He takes up the gayness of England past and connects it to the gayness of life now.
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It now becomes evident that Mr. Beau is interested less in "Hamlet" itself than in the cultural space where "Hamlet" intersects gayness as gayness intersects loss.
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Acceptance and rejection of gayness is highly correlated to religiosity.
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In this context, Fortuyn's flamboyant gayness probably was an asset.
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God, family, gayness, politics, children — we talked about it all.
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Gayness has become synonymous with affluence, bigotry with the working class.
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The remake bends over backward to erase any hint of gayness.
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My gayness no more redeems me than my whiteness disqualifies me.
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Maybe others' presumptions of his gayness became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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London Spy's gayness is more than a garnish London Spy's gayness is more than a garnish: it's an integral part of the show, from its core themes all the way down to the intricacies of its performances.
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There's much more to a human being than just straightness or gayness.
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"Gayness // has always been more aesthetic for me / than sexual," he muses.
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The show has become a shorthand for depictions of gayness on television that are way out of fashion: the gayness of Will & Grace was barely sexual, uniformly caucasian, and profoundly cisgendered, and it stayed that way for eight seasons.
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Aria Alagha It made me feel like I've taken my gayness for granted.
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And the lawyer linked their nihilism to their gayness, without quite naming it.
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Regarding gayness, I have long wondered whether plays have anything left to say.
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He's more comfortable with himself, with his gayness, and with his life now.
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I actually think the way Meloni's character's gayness is signposted is kind of elegant.
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"Gayness was not a part of my life when I played football," he says.
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He was a club figure because he brought the gayness and he was flamboyant.
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Today, this "gay" taste no longer has so much to do with actual gayness.
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Some obituaries of Claiborne in 2000 — though not The Times's — left out his gayness.
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It's not something they confront the world with every day, like blackness or gayness.
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Some officials had been trying to discern gayness from the way refugees responded to inkblots.
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But his flamboyant behavior disconcerted many colleagues, especially Boulez, who kept his own gayness closeted.
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Even more dicey: The reveal of his gayness would be the crux of the episode.
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"What makes it a turning point is it isn't gayness singled out and made the theme," Katz told the AP. "On the contrary, the work naturalizes gayness within the fabric of the city, and in so doing, that's actually an even more powerful message."
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It'll destroy yeast infections, cure cancer, eliminate parasites, and somehow ward off gayness, these videos blare.
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In her playwright's note, Rundell observes that Saki's gayness may well be sublimated into these scenes.
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They're all in the trenches of gayness together, in a world that's clearly hostile to them.
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But because they come from a small rural town, people just don't fully understand what gayness is.
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My gayness, my blackness—me being proud of where I come from is what makes me special.
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KM: Is your interest in the past tied to some kind of reimagining of queerness or gayness?
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But the most important question, it seems to me, is whether feelings about gayness dictate political actions.
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We learn of Moe's past as a drug user and the clan's inability to accept Declan's gayness.
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But no one can avoid associating the name with gayness — which sets Johnny a peculiar kind of challenge.
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We queers were so hungry to see anything having to do with gayness represented, no matter how clumsily.
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I increasingly get the sense that gayness itself has scattered, becoming something more various and harder to define.
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But Tom's crypto-proto-gayness doesn't make "The Glass Menagerie" a gay play; it's merely a great one.
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The play's dramatic trajectory suggests the path that gayness — and gay theater — might have taken without the plague.
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If I'm in a gay bar, then my gayness is salient and so is the fact that I'm male.
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I really embraced gayness in a way that was outside of just myself; I was interested in it culturally.
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Maybe that's because when I was growing up, gayness, for me at least, was fundamentally mixed up with AIDS.
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The essay about Goodman, in which she addresses his gayness, was one of the most personal she ever wrote.
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More so than Jason Momoa, Nick Jonas has acquired his "daddyness" in public and in relation to (white) male gayness.
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They couldn't handle the gayness of what they had created, even though they were convinced it was an economic niche.
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But deep down, I suspect, this was one of many moments when I began plotting my eventual escape into open gayness.
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I am so gay, this boy intimates, I have transcended gayness and come to a point where I can fuck concrete.
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Or that they're kind-hearted straight people sacrificing their precious reputations to try out gayness for the length of a photoshoot?
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"There is a sense now of compulsory gayness," said Josh Burford, the director of community engagement at the Invisible Histories Project.
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Though they wouldn't speak explicitly about their sexuality until years later, gayness radiated from the band's stage presence and subject matter.
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You can't express your homosexuality, your gayness; it would be the same in the Amish community or the Mennonite community in Philadelphia.
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My gayness, my Blackness, my gender, even the way I wear my hair, I think all of those things make me special.
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Gayness should have never been cause for shame, and now, in the culture's more rarefied corners, it can be cause for celebration.
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But the character's gayness is like the fifth most interesting thing about him, and the way it's handled is very non-sensational.
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I'm aware that too much of the past conversation and art about gayness focused on and was dominated by people like me.
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The normalization of gayness that has in most ways been a boon has also shrunk the historical eye to, well, another peephole.
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" The anchor asked if Clyburn was saying that for older African-Americans Buttigieg's gayness was an issue, and he responded: "Yes, it is.
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Mr. Michael, who died unexpectedly on Christmas Day, never had to say he was gay for his gayness to seem apparent and unabashed.
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Mac's apparent gayness is played for laughs, as if being in the closet or having sex with men is a punchline unto itself.
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After asking them for money, he told them the only way to be clean of gayness was through vomiting and fainting from exhaustive prayer.
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Many tastemakers (in fashion, art, interior design) are still gay men — but their gayness is not a secret and may even burnish their credentials.
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The last gay governor, Jim McGreevey of New Jersey, stepped down after announcing both his gayness and the affair that led to his resignation.
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" In "On Second Thought" (2016), the sitter's muscular curves suggest early Roman statuary while idealizing gayness in the tradition of Cadmus's fabulist etching "Y.
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The gayness seems to have always been there, but for the first couple of years he's coy about stating it simply in the diary.
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A number of the works deal with gayness in the 80s and the difficult process of coming out, where living in the closet was required.
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After all, the "fix" for gayness would have included prayer, Bible study, being forced to embrace "correct" gendered behavior, and school discipline — including possible expulsion.
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Eichner and other queer voices on Twitter pointed out that despite a veneer of acceptance and change, Hollywood still has a real problem with gayness.
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The pilot establishes that you're disabled and gay, but the gayness is immediately accepted by your mother and co-workers; it's never even a question.
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Following Louis's novel, it chronicles Eddy's attempts to make peace with his gayness in a community that considers that "choice" a form of class betrayal.
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I don't want my gayness alone to define me, but it is a huge part of who I am and how I operate in the world.
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Keith Wildhaber against St. Louis County after Wildhaber was allegedly once told he needed to "tone down [his] gayness" if he ever wanted to be promoted.
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For the past several months, my work has been driven by my sexuality and sexual appetite, and my 'gayness' has been very much at its forefront.
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But whiteness and queerness (especially gayness) have proven throughout recent history to make for an especially exploitable combination for real estate developers to raise property values.
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Some say Buttigieg tailored his campaign around Obama's in 2008, positioning his gayness in the way Obama did his blackness, as an opportunity to make history.
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In our society, both "blackness" and "gayness" have commonly been dealt with in monolithic terms, and I feel a constant pressure to pick one over the other.
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Even Mulkerin bends the knee at last: "In many ways, Dream Daddy associates itself with gayness in order to garner a rubbernecking interest from straight people — "Men?
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I might have to call my parents and come out all over again, because I'm currently harnessing so much gayness that it feels like I'm hiding something.
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To complicate things further, in Tunisia, trans people are not addressed at all in legal terms, and are lumped together in the otherness that is considered gayness.
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Still, Lobel's gayness, when I learned of it much later, seemed like something I should have known all along; it lurked everywhere in his words and pictures.
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The deeper reason this material holds up despite being so tied to its times is that gayness, even now, does not operate as other minority identities do.
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In both the gay community and the world of art, "What makes it a turning point is it isn't gayness singled out and made the theme," Katz said.
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Someone who, at one point in his life, would have gladly taken a pill to make him not gay -- or even cut out his "gayness" if he could.
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In high school, I watched in the same room as my mom to see which jokes she laughed at, to gauge where she might stand on my gayness.
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Before she settled into my room, where she'd be staying, I sneaked in and hid my diary, fearing she would read the only proof of my closeted gayness.
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Footnotes to a footnote, they nevertheless become, in a series of beautifully shaped 25-minute monologues, avatars of gayness in America during the whole of the 20th century.
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Pete Buttigieg had a message for Vice President Mike Pence during a speech on Sunday: If you have a problem with my gayness, take it up with God.
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Certainly as a gay man I imagine some fabulous home with a partner as a status symbol, an assertion that my gayness is valid and good and even enviable.
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The jokes made in Becks about lesbians and general gayness are either self-referential or comical moments in which the straight people around Becks attempt to relate to her.
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The revival of Tony Kushner's play offers a lens into gayness in the dimension of history — what is intransigent, what is still promissory, and what is so profoundly disappointing.
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"I don't believe there was much public discussion, serious or otherwise, about the crypto-gayness of The Odd Couple in the 1960s and '70s," he wrote in an email.
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Instead of focusing on the Patrick-Kevin-Richie love triangle that dominated the show's episodic existence, they use Patrick to explore and interrogate parts of gayness the show neglected.
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It's reminiscent of Louis's past and similar to Truman Capote's controversial 1948 author photo for Other Voices, Other Rooms, which simultaneously flaunted the author's southern background and twinky gayness.
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I'm unsure when Paul embraced his gayness, but it was probably sometime between jerking off our classmate in my hot tub and blowing my best friend in my bathroom.
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Still, acting as a kind of mouthpiece for her, he talked about spending Thanksgiving with her accepting family, who had no problem with his gayness and openly talked about racism.
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When it comes down to it, it seems like the only people who would benefit from knowing what causes gayness are the kind of people who wish it didn't exist.
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Even in Colorado, once known as the "Hate State" for its anti-gay policies, Mr. Polis's gayness was "interestingly uninteresting to voters," as the conservative columnist George F. Will wrote.
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" For Pregegg, Mulkerin's sticking point about the word "gay" never being used in the game meant that Dream Daddy doesn't "focus on a weird or fetish-y way on its gayness.
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Based on Tarell McCraney's play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, Chiron's struggle is also one of a repressed young gay man navigating a culture in which gayness is particularly dangerous.
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Jamie is so staunchly hetero, and Randall was so obviously monstrous, that the impression of "predatory gayness" and Jamie's lingering trauma has left John Grey to pick up somebody else's mess.
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I was afraid not only that whoever I told would reject me but that they would turn around and use the knowledge of my gayness to make other people reject me.
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If I imagine myself without dyslexia, without A.D.D., without depression, without gayness, without nearsightedness, without orthostatic hypotension, without Jewishness, without white privilege, without prosopagnosia, then there's very little of me left.
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When we leave him in the 2010s, he is learning to adapt to yet another new age, this one featuring gayness triumphant in the form of dancing, designer drugs and Grindr.
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For all Mr. Michael did to make gayness interesting and less threatening, he might have done more to help erase a barrier between who should and should not sing soul music.
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But so heavy and lingering was the perfume of gayness coming off the project that even a heterosexual actor like Luckinbill was thought to be committing theatrical suicide to book it.
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Ethan delivers a brief, moving monologue about his mother's reaction to his gayness, and her obvious disappointment in who he is — an experience common to queer teens, but seemingly inconceivable to Simon.
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But it is not a perfect show — and even though it is rooted in gayness, it can still fall into the trap of exercising privilege at the expense of other marginalized groups.
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The more I came to identify with "gayness," the more I also became aware how de facto heteronormative single-player games are, and how their obsession with hyper-masculinity was so alienating.
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Even that first season explicitly examines Will's instinct to downplay his gayness versus Jack's refusal to ever do the same, and the tension that could arise between the two as a result.
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The point is not to impute counterfactual gayness on notably heterosexual historical figures but to suggest that identity is created by context — and can just as easily be dissolved by it, too.
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That kind of homophobia is commonplace in major studio films: straight, male protagonists poking fun at male gayness as if the thought of two men becoming romantically involved is beyond the pale.
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It makes Simon's gayness feel at once liberating and reductive: There is no mistaking that this is a gay kid, but that's practically the only thing about him that matters to this movie.
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"If you read all the media statements that have been coming out from Jordanian press, they're assuming that the whole band is gay and trying to promote gayness or homosexuality," Papazian told CNN.
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Yiannopoulis has been accused of a form of "gay minstrelsy" in which he performs parts of stereotypical gayness in such a way that he shores up the beliefs of the hard American right.
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That typology was homophobic, of course—the kind of simplistic understanding that sees gay marriage as the logical end to all queer oppression—and it also centered on white, wealthy, and masculine gayness.
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What playwrights like Love and Harris are doing in that sense is staging an intervention: not just writing blackness into history but, in a kind of double axel, blackness into gayness into history.
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The fact that Blake sung show tunes during his act seemed like an odd loophole; if performing ballads from Cats during your magic show isn't an admission of gayness, I don't know what is.
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Keith Wildhaber filed a complaint to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Missouri Commission on Human Rights after he was told to "tone down your gayness" and denied a promotion, CNN reported.
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At Vidalia's funeral, the daughters are weighed down with grief and things left unsaid — Lyn with her failure to be "good" by being sexual, and Emma with resentment for her mother's hypocritical anti-gayness.
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The goal is to inject the disruptive power of not-normal back into the discussion of difference at a time when the edge of mainstream gayness has been dulled by the quest for assimilation.
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We lost George Michael, a brilliant pop artist who relished homosexual pleasure and refused to be ashamed of it, even when the world at large tried to shame the gayness right out of him.
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And it's all the more palatable for its frank approach to sex, insecurities, and the many ways we gay men are sometimes hampered by our own unrealistic notions of what gayness should look like in 2019.
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So, by the time I was 11, no one told me being trans or gay was wrong directly, but I was coming home every day and trying to pray transness, gayness, and queerness out of me.
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"Obviously, much of the country will have trouble with his gayness," said Jim Kelly, a Dover resident, after seeing Mr. O'Rourke at a coffee shop in Somersworth, N.H. Mr. Kelly added that he liked both candidates.
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" Stenberg's description of discovering her gayness (punctuated by the requisite Gay Sobs) is so wonderfully and candidly blunt: "Socialisation is a bitch and a half and kept me from understanding and living my truth for a while.
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She nails the nuances of Rosie's clearly coded gayness — Morales herself identifies as queer — and her hilariously dry commentary in the broadcast booth during King and Riggs' big match makes the film's climactic moments all the better.
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Amy doesn't place as much importance on trouncing the normies, but she has a stereotypical nerd's timidity in romance — in this case, creating a nerdy gap between her out-and-proud gayness and her actual life experience.
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They tell worshippers they're "not afraid of [the worshippers'] children" but rather "afraid of what they might do in the name of the Lord," and they move between solemn songs about rejection to upbeat celebrations of gayness.
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Of course there was a time when it was comforting to be able to "blame" gayness on genetics: Whatever problems straight friends and family had with a loved one's sexuality could easily be explained away and, thus, forgiven.
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At the same time, Niru, because of his homosexuality, embodies this particular illogic: His gayness is no particular tragedy in the eyes of his peers, but an absolute betrayal of God's plan in the eyes of his parents.
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Eventually readers — and writers are of course readers themselves — understand that stories about immigrants function in a certain way, that stories about gayness require a moral reckoning, that stories about blackness require the sacrifice of the black body.
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It's hard to remember how strong the arguments were that women were lesser than men, that black people were lesser than white people, that gayness was a crime, a sin, and a disease in search of a cure.
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Haring took to telling friends, with bitter wonderment, that he'd been arrested four times for marking, yet, as a sassy but nice white lad, he was always let go with, at worst, offhand insults to his unconcealed gayness.
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He beat the shit out of me and took me to his church the next day, where he tried to force me to have an exorcism performed on me to try and drive the gayness out of me.
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The strategic political use of sexual identity has become a bigger, more mainstream story with the rise of Trump, as conservative white gay men have used their gayness to promote white nationalistic politics and make its rhetoric more palatable.
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Those are important distinctions to make — as many writers have pointed out in the aftermath of the allegations, conflating gayness with preying upon boys is wildly dangerous, and has historically led to the persecution and oppression of queer people.
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Ledger and Gyllenhaal were celebrated for their bravery in daring to play gay; Ledger told the press he had been harassed on the street for his role, and a cult emerged around him based on his gayness by proxy.
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The gay narratives that made it onscreen were all sanitized; at the same time, gayness was sufficiently stigmatized within the industry that in 2003 Tom Cruise sued for libel, and won, when a porn star claimed he was gay.
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It was the gayness of Sex and the City, it was dehumanizing—a funny and competent and wise but emotionally uncomplicated man there to support, to make jokes, and to laugh at jokes, but never to feel too much.
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His gayness became a driving personal cause and may have figured in his move, in 1970, with funds from a Guggenheim grant, to post-Stonewall New York, where he took an apartment on Second Avenue in the East Village.
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What the most powerful works of queer historical imagination seem to be doing instead is positing a vision of the world as it might have been had gayness been a more central if not yet accepted part of it.
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However, where he views his coyness as an adoption of a progressive, non-binary stance on sexuality, it is actually a counteraction to that idea, as if he views gayness as the ultimate "other," a fabulous costume to be worn and fetishized.
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The piece of the zeitgeist I was responding to was, just a decade after Stonewall (which BTW occurred a few months before Sesame Street premiered) and the first pride march, the freshly 'normalized' nature of out gayness in places like New York.
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Ease and dignity, however, had seemed incompatible with my gayness until my sweaty June bar visit set me on a new path, one that much later led me to marrying my husband, having our children, and becoming an activist for L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
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I identified so hard with both of these soccer lesbos, from their bullheaded rebellion against the oppression of push-up bras, to expressing outright disgust at the notion of dating boys, to their unrelenting LGBTQ allyship (that probably turned into, well, gayness).
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The outside world was not made for queers, and a lot of people who had to hide their gayness during the day could come out at night and commit over-the-top faggotry and relate to one another through drag and self expression.
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And to the extent exposing important public figures as gay may normalize gayness by showing that gay people can be in positions of power, the message it sends — that outing people is okay if it serves your interests — is not worth the benefit.
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She was once quite literally barred from employment because of her sexuality; it's safe to say that she's no longer at risk of being fired for her gayness, like so many other Americans are, no matter what the Supreme Court ends up ruling.
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But given the longstanding homophobic conflation of gayness and pedophilia, Spacey's statement itself — as reaction pieces in the immediate aftermath have noted — reinforces a harmful stereotype about queer people by implicitly linking allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor to his gay male identity.
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The production, directed by Marianne Elliott, who developed the project in London for the National Theatre before bringing it to Broadway, offers a lens into gayness in the dimension of history — what is intransigent, what is still promissory, and what is so profoundly disappointing.
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This is familiar terrain for Mr. Brantley (who is frank about his past drug abuse and homelessness) and the director David Drake, the author and performer of "The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me," a 1992 solo show about gayness in the age of AIDS.
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But it also drew fury for revealing intimate details of the Ulwaluko, the circumcision ceremony he underwent as a young man, and for showing that gayness, far from being a foreign infection as some South Africans prefer to believe, exists among the Xhosa, too.
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Let me put it another way: Are you up for a little of everything — a cannon blast of ideas about blackness and gayness and representation, sure, but also about how to devastate and illuminate and deviate, with a camera, a soundtrack and editing, With finger snaps?
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Story at a glance St. Louis County has agreed to a settlement payout of $10.25 million with a gay police lieutenant who alleges he was passed over for promotion up to 23 times and was told to "tone down his gayness," according to an Associated Press (AP) story.
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The former stage, talking to straight people about it, makes up much of the film's third act, in which each of Simon's family members and close friends takes center stage to deliver a monologue of their own thoughts on his gayness, and how okay they are with it.
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Perhaps for readers who share Updike's point of view on the subject, the fact of Greenwell's narrator's gayness makes his story less "universal" — as if the job of fiction were to act as a mirror, rather than a lens that can introduce readers to characters of all stripes.
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I was attending my first Gay Pride Celebration with a small group of gay men I had befriended earlier that summer (my first gaggle!) and was eager to experience all that my newly embraced gayness had to offer; however, this interaction with one of my new "friends" deflated me.
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Still, "Beauty" rolls along like a well-oiled machine, augmented by new music, fleshed-out backstories for the principals and Josh Gad's scene-stealing turn as the toadying LeFou, whose much-ballyhooed gayness -- an overblown controversy if there ever was one -- is played with a combination of sweetness and subtlety.
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The combination of gayness and right-wing nationalism is nothing new per se—in academic and activist circles, the term "homonationalism" is often used to describe the overlap—but the recent populist wave in Europe has marked a turning point in gay people's willingness to publicly embrace the populist right.
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And then even before social media, so many different people have reached out and been able to forge relationships with gayness, whether it's a gay parent or a gay child who was able to go to their straight parent with my work and go, let's share this together, and ease into the conversation about who I am.
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Here's the central tension: By reporting on a person's sexual orientation, are you refusing to treat queerness as something shameful, taboo, and "private" that should be hidden away from public view, thereby countering anti-gay sentiment and refusing to actively closet someone in the media — or are you in fact perpetuating anti-gayness by turning someone's sexuality into a salacious scoop?
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The lives of John B. McLemore, who "learned to live without" intimacy, and Olan Long, who went without sex for at least six years, are what gayness looks like in certain parts of the country—where gay men are few and far between, and where straight (or closeted) men feel compelled to murder when they're made to feel less masculine.
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"Eastern Standard" was also one of the first plays to treat gayness with a kind of benign, straight-adjacent regularity that we take for granted today but that had, at the time, evaded the pioneering, altogether campier queer works that preceded it in New York, including Mart Crowley's "The Boys in the Band" (1968) and Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy" (1982).
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Niru's homosexuality is very much the book's subject, and the text is interested in dualities — Americans and Africans, white and black, gay and straight, devout and skeptic, the black immigrant and the black American (a role filled by Damien, a college student with whom our hero has a sweet, chaste fling) — while always returning to the question of what his gayness says about who Niru is.
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And the depiction of AIDS as a punishment for gayness, which has found voice in everything from doomsday preachers to Stephen King novels, has historically contributed to the deaths of millions by creating a huge stigma around the disease, making it difficult for researchers to gain public support in the fight for the cure and causing considerable obstacles for many who are diagnosed to receive equitable treatment.
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I was still in high school, and we hadn't talked about the spectrum of my gayness just yet, or at least not in words, although it sat on every dinner plate and dollhouse and stray tile and stair; the subject of queerness in general had only come up sparingly, usually in whispers about neighbors, or unmarried family friends, or the cousins no one had heard from in a minute.
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One time a coach called us onto the field, after a pep rally had dissolved into a massive spurt of dancing, and he called us a bunch of faggots, a pack of fucking boy-lovers; and in this way my blackness and my gayness wasn't muted, or erased, but compartmentalized — for the sake of the game, or for the sake of the white folks I played it with.
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While some of his critics on the left conducted an offensive discussion about whether he was gay enough, he performed an important balancing act, integrating his gayness into his candidacy without letting his candidacy be defined by it, seizing teachable moments without ever becoming tendentious or tedious, showing the world that being gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender or queer is an essential part of who we L.G.B.T.Q. people are but not all of who we are.
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Here is a sampling of other Trump nominees who are completely unsuited on similar grounds: Damien Schiff: This Court of Federal Claims nominee, also in his 30s, is a prolific right-wing blogger who has called Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy "a judicial prostitute," criticized an anti–LGBT bullying program as "teaching gayness in public schools," and said the Supreme Court's decision reaffirming the constitutionality of equal opportunity and affirmative action in university admissions was akin to the Supreme Court's infamous decisions that authorized slavery, Jim Crow laws, and Japanese internment camps.
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