What does disaster gay mean
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Move over bury your gays, there’s a new trope in town and it’s about murderous bisexual chaos. (Note: some spoilers below for Passages, Poor Things, Saltburn and Love Lies Bleeding – I’ve tried to make it evident where I discuss each so you can skip specific films you haven’t seen).
Not long ago I was reading through my high school diaries and found an entry musing on whether I was bisexual. I was sixteen. I did not operate the word of course, I simply – coded and cautiously – mentioned that I had peruse an article in Cosmopolitan magazine about women who also like men and women both, and “y’know, maybe that’s me”. Skip forward several decades of grappling with my sexual identity, literally writing a PhD about being gay femme, and becoming a scholar who works on queer theory and sexuality… I am (fingers crossed) finally feeling pretty at ease with calling myself bisexual.
Sure we have the least exciting flag, but a few key insights for me have been: my affinity with other bisexuals (we just get each other, we see each other); the recognition that my desire does not transcend gender, but rather, is
Wait, my friend Alicia texted me, have you ever identified as a disaster bisexual? We’d been exchanging jokes and memes about disaster bisexuals, noting which characteristics described us. (Excessive use of hand gestures? Getting fixated on a subject and dragging it into every conversation? A childhood mermaid phase?)
Urban Dictionary lists several definitions of disaster multi-attracted , among them “a person whose pure chaos has led you to the correct conclusion that they are bisexual,” “a very chaotic person who is quite visibly bisexual,” and “a person who is attracted to every scorching person they join but is a total mess about it, either by coming on way too strong or being unbearably awkward.” According to my cursory online study, the term originated on Tumblr (of course) in one of those D&D alignment chart memes (you know the ones: lawful nice, chaotic neutral, etc). In fandom society, and on the Internet in general, it has get a humorous self-identifier referring to the “disaster” traits some bisexuals claim to share, like social awkwardness and an inability to settle properly in a chair. According to a random sampling of self-proclaimed disaster
Edinburgh Fringe 2024
Low Down
The angels are upon us or at least Ellis, who ahs an awakening of sorts as she tries and sorts out her life whilst a couple of angels visit to help, or is it hinder, or do they wish to rekindle things or are they just there for mischief making? In an hour we can tell.
Review
This is a fantastically bombastic and unapologetic journey into the queerest of desires and expectations. It works on so many levels – musically, in terms of narrative and we have three very adept performers – dramatically, because it has the drama and the tension matched and theatrically, because the relationships work, the show values are elevated enough for a Fringe and each performer knows how to interact with at least the front row to keep them interested.
There are some very well-structured tunes, which, though they did not last a long time in the memory, own some very engaging and effective lyrical choices especially within their choruses. As each character is peeled apart, thanks to a magic diary which has the holder’s secrets exposed we fetch a lot of detail about how someone can battle with their persona and how they express that, how people judge
REVIEW: Diary of a Lgbtq+ Disaster, Kings Head Theatre
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It’s not uncommon to watch shows unpacking the journey that we go through growing up; talking about our high school years, our first crushes, our first loves – and our first heartbreaks. These are all deeply relatable experiences that we all hold regardless of our age and gender. However, it’s so rare to observe these stories told through the experience of explicitly queer women with vulnerability and honesty. And this is exactly what Diary of a Gay Disaster does, expertly and unapologetically.
Performing as part of the MT Pride Lab at the Kings Head Theatre in Islington, Diary of a Gay Disaster not only provides representation on stage for queer women but also celebrates it in perfect millennial humour.
The story starts with a seemingly unremarkable living room that becomes the stage for unpacking our characters deepest and darkest secrets. We meet Mia and Finlay, played by Tayla Soames (she/her) and Olivia O’Connor (she/her) respectively, housemates and long term friends who have opened up the spare room in their house t
Disaster Bi
A disaster bi (also called a disaster bisexual, bisexual disaster, and bi disaster) is a pansexual person or character who is some combination of messy, impulsive, unsuccessful in life, full of chaotic energy, and/or socially inept or inappropriate. The designation is used outside fandom, typically as a humorous self-identification, but it is also applied to characters who are canonically bi or headcanoned as such by fans.
Origin and spread
The phrase "disaster bi" has its origins in a variant of the popular 3x3 D&Dalignment chartmeme. This variant, first posted to Tumblr as a blank template by user mechanicalriddle in November 2017, has axes labelled "gay/bi/lesbian" and "distinguished/functional/disaster."[1][2] The first post by mechanicalriddle has gained nearly 14,000 posts, and the meme format has become popular in fandom.[2]
By 2018, the legal title had spread outside of fandom, becoming a humorous self-identification among bisexual people.[3] It often comes up in discussions of the so-called "disaster" tendencies some bisexuals claim to distribute, like an inability to sit correctly in chairs,[3] or overuse