Ross Gay | Poetry Foundatn

Contents:

• ‘THE NANNY’ IS A CCIAL GAY TEXT THAT MT BE PRERVED AND CELEBRATED
• THE GAY VOICE
• A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'
• SYNONYMS FOR GAY TON
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ROSS GAY

‘THE NANNY’ IS A CCIAL GAY TEXT THAT MT BE PRERVED AND CELEBRATED

Another stantly tchy one, was about a iend of hers g out as gay to his father. We all know that Troye Sivan is gay and Miley Cys is pansexual, but there are a number of lser known micians that are openly queer. It was like, 'Wow, do that mean I am gay?

Khalif Duf, known by his stage name Le1f, is an openly gay rapper hailg om New York. The openly gay sger is also an actor.

THE GAY VOICE

Dpe beg on the 2014 ver of Out, Dev Hyn, sger of Blood Orange, neher intifi as straight nor gay and is tired of others dissectg his sexualy. In the terview the gay heartthrob discsed his sobriety, g mic as therapy, and his newt stud album, Not the End of Me.

Gay history has to be prerved. This is why I have to appld HBO Max for makg a bold move and prervg a foundatnal piece of gay pop culture, one that’s been left languishg the obscury of basic ble rens for s.

The gays who were there know how ccial of a text this show was to generatns of back when the show ran om 1993 to 1999. I mean, as a gay pop culture wrer, y, I’m fluent hyperbole. —to the gay experience.

A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'

It tly felt like an even gayer part of me was reactivated after years of dormancy by the sound of one nasal lgh.

What I realized is that, while I did not watch The Nanny religly when was on (we were a TGIF and then Mt See TV fay), the show still managed to add a lot of gay wrkl to my elementary-to-middle school bra. Why did this show appeal to all the gays, om the out and proud activists all the way down to one entirely cluels baby gay Tennsee? That’s the vibe that every gay man dreams of—to be able to go where you want to go whout havg to promise your thentic self.

Fran Fe is the ultimate, unpromisg gay ial—and, whout realizg , I related to her middle school bee everyone had figured out that I was gay long before I did, and they held agast me. But Fran’s wardrobe is self a metaphor for the gay experience.

SYNONYMS FOR GAY TON

There’s also big gay vib om the pop culture that Fran herself tak .

This is—and I’m sure every Gen X and old lennial gay will agree—reprentatn, honey. That style of edy is herently gay.

It’s like gays learned that while we may not be able to get the love we want om the public, we n settle for gettg the lghs—so we get them by any means necsary.

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

That all brgs to the tensely personal portn of this big, gay say: Daniel Davis. Other closeted gays had Jonathan Brandis, I had Nil.

” I don’t re that I n fd no actual nfirmatn om Davis himself that he is, fact, a homosexual (y, I sperately want to add him to my list of gay hero and if this article gets ont of his still-handsome face, HELLO and THANK YOU! But whatever—wh his inic punchl, uptight sass, impecble wardrobe, Nil was the archetypal gay that I would subnscly grow to (even if… I mean, I’m a 60/40 Fran/Nil spl). I brg up my childhood fatuatn wh Nil (a sentence I have been wag to wre on this webse for years) bee I feel like every young and/or closeted gay had a siar experience wh The Nanny.

For all of the reasons, broad and credibly narrow, The Nanny is one of the most ccial texts the gay library.

ROSS GAY

The Nanny is gay rights. Why do some gay men “sound” gay? 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.

They want to know how men acquire this manner of speakg, and why – pecially when society so often stigmatiz those wh gay-soundg voic. Rogers and Smyth are also explorg the stereotyp that gay men sound effemate and are regnized by the way they speak.