The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal.
Contents:
- WHAT'S UP WH "GENR CRIL" GAY GUYS?
- MY BOYIEND LIK SHEMAL DO THAT MAKE HIM GAY?
- ARE ALL TRANSGENR PEOPLE GAY?
- BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
- TRANSGAY
- COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE
WHAT'S UP WH "GENR CRIL" GAY GUYS?
* trans gay guys *
” But wh the last few years, a new mographic has ma s prence felt: transphobic gay men. The LGB Alliance, a chary found by both gay men and lbians which has been scribed as a hate group by a number of proment figur and anizatns, remas the most notor example of this velopment, but this year also saw the lnch of a trans-exclive media outlet, Lbian and Gay News (there is no news about bisexuals, I gus. )The LGB Alliance claims s missn statement to “advance the terts of lbians, gay men and bisexuals, ” but s view of what nstut the terts is a narrow one: each of their six active mpaigns is ncerned wh trans people.
The UK’s high rate of homelsns amongst LGBT youth, the risk of portatn faced by gay asylum seekers, or the fact that homophobic hate crime has soared sce 2015 — all of the issu fall outsi of the LGB Alliance’s rem, favor of more prsg ncerns like “ensurg that people are asked about their blogil sex while fillg the cens” and “makg harr for trans people to change their birth certifite. ” Gay people Bra n breath a sigh of relief that an anizatn is here at last to advance their terts, all of which, for some reason, volve antagonisg trans people. Havg succsfully persuad pole society that “TERF” is a slur, the Brish anti-trans movement now aniz unr the banner of “genr cril” — a phemistic moniker ma nsirably funnier by the fact that nobody is more cril of genr than someone who 's a certa kd of gay man who embodi the genr-cril vibe.
MY BOYIEND LIK SHEMAL DO THAT MAKE HIM GAY?
Apps like Grdr, HER and even OKCupid n help when you've already dated all the gay people you know. * trans gay guys *
” He’s not pecially terted gay culture, and stead prefers the standard fare of middle-brow English liberals: Gee Orwell and The Great Brish Bake-Off; Solzhensyn and Strictly Come Dancg; edy panel shows lled “I’m Aaid I Haven’t the Foggit!
However, stark ntrast, I fd the transphobia of so-lled ‘genr-cril gay men’ utterly self dulgent, nsirg that cisgenr men tend to hold the most stctural and terpersonal power wh LGBTQ+ spac. “There are many different subtyp of gay guy, and I thk the genr-cril gay man spans them all, ” says Sean O’Neill, a wrer based London. “For some of them ’s all jt a post-hoc jtifitn for regular populatn-level transphobia, ” he says, “or a symptom of beg too-onle or too much other people's bs (classic gay tras).
ARE ALL TRANSGENR PEOPLE GAY?
” There seems to be the ncern that if gay men lump ourselv together wh trans people — a group subject to greater discrimatn — we risk beg damned by associatn. It’s a very succsful sort of divi-and-nquer where straight society tells a certa — often more middle-class, wealthier — strata of gay men that 's on them now to make sure that the weirdo are kept at bay so that the really sry queerns, the msy, le-blurrg stuff, don't force that straight society to roll back all the gas civil rights there were ma the late 20th and early 21st century.
BT GAY DATG APPS FOR HOOKUPS, RELATNSHIPS, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
”While there are monali, genr-cril gay men the U. How gayns or whe womanhood is any different as an inty, I do not know, but the people are not good at self-reflectn.
” This brand of anti-intarian transphobia has yet to make ser -roads wh the Brish left, gay or otherwise, though that’s likely jt bee beg anti-trans is a wholly tablishment posn the UK. ”Beyond vague anxieti about their place the world, “genr cril” gay men have a number of specific grievanc, all of which are stupid. But this has never been a term wh which gay men have intified, other than, recent years, to signal their support for a hate movement.
”Frankly, I thk the ia that trans men beg on Grdr pos some existential threat to cisgenr gay men is ls a se of misguid anxiety and more a se of wishful thkg, ” says Shon.
TRANSGAY
“I don’t thk any gay trans men I know would touch the men wh a bargepole.
” While I n’t speak for the transmascule muny, ’s ed hard to image they’re clamourg for the amoro attentns of the middle-aged Dr Who fans who talk about eatg “emergency biscus” and, any se, live anti-trans gay men also hate the the word “queer, ” which they sometim refer to, Tumblr Teen style, as “the Q slur. ” In prose that would make an unrgrad creative wrg workshop blh, one Lbian and Gay News ntributor argu, “As words go, [queer] is a sharp bla, the wounds leav are msy laceratns that don’t heal neatly rather than clean surgil cuts. It hardly needs sayg that “genr cril” gay men don’t pay any ference to the hurt feelgs of the people who disagree wh them, nor are they reluctant to leverage accatns of homophobia agast their crics.
” And yet…Beyond the issu, “genr cril” gay men make a larger and more apolyptic claim: the existence of “genr iology” means that gay men will eventually be ma extct. This is a well-worn talkg pot: transphobic men, gay or straight, love to rell that when they were young, they were always a ltle b different.
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The fear that gay men will be “transed” away rts on the premise that there is a signifint hort of homophobic but trans-enthiastic parents who would rather have a trans child than a gay one.
We n probably rt assured that cis gay men as a mographic won’t be disappearg any time soon (more’s the py!
The ve of transphobia among gay men we’re seeg the U. K is already makg -roads the Stat — most chillgly of all, one of s chief proponents is a whe rapper — and ’s easy to image nvergg wh an Andrew Sullivan-style gay nservatism to nightmarish effect. The men are speful and staggergly unchic; they’re wastg their liv the worst possible way— luckily, as a gay man, I am allowed to say Greig wr about culture and society.