GAY EY
- THK YOU ARE GAY? IT SHOWS YOUR EY, ACRDG TO STUDY
- GAY EY
- QUEER EYE OPENS THE MIRACULO GAY WALLET
- QUEER EYE SEASON-TWO PREMIERE REP: A PLACE CALLED GAY
- GAYDAR: EYE-GAZE AS INTY REGNN AMONG GAY MEN AND LBIANS
- CANNED COCKTAIL GAY WATER AIMS TO RIGHT BUD LIGHT'S LACK OF LGBTQ+ SUPPORT
IT’S TIME TO LEGALIZE GAY EY
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In this eight-episo season, the “Fab Five” — gay men who are experts groomg, fashn, culture, sign and okg — pile to a new pick-up tck to sur the Atlanta area for lonely and msy men. Bravo’s classic Queer Eye for The Straight Guy aired 2003 and was nsired darg simply by displayg gay and heterosexual men teractg on televisn. Queer Eye and gay reprentatn.
The new Queer Eye do, however, succeed celebratg diverse reprentatns of gay men. The origal show was guilty of “gaystreamg, ” the ia that gay personali need to adhere to stereotyp and downplay differenc. Classic Queer Eye’s gaystreamg placed heterosexual culture at s centre, and downplayed the Fab Five’s liv, inti and sexualy.
’ Heterosexualy fas om the show’s foc when they makeover a gay man. The producers have shifted the foc om simple teractns among gay and heterosexual men to episos that tentatively addrs broar issu of genr, race, relign and polics. However, the show follows the general trend of the past few s, where gay men have bee most visible and accepted society through their role as nsumers.
THK YOU ARE GAY? IT SHOWS YOUR EY, ACRDG TO STUDY
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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.
GAY EY
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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!
QUEER EYE OPENS THE MIRACULO GAY WALLET
“Of urse you’ve enuntered gay people!
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.
QUEER EYE SEASON-TWO PREMIERE REP: A PLACE CALLED GAY
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.
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy me out eighteen years ago at a time when same-sex marriage wasn’t even legal yet, and when portrayals of gay guys on televisn and films were few and far between.
GAYDAR: EYE-GAZE AS INTY REGNN AMONG GAY MEN AND LBIANS
Dpe s meteoric succs, the show did meet s fair share of cricism, particularly wh regards to s “stereotypil” portrayal of gay guys as beg more herently knowledgable on thgs like fashn, groomg, and pop culture.
Wanr to gay Twter, and soon enough you’ll n to a screenshot or a GIF of one of Carson’s famo reactn shots.
CANNED COCKTAIL GAY WATER AIMS TO RIGHT BUD LIGHT'S LACK OF LGBTQ+ SUPPORT
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The five guys who do the "make-overs" should prove to the rt of Ameri (the right-wgers, relig-right-ers, ex-gays', et al) that we're not perverts and bchy queens--well, maybe some of are queens, but we're not all 5 show great re and affectn for their "victims, " and I don't mean that they want to take them to bed.