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GAY DEATH STOCKTAKE — A REVIEW
Character sign and promotnal work for Bad Apple Gay - a queer publitn based Aotearoa (New Zealand). What better way to spend a Tuday night than to settle and explore the ath of a gay man? Not actual ath, but Gay Death.
That is, the altogether too-popular myth that gay men are no longer sirable or fun by the time they turn 30. For , and pecially gay men, turng 30 is a ltle b different.
But more than that, ’s about what we perceive to be ‘gay culture’. Drkg, partyg, dgs, unprotected sual sex, workg out, bottom-iendly diets — all of the thgs are typilly summed up to a somewhat narrow ia of what gay culture is. And maybe that is gay culture or at least a part of .
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Or that once you’re 30, you’re not wele gay party spac (of which there is an absolute abundance Auckland, I’m sure we’ll all agree). The pot is, Gay Death is an ia that basilly says if you’re over 30 you n’t party, you n’t fuck, and you should s down and eat your keto ke. Gay Death Stocktake is a reflectn on turng 30, on anxiety over the ncept of Gay Death, feelg you haven’t achieved or that you aren’t prepared to be ‘old’.
Though wrten by Nathan Joe, and centred around his own life and anxieti, each eveng of Gay Death Stocktake stars a different performer. On openg night, this performer was Samuel Te Kani, 32, a eelancer (or his words, unemployed) wrer and generally tertg gay person, whose Twter lik are, ankly, a very good time.
Samuel’s job was to read and perform 30 tasks sttered throughout the room — most of them a mg on beg gay and 30. I thk this speaks to the myth of Gay Death.