Gay people have always gathered bars or secret clubs. But many of our formative moments occur not at the bars but over meals shared wh iends afterward.
Contents:
- GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
- NOT ONLY ARE THOSE FROOT LOOPS GAYTIM REAL, THERE’S ALSO A CNCHY NUT FLAVOUR OUT TOO
- A GAY RT AT A DOUGHNUT SHOP? THE LEGEND HAS SOME HOL.
- GAY RAMADAN: CGHT BETWEEN FASTG AND SNG
- AN O TO L.A.’S GAY RTRANTS, WHERE A MUNY N FD A HOME
GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
An open letter to my fellow whe gay cis men: there should be no "returng to normal" after this. * do gay times have nuts *
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I spent a few quiet afternoons readg his 1978 but novel Faggots, a satiril (yet clearly tobgraphil) look at the liv of gay men 1970s New York Cy that he wrote jt before AIDS ma him a figurehead of Amerin activism. Followg a man his late 30s (based on Kramer himself) who is seekg out a lovg, long-term relatnship a sea of hedonism, the novel has a clear msage: gay men need to start lovg each other stead of beg so obssed wh gettg fucked up and (lerally and figuratively) fuckg each other. - Larry Kramer his but novelUpon publitn, Faggots was dismissed by many as puranil and self-loathg for s cricism of gay men's obssn wh vany, promiscuy and recreatnal dg e.
And while, on one level, the book is a wild (if at tim problematic) wdow to an era of gay culture 40 years the past, also felt like had a lot to say about gay culture today. In mastream gay media, the phrase almost always refers to a fairly specific subset of the LGBTQ "muny" largely ma up of whe gay cis men — even though many of the battl won around queer rights were fought by people of lour, trans and genr-nonnformg folks, and queer women, and fact the morn Pri movement self was large part iated by Black trans women. If an imprsn of a monolhic "gay culture" fed by such a homogeneo mographic exists, is bee whe gay cis men have until very recently domated mastream reprentatn unr the LGBTQ umbrella and have, general, been hand a level of privilege the last that is wildly disproportnate to any other mographic unr said umbrella.
NOT ONLY ARE THOSE FROOT LOOPS GAYTIM REAL, THERE’S ALSO A CNCHY NUT FLAVOUR OUT TOO
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When was the last time I actually had a good time at gay bar full of people I have fely spoken to on social media or apps but who act like I'm pletely sane when I se or say hello person? In analyzg the show's pictn of young gay men livg San Francis, wrer Daniel Wenger diagnos what he terms the "new gay sadns": an entire generatn of urban, privileged gay men who seem to have no clue what they're lookg for or who they are.
Largely born the 1980s, they are the earlit wave of a "post-Stonewall, post-plague, post-activist" generatn of gays — "too old to have brought a boy to the prom and too young to have nursed a fantasy of nng away to an urban gay utopia, " Wenger explas. Queeri5 pneerg LGBTQ Canadian films you n watch for ee right nowI've seen many of my fellow whe gay cis men seemgly rise to the ocsn by retweetg Black and Indigeno voic, gog to ralli and vowg to te themselv on how to tly be anti-racist (though how performative that is some s is unclear).
Rettg "gay culture" will require fightg back agast entrenched social prsur and expectatns of gay cis men — and llg them out when they perpetuate, even passively, any form of discrimatory dialogue.
A GAY RT AT A DOUGHNUT SHOP? THE LEGEND HAS SOME HOL.
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GAY RAMADAN: CGHT BETWEEN FASTG AND SNG
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AN O TO L.A.’S GAY RTRANTS, WHERE A MUNY N FD A HOME
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John Rechy, thor of the landmark 1963 gay novel “Cy of Night, ” has relled seeg ffee cups Cooper Do-nuts melee has long been noted as a gay uprisg a full 10 years before the more famo June 1969 rt outsi the Stonewall Inn New York Cy. ImageJack Evans, who ran the doughnut cha for many fayImageA mug and sh register om the old Lieberman for The New York TimLol newspapers and TV statns didn’t ver any clash, which may not be surprisg, given how ltle the mastream media reported on gay life those days. Marsak, the historian, said that while he is all for memoratg gay history, he is skeptil of ntentns, pecially those om the Evans fay, that Cooper Do-nuts was hospable to the L.
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