Gay creeping
From then on for the rest of my days here, I’ve lived accessible, proud out. My partnership with my mom and both of my parents really has very much vastly improved.
I’m Trevor McCray and I’m from Baltimore, Maryland.
In my family, there’s a rule – I don’t know about yours – but it’s an unspoken rule that family business stays within the family. And if there’s anything about you that the family needs to know, they should be finding out about it from you.
It was my senior year of elevated school. I was 17 years old at an all boys Catholic lofty school, which as you can imagine for gay people sounds like torture. But for me, it wasn’t. I was actually really well-known. I was really, I guess you could call me trendy , I wouldn’t say that about myself. I was known as The Voice of the Mount, one of three students to do the morning announcements every day. And I was well known because I started with Excellent MORNING! every day.
So we went on a retreat our senior year. It was about March, just a few months before graduation, and the whole class went all at one time to this house out 45 minutes or so outside of Baltimore in the state, it was a period of bonding and of building and cementing ou
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Wish I Were Special: Gay Panic, Masculinity, and the Gender non-conforming Other in “Creep” and “The Gift”
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(Author’s Note: Hey, glance, it’s the manuscript I presented at the Visions Movie Festival and Conference in April!)
This evening, I’m here to talk about masculinity, and clearly, as you can observe that I’m the bastion of heteromasculinity, I am the right person to do such a thing. I would like to chat about two films: Creep, the create footage horror production, and The Gift, the suspense drama, and how one operates to stigmatize the queer other and how one comments on the very framework of toxic masculinity that engenders that discourse of stigma. I’ll be exploring concepts of masculinity, male lover panic, and queerness and the ways in which they are utilized as generic tropes within these films, framing the entire works as either satire and critique or perpetuation of oppression.
Conventionally visions of masculinity exhibit themselves throughout mainstream popular identity, and their codas and creeds visible physically and, equally as imperative, socially through acts. As a form of identity, the heterosexu
This week, the boys dive into their first found footage production on the pod: 2014's "Creep." Join them travel down the road of Craigslist hookups, freezing sores, and people that are alarmingly nice. Mark Duplass' nature is a total creep, you could say he's a weirdo, what the hell is he doing here? (IYKYK). But seriously, this movie is f*cking scary.
Want to watch first? "Creep" is streaming on Netflix now.
(TW): Parts of the episode do deal with sexual assault, so listener discretion is advised. We donate warnings when they're coming up so you can feel free to skip through those sections.
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I have long had nothing but contempt for Log Cabin Republicans. But after reading LCR President Charles Moran’s notion piece in Newsweek, my immediate response was, “Oh, fuck off.”
The Trump Administration was one of the most anti-LGBTQ+ administrations in history. Everyone from his Secretary of Teaching (Betsy Devos) to his Secretary of Health and Human Services (Alex Azar) were open opponents to LGBTQ+ equality. Trump appointed Supreme Court justices who were all too happy to overturn Roe v. Wade and will no doubt overturn 2015’s marriage equality decree as soon as they get the chance.
And yet Moran warns that we shouldn’t “be fooled by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s attempt to reinvent themselves as moderate, pro-family, ‘not weird’ Democrats who simply stand for LGBT equality.”
The Harris-Walz ticket is the most pro-LGBTQ+ ticket probably ever. What, are they just TOO supportive of Diverse people?
Um, yes. According to Moran.
“Their agenda goes far beyond what our society has sought for decades, which is equality for LGBT Americans under the law,” Moran writes. “In reality, Harris and Walz are crusaders for a small but forceful cabal of the LGBT Left which wants