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HOW GROWG UP GAY SHAPED THE LIFE AND REER OF DAVID SEDARIS
He ntued, “I started as a homosexual, beme gay, then LGBT, and now queer. The irony all of this is that ’s supposed to be a rejectn of “bary” — yet each label, self, is actually bary: you’re gay or not gay, you’re genr-fluid or not, etc.
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By puttg Sedaris’s work nversatn wh Swift’s “A Most Proposal, Roxane Gay’s “Confsns of a bad femist”TED Talk, and Yasm Nair’s “Gay Marriage IS a Conservative Cse, ” I will illtrate how Sedaris’s “A Most Proposal” vok the aforementned them of queerns through s satiril form. A self-scribed gay male, Sedaris begs his say wh an acknowledgment of his geographic posn, London. He exprs surprise about the legaly of gay marriage London while Washgton, D.
A QUEER PROPOSAL: IS DAVID SEDARIS GAY?
And the Uned Stat had yet to legalize , ially statg that the “se” of gay marriage, London is “two years and five hours ahead”. Sedaris’s feelgs towards marriage are plited as the say progrs wh his cln of flashbacks to his childhood, prr to him owng his his “young[er] years, “the early seventi, ” to be exact, Sedaris says that livg Raleigh, North Carola ma “beg gay [feel] like the worst thg that uld happen to a person. His mother’s e of the word “queer, ” upled wh his gay inty at the time of wrg this say, exhibs the generatnal gap surroundg this grown up “the early seventi, ” as noted his say, Sedaris experienc the generatnal change which the scriptor “queer” evolv om meang weird and outsi of the norm, as did the Baby Boomer Generatn, to beg a rogatory slur for people who have sexuali or genr that viate om heteronormative standards, those standards beg heterosexualy and cisgenred-ns, when a person’s genr matchg his or her sex.
Perhaps bt known LGBTQ+ studi for her rmal say “Gay Marriage IS a Conservative Cse, ” Yasm Nair stands as a sort of in for the member of the LGBTQ+ muny who advote agast the legalizatn of gay marriage. Through this say, Nair argu that the ph for gay marriage is nservative that , as Saris puts , “ sence, the fight to be as square as straight people, ” square meang to be further phed to the box of heteronormativy. Sedaris wr that he “wanted gay people to get the right to marry, and then [he] wanted none of [them] to act on .
"While Nair never says whether or not she believ people should have the optn to marry, gay or otherwise, she do believe is a right that would feat the purpose of beg queer. Nair also sists that the phrase “marriage equaly” perpetuat the ia that assiatn to marriage’s heteronormativy is necsary; she mak a liberate choice speakg to “gay marriage, ” as vok the ia of queerns as polil. Usg this policized phrase allows Nair to speak more directly to the ia that “marriage has been the anthis of everythg queer people have wanted” due to s sistence that the queer muny is no longer outsi of the norm, that they nform to society as married, gay upl who don’t threaten heterosexual marriag or relatnships wh their sexualy.