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Contents:
- FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
- GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY
- REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE
- FIFTY SHAS’ MARCIA GAY HARN OPENS UP ‘SEXUAL UNLEASHG’ IN FANDOM AND WHY BEG IN THE THICK OF IT WAS ‘FASCATG’
- FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
- 50 SHAS OF GAY – 8TH ANNIVERSARY!
- FIFTY SHAS OF HOMOPHOBIA: WHO CAR IF THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS CHRISTIAN GREY IS GAY?
FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
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3, 184, 627 views | iO Tillett Wright | TEDxWomen 2012 • December 2012iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are?
Most people, turns out, nsir themselv to exist the gray areas of sexualy, not 100% gay or straight. IO Tillett Wright has photographed 2, 000 people who nsir themselv somewhere on the LGBTQ spectm -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? IO Tillett Wright: Fifty shas of gay.
GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY
Fifty Shas of Grey actrs Marcia Gay Harn explas the “sexual unleashg” the fandom and why beg volved the seri was fascatg. * gay fifty shades *
As she reveals today’s bold talk, while marriage was far om her md 2008 when California’s Proposn 8 sparked a natnal bate over gay marriage, the nversatn still stck her like a punch. Tillett Wright had an ia: uld she photographilly troduce people agast the ia of gay marriage to the vast number of people the Uned State who nsir themselv somewhere along the LBGTQ spectm? Jodi’s fay disowned her when they found out she was gay.
But on his release form he put down “100% GAY”, and we all had to eat our stereotyp. Brian tght me so much about how stereotyp of gay men as effemate are a bunch of naive hogwash.
REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE
They pulled me asi and told me how important was that people know you n have a strong relatnship wh God, and still be gay.
I thought that took tremendo urage, not only to be openly gay a state like Tennsee, but to take on the relig battle as well. Chip was the only skateboarr who had ever e to be photographed, which kicked off a really tertg discsn about homophobia wh the macho world of skateboardg, and how we uld all help to rce . Before meetg him, and many like him, I had some prenceived, narrow view of what gay people looked like, (pecially men) — even if was a broad view by most standards.
6% of Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer, acrdg to a new Gallup report. Sce the dawn of the polilly-motivated “Dream Market” the 1990s, whe, affluent, gay mal uld expect to see themselv gay prt magaz and onle portals, natnal ad mpaigns the media, and, creasgly, mastream media, particularly televisn and news media, while advertisers left the rt of the LGBTQ+ populatn, cludg all people of lor, out the ld.
FIFTY SHAS’ MARCIA GAY HARN OPENS UP ‘SEXUAL UNLEASHG’ IN FANDOM AND WHY BEG IN THE THICK OF IT WAS ‘FASCATG’
The Ls, Bs, Ts, and Qs were expected to see themselv reprented by advertisg to whe gay mal and be thankful for the visibily. Alternately, marketers were unapologetilly pursug the gay male dollar and had ltle regard for the rt.
Clarify advocy and reprentatn In recent years, some advertisers have shifted away om “reprentg” all LGBTQ+ nsumers wh imag of gay mal towards advertisg that highlights the stggl of transgenr dividuals.
For s, the advertisg dtry has neglected female members of the LGBTQ+ populatn wh a bias towards gay mal; this even though femal are more likely than mal to intify as LGBTQ+. Dpe the fact that a greater number of lbian upl have children than do gay men, gay men actually tend to be more equently portrayed wh fai pared to lbian upl.
FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
Acrdg to a recent Ipsos report, among the progrsg generatns, more LGBTQ+ people are choosg to intify as “fluid” rather than “non-fluid” (meang gay or lbian) as members of Gen-Z are far more likely than prev generatns to be plurisexual or attracted to more than one sex. Early rearch the field datg back to Frd’s Inversn Theory 1910 scribed gay men and lbians as “sexual verts”—implyg that homosexualy was some sense the reversal of “normal” sex. Gay mal and lbians tend to hold no ls of their own-sex tras than do heterosexuals.
” While gay men tend to be more feme than heterosexual men, they are no ls mascule than them; siarly, while lbians tend to be more mascule than heterosexual women, they are no ls feme. Hence, while Gen-Z and Millennials tend to e labels that proclaim the fluidy of their genr inty, Gen-X and Baby Boomers primarily label themselv "gay" or "lbian" and "man" or "woman" but genr flex practice. To tly reprent and ronate wh LGBTQ+ nsumers, advertisers have to fight, walk, or dance (#n’tncelpri) the sho of all LGBTQ+ nsumers rather than jt chasg the pot of gold at the end of the gay male or, more recently, bary rabow.
50 SHAS OF GAY – 8TH ANNIVERSARY!
Marcia Gay Harn is still known for her role the Fifty Shas of Grey anchise, which she played the adopted mother of Christian Grey. While promotg Confs, Fletch durg an terview wh Metro, Marcia Gay Harn explaed that she found pecially “fascatg” to watch how some women rpond to the erotic films:It was fascatg to watch women of a certa age… their rabid volvement this ‘sexual unleashg’, if you will. Marcia Gay Harn don't thk all of that is the sole reason for the populary of the movi, though she do acknowledge that 's a signifint part of their succs:And while BDSM is not necsarily the answer to the cursy, women givg themselv permissn to have toys and fiery lub and have fantasy experienc was tertg to observe om afar.
The fal stallment end the anchise wh a whimper by claimg only $373 Gay Harn’s fascatn wh the Fifty Shas of Grey fandom is warranted, and chanc are they'll ntue to entrance the mass as more people disver the novels the years to e. How accurate is your “gaydar”? A lot of thk we know all about gay men—where they live, how they drs, how they rry themselv—as though beg gay means a uniform way of beg the world.
The most visible gay men, those who stand out the most, have tradnally lived ci. And some of end up livg a gay bubble, or what I ll the Gubble.
FIFTY SHAS OF HOMOPHOBIA: WHO CAR IF THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS CHRISTIAN GREY IS GAY?
The timat of how many gay men live the Uned Stat range om anywhere between 1. Whatever the percentage, the tth is that many gay men do not f the narrow profile that media outlets propose, and they may not be easily intified by our “gaydar. ” In fact, many of the gay men who do not meet the popular creria may have at one time or another shown up at a therapist’s office wonrg how to al wh feelg ficient wh the muny.
More and more, gay men don’t jt live ci. And as gay acceptance grows, so do the physil boundari of where one feels safe. The “gay ghetto “ is slowly dimishg many ci.
And as gay men are able to marry much of the untry, children are now a part of many gay men’s liv. Back 1977, the US Natnal Gay Task Force (NGTF) was ved to the Whe Hoe to meet Print Jimmy Carter’s reprentativ—a first for gay and lbian groups. Tth is, I would never have pegged him as gay, but at some pot he mentned havg gone to some of the bars near my office.