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Dystropia: Why The Sassy Gay Confidant Isn't Progressive
Somewhere situated between Easter Island and Papua New Guinea, perfectly pinned on a straight line between the Great Pyramid and the Nazca Lines lies the Isle of Dystropia, the place where every cliché and worn-out convention sticks out like rubble in the sand. Pawing through the debris, you'll discover the trope that may just create or break your story. Each installment, we'll explore a different literary platitude, examining it for its various strengths and weaknesses. Position sail for Dystropia, where you might just learn something about your writing and yourself.
Okay, so most of society has moved past the “All Gays Are Pedophiles” trope and left behind the concept of homosexuality as something to be cured, although we’re still waiting for some of the world to trap up. Yet, gays in fiction still often get a bizarre treatment – they’re frequently treated as novelties.
This is where the Sassy Queer Friend, or Pet Homosexual, emerges. Seemingly planted into a purely straight cosmos so the writer can appear more diverse, the Pet is paraded around much like a court jester, accomplish with cheap laughs and behavioral odditie
Why do some gay men “sound” gay? After three years of research, linguistics professors Henry Rogers and Ron Smyth may be on the verge of answering that question. After identifying phonetic characteristics that seem to make a man’s voice sound homosexual, their best hunch is that some gay men may subconsciously adopt certain female speech patterns. They want to know how men acquire this way of speaking, and why – especially when community so often stigmatizes those with gay-sounding voices.
Rogers and Smyth are also exploring the stereotypes that homosexual men sound effeminate and are recognized by the way they speak. They asked people to heed to recordings of 25 men, 17 of them gay. In 62 per cent of the cases the listeners identified the sexual orientation of the speakers correctly. Perhaps fewer than half of lgbtq+ men sound gay, says Rogers.
The straightest-sounding voice in the study was in fact a gay gentleman, and the sixth gayest-sounding voice was a direct man.
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I am not your Gay Best Friend
I am privileged to live in an age where perspective is changing rapidly on homosexuality. Surveys show our generation is overwhelmingly accepting of same-sex couples and of homosexuality itself. And yet, there remains one particular, pernicious statement of disrespect for gay men, almost entirely unique to well-meaning straight women. It is this: the Gay Foremost Friend.
For the uninitiated, the Gay Optimal Friend (n.), also Sassy Gay Comrade or abbreviated simply as Gay Buddy, is a fabulous creature full of sassy advice, position on earth for the sole purpose of advising hapless straight girls bogged down by the weight of decisions about boys and fashion and stuff. For more, see: the Bravo Network.
I was recently reminded of the prevalence of this plan. First, a young woman invited a (lowercase) gay friend of mine to her special dinner, because, turns out, she was in a competition with her girl friend “to see which of our Sassy Queer Friends is funnier!” While I was at Stanford in Washington, people jokingly discussed our mock political futures, as Stanford students are apt to perform during a quarter in D.C. One oft-repeated suggestion for my future was that I develop Chels
Gay Men and the Narrow Line Between Sass and Sexism
The gay community has an issue with misogyny — guised under the dangerous idea that “gay men can’t be sexist.”
As a gay man, I have never felt enjoy I truly fit in — there’s a certain narrative for everyday existence that doesn’t speak to me.
It’s as though I am not important enough for myself to be individually addressed.
As a product of this I often feel a deep meaning of anxiety, not stemming from history of mental illness, but rather human nature — and our imagination’s ability to produce us think we can read other people’s minds and hear all the horrible things they are saying about us.
I understand that I am not the only gay guy who thinks this. It is just one of the grueling side effects of being gay, and it is something unbent people will never understand.
With that being said, there has always been a deep, personal connection that women almost always sound to share with us. A certain empathy of one person being competent to connect to another, in a mutual phrase of respect and protect . The way they see at us and can relate to the feeling of not belonging, or being made to undergo as though they are
The problem of the ‘sassy black gay’ trope in theatre and film
In his new Dazed Voices column Chocolate-Cream Soldier, Otamere Goubadia reflects on life and love at the intersection of blackness and queerness.
Earlier this year, The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez’s seven-hour, two-part gay titanic, opened in London to rave reviews. Having recently transferred to the West End, it’s being touted as the spiritual successor to Tony Kushner’s 1991 play Angels In America, the critically acclaimed, genre-defining classic. They have a lot in common: both are a pseudo-spiritual retelling of the burdens, triumphs and pitfalls of homosexuality among connected and affluent gay New Yorkers, and their relationship to the HIV/Aids epidemic. Both are marvellous feats of complexity in length and vision. And, most glaringly to me (and something that largely went unmentioned in glowing reviews): both unmistakably do a disservice to the already minimal shadowy queer presence on stage.
When I think of dark queer representation, I inevitably think of True Blood's Lafayette Reynolds. There’s a scene in that reveal that I’ve never quite been able to acquire out of my chief. Lafayette – a sassy, smoky-