Megan Stalter Talks 'Hi Gay' Vio, Queer Reprentatn Comedy

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• 'HACKS' STAR MEGAN STALTER TALKS VIRAL 'HI, GAY' VIO, QUEER REPRENTATN COMEDY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• THE EDIAN BEHD THAT VIRAL ‘HI GAY!’ MEME IS BACK WH ANOTHER VID, JT TIME FOR PRI MONTH
• HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY / I CAN STILL HEAR HIS VOICE
• HACKS STAR MEG STALTER RETURNS TO TERRORIZE RPORATE PRI MPAIGNS 'HI GAY!' MEME SEQUEL
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• HI GAY
• 'HI GAY!': MEG STALTER'S BUTTER SHOP CHARACTER IS BACK WH A NEW MSAGE FOR PRI 2022
• GAY HONOLULU
• THIS IS CAMP !SUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"HI GAY! PRI MONTH IS OVER!","SCRIPTN":"IT'S JULY, OOPS. BUT PRI MONTH NEVER ENDS... RIGHT??","IMAGE":[{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"}],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2021-07-07T02:31:48+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2021-07-07T02:31:48+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":TE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"TRAVIS TATE","URL":","SCRIPTN":NULL,"INTIFIER":"ER:1396465"}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"THIS IS CAMP !","URL":","SCRIPTN":"'S JT THAT EVERYTHG IS MP NOW","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":10},"INTIFIER":"PUB:8514","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"SAMEAS":["]}}SHARE THIS POSTHI GAY! PRI MONTH IS OVER!COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERHI GAY! PRI MONTH IS OVER!IT'S JULY, OOPS. BUT PRI MONTH NEVER ENDS... RIGHT??TRAVIS TATEJUL 7, 2021SHARE THIS POSTHI GAY! PRI MONTH IS OVER!COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERSHAREOK I KNOW PRI MONTH IS OVER AND I SHOULDA SENT THIS EARLIER BUT I’VE BEEN ENJOYG BEG VACCATED. UMM, FIVE ME. PLEASE. OK ENJOY!QUEER BABBLEWHG_JSEA POST SHARED BY @WHG_JSEAS PRI MONTH TO AN END, I AM JASME MASTERS AND I HAVE SOMETHG TO SAY. THE ONLY MONTH OF THE YEAR WHERE GAY PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO SPEAK PUBLIC. THERE ARE PARTI, EVERY BEACH-Y TOWN IS FULL OF SPEEDOS AND YOU N SEE A DRAG QUEEN YOUR R. DO YOU HAVE QUEER IENDS? WELL, BETTER PUT THEIR HALF-NAKED BODI ON YOUR INSTAGRAM STORI, MAMA! I DON’T WANT TO SOUND LIKE A PLETE AND UTTER PDISH, NSERVATIVE HRC F@GGOT, BUT UMM— I’M DISTRS, A B, I THK. PRI MONTH IS UALLY BCHERO ( A FUN WAY) BUT NOW THAT ’S LLIDG WH THE THE GREAT UPTICK VACCATED DIVIDUALS, ’S TURNED TO A BACCHANAL CELEBRATN OF EEDOM. AND I, FOR ONE, AM FEELG THE TENSE NEED TO BE OUT AND ABOUT, LOOKG F AND WEARG SOMETHG FLY AND HOT AND SEXY. BUT IS THIS ATTAABLE? IS STAABLE? HOW WE’VE STAVED OFF OUR VERY REAL QUEER IMPULSE TO PARTY WH OUR QUEER IENDS DURG A PANMIC (SOME OF ) IS ONLY WHAT SOME WOULD LL A MIRACLE. QUEER NIGHTLIFE IS THE PARADISE (FOR MANY, NOT ALL). A LAND THAT IS RIPE WH FULFILLMENT, PRONE TO PISM, AND ACCEPTG OF WHATEVER FANTASY ONE MIGHT WANT TO LIVE FOR THE NIGHT. I’VE FOUND MYSELF TIRED OM THE ABSOLUTE BLAST OF SEROTON BUBBL BEG SLAPPED TO MY SYNAPS. FROM THE SWEAT, THE FEROC SEXUAL GLANC, AND THE CHEAP LIQUOR. THERE IS, FACT, SOMETHG MAGIL ABOUT DANCG TO “RA ON ME” FOR THE FIRST TIME ON DANCE FLOOR FULL OF QUEERS. FDG THE RHYTHM TOGETHER, WAG FOR THE BREAKDOWN. LETTG THE HEAD PULSE BACK AND FORTH LIKE A METRONOME. OH, WHAT IS TO LIVE SI THE BEAT! THERE IS A DOWNSI TO ALL THIS MAENAD-LIKE EXPRSN. WE ARE LEFT AT HOME SOMETIM WH NO IENDS, NOT FULLY VACCATED, REEVALUATG OUR LIV AND REERS AND LOV. ALL THIS N BE HARD TO WATCH THROUGH YOUR LTLE PHONE SCREEN. FOMO (A LENNIAL CHGY TERM) IS REAL AGA. THE PANMIC HAS LEFT CRAVG NNECTN MORE THAN WE HAVE BEFORE THIS TIME. THEN THERE’S THE BODY. THE QUEER BODY. (I DON’T HAVE PHD YET.) THAT IS ON DISPLAY VIA TWTER, INSTAGRAM. THE CHISEL ADONIS PHORIA, STUCK ON A PERPETUAL FIRE ISLAND P TRIP. SOMEONE DONNG A SPEEDO SHEEP’S MEADOW. OR PERCHED ON A ROCK PALM SPRGS OR JOSHUA TREE. WHILE WE SPENT A YEAR REFLECTG ON THE OFTEN NOT REFLECTED ON— LIKE HOW OUR BODI EXTEND PAST SOCIAL MEDIA AND IMPLANT ON A VIEWER A SPECIFIC KD OF DYSPHORIA. AND NOW WE’VE FOTTEN ABOUT ALL THAT AND JUMPED RIGHT BACK TO THE SPNG WHEEL OF QUEER HIERARCHI. AND WE KNOW THE BODY IS PLACED FIRST, DOMAT EVEN THE MOVG TRICI OF QUEER TERSECTNALY.I’M NOT BLAMG PEOPLE OF MCULAR EXPERIENCE FOR HAVG THOSE BODI. OR EVEN SHOWG THEM OFF. BUT ’S HARD. HOW DO Y’ALL GET THOANDS OF LIK FOR YOU STANDG ON A BEACH SPEEDO? (ABS?) QUEER RECLAMATN OF THE BODY LOOKS LIKE MANY DIFFERENT THGS— TATTOOS, PIERCGS, MAKP, ETC. THOUGH SPECIFIC BODI ARE PLACED AT THE TOP OF THE CHART, PRAISED AND HEARTED ALL THE TER. WHILE THE DISURSE SURROUNDG THE ACCEPTANCE OF DIFFERENT BODI ARE ENURAGG CELEBRATN AND CLN, I HAVE YET TO SEE A FIRE ISLAND PIC WH FIFTEEN PEOPLE THAT DON’T HAVE ABS OR AREN’T WHE. SLOWLY, I SUPPOSE, WILL ALL CHANGE. IT’S ALL G ALONG. PEOPLE ARE GETTG LLED OUT. OR RATHER, LLED , FOR THEIR QUEER FAM TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT MEANS TO BE QUEER THE SUMMER AFTER/DURG A GLOBAL PANMIC. AND WHAT LONG LASTG EFFECTS THE SIMPLISTIC SOCIAL MEDIA POST THAT FEATURE JOYO REVELRY MEAN TO OTHERS.THE PRENTATN OF QUEER BODI MAY NOT BE THE SOLE PURPOSE FOR MY, AND MOST LIKELY OTHERS, DISDA OR NFN, ’S SIMPLY THE WAY ( WHICH) WE NSUME TH BODI. SOCIAL MEDIA NSUMPTN (MY FAVE THG) IS AT AN UPTICK TOO. AND I WOULD POS THAT QUEER NSUMPTN IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH— AT LEAST FOR ME. THE EYE SCTIZ, ENGED WH THE IMAG OF HARD MCL, SLICK HAIR AND TNT SWIMWEAR. THERE DON’T SEEM TO BE A WAY TO EXPERIENCE JOY IF YOUR BODY DON’T LOOK LIKE THAT. THE IMAG WE NSUME ARE WROUGHT WH THE EXPRSED NATURE OF LT, SELF-EXPRSN AND EEDOM— S NATURE MIMICKG WHAT PRI IS ALL ABOUT. CAN WE GET A VARIATN ON THE THEME, MATRO? ARE THERE GOTHS ON FIRE ISLAND WHO WANT TO PLAY TERACTIVE BOARD GAM?AND I KNOW I SAID I DIDN’T WANT TO PARTY POOP, BUT THERE’S SOMETHG THERE TO UNVER. AND ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, SOMEONE WILL ARTICULATE A B BETTER THAN I HAVE. BUT NOW, I’M THKG A LOT ABOUT SELF-PRERVATN. AS I TERACT WH IENDS, PH MYSELF OUTSI OF MY HOME AND GRAPPLE WH TER-PANMIC POLICS, I WANT TO BE MDFUL OF THE WAYS MY BODY REACTS TO OTHERS. I WANT TO BE THE SERGEANT OF MY NSUMPTN, DRILLG AFFIRMATNS AT MY WEIGHT GA THE MIRROR. THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL EFFECT THIS ALL HAS ON PSYCHE. AND I SHOULDN’T BE ENGAGG BUT THE DISURSE ON TWTER MOV QUICKLY, BOUNCG OM HATRED TO CELEBRATG JOY TO AMIC STUDY. IN THE LEAPS, THE DISURSE AND S NUANCE LSENS. I THK QUIPPY SAYGS AND AMIC LANGUAGE OFTEN FAIL OUR ATTEMPTS TO TLY ENGAGE ON SOCIETAL AND MUNY ISSU. WE HAVE TO E BACK TO EMOTN, TO FEELG. THAT’S WHERE I AM TRYG TO NNECT MYSELF TO— MY EMOTNAL FIELD AND BE OPEN TO RECEIVE OTHERS’ VALLEYS AND PLAS. WHO? WEEKLY @WHOWEEKLYOH YEAH BABY TATI IS BACK ? 8:43 PM ∙ JUN 17, 2021313LIK11RETWEETSKATE WSLET IS THE MAYOR OF EASTTOWN
• ALL MEM › HI GAY
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

'HACKS' STAR MEGAN STALTER TALKS VIRAL 'HI, GAY' VIO, QUEER REPRENTATN COMEDY

The edian and actrs has enjoyed a breakout year, om stealg scen as a well-tentned by entled airhead of an assistant HBO Max's Hacks and appearg Kacey Mgrav' Star-Crossed: The Film, to droppg viral vios on Instagram (see: the stantly inic "Hi, Gay" openg of her parody of rporatns durg Pri month). Your "Hi, Gay" quote your parody vio June took on a life of s own.

I had somebody the other day say, "Hi, Gay" to me on the street.

I never assume someone's sexualy, but sound like they were a straight woman, so felt more of an attack — bee was like they were drivg by and yellg, "Hi, Gay" at me... " Maybe she is gay, I have no ia, but was fely like she knew me om the vio. So that "Hi, Gay" one was scripted bee was supposed to look scripted.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Jacksonville Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen cid on Thursday to e out publicly as gay hop of livg his life whout fear and to spire others. Before jog Jacksonville’s achg staff, he was a strength ach for the football teams at Baylor and Febary 2022, Maxen reached out to NFL player Carl Nassib, who me out as gay 2021, to seek advice.

McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized.

He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

It was bil and ugly, filled wh “every gay slur you uld thk of, ” Bach said. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport.

McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay.

”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry. As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed.

THE EDIAN BEHD THAT VIRAL ‘HI GAY!’ MEME IS BACK WH ANOTHER VID, JT TIME FOR PRI MONTH

He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one.

“I was sually like, ‘You know I’m gay, right? That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac. “I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them.

HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy. Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned.

GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY / I CAN STILL HEAR HIS VOICE

In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done.

The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L. “Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely.

HACKS STAR MEG STALTER RETURNS TO TERRORIZE RPORATE PRI MPAIGNS 'HI GAY!' MEME SEQUEL

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U. Kev Maxen me out as gay an terview wh Outsports. -based profsnal league to e out as gay.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

ICYMI: Stalter is the hilar woman behd the viral “Hi Gay!

HI GAY

We thk that gay people are okay.

As a gay man growg up, I ed to fap a lot to tissu while watchg te blood episos on megpload. That’s why this pri i’m partnerg wh Kleenex™— goob bergado (@gabebergado) June 1, 2022 As a gay black woman who grew up a cult, I was aaid to e out of the closet.

That’s why this month I’m partnerg wh IKEA to build my dream closet— ? (@simply_lay_) June 1, 2022 In semi-related news, HBO’s edy about gay pirat Our Flag Means Death, which stars Taika Wai and Rhys Darby as star-crossed ptas, was officially renewed for a send season. Social and stctural issu—such as HIV stigma, homophobia, discrimatn, poverty, and limed accs to high-qualy health re—fluence health out and ntue to drive equi. Get the latt data on HIV among gay and bisexual men and fd out how CDC is makg a difference.

'HI GAY!': MEG STALTER'S BUTTER SHOP CHARACTER IS BACK WH A NEW MSAGE FOR PRI 2022

This web ntent the term gay and bisexual men to reprent gay, bisexual, and other men who reported male-to-male sexual ntact. Gay Gay Homosexual Gay or I Can Still Hear His Voice is a tchphrase often paired wh imag of characters om popular media, which one character remisc another character mockg them.

In the panel foreground, the character Yugi Muto remembers the character Pharaoh Atem, sayg, "I n still hear his voice…" In the eded background, Atem says, "Gay gay homosexual gay, " creatg the imprsn that the memory of Atem is mockg Yugi. But January 2021, e of the image and phras, particular "Gay Gay Homosexual Gay, " began to grow populary.

GAY HONOLULU

In addn to “Hi Gay!, ” probably her biggt h to date, there’s “woman who don’t realize she joed a cult, ” “woman who accintally says ‘you too’ after someone tells her to have a good flight, ” “fluencer mommy who keeps gettg terpted, ” and many others. (This boyiend was gay, but Stalter didn’t md: “We never kissed wh our mouths open but we were, like, the power uple drama club. Meg Stalter Pri spoof Meg Stalter has returned wh a sequel to her stantly inic 'Hi Gay!

| Cred: Meg Stalter/Twter "Hi gay, happy Pri Month!

THIS IS CAMP !SUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"HI GAY! PRI MONTH IS OVER!","SCRIPTN":"IT'S JULY, OOPS. BUT PRI MONTH NEVER ENDS... RIGHT??","IMAGE":[{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"}],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2021-07-07T02:31:48+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2021-07-07T02:31:48+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":TE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"TRAVIS TATE","URL":","SCRIPTN":NULL,"INTIFIER":"ER:1396465"}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"THIS IS CAMP !","URL":","SCRIPTN":"'S JT THAT EVERYTHG IS MP NOW","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":10},"INTIFIER":"PUB:8514","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"SAMEAS":["]}}SHARE THIS POSTHI GAY! PRI MONTH IS OVER!COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERHI GAY! PRI MONTH IS OVER!IT'S JULY, OOPS. BUT PRI MONTH NEVER ENDS... RIGHT??TRAVIS TATEJUL 7, 2021SHARE THIS POSTHI GAY! PRI MONTH IS OVER!COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERSHAREOK I KNOW PRI MONTH IS OVER AND I SHOULDA SENT THIS EARLIER BUT I’VE BEEN ENJOYG BEG VACCATED. UMM, FIVE ME. PLEASE. OK ENJOY!QUEER BABBLEWHG_JSEA POST SHARED BY @WHG_JSEAS PRI MONTH TO AN END, I AM JASME MASTERS AND I HAVE SOMETHG TO SAY. THE ONLY MONTH OF THE YEAR WHERE GAY PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO SPEAK PUBLIC. THERE ARE PARTI, EVERY BEACH-Y TOWN IS FULL OF SPEEDOS AND YOU N SEE A DRAG QUEEN YOUR R. DO YOU HAVE QUEER IENDS? WELL, BETTER PUT THEIR HALF-NAKED BODI ON YOUR INSTAGRAM STORI, MAMA! I DON’T WANT TO SOUND LIKE A PLETE AND UTTER PDISH, NSERVATIVE HRC F@GGOT, BUT UMM— I’M DISTRS, A B, I THK. PRI MONTH IS UALLY BCHERO ( A FUN WAY) BUT NOW THAT ’S LLIDG WH THE THE GREAT UPTICK VACCATED DIVIDUALS, ’S TURNED TO A BACCHANAL CELEBRATN OF EEDOM. AND I, FOR ONE, AM FEELG THE TENSE NEED TO BE OUT AND ABOUT, LOOKG F AND WEARG SOMETHG FLY AND HOT AND SEXY. BUT IS THIS ATTAABLE? IS STAABLE? HOW WE’VE STAVED OFF OUR VERY REAL QUEER IMPULSE TO PARTY WH OUR QUEER IENDS DURG A PANMIC (SOME OF ) IS ONLY WHAT SOME WOULD LL A MIRACLE. QUEER NIGHTLIFE IS THE PARADISE (FOR MANY, NOT ALL). A LAND THAT IS RIPE WH FULFILLMENT, PRONE TO PISM, AND ACCEPTG OF WHATEVER FANTASY ONE MIGHT WANT TO LIVE FOR THE NIGHT. I’VE FOUND MYSELF TIRED OM THE ABSOLUTE BLAST OF SEROTON BUBBL BEG SLAPPED TO MY SYNAPS. FROM THE SWEAT, THE FEROC SEXUAL GLANC, AND THE CHEAP LIQUOR. THERE IS, FACT, SOMETHG MAGIL ABOUT DANCG TO “RA ON ME” FOR THE FIRST TIME ON DANCE FLOOR FULL OF QUEERS. FDG THE RHYTHM TOGETHER, WAG FOR THE BREAKDOWN. LETTG THE HEAD PULSE BACK AND FORTH LIKE A METRONOME. OH, WHAT IS TO LIVE SI THE BEAT! THERE IS A DOWNSI TO ALL THIS MAENAD-LIKE EXPRSN. WE ARE LEFT AT HOME SOMETIM WH NO IENDS, NOT FULLY VACCATED, REEVALUATG OUR LIV AND REERS AND LOV. ALL THIS N BE HARD TO WATCH THROUGH YOUR LTLE PHONE SCREEN. FOMO (A LENNIAL CHGY TERM) IS REAL AGA. THE PANMIC HAS LEFT CRAVG NNECTN MORE THAN WE HAVE BEFORE THIS TIME. THEN THERE’S THE BODY. THE QUEER BODY. (I DON’T HAVE PHD YET.) THAT IS ON DISPLAY VIA TWTER, INSTAGRAM. THE CHISEL ADONIS PHORIA, STUCK ON A PERPETUAL FIRE ISLAND P TRIP. SOMEONE DONNG A SPEEDO SHEEP’S MEADOW. OR PERCHED ON A ROCK PALM SPRGS OR JOSHUA TREE. WHILE WE SPENT A YEAR REFLECTG ON THE OFTEN NOT REFLECTED ON— LIKE HOW OUR BODI EXTEND PAST SOCIAL MEDIA AND IMPLANT ON A VIEWER A SPECIFIC KD OF DYSPHORIA. AND NOW WE’VE FOTTEN ABOUT ALL THAT AND JUMPED RIGHT BACK TO THE SPNG WHEEL OF QUEER HIERARCHI. AND WE KNOW THE BODY IS PLACED FIRST, DOMAT EVEN THE MOVG TRICI OF QUEER TERSECTNALY.I’M NOT BLAMG PEOPLE OF MCULAR EXPERIENCE FOR HAVG THOSE BODI. OR EVEN SHOWG THEM OFF. BUT ’S HARD. HOW DO Y’ALL GET THOANDS OF LIK FOR YOU STANDG ON A BEACH SPEEDO? (ABS?) QUEER RECLAMATN OF THE BODY LOOKS LIKE MANY DIFFERENT THGS— TATTOOS, PIERCGS, MAKP, ETC. THOUGH SPECIFIC BODI ARE PLACED AT THE TOP OF THE CHART, PRAISED AND HEARTED ALL THE TER. WHILE THE DISURSE SURROUNDG THE ACCEPTANCE OF DIFFERENT BODI ARE ENURAGG CELEBRATN AND CLN, I HAVE YET TO SEE A FIRE ISLAND PIC WH FIFTEEN PEOPLE THAT DON’T HAVE ABS OR AREN’T WHE. SLOWLY, I SUPPOSE, WILL ALL CHANGE. IT’S ALL G ALONG. PEOPLE ARE GETTG LLED OUT. OR RATHER, LLED , FOR THEIR QUEER FAM TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT MEANS TO BE QUEER THE SUMMER AFTER/DURG A GLOBAL PANMIC. AND WHAT LONG LASTG EFFECTS THE SIMPLISTIC SOCIAL MEDIA POST THAT FEATURE JOYO REVELRY MEAN TO OTHERS.THE PRENTATN OF QUEER BODI MAY NOT BE THE SOLE PURPOSE FOR MY, AND MOST LIKELY OTHERS, DISDA OR NFN, ’S SIMPLY THE WAY ( WHICH) WE NSUME TH BODI. SOCIAL MEDIA NSUMPTN (MY FAVE THG) IS AT AN UPTICK TOO. AND I WOULD POS THAT QUEER NSUMPTN IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH— AT LEAST FOR ME. THE EYE SCTIZ, ENGED WH THE IMAG OF HARD MCL, SLICK HAIR AND TNT SWIMWEAR. THERE DON’T SEEM TO BE A WAY TO EXPERIENCE JOY IF YOUR BODY DON’T LOOK LIKE THAT. THE IMAG WE NSUME ARE WROUGHT WH THE EXPRSED NATURE OF LT, SELF-EXPRSN AND EEDOM— S NATURE MIMICKG WHAT PRI IS ALL ABOUT. CAN WE GET A VARIATN ON THE THEME, MATRO? ARE THERE GOTHS ON FIRE ISLAND WHO WANT TO PLAY TERACTIVE BOARD GAM?AND I KNOW I SAID I DIDN’T WANT TO PARTY POOP, BUT THERE’S SOMETHG THERE TO UNVER. AND ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, SOMEONE WILL ARTICULATE A B BETTER THAN I HAVE. BUT NOW, I’M THKG A LOT ABOUT SELF-PRERVATN. AS I TERACT WH IENDS, PH MYSELF OUTSI OF MY HOME AND GRAPPLE WH TER-PANMIC POLICS, I WANT TO BE MDFUL OF THE WAYS MY BODY REACTS TO OTHERS. I WANT TO BE THE SERGEANT OF MY NSUMPTN, DRILLG AFFIRMATNS AT MY WEIGHT GA THE MIRROR. THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL EFFECT THIS ALL HAS ON PSYCHE. AND I SHOULDN’T BE ENGAGG BUT THE DISURSE ON TWTER MOV QUICKLY, BOUNCG OM HATRED TO CELEBRATG JOY TO AMIC STUDY. IN THE LEAPS, THE DISURSE AND S NUANCE LSENS. I THK QUIPPY SAYGS AND AMIC LANGUAGE OFTEN FAIL OUR ATTEMPTS TO TLY ENGAGE ON SOCIETAL AND MUNY ISSU. WE HAVE TO E BACK TO EMOTN, TO FEELG. THAT’S WHERE I AM TRYG TO NNECT MYSELF TO— MY EMOTNAL FIELD AND BE OPEN TO RECEIVE OTHERS’ VALLEYS AND PLAS. WHO? WEEKLY @WHOWEEKLYOH YEAH BABY TATI IS BACK ? 8:43 PM ∙ JUN 17, 2021313LIK11RETWEETSKATE WSLET IS THE MAYOR OF EASTTOWN

We're back at the Butter Shop, queens, and we go goo-goo, ga-ga for gay, " Stalter says.

" "We thk that gay people are okay, at least for the next 30 days, " Stalter says at the end of the clip before puttg on a pair of rabow sunglass. Also, I l a ndle for every person that I know that looked gay. Related ntent: The rise of the gay rom-: Fire Island's Joel Kim Booster & Bros' Billy Eichner refe the genreHacks st, creators on the character who's 'lost as f---' and the 'really wild thgs' that happen season 2Jkx Monsoon reveals why she isn't sayg 'water off a duck's back' on RuPl's Drag Race All Stars 7.

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Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds.

“We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.

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'**Gay Hi-5**Get the Gay Hi-5 mug.

GIF created by Ollivia Cooke on Tumblr edian is a well-known ter treasure for her hilar “Hi Gay” vio seri, where she pok fun at the sometim tone-af attempts certa rporatns make to appear more acceptg or supportive of the LGBTQIA+ muny … whout practicg te allyship. 4 ln views, is below:The Butter Shop is back aga for Pri Month 2022 and so too are the southern salwoman’s failed attempts at urtg “the gays. We're back at the Butter Shop, queens, and we go goo-goo, ga-ga for gay, " Stalter poorly reads om a script offscreen.

The unrlyg motto, as Stalter puts , is “we thk that gay people are okay.