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Contents:

• GAY RAY
• BLAME ON GAY RAY
• FEATURED STORI
• THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
• RAY GAY SAL

GAY RAY

To my 11-year-old self, I had the misfortune of a name that rhymed wh the word I was tryg sperately to avoid: gay. "Gay Ray!

" "Ray Gay! " "Ray The Gay! " "Who's the gay?

" A day at school wouldn't pass whout my peers fdg new ways to ll out that I was gay and different om everybody else. I went termed to shed my "Gay Ray" label.

BLAME ON GAY RAY

"I don't know any gay guys to set him up wh. And I began to proactively explore my muny and my inty as a gay man. I felt like I knew them and had gay iends.

You don't know how your parents, iends, fay, or church are gog to react to you g out that you're gay, pansexual, genr fluid, or qutng. For a long time, I thought I was "the only gay the village. I now feel so PROUD to be gay, and I wouldn't tra for anythg.

We n talk about whatever is on your md: What to do bee you have a big csh on your bt iend who happens to be the same genr; thgs to thk about before you go on your first gay date; how to explore your genr inty.

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Xoxo, Gay Ray, aka Raymond Brn If you are a young LGBTQ person crisis, feelg suicidal, or need of a safe and judgment-ee place to talk, ll the Trevor Lifele now at 866-488-7386. who to fd through takg swimmg lsons that beg a homosexual. story of his first gay sexual enunter at fourteen, wh his fifteen.

THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG

But whether riffg on 1940s Hollywood noir narrativ s last season or embracg a Don Johnson meets Srface vibe Season Five's Archer Vice era, there's always been, at s re, Hollywood's go-to ia of a leadg man: a rtoonish versn of Ian Flemg's womanizg, dnken, hetero where Bond remas an opprsive bastn of heterosexual masculy—look no further than all this talk about how Bond uldn't, heaven forbid, everbe gay—FXX's animated seri has surround Sterlg Archer (name "Duchs, " don't ask) wh a wildly sexually provotive roster of characters. In fact, while Hollywood smugly pats self on the back for the cln of a queer Power Ranger or an "exclively gay" moment your favore splay-as-remake Disney project, FXX's R-rated show has been showsg the kd of plex and stereotype-smashg LGBTQ character we are seemgly always on the cp of seeg on a mastream pop culture Gillette (pronounced like the razor; don't let his hillbilly fay tell you otherwise) was first troduced a cutaway gag the show's first season. Always eager to e his spy missns to bed as many women as humanly possible, Archer is disappoted when his boss, who's also his mother, rms him the target is a gay Cuban secret agent.

RAY GAY SAL

Cut to: our first look at ISIS's openly gay secret agent. In an episo that both flnts and lls out gay stereotyp—Archer ially fails to attract closeted Cuban Ramon Limon by bleachg his hair, donng some roller skat, a skimpy pair of whe shorts, and a crop top that reads "Got Dick? Moreover, Archer walks a fe le between makg Ray's homosexualy an almost cintal character tra and makg a central part of his inty.

Th, for every throwaway gag that merely plays up his gayns— his send appearance, he tells Aisha Tyler's bodac Lana Kane that she looks great her knock-off Fcchi drawers, elicg a "You're such a bch! " retort—there are moments that broan our knowledge of how this once Olympic gold-medalist skier om Wt Virgia beme an ace bomb fer wh two nickel-plated M1911 pistols nicknamed Barbra and walks a fe le between makg Ray's homosexualy an almost cintal character tra and makg a central part of his an episo of the show's third season tled "Bloody Ferl, " we actually get to travel to the backwoods town where Ray grew up and where his father openly tried to still his young effemate son a much more socially acceptable visn of mascule strength, cludg killg a bear wh a bow and takg a be out of s heart.

As we're learn later the show, he was eventually sent to a Pray Away the Gay Camp where he met his wife—a lbian, of urse ("That was a pretty weird time for me, " he adms). Whether seeg him shirtls and wheelchair-bound at a circu party, wieldg Barbra and Liza while rockg a biker leather outf, sportg his "crISIS" vt , well, a crisis suatn, or remiscg about his bronze-medal glory as an Olympic skier, Gillette is the clost you n get to what an unabashedly gay Jam Bond would look 's pecially groundbreakg about Raymond Q. Gillette is how, his swishy-ns, he's also a hilar terrogatn of the very obv gay male stereotype he embodi.

He's the bleach-blond gay om a s-ready plot whose nservative fay still believ he has a wife.