Posts Tagged gay men

Yes, Michael Sam is a distraction — from our bullshit ideas of masculinity

Future Hall of Fame football coach Tony Dungy said he wouldn’t have drafted Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be taken in the NFL draft, because he “wouldn’t want to deal with all of it.” He’d be a distraction, according to Dungy.

I get where he’s coming from. Seriously. What with all the media attention Sam is going to get. All the cameras following him around. Think of how fans of the team would constantly try to get his attention, and fans from opposing teams would hate him, and people who don’t even follow sports would form opinions of him without knowing him. He’ll constantly be doing interviews and commercials and being ...

Future Hall of Fame football coach Tony Dungy said he wouldn’t have drafted Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be taken in the NFL draft, because he “wouldn’t ...

Perez Hilton is #notyoursassygayfriend or mine

Perez Hilton showed his ass yesterday, in addition to the white male privilege that allows so many gay men like him to adopt caricatures of black women for their gender and sexuality performance. ​The king of internet shade and slander tweeted: “Inside every gay man is a fierce black woman.”

 You’d think that, by now, anyone with a Twitter account would have realized that you should keep black women out of your proverbial mouth unless you want your mentions to blow up like a celebrity sex tape (to put it in language that Perez gets). ​But obviously he missed that memo.

I won’t get into all the ways that this tweet was offensive. As was his refusal to ...

Perez Hilton showed his ass yesterday, in addition to the white male privilege that allows so many gay men like him to adopt caricatures of black women for their gender and sexuality performance. ​The king ...

Eradicating biphobia within gay communities and gay media

Ed. note: I’m off this week. The wonderful Tobias Rodriguez is filling in for me. Tobias originally hails from Texas and now lives in New York where he works in social media at a reproductive health organization.

When I walked into a large bar in Brooklyn Sunday night for a screening of an episode of The Outs, a web series about two ex-boyfriends in Brooklyn, I felt really gay. But with my girlfriend right next to me, I also felt really straight. I was in some ways both at the same time. I was, and am, bisexual.

It’s become both common knowledge and a studied phenomenon that female sexuality is fluid. In television and in movies, bisexual women have ...

Ed. note: I’m off this week. The wonderful Tobias Rodriguez is filling in for me. Tobias originally hails from Texas and now lives in New York where he works in social media at a reproductive health organization.

When ...