“Gay”’s gone mainstream
Hey whoever’s out there,
I know we haven’t updated in forever. I blame it on a number of things, most importantly the fact that aaron and i started third year of medical school, and as a result anything that’s extraneous and takes away from our sleep time was dropped. That said, I’m on Anesthesia right now and it’s definitely one of the nicer “surgery” blocks. Let’s just say I survived my general surgery rotation and leave it at that.
Well being the gay that I am, I obviously subscribe to Details. And this article reflected two things: (1) too much gayness is not necessarily good…gayness to the point of being hateful and obnoxious isn’t any different from any other type of prejudice; (2) “gay” is too mainstream! I know Details and GQ market to a gay reading base (namely, readers like me) but the mainstream culture treatment of gays has blurred the real problem with being gay even now: there’s a lot of hate and prejudice for LGBT people. I’m not saying that having the mainstream audience exposed to gays is a bad thing, I mean obviously the more people know about gays, the better. But LGBTs need normalcy (at least in my mind)…I want to talk about my boyfriend and not have to deal with awkward looks or conversations that steer timidly around anything that might bring up the fact that I’m gay. Why can’t being gay be treated like being a woman? I hope it will come to that soon, maybe in the next generation. Anyways I’ve completely steered away from what the article talks about, which is here (I warn you, it’s a lot of text…).
And completely randomly, of course I have to insert a picture of Andy Roddick.
