How gay is too gay?
I was watching a movie where John Waters was speaking in front of an audience of university students. One of the topics he brought up was the threshold that everyone has towards certain things. For example, he said that adult babies and diapers was at his limit and was not acceptable to him. Now, as we all know, if John Waters has limits of acceptability, we can all admit that we do also at some level. This brings me to my question of the day:
How gay is too Gay?
Is there a limit to what we find acceptable within our community on how “Gay” a person can act?
Don’t give me this “I act straight” stuff. Really, how straight can you act when have gay sex anyways. What do grab your ankles like a straight man? Do you perform felatio like straight guys do? I am sure that if you did, it would be horrible…a truly straight guy would not be into it at all. I suppose that that acting straight is more for in “the streets”. I assure you other gay people can tell. As for straight people, many of them were fooled by Boy George in the 80’s and can’t believe that Lance Bass was gay this whole time….need I say more. O.k…..fine, butch guys are hot.
Then on the other end of the spectrum Is it necessary to wear your gayness in the form of super tight pants, satin shirts, or perhaps a T-shirt that says “You’ve been a bad boy, go to my room” along with some freedom rings? (that was a acknowledgement to someone is like a brother to me…..we’ve all made mistakes in fashion but I will always look fondly on the picture) Is that gay or just bad fashion? Do the two sometimes go hand in hand. Yeah, they kind of do sometimes.
What does everyone else think…..what are your limits or what do you find unappealing?
I suppose there is always room in the rainbow for even the tackiest of hues….well maybe.
Here is a link to a YouTube video of John Waters where he discusses limits.
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Hi there - I fell accross your blog by accident a while back and have been reading you consistently ever since. You don’t take yourselves too seriously and the topics vary from very serious to light and funny. Keep doing it, great job.
On the issue of gayness, I guess the real question in my mind is, does it matter? So you tend to be naturally masculine or have a tendency for expressing your emotions with various degrees of exageration. If that’s who you are, then that’s who you are. Your gayness becomes a problem if you make too concerted of an effort to be masculine, thereby acting like a straight person and most of time failing at it miserably, or to be too flamboyant to the point of ridicule and tackiness.