In the Reign of the Gay Magil Elv

Contents:

• BT GAY ELV, GODS, DEY & WIZARDS
• GAY NIGHT ELF MARRIAGE IS NOW PART OF LORE SPOILERS
• 20 GAY GREEK GODS
• THE LORD OF THE RGS FAN SE EMBARRASS ITSELF BY PROMOTG EASILY DISPROVABLE GAY ELV THEORY

BT GAY ELV, GODS, DEY & WIZARDS

Illtratn by Mars ChWas I the only gay man of a certa mo who experienced a flicker of annoyance the way the media treated Jason Colls as some kd of baby panda who need to be honored and praised and nsoled and--y--fantilized by his g out on thever of Sports Illtrated?

Wh the tyrannil homophobia of the sports world, that any man would e out as gay (let alone a black man) is not only an LGBT triumph but also a triumph for pranksters everywhere who thrilled to the ia that what should be nsired jt another ntral fact that is nobody's bs was stead a shock heard around the world, one that add another jolt of transparency to an creasgly transparent pla.

GAY NIGHT ELF MARRIAGE IS NOW PART OF LORE SPOILERS

But the subsequent fawng over Colls simply statg he is gay still seemed to me, as another gay man, like a new kd of victimizatn.

The reign of The Gay Man as Magil Elf, who whenever he out appears before as some kd of satly E. Whose sole purpose is to be put the posn of remdg only about Tolerance and Our Own Prejudic and To Feel Good About Ourselv and to be a symbol stead of jt beg a gay du, is--lamentably--still media play. The Gay Man as Magil Elf has been such a tricky part of gay self-patronizatn the media that you would by now expectthe chill members of the LGBT muny to rpond wh ol difference.

20 GAY GREEK GODS

The Sweet and Sexually Unthreateng and Super-Succsful Gay is supposed to be sted to transform The Hets to noble gay-lovg protectors--as long as the gay qutn isn't msy or sexual or difficult. The straight and gay sanctimonns that says everyone gay needs to be nonized when g out still mak some of who are already out feel like we're on the sil.

I'm all for g out on one's own terms, but heraldg as the most important news story of the week feels to me, as a gay man, well, kd of alienatg. God help the gay man who out and don't want to reprent, who don't want to teach, who don't feel like part of the homogenized gay culture and rejects . Where's the gay du who mak c jok about other gays the media (as straight dus do of each other nstantly) or exprs their hopelsns seeg Morn Fay beg reward for s pictn of gays, a show where a heterosexual plays the most simperg ka-ween on TV and Ws.

Why isn't the gay du I have always known and the gay du I have always wanted to be not ont and center the media culture now?

THE LORD OF THE RGS FAN SE EMBARRASS ITSELF BY PROMOTG EASILY DISPROVABLE GAY ELV THEORY

Flawed) is not necsarily what The Gay Gatekeepers want straight culture to see. At the time I received the vatn I really had no ia that GLAAD harbored any rentment agast a gay man who sometim exprs his distaste wh the stereotypil way Hollywood reprents gays transgrsive language on my Twter acunt.

(GLAAD had even nomated The Rul of Attractn as movie of the year 2003-- lost to The Hours, where of urse a tormented gay du wh AIDS ms suici by throwg himself out of a wdow ont of Meryl Streep, whereas Rul, ol-wh-beg-gay llege stunt Ian Somerhalr only falls love wh Jam Van Der Beek and be bummed by his rejectn. ) It's dumbly obv to state, but ever sce I realized I was gay I have always supported gay rights--as a gay person jt be part of your DNA. I have not, however, supported the way gay people have been portrayed the media, and that's where the Twter ranr exprs self.