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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

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.

WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN

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.

WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN

Basilly, “is the Untamed actually gay” is a plited qutn, bee of the Che censorship laws.

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.

WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN

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.

The producers slipped some cheeky ancient gay porn to a book that Wei Wuxian tricks Lan Wangji to readg and… somehow, that passed censorship. 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.

WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN

The Untamed was produced the ntext of a eply homophobic society, and th had to adhere to strict Che censorship regulatns. 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.

WHAT “THE UNTAMED” MEANS TO ME AS A GAY MAN

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. 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.

IS THE UNTAMED ACTUALLY GAY OR IS JT LIKE… SUBTEXT GAY?

” —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. Gay wr of her homeland betifully, scribg the nflictg, nuanced way that will rg faiar to Amerins whose parents hail om troubled lands....

6 TIM THE UNTAMED WAS LIKE, “CENSORSHIP WHO?” AND GAVE THE GAYS THEIR RIGHTS

“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 []....

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

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....

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

“I appld Gay’s urage: She wr ndidly, vividly, and necsarily... “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....

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

“[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. 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 .

THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

Awome, powerful, impossible to ignore, Roxane Gay is a lerary force of nature. “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....

MALAYSIA FTIVAL NCELLED AFTER MATTY HEALY SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS AND KISS BANDMATE

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....

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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 . “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.