Denstctg the "Sassy Gay Friend" | Jewish Women's Archive

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• SASSY GAY FRIEND
• EXCLIVE: BRIAN GALLIVAN ON SASSY GAY FRIEND, MIO, AND STUPID BIATCH
• DENSTCTG THE "SASSY GAY FRIEND"
• WATCH: WHAT YOUR SASSY GAY FRIEND IS REALLY THKG
• SASSY GAY FRIEND FIX YOUR SAD, BROKEN LIFE
• THE TROPE OF THE ‘GAY BT FRIEND’ MOVI AND TELEVISN, EXPLAED
• ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN BETA(FUNCTN(){FOR(VAR G="FUNCTN"==TYPEOF FEPROPERTI?FEPROPERTY:FUNCTN(B,C,A){IF(||)THROW NEW TYPEERROR("ES3 DO NOT SUPPORT GETTERS AND SETTERS.");B!=ARRAY.PROTOTYPE&&B!=OBJECT.PROTOTYPE&&(B[C])},H="UNFED"!=TYPEOF WDOW&&WDOW===THIS?THIS:"UNFED"!=TYPEOF GLOBAL&&NULL!=GLOBAL?GLOBAL:THIS,K=["STRG","PROTOTYPE","REPEAT"],L=0;LB||1342177279>>=1)C+=C;RETURN A};Q!=P&&NULL!=Q&&G(H,N,{NFIGURABLE:!0,WRABLE:!0,VALUE:Q});VAR T=THIS;FUNCTN U(B,C){VAR ("."),D=T;A[0] D||!D.EXECSCRIPT||D.EXECSCRIPT("VAR "+A[0]);FOR(VAR E;(());)||VOID 0===C?D[E]?D=D[E]:D=D[E]={}:D[E]=C};FUNCTN V(B){VAR ;IF(0=C.OFFSETWIDTH&&0>=C.OFFSETHEIGHT)A=!1;ELSE{D=C.GETBOUNDGCLIENTRECT();VAR ;("PAGEYOFFSET" WDOW?WDOW.PAGEYOFFSET:(DOCUMENT.DOCUMENTELEMENT||F.PARENTNO||F).SCROLLTOP);("PAGEXOFFSET" WDOW?WDOW.PAGEXOFFSET:(DOCUMENT.DOCUMENTELEMENT||F.PARENTNO||F).SCROLLLEFT);F=A.TOSTRG()+","+D;B.B.HASOWNPROPERTY(F)?A=!1:(B.B[F]=!0,A=(A+=E)}B.I&&(E="&RD="+ENURICOMPONENT(JSON.STRGIFY(B())),131072>(A+=E),C=!0);C=A;IF(C){D=B.H;B=B.J;VAR F;IF(WDOW.XMLHTTPREQUT)F=NEW XMLHTTPREQUT;ELSE IF(WDOW.ACTIVEXOBJECT)TRY{F=NEW ACTIVEXOBJECT("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")}TCH(R){TRY{F=NEW ACTIVEXOBJECT("MICROSOFT.XMLHTTP")}TCH(D){}}F&&(("POST",D+(-1==XOF("?")?"?":"&")+"URL="+ENURICOMPONENT(B)),F.SETREQUTHEAR("CONTENT-TYPE","APPLITN/X-WWW-FORM-URLEND"),(A))}}}FUNCTN B(){VAR B={},C;C=DOCUMENT.GETELEMENTSBYTAGNAME("IMG");IF(!)RETURN{};VAR A=C[0];IF(!("NATURALWIDTH" A&&"NATURALHEIGHT" A))RETURN{};FOR(VAR D=0;A=C[D];++D){VAR E=A.GETATTRIBUTE("DATA-PAGPEED-URL-HASH");E&&(!(E B)&&0=B[E].O&&>=B[E].M)&&(B[E]={,,OW:A.NATURALWIDTH,OH:A.NATURALHEIGHT})}RETURN B}VAR C="";U("PAGPEED.CRILIMAG.GETBEANDATA",FUNCTN(){RETURN C});U("",FUNCTN(B,C,A,D,E,F){VAR R=NEW Y(B,C,A,E,F);X=R;D&&W(FUNCTN(){WDOW.SETTIMEOUT(FUNCTN(){A(R)},0)})});})();('/NGX_PAGPEED_BEAN','(COMEDY%20SK)/WORKS','EVFAZEUQGZ',TE,FALSE,'O-GCLDT2R94');
• GAY IEND
• INTERVIEW WH BRIAN GALLIVAN: THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE SASSY GAY FRIEND
• PROBLEMATIC TOXIC MASCULY TROPE #5: SASSY GAY FRIEND

SASSY GAY FRIEND

Sassy Gay Friend[5] is a YouTube web seri created 2010 by the onle team of the Chigo-based improv pany The Send Cy. The seri starred actor Brian Gallivan[6] as the tular character who viss famo characters om lerature and film, as well as a handful of historil figur, to give them advice om the perspective of a over-the-top stereotypil homosexual male.

Brian Gallivan created the Sassy Gay Friend character 2004 while performg The Send Cy's mastage show Red Sre. [7] The first Sassy Gay Friend YouTube vio was upload on Febary 17th, 2010 to the Send Cy's channel, pictg the character visg Ophelia om William Shakpeare's Hamlet right before she ms suici. [13] In April, Salon[14] qutned whether the seri was satire or rercg the cliche that all gay men are flamboyant.

Throughout the rt of 2010, Sassy Gay Friend vios appeared on Paste Magaze[15], the Huffgton Post[16], Entertament Weekly[17], the New York Post[18] and Trendhunter.

EXCLIVE: BRIAN GALLIVAN ON SASSY GAY FRIEND, MIO, AND STUPID BIATCH

In Febary 2011, Sassy Gay Friend beme the spokperson for MiO[23], a liquid water enhancer product, dog a handful of man on the street terview vios (shown below) for the brand. That year, Sassy Gay Friend vios were featured on Time NewsFeed[20], Urlque[21] and Refery29. “Sassy Gay Friend” Brian Gallivan spoke to Monster and Crics about his MiO fueled new-found celebry.

The Send Cy h seri, “Sassy Gay Friend, ” featur Brian Gallivan, who b clever embedd advertisg wh hilar rants that tackle the bereft and befuddled mains of the Bard.

Gallivan’s character, Sassy Gay Friend, pops up as if transported through a time mache to nsole and buck up historil hysteril women who uld have ed some pla old good advice. MiO, a Kraft foods product, has hched their wagon to “Sassy Gay Friend, ” the seri Gallivan created and produced along wh The Send Cy. M&C: When did Sassy Gay Friend bee this ia/character that you ran wh?

DENSTCTG THE "SASSY GAY FRIEND"

Brian Gallivan: I first created Sassy Gay Friend 2004 when I was part of the Mastage st at The Send Cy Chigo. And then I did not do very much at all wh Sassy Gay Friend until early 2010 when The Send Cy started their youtube channel, The Send Cy Network.

The Sassy Gay Friend Hamlet vio was one of the first on they released. MiO also helps me make more Sassy Gay Friend vios. Brian Gallivan: I’m not sure what will happen wh Sassy Gay Friend the future.

David Levy, wrg for, recently challenged at JWA to ment on the genr/sexualy dynamic of the Send Cy's new vio seri, "Sassy Gay Friend.

WATCH: WHAT YOUR SASSY GAY FRIEND IS REALLY THKG

Comedy troupe The Send Cy has thrown their hat to the rg this week wh a new Youtube vio their "Sassy Gay Friend" seri. In the vios, Ophelia, Juliet, Dmona and Eve are each about to do somethg stupid when their "sassy gay iend" steps , talks some sense to them, and sav the day. In the vio below, the sassy gay iend stops Eve om eatg the apple.

SASSY GAY FRIEND FIX YOUR SAD, BROKEN LIFE

"Sassy Gay Friend" very obvly plays on stereotyp -- the stereotype that gay men exist orr to be women's "sassy gay iends" and the stereotype that women are, as is repeatedly stated the vios, "stupid bch. The send problem is the the assumptn that gay men are the experts at beg women.

THE TROPE OF THE ‘GAY BT FRIEND’ MOVI AND TELEVISN, EXPLAED

This is obvly meang to straight men and women, but also to gay men. In this stereotype, gay men exist only to help straight people, and are therefore rced to a supportg role and often sexualized so as not to be threateng (thk Stanford on Sex and the Cy). " The sassy gay iend this to refer to Juliet and Ophelia, and then turns on himself the clips about Eve and Dmona.

" By llg Juliet and Ophelia "stupid bch, " their so-lled sassy gay iend dismiss the prsn and heartbreak (not to mentn the misogynistic and paternalistic forc opprsg the young women) behd each of their suicis as well, silly. The Sassy Gay Friend vio seri on YouTube has been a viral favore for months now, and wh good reason. But real life, you’re much more likely to have a iend like the new vio seri, “Disappotg Gay Bt Friend.

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Fantasy: You have a sassy gay iend who helps you put thgs perspective and giv you great advice.

Realy: You have a disappotg gay iend who don’t seem que as exced about your iendship (or anythg, for that matter) as you do.

Sassy gay iends are really good at preventg women om makg dumb cisns, typilly when volv men and relatnships. This bridgg gap n also work the reverse way by helpg men make better cisns wh Sassy Gay Friend was ma popular by the popular Send Cy Network sk found on I was almost gog to get wh Steph, but fortunately my sassy gay iend knew om the drk she orred that she had herp and stopped me.

GAY IEND

Alice: I was gog to ll Karl, but Alejandro, my sassy gay iend, told me to give the Sassy Gay Friend mug. I speak, of urse, of Sassy Gay Friend, who has three separate vios on the YouTube om the Send Cy Network, none of which is easy to stop watchg. Sassy Gay Friend's goal life is to sert himself to var Shakpearean scenars, volvg ladi who are gettg unreasonably weepy and preparg to die.

He then hollers highly judgmental and apt advice at them (that is the "sassy" part), gets them to stop mopg over their var boyiends and hbands (the "iend" portn), and sav their liv to the tune of a stereotypil and very crappy dance beat (and that, I gus, nveys the "gay"?

INTERVIEW WH BRIAN GALLIVAN: THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE SASSY GAY FRIEND

It is possible to read Sassy Gay Friend as a satire of the "sassy gay iend" stereotype, which gay men are all extremely fabulo and do absolutely nothg wh their liv but advise straight ladi. It is possible to read Sassy Gay Friend as embracg this stereotype. It is possible to plore the broadns wh which Sassy Gay Friend is acted, particularly on his tchphrase "stupid bch, " and how one sk gets a b racially offensive.

PROBLEMATIC TOXIC MASCULY TROPE #5: SASSY GAY FRIEND

) It is possible to admire Sassy Gay Friend's sight to matters of genr. But we e not to bury Sassy Gay Friend, but to praise him.

For one thg is clear: Sassy Gay Friend r about the ladi. And, on a day when you yourself are approachg Shakpearean levels of weeps, there is fort the prence, via YouTube, of Sassy Gay Friend.

" Now, "sassy" has ped om s Southern, Ain-Amerin nnotatns, and a related cliche suatn has veloped: "Sassy Gay Friend. Which leads me to wonr: why is "sassy" only ed to scribe men stanc like this, when 's a riture or gay stereotype? You are here: Home / Misc / The Trope of the ‘Gay Bt Friend’ Movi and Televisn, Explaed.