THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION(ISM)OF GAY MEN:AND ME QUA/AS A GAY MAN | towardsutopia

Contents:

• HORRIBLE! GAY ACTIVI THE STEAM... - QUA BATHS & SPA
• THE 10 GAYT THGS YOU MT DO LGBTQIA LAS VEGAS
• AM I GAY?

HORRIBLE! GAY ACTIVI THE STEAM... - QUA BATHS & SPA

LGBTQ: The first four letters of this standard abbreviatn are fairly straightforward: “Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr. Queer: Once nsired a meang slur for beg gay, “queer” is beg reclaimed by some as a self-affirmg umbrella term, pecially among those who nsir other labels rtrictive.

Some still believe ’s a homophobic slur, so ’s always bt to ask or wa for the person whom you’re speakg wh to e .

Lbian: A noun and an adjective for women who are attracted to other women, although some women prefer to be lled gay or queer – ’s always bt to ask! Gay: An adjective and not a noun, most often ed to scribe men who are attracted to other men (except the aforementned s). - Tăng cường luyện tập: Hãy từ bỏ ngay suy nghĩ sai lầm rằng: gầy thì không cần phải luyện tập.

THE 10 GAYT THGS YOU MT DO LGBTQIA LAS VEGAS

Contrary to s outsized personaly and reputatn, Las Vegas is a relatively small cy wh a populatn of only 600, 000 so don’t arrive expectg a gay scene to rival that of New York Cy or Los Angel (or even San Diego for that matter).

A ftival happens on Saturday Sunset Park southeast of the airport and, of urse, there are numero gaydar-worthy parti happeng around town, cludg poolsi events and nighttime bash where atten are enuraged to wear as ltle as possible.

Easily the cy’s most Instagrammable stallatn, the geni behd this ebullient burst of sert art is openly gay Swiss-born artist Ugo Rondone. S Cy do have a gay bathhoe (Hawks Gym & Spa) where you n go to um, s, but several Strip hotels are famo for havg upsle, clothg optnal and munal baths for both men and women (segregated by genr, of urse).

AM I GAY?

Hontly, the LGBTQ bars aren’t even half as gay as some of the shows, and a theatril performance really is an sential part of a Vegas weekend. But never md the superstars: Gay one-lers fly at Absthe (our favore show Vegas) and high-wire circ shows like O, Zumany and La Reve, the homoerotic imagery is everywhere.

The overly flamboyant, bejeweled and talented sger and piano player Władziu Valento Liberace wasn’t gay—except that he totally, 100% was! Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.

gay male posnaly is termed by our opprsn, soc-psychologil forc, terlaid to the self. Indtrial palistic anisatn of society explos gay men a parallel, non-hierarchil(non workerist) way to, eg workg class people.

SO: gaymale psychogeography is, stcturally at least, a unnisatn of the self and the our ras(other gaymen), an (attempted sometim)emancipatn om forc of palist enslavement; which spreads s slimy tentacl, orr to transform to s own replints, ie agents of heterosexism/norms, Stepford-wivg their tasks of straight-actg or “not-makg-a-big-al-of-beg-gay”(viz. HOMOnormatively). Changg our ternal and external landsp(ral, as well as urban; {the ral MOST needs our attentn: has been WRESTED off gaymen as an unsafe, reactnary, possibly homophobic, massive no-go zone: jt read “On the Red Hill” by Mike Parker, 2019:the classic, perhaps the ONLY work of Welsh gaymale psychogeography, the stggl-wh termtent succs- of two generatns of gaymale upl to feel they belong the agrarian Welsh heartlands of Machynlleth}as gaymen:THIS is our life-work.

The aim beg, of urse, to fd ourselv, as dividual gaymen, as well as a llective/muny of THE GAIETY, a NEW, suatn(ism) of re-nfigurg the self, and re-drawg the map. I have talked, prevly, of gay male cysp:. How do gaymen pe the trope(like most trop has e om realy) of pg ral opprsn and self-obleratn to the cy, wh s unter-cultural GAY nightlife, ter alia:”Smalltown Boy”.