Made me gay

The s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

March 24,
why do these queer pop culture related essay collections keep disappointing me????

content/trigger warnings; ableism, hospital, cancer, death of brother, misogyny, lesbophobia, homophobia, mspecphobia, discussion of harry potter/jk rowling, transphobia, d slur, f slur, sex,

this claims to be a collection of essays on pop culture, but it’s more memoir than a conversation or analysis on pop culture through a queer lens. honestly, “the s made me internalize homophobia” might’ve been a more accurate title. everything she discussed was either an in-hindsight queer interpretation of media, a callout of the queerphobia she internalized from the media she/others loved growing up, or the paradox of wishing she had queer media growing up but knowing she would’ve avoided it out of fear of being gay. it got a bit repetitive and left me wanting.

now onto the more specific issues i want to address.

the author takes it upon herself to verb other people’s rep is unpleasant or performative. she says max from happy endings is unpleasant rep because h

The s Made Me Gay

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    There were occasional whisperings about a man being gay but, if someone were actually gay back then, I’m guessing keeping his job was a bigger concern than getting laid. I can only conclude that straight men made me gay.

    Mr. Leslie, the only male teacher at my elementary school, made me gay. He had a adj mop of curly hair and a bushy beard. He also had a wife

    whose picture sat on his desk. He was never my teacher, always the teacher next door, so I only studied him when our classes rotated through themed learning days. His room represented reptiles, Europe, and papier-mâché. His pronounced Adam’s apple was very distracting.

    Cartoons swayed me, too. Fred on Scooby-Doo caught my eye. He always seemed attached at the hip to Daphne, but I still ogled at his blond hair and orange ascot every time “those meddling kids” captured the bad guys. There was also Hermey, the blond elf and aspiring dentist in the stop-motion animated classic, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. I guess back then I connected to the phrase, “Gentlemen prefer blond(e)s.” The expression was the only thing asso

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    Jean Carlomusto

    Jean Carlomusto is a filmmaker, activist, and interactive media artist whose work explores the complex nature of unique individuals and marginalized populations. Her work has been exhibited internationally in festivals, museums, and on television. Her Emmy nominated documentary, Larry Kramer In Love & Anger, HBO, , was featured at the Sundance Film Festival. She produced and directed Sex In An Epidemic, Showtime, , a powerful retelling of the birth of the safer sex movements and HIV prevention movements.

    Jean was an prior pioneer in the AIDS Activist video movement. In , she started the media unit at Gay Men's Health Crisis. She was a founding member of DIVA TV (a video affinity group of ACT UP) and a member of the Testing the Limits Video Collective. The numerous works that she collaborated on throughout the ’s and 90’s, included: Doctors, Liars and Women: AIDS Activists Say No to Cosmo; Target City Hall; Seize Control of the FDA; Testing the Limits: NYC; and Women and AIDS.

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