But were Warren or Yang supporters tweeting “buttchug” and screenshots of 180 Days of Sodom to Buttigieg or otherwise mocking his homosexuality?

“...joking about the Holocaust (ironically), using racial slurs (ironically), and sharing a ton of porn (ironically?).”

Yeah, looking at it a year later, I regret this comment. Ideological diversity is important, especially for the normalization of homosexuality, and I’ve come to sympathize with a lot of his concerns. Anyway, I’m sorry I wrote it.

I agree with you 100%. There has always been a minority of gay men, recently joined by woke straight people, who believe they are in a position to dictate the terms under which gay men come out. Many of them resent those of us who aren’t “visibly” gay; others think they can read minds or deduce who has the “privilege”…

The person you’re responding to does not speak for all of us.

Listen, I know these kind of critiques are frustrating to read, but they reflect the ideological biases of media types on the far left, not the feelings of an overwhelming majority of everyday gay men and women. I was just glad they decided to include the opening scene at all. In real life, Adrian Mellon was Charlie…

You nailed it. The opening scene follows the text—an exact depiction of the real life event given short shrift in this piece—to a T. Production then takes creative license by elevating subtext to a level just short of “I’m gay,” in other words, all but explicit except to the most oblivious audience member and …

There’s a reason why “queer” is never uttered by everyday gay men, its chief targets as a slur. Enough already. 

The Adrian Mellon subplot is a near word-for-word retelling of the 1984 murder of openly gay 23-year-old Charlie Howard by a pack of homophobic teenagers in Bangor, Maine.

Speak for yourself. I’m a senior Millennial gay man, and I’m pleasantly surprised by how much the most upvoted commenters in this thread really get it. Richard thinks he’s the all-knowing homosexual, “gaysplaining” (as someone aptly described it) why blatant homophobia is akshually gay high art, and readers aren’t…

I don’t really know what to say. I wasn’t surprised by the Peck piece or the self-identified “queers” like Richard and what’s-her-name at Slate rushing to his defense. Their homosexuality is a political phenomenon, not a biological one. Since coming out, I’ve had the opportunity to become intimately acquainted with…

I’m sure I’m not the only guy who likes a nice dick. In my experience, the ones who don’t are in the minority. Of course, there are dicks I don’t like, but it’s impossible to know without seeing them. Honestly, I’m dismayed that someone could use the language of sexual assault when talking about pictures of genitalia.…

“LGBTQIA+”

You think it’s just white people?

Jesus Christ, not sure if you’re a homophobic straight dude or a self-loathing effeminate gay guy but there’s no such thing as “looking straight.” Homonormative behavior isn’t a precondition for homosexuality, and the dearth of Macs in gay representation in the media is what gives so many gay dudes a complex in the…

You “refer more to the common person who just bitches at trolls”? What about the actual trolls? That attitude reminds me of the anti-Trump conservatives who devote all their energy to pwning libtards instead of, you know, actually criticizing Trump and trying to build alliances. Maybe it’s because they refuse to…

Please. This cookie cutter conservative “manifesto” is political performance art, not a good faith attempt at encouraging a discussion. (It’d also be pure cringe if people didn’t actually take it seriously.)

His FB posts read as if he were a suburban bourgeois high school loner who got his hands on Atlas Shrugged and decided to start a blog. Also, based on the photo, he’s a white dude with an Asian American boyfriend, which makes me wish we had a national ID system so I could take away his gay card.

The doctors said it would be a miracle if Arnie lived past a year-and-a-half. Well, he just turned two.

I see the porn potential.