The topic of discsn today revolv around the mon misnceptn that all male fashn signers are gay. As you know, there are a number of gay men who play a part the fashn dtry,...
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WHY PEOPLE PERCEIVE THAT MALE FASHN DIGNERS ARE GAY
I dont really have anythg agast gays, but I was jt wonrg. I mean, all guys associated wh fashn seem to be gay. Slimane is gay, Lagerfelds gay, Tom Ford is gay. Also, EVERY guy on Project Runway was gay!... Am I gay for watchg project nway? Anyways, jw. word. nja. One. * fashion designer not gay *
“[Wrer] Roxane Gay, [mician] Christe and the Queens, my ar iend and illtrator Edh Hammar—the list go on! I thk 's important to regnize that the fashn dtry is often perceived as gay-iendly due to the prence of women and gay men.
But this perceptn overlooks the issue at hand: the privileged posn held by gay cis men, particularly the fashn world.
* fashion designer not gay *
It is ccial to acknowledge this dispary, as is all too easy for a list of LGBTQ+ signers and brands to be domated by gay men who already hold signifint platforms the dtry. Florida has ma wav recent months thanks to s Parental Rights Edutn (more lloquially known as the “Don’t Say Gay Bill”) which tak effect on July 1 and would succeed “prohibg a school district om enuragg classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty primary gra levels or a specified manner, ” acrdg to language the bill. Garver Profsor of Jurispnce at Yale Law School, who was the lawyer reprentg a gay uple the first lawsu fightg for same-sex marriage, and who has spent 30 years fightg for marriage equaly, what’s happeng now is “hydrlic.
Clayton County, the Supreme Court se that led 2020 to protect employe om discrimatn for beg gay or transgenr] is peril, of beg chipped away at by relig allowanc.
And how he panred to the relig right, I worried really bee I’m a gay parent and I gus ’s jt super primal, like do I have to be ncerned? I thk beg a gay man and havg grown up through the AIDS crisis and been super exposed to everythg…to get to a place where you n marry and have children was a huge al and changed the landspe on how I feel about myself and what my life n look like. I was cut out by my fay for beg gay so I fely alt wh a lot of issu around beg accepted and societal prsur, ” he said.