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gay fails

As assiatn to more mastream culture creas, many gay men are shiftg their attus on non-tradnal relatnships—beg ls acceptg of them.

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Happy and gay all day long. 'I read the book and I'm still gay': Man rells how he accintally me out to his ultra nservative llege roommat via voicemail om the bookstore. 'I slammed the door my uncle's face': Homophobic uncle asks for gay nephew to watch his kid, gets what he serv.

The homophob always e back when they need somethg, huh?

'So I bought their home and I evicted them': Homophobic neighbor who nstantly shouts slurs gets served ser karma om their gay neighbor. The gay uple waved a poetic goodbye on their new ont porch as the homophobic now-ex-neighbors all of a sudn realized what had jt happened to them: Karma.

27 GAY MEM SURE TO MAKE ANYONE LGH

When It No Longer Matters If Tails From "Sonic" Is Gay or Not.

Tmp's "Ask the Gays" Remark on Wednday Inced All the Rage on Twter. Dear Insecure Dus: the Rose Gold iPhone is Not Gay. Consirg the overwhelmg majory of films over the s have been lensed by men, ’s easy to view tfights as the creatn of the leerg male gaze—but what about the “male gays, ” the WLW, and the rt of the queers who get a kick out watchg two of their favore actrs go toe-to-toe, kickg, clawg, scratchg, hair-pullg, bg, and slappg their way to domatn?

Pl, ’s worth notg that one of the earlit and most celebrated filmic tfights n be found the 1939 Wtern, Dtry Ris Aga: A long, unbroken brawl scene between Una Merkel and none other than Marlene Dietrich, one of the origal gay ins of the silver screen. Photo cred: Lnsgate“Demoln” (Lnsgate)This Jake Gyllenhaal die se the actor beiend a young closeted gay man, whom he advis to rema the closet until he n move to a bigger, more acceptg cy. The boy ignor this advice and attends a lol gay bar, where he is jumped by a group of straight men.

THE DOWNFALL OF THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT

The gay character “never seemed to be actually unfortable wh himself to beg wh, [so] is dishearteng that the film cid to e this kd of vlence as a plot vice. Photo cred: Foc Featur“Nocturnal Animals” (Foc) It’s surprisg that a film directed by a gay in (the notorly provotive signer Tom Ford) would get dged by GLAAD — but the film’s two gay characters (one played by Michael Sheen, one only referenced the history of characters played by Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal) did not pass mter.

“Though is clear that this film tak place a world clive of gay characters accepted by the protagonists, is disappotg that their stori are centered on the straight women their liv, ” the SRI said.

)The film got pots for meos om out journalists Anrson Cooper and Andrew Sullivan playg fictnalized versns of themselv, but the do not gay characters make, the study said.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY FAILS

Monogamy or Bt: Why Are Many Gay Men Opposed to Open Relatnships?.

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