Roxane Gay's powerful story of a Haian Amerin woman kidnapped for ransom, the privilege that ma her a target and the strength she mt draw on to survive.
Contents:
- WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
- WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
- WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
- WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
- WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
- WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
- WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
- IS THE UNTAMED ACTUALLY GAY OR IS JT LIKE… SUBTEXT GAY?
- 6 TIM THE UNTAMED WAS LIKE, “CENSORSHIP WHO?” AND GAVE THE GAYS THEIR RIGHTS
- CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
- MALAYSIA FTIVAL NCELLED AFTER MATTY HEALY SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS AND KISS BANDMATE
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
* is untamed a gay story *
The story follows Wei Wuxian, who the first episo you learn died 13 years prr and has been summoned to a body of a “lunatic” (see: homosexual abe victim) by means of a monic soul sacrifice/summon rual. The show isn’t explic wh the queerns, but ’s there and ’s not even subtext (the novel is que explic — they are love, ’s a paful slowburn kd of love but they are madly love) here’s the thg, why this show and pecially the novel has jt broken me and rebuilt me om the ash of my homosexual spair is that — what kd of stori to queers get? *cue gay sobbg sounds*I really jt nnot hype this show enough.
Basilly, “is the Untamed actually gay” is a plited qutn, bee of the Che censorship laws.
WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg . * is untamed a gay story *
The origal novel (that the live actn show, the graphic novel, and the animated versn are all adapted om) is Actually gay. In 2018, one thor was arrted for wrg gay erotic novels and sentenced to TEN YEARS IN PRISON.
So shows like The Untamed or Guardian (another good good show based on a nonilly-gay origal novel), the shownners make JUUUUUUUUST not-gay enough to get past the censors. JUUUUUUUUST BARELY “not gay”.
They’re gog right up to the le martg “gay” om “not gay” and playg Gay Chicken wh .
WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
Except that, as you know, hours and hours of Silent Yearng Glanc are actually MORE GAY than two dus kissg. The Untamed keeps as much of the gay as they possibly n get away wh.
Gay pictur.
WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
The producers slipped some cheeky ancient gay porn to a book that Wei Wuxian tricks Lan Wangji to readg and… somehow, that passed censorship.
WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
This isn’t the only “gay picture”: a later scene, Wei Wuxian wak up his bed and looks fondly at a drawg that (prumably) his younger self scribbled to the bedame of two boys holdg hands and kissg. Rabbs are doubly signifint Che mythology as a symbol of queerns; the Che god of homosexual relatnships is lled the Rabb God. The Untamed was produced the ntext of a eply homophobic society, and th had to adhere to strict Che censorship regulatns.
WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
The productn team seems to have fought for the most romantic terpretatn of the show uld get away wh, and recently released a special edn re-ed of the show that’s jt an even more homoerotic ed of all the scen between Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian — all the moments of touchg, hand-holdg, and oglg they weren’t able to sneak to the fal cut. The seri’ foc on s ma characters’ relatnship wh each other has led to be also classified as part of the danmei nnon, a genre of Che lerature that foc on the homoerotic and homoromantic relatnships between male characters. Further allns to queer Che subtext clu the nstant portrayal of rabbs, an animal many Che fans noted wh ep LGBTQ+ signifince, as the rabb is seen as a symbol of queerns ferrg to Tu'er Shen, otherwise known as the Rabb God, a Che god/guardian of homosexual relatnships.
WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN
If you want a show wh brilliant actg, tertg world-buildg, and plenty of gay pg, you need to check out this Che historil drama. ” —New Yorker“Roxane Gay’s rivetg but, An Untamed State, ptivat om s openg sentence and don’t let go.... Let this be the year of Roxane Gay: you’ll tear through An Untamed State, but ponr for long after.
IS THE UNTAMED ACTUALLY GAY OR IS JT LIKE… SUBTEXT GAY?
Gay wr of her homeland betifully, scribg the nflictg, nuanced way that will rg faiar to Amerins whose parents hail om troubled lands.... “Gay may be workg terrory many Amerin rears know through the lyril stori of Edwidge Dantit, but her style is wholly her own: direct, bracg and propulsive....
Rather, Gay pels her rears to breathe and bleed [].... The character velopment of Gay’s protagonist, Mireille, is particularly well-crafted and nuanced; her portrayal of a woman who fights her strongt fight to rist beg feated by her ptors is pellg and agonizgly felt by the rear....
“I appld Gay’s urage: She wr ndidly, vividly, and necsarily...
6 TIM THE UNTAMED WAS LIKE, “CENSORSHIP WHO?” AND GAVE THE GAYS THEIR RIGHTS
“Set Hai, Roxane Gay’s first novel, An Untamed State, is a roundhoe kick to notns of privilege. Fans of Gay’s work as an edor at The Rump and a lumnist for Salon (among other plac) will see a lh, sensual si to her wrg here, turned to scribe btal facts of subjugatn and punishment, the agony of wag to be rcued and the protectn of the bra. Gay’s prose is direct and mcular, unflchgly nontg the realy she’s created....
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
“[Roxane Gay] has wrten one of the most unsettlg books of the year. Gay weav a story that is thrillg and readable and, surprisgly, credibly enjoyable.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
Roxane Gay’s but novel, An Untamed State, falls unr this last tegory. An Untamed State is a rich, betifully crafted novel, which should tablish Roxane Gay as a wrer who has somethg important to say and who knows how to say . Awome, powerful, impossible to ignore, Roxane Gay is a lerary force of nature.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
“Roxane Gay is a rockstar talent who’s already left her mark on the lerary world, and her dazzlg but novel is certa to cement her place.... There are no easy answers to be found An Untamed State, and Gay, elegant, fierce, poetic prose that evok early-reer Margaret Atwood, forc her characters to reach across all borrs to fd some fal sense of reason. Roxane Gay is a remarkable wrer, an astute observer of Haian society and a eply sympathetic, unflchg chronicler of the promis people make orr to survive unr the most extreme ndns.
There is such a staggerg sense of strength, nfince and tegry to Gay’s tellg.... Gay is a darg and transfixg storyteller....
THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
Pay attentn to Roxane Gay; she’s here to stay.
“Gay brilliantly wr of the story’s external events while skillfully pturg Mireille’s ternal anguish.
A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg .
MALAYSIA FTIVAL NCELLED AFTER MATTY HEALY SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS AND KISS BANDMATE
“Unr the headg ‘Protts, ’ one paragraph discs gay rights California and unr the headg ‘Court Cas, ’ there are two paragraphs that discs the urt s that allowed gay marriage California.
She said a supplemental rource lists Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and polician who was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Milk was believed to be the first openly gay person elected to public office California. Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others. Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice.
The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.
They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.
In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.