All of a sudn, we’re beg treated to (and sometim sulted by) a crop of movi and TV shows that center cis gay men.
Contents:
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- THE SPRGTIME OF GAY POP CULTURE
- NFL COACH COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
"Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon. PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn.
THE SPRGTIME OF GAY POP CULTURE
Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns. There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d. ”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove.
Exclamatns like “slay” or “purr” – while arguably wang for some time now – have officially been left to rot the graveyard of fotten gay slang.
One of the most monly ced meangs n be found the vio by creator Chris (which has been liked over 280, 000 tim, FYI) where two queer terviewe reply, whout the slightt hatn, “padam” when asked what their favoure gay slang of the moment is. They then elaborate that the word simply means “beg gay and havg a great time” which, yeah, kd of tracks – after all, don’t we all jt want to enjoy ourselv after all the doom and gloom of the past few years? In the UK, this language took the form of Polari: a subcultural dialect which rporated words om var romance languag, Romani and Yiddish, and was mostly ed among gay men.
NFL COACH COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
“Kylie has had a huge gay followg for what feels like several centuri, she still looks the same as she did the 1990s, and she is almost universally loved, so anythg she says, wears or do will stantly be embraced by her fans, ” he explas. “The diva is a huge part of mic culture – she’s a gay in though she might not serve the same role for lbians or bisexual people as she might do for gay men, ” she explas.
Historilly, gay culture of the 19th and 18th centuri, men worshipped opera divas, jt as people worship pop divas today.
“The relatnship between gay fan bas and divas is now totally mutual and somethg that serv both the performer and the dience, ” Taylor explas.