Instagays, Unfiltered

Contents:

• INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED
• I A'T GAY, BUT...
• YOUNG BUCK ON TRANSGENR VIRAL VIO RUMORS: "A'T SH GAY ABOUT ME"
• THE DANGER OF INSTAGAYS
• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• IS TYLER, THE CREATOR G OUT AS A GAY MAN OR JT A QUEER-BAG PROVOTR?
• JADAKISS ON INTER RUMORS, “I A’T BROKE & I A’T GAY” [VIO]
• ONE TIME A’T GAY?
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED

The other night, a stranger wh an ambiguo-lookg avatar and a private acunt DMed me on Instagram to tell me he was gay.

I A'T GAY, BUT...

He then asked how I rencile my homosexualy wh beg Mlim (he'd likely jt seen a vio about my relatnship wh my Mlim father. I wished him luck and signed off, “Congrats, beg gay is great.

YOUNG BUCK ON TRANSGENR VIRAL VIO RUMORS: "A'T SH GAY ABOUT ME"

Meang the box of a succsful Instagay—the burgeong cult of betiful gay men on Instagram, wh follower unts that reach to five or six digs—mt be undated. Chanc are, if you’re a gay man, you eher follow or have enuntered an Instagay onle.

THE DANGER OF INSTAGAYS

”Perhaps unsurprisgly, the Instagay phenomenon is often cricized for beg vapid and misreprentg morn gay life. It seems like many Instagays know each other, and so their world is unique. Dpe some ridicule, there’s no shortage of Instagays who have crossed the elive 500, 000 follower mark, om wrer/director Max Emerson to Jt and Nick, a gay uple based Ptsburgh.

GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

Ask a gay man to close his ey and picture one, and he might see Charl-Lrent Marchand, a 26-year-old former nway mol studyg to be a pastry chef.

He broke 400, 000 followers last not unlike his peers, brands faiar to any Instagay follower are peppered throughout Charl’ feed, om Daniel Wellgton watch to the datg app Chappy.

And while gay culture has always slavishly worshipped unrealistic ias of bety, om physique mol magaz and the cult of Tom of Fland, Instagay culture may take this worship to a new all, Instagays are algorhmilly-librated thirst traps, a new kd of social media star whose fame is predited on a heady batn of sculpted abs and the lavish trappgs of “fluencer” culture. What if the are our new gay ins? Is the superficialy of Instagay culture really somethg they should look up to?

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

How many of them are reachg out to Instagays for help through dark tim, as they do to me? I sought to ask the Instagays directly. And if you’re lookg for Instagays, there’s one surefire way to fd them: On New York-based artist John MacConnell’s page, where he’s sketched hundreds of men, most of whom are Instagays, their unrwear or DMg John, 33, to talk about his experience, he ved me over to his Nola apartment.

By the time I climbed six flights to reach him, I had sweat through my whe drs shirt, and no filter uld glamorize me—I was the oppose of an Instagay. I ask if he thks his work ntribut to body dysmorphia the gay muny. He’s an artist, this is his art, and the role—if any—that Instagays play body dysmorphia wh our muny is almost impossible to ’s more fortable talkg about the good he’s seen om Instagram.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

And he talks about his upbrgg, and I’m surprised to learn he spent high school gay nversn therapy, twice a week for three years.

“When I me out, my fay took my phone and puter away so I uldn’t nnect wh other gay people. Maybe his feed—and maybe the Instagays—are more harmls than people thk.

IS TYLER, THE CREATOR G OUT AS A GAY MAN OR JT A QUEER-BAG PROVOTR?

”He talks briefly about Instagays who are speakg out and c exampl of posts where they tell their g out stori or support an iative like GLAAD’s Spir Day; he qualifi that the speakg out is somethg, even if ’s only “twenty percent of the time. I also wanted to know whether he approach Instagram differently given his reer (molg and actg) is most directly impacted by ; John works as an art director and Logan works early nversatn was more aligned wh my expectatns of an Instagay—he posssed a nfince that borred on arrogance, and threw around words like “my brand” and “my art” when referrg to his feed and his body.

JADAKISS ON INTER RUMORS, “I A’T BROKE & I A’T GAY” [VIO]

“Many people, pecially whe gay men, treat me like an rt. ”Watch therapist Zach Rawlgs discs body image issu the gay muny:A uple of weeks after terviewg Logan, he referenced our nversatn and posted wh a lengthy ptn about his g out, nversn therapy and all. But 's barely surprisg, given the quick scroll nature of Instagram anythg, Instagays are as flawed and plited as the rt of .

ONE TIME A’T GAY?

(And is astoundg how creatively an Instagay n draw a nnectn to a brand. Sce I am also buff and geo, I don't really notice my own assets others (even though my morately-homoerotic appreciatn for 2 hot guys is the topic of this blog). Begng wh DaBaby's homophobic remarks at Rollg Loud to fenrs and tractors, here's a look at how thgs have unfold after the rapper's ments.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

But the “Rockstar” rapper didn’t stop there, and what me next fueled cricism: In clips om the livtreamed performance, DaBaby ma homophobic and misogynistic ments. Shared a nearly five and a half mute vio which he fend his fellow artist, while also sharg his rpect for openly gay artists such as Lil Nas X and Frank Ocean.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

“My gay fans, they take re of themselv. They a’t no nasty gay n—as.

You know what my gay fans did?