The Gay Voice - Universy of Toronto Magaze

Contents:

• GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
• WHY I DECID TO BE GAY
• THREAD: FLAMBOYANT GAYS VS THE AVERAGE HOMOSEXUAL MALE.
• WHY ARE GAY PEOPLE FLAMBOYANT?
• THE GAY VOICE
• SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY
• WHY DO SOME GAY MEN WAY OVER-EXAGGERATE WHAT THEY PERCEIVE TO BE FEME BEHAVRS?
• GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
• FLAMBOYANT VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?FLAMBOYANT | GAY |AS ADJECTIV THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FLAMBOYANT AND GAYIS THAT FLAMBOYANT IS SHOWY, BOLD OR DAC BEHAVUR, APPEARANCE, ETC WHILE GAY IS HAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FLAMBOYANT AND GAYIS THAT FLAMBOYANT IS A SHOWY TROPIL TREE, THE ROYAL POCIANA (DELONIX REGIA WHILE GAY IS A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS A PROPER NOUN GAY IS{{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS A VERB GAY ISTO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.FLAMBOYANTENGLISHADJECTIVE(EN ADJECTIVE)SHOWY, BOLD OR DAC BEHAVUR, APPEARANCE, ETC.* 1902 , ,WHEN WE SEE SOME OF THE MONSTRO AND FLAMBOYANT BLOSSOMS THAT ENRICH THE EQUATORIAL WOODS, WE DO NOT FEEL THAT THEY ARE NFLAGRATNS OF NATURE; SILENT EXPLOSNS OF HER IGHTFUL ENERGY. WE SIMPLY FD HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE NOT WAX FLOWERS GROWN UNR A GLASS SE.* 1920 , , CHAPTER VI: THE QUTN OF CLEARNS,BUT A SRN OF FLAMBOYANT NECKTI AND CHECKERBOARD TROERS IS NO EXCE FOR GOG TO THE OPPOSE EXTREME OF A BLUE FLANNEL SHIRT AND OVERALLS; .* 1962 MAY 12, ,THE UNBELIEVERS WILL SAY THEY ARE BUT WORDS, BUT A SLOGAN, BUT A FLAMBOYANT PHRASE.(ARCHECTURE) REFERRED TO AS THE FAL STAGE OF FRENCH GOTHIC ARCHECTURE OM THE 14TH TO THE 16TH CENTURI.* 1891 , , CHAPTER XIX: AVIGNON,S. PIERRE IS A FLAMBOYANT CHURCH, THE TAILS PASSG TO RENAISSANCE.* 1911 , ,THE SEND IS A CHAPEL OF TWO STOREYS, THE LOWER DATG OM 1150, WHILE THE UPPER WAS REBUILT THE 15TH CENTURY, AND THERE IS A RICH FLAMBOYANT ENTRANCE WH A STAIRWAY (1533).* 1913 , ,THE NAVE AND CENTRAL TOWER, MORE FLAMBOYANT SIGN, WERE FISHED EARLY THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY AFTER THE ORIGAL PLAN.NOUN(EN NOUN)A SHOWY TROPIL TREE, THE ROYAL POCIANA (DELONIX REGIA )* 1919 ,THE SCHOONERS MOORED TO THE QUAY ARE TRIM AND NEAT, THE LTLE TOWN ALONG THE BAY IS WHE AND URBANE, AND THE FLAMBOYANTS , SRLET AGAST THE BLUE SKY, FLNT THEIR LOUR LIKE A CRY OF PASSN.GAY
• REPORTED EFFECTS OF MASCULE IALS ON GAY MEN

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

But even though the nversatns that muted this lumn for six weeks are nowhere close to beg over, I do feel like some thgs that me up durg that time of ntemplatn are worth sayg now — particularly to my fellow whe gay cis out more stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activistsHowever, the ghost of Larry Kramer very much remaed my own head as I ma my way through a Pri month unlike any other.

I spent a few quiet afternoons readg his 1978 but novel Faggots, a satiril (yet clearly tobgraphil) look at the liv of gay men 1970s New York Cy that he wrote jt before AIDS ma him a figurehead of Amerin activism.

Followg a man his late 30s (based on Kramer himself) who is seekg out a lovg, long-term relatnship a sea of hedonism, the novel has a clear msage: gay men need to start lovg each other stead of beg so obssed wh gettg fucked up and (lerally and figuratively) fuckg each other.

WHY I DECID TO BE GAY

- Larry Kramer his but novelUpon publitn, Faggots was dismissed by many as puranil and self-loathg for s cricism of gay men's obssn wh vany, promiscuy and recreatnal dg e. And while, on one level, the book is a wild (if at tim problematic) wdow to an era of gay culture 40 years the past, also felt like had a lot to say about gay culture today.

In mastream gay media, the phrase almost always refers to a fairly specific subset of the LGBTQ "muny" largely ma up of whe gay cis men — even though many of the battl won around queer rights were fought by people of lour, trans and genr-nonnformg folks, and queer women, and fact the morn Pri movement self was large part iated by Black trans women. If an imprsn of a monolhic "gay culture" fed by such a homogeneo mographic exists, is bee whe gay cis men have until very recently domated mastream reprentatn unr the LGBTQ umbrella and have, general, been hand a level of privilege the last that is wildly disproportnate to any other mographic unr said umbrella. When was the last time I actually had a good time at gay bar full of people I have fely spoken to on social media or apps but who act like I'm pletely sane when I se or say hello person?

THREAD: FLAMBOYANT GAYS VS THE AVERAGE HOMOSEXUAL MALE.

In analyzg the show's pictn of young gay men livg San Francis, wrer Daniel Wenger diagnos what he terms the "new gay sadns": an entire generatn of urban, privileged gay men who seem to have no clue what they're lookg for or who they are. Largely born the 1980s, they are the earlit wave of a "post-Stonewall, post-plague, post-activist" generatn of gays — "too old to have brought a boy to the prom and too young to have nursed a fantasy of nng away to an urban gay utopia, " Wenger explas.

Queeri5 pneerg LGBTQ Canadian films you n watch for ee right nowI've seen many of my fellow whe gay cis men seemgly rise to the ocsn by retweetg Black and Indigeno voic, gog to ralli and vowg to te themselv on how to tly be anti-racist (though how performative that is some s is unclear).

WHY ARE GAY PEOPLE FLAMBOYANT?

Rettg "gay culture" will require fightg back agast entrenched social prsur and expectatns of gay cis men — and llg them out when they perpetuate, even passively, any form of discrimatory dialogue.

THE GAY VOICE

And was large part bee of that attu that he uld lead AIDS activists through a rpt and homophobic system to ga accs to the dgs that ma possible for our generatn to have the liv that we do. LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.

Obvly, not all gay people have an “accent” and not all people who have an “accent” are gay, but for those people who are both mps:. Addnally, as beg gay be more acceptable society, do you all thk the prevalence of this flamboyance will fa and that gay and straight atic patterns will be assiated together?

SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FALLY UNLOCKED PUZZLE OF WHY PEOPLE ARE GAY

Photo: Wikimedia CommonsBeg flamboyant and unapologetic allowed me to fd power and pleasure myselfAt some level, I thk I’ve always known I was gay. Here was this geo young flamboyant gay man, and I uldn’t help but envy him for his abily and willgns to live his life such an thentic way, pecially sce he me om a small Wt Virgia town like I did.

WHY DO SOME GAY MEN WAY OVER-EXAGGERATE WHAT THEY PERCEIVE TO BE FEME BEHAVRS?

I don't thk that flamboyant, over-the-top behavur is a real characteristic of homossexualy and people who do that are fakg or secure. Beg gay don't make you put thk that everyone should put up wh your bad habs, bullsh and childish perceptn of genre behavr, mak you love/feel sexual attractn to people of the same sex perd.

We all know gay people suffer prejudice, but even my married gay iends tell me that those people aren't actually gay, but are sperately tryg to earn attentn by explog somethg that's natural and uneventful, while at the same time brgg shame to gay people who try to live normal liv.

He said I should provi the reasons why I have the belief that flamboyant people aren't really gay, for that to work I mt scribe my view of gay people and culture. This led to extreme suatns of social anxiety and other thgs, but [here starts my own visn] after the events of 9/11 and the advent of neo-atheism, fluential gay people started mpaigng whout fear of relig persecutn and sce they are slowly earng the rpect they serve.

GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?

The problem is that the Media is a dirty, filthy disgtg bs when they want to and they have been shg , turng homosexualy to a 'trend', like they uld fix s of blatant, explic prejudice forcg a trimental view of the gay culture down everyone's throat. Gay people are workg hard to make an acceptable, stable and rpectful image and people who are explog the stereotypil ncept of gay culture are settg thgs back for them and should be reprehend.

That's why I believe flamboyant, attentn-seekg people that e their sexualy as a social tool (which is natural for humans but should be avoid now that we have the CIVILIZATION to eva that) do not reprent the image that gay people are strivg for and serve only to dissemate wrong perceptns of sexualy (like all gay people are futile, va, oversexualized or promiscuo, ceful, backstabbg and all that jazz) and should be reprehend and reted.

I don’t really re that he’s gay, ’s jt that he seems like they type of gay person that bas their whole personaly around beg gay. I'm not sure if this theory is valid or not, but I feel like there is possibly a very small and loud mory of gay men that are g for all of the others. But soon the l blur and the hate for those annoyg flamboyant INDIVIDUALS, be hate for all gay people at large, cludg the non-annoyg on.

FLAMBOYANT VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?FLAMBOYANT | GAY |AS ADJECTIV THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FLAMBOYANT AND GAYIS THAT FLAMBOYANT IS SHOWY, BOLD OR DAC BEHAVUR, APPEARANCE, ETC WHILE GAY IS HAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FLAMBOYANT AND GAYIS THAT FLAMBOYANT IS A SHOWY TROPIL TREE, THE ROYAL POCIANA (DELONIX REGIA WHILE GAY IS A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS A PROPER NOUN GAY IS{{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS A VERB GAY ISTO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.FLAMBOYANTENGLISHADJECTIVE(EN ADJECTIVE)SHOWY, BOLD OR DAC BEHAVUR, APPEARANCE, ETC.* 1902 , ,WHEN WE SEE SOME OF THE MONSTRO AND FLAMBOYANT BLOSSOMS THAT ENRICH THE EQUATORIAL WOODS, WE DO NOT FEEL THAT THEY ARE NFLAGRATNS OF NATURE; SILENT EXPLOSNS OF HER IGHTFUL ENERGY. WE SIMPLY FD HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE NOT WAX FLOWERS GROWN UNR A GLASS SE.* 1920 , , CHAPTER VI: THE QUTN OF CLEARNS,BUT A SRN OF FLAMBOYANT NECKTI AND CHECKERBOARD TROERS IS NO EXCE FOR GOG TO THE OPPOSE EXTREME OF A BLUE FLANNEL SHIRT AND OVERALLS; .* 1962 MAY 12, ,THE UNBELIEVERS WILL SAY THEY ARE BUT WORDS, BUT A SLOGAN, BUT A FLAMBOYANT PHRASE.(ARCHECTURE) REFERRED TO AS THE FAL STAGE OF FRENCH GOTHIC ARCHECTURE OM THE 14TH TO THE 16TH CENTURI.* 1891 , , CHAPTER XIX: AVIGNON,S. PIERRE IS A FLAMBOYANT CHURCH, THE TAILS PASSG TO RENAISSANCE.* 1911 , ,THE SEND IS A CHAPEL OF TWO STOREYS, THE LOWER DATG OM 1150, WHILE THE UPPER WAS REBUILT THE 15TH CENTURY, AND THERE IS A RICH FLAMBOYANT ENTRANCE WH A STAIRWAY (1533).* 1913 , ,THE NAVE AND CENTRAL TOWER, MORE FLAMBOYANT SIGN, WERE FISHED EARLY THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY AFTER THE ORIGAL PLAN.NOUN(EN NOUN)A SHOWY TROPIL TREE, THE ROYAL POCIANA (DELONIX REGIA )* 1919 ,THE SCHOONERS MOORED TO THE QUAY ARE TRIM AND NEAT, THE LTLE TOWN ALONG THE BAY IS WHE AND URBANE, AND THE FLAMBOYANTS , SRLET AGAST THE BLUE SKY, FLNT THEIR LOUR LIKE A CRY OF PASSN.GAY

OT: I pretty much agree wh what you have said regards to the false equivalency between gay and flamboyant the media, one of my pet peev actually.

REPORTED EFFECTS OF MASCULE IALS ON GAY MEN

Flamboyant is often ed for gays only, but I thk 's someone who really flnts their sexualy/emotns and who shows a lot of movg around.

After intifyg phoic characteristics that seem to make a man’s voice sound gay, their bt hunch is that some gay men may subnscly adopt certa female speech patterns.