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Contents:
- LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
- 'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
- I-I SPENT MY WHOLE LIFE TRYG TO GET RIGHT. WHO I AM. BLACK MAN. GAY MAN. BRAVE MAN. COWARD....
- ‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
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'THEY JT WANTED TO SILENCE HER': THE DARK SI OF GAY STAN CULTURE
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I-I SPENT MY WHOLE LIFE TRYG TO GET RIGHT. WHO I AM. BLACK MAN. GAY MAN. BRAVE MAN. COWARD....
Gay male culture has always alced around female pop stars, om Judy Garland to Lady Gaga and Ariana Gran. But gay men and the women they worship are ually happy to bask the mutual affectn. This year, Spears was honoured wh an award by the US’s Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (Glaad) for promotg equaly.
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‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
Sami Baker is 21 and a self-profsed gay stan – his favour are Gran, Beyoncé and Charli XCX. “They origated om gay stan Twter. The language ed wh this culture is taken om the same place that Drag Race gets s lexin, namely the unrground subculture where LGBT people pete var drag and performance tegori, documented the film Paris is Burng, and an spiratn for Madonna and Beyoncé many gay men, Baker and myself clud, gay pop stan culture is the distillatn of everythg meangful life.
Photograph: LogoTVIt is hard to overtimate how meangful the fan-diva relatnship is for gay men. Wh hours, stan Twter had unearthed and circulated crimatg tweets by Kiyoko om ne years ago (when she was 18) an attempt to “ncel” her – excludg a person entirely om onle disurse, except as the target of hate mem – for darg to crique a song they Adam Byrne, a 23-year-old gay stan, this was a prime example of gay misogyny: “They didn’t re what she had to say. ”For him, this behavur typifi gay stan culture: female artists mt obey the l or suffer the nsequenc.
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