Comments on: Ideas: What Kind Of Gay Are You? http://thenewgay.net/2009/07/what-kind-of-gay-are-you.html For Everyone Over the Rainbow Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:03:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: young http://thenewgay.net/2009/07/what-kind-of-gay-are-you.html#comment-13185 young Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:50:17 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=10734#comment-13185 Yay for SLC, our lovely high desert home. :-) Yay for SLC, our lovely high desert home. :-)

]]> By: Queer Blogger http://thenewgay.net/2009/07/what-kind-of-gay-are-you.html#comment-13161 Queer Blogger Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:08:15 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=10734#comment-13161 The answer to "what kind of gay are you?" should be the same as the answer to the question "what kind of person are you?", only appended with the phrase "... who is attracted to people of the same sex." Just because one is gay doesn't mean that they have to fit themselves into some narrow category of what it means to be gay. The name of this blog, to my reckoning, is a secret joke. There is no "new" type of gay except the one true you that you see in the mirror or after meditating on your naval for a while. Perhaps the "new gay" is the end of any differentiation between gay culture(s) and straight culture(s)? I'd be down with that. The answer to “what kind of gay are you?” should be the same as the answer to the question “what kind of person are you?”, only appended with the phrase “… who is attracted to people of the same sex.” Just because one is gay doesn’t mean that they have to fit themselves into some narrow category of what it means to be gay.

The name of this blog, to my reckoning, is a secret joke. There is no “new” type of gay except the one true you that you see in the mirror or after meditating on your naval for a while. Perhaps the “new gay” is the end of any differentiation between gay culture(s) and straight culture(s)? I’d be down with that.

]]> By: Ea http://thenewgay.net/2009/07/what-kind-of-gay-are-you.html#comment-13160 Ea Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:46:34 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=10734#comment-13160 Well written post Joshua, but I've noticed another trend on TNG. The discussions about "what kind of gay" people are never reveal any answers and come at the expense of determining what kind of human being, neighbor, son, daughter, friend or individual we are going to be. New gay, old gay, cyber gay, butch, lipstick or whatever else, when people aspire to become a label, they give up freedom. I like that you seem to appreciate the diversity of SLC. I also like that you don't try to label it and only refering to it as your "hometown." Personally, I am leaning toward the "new" gay remaining undefined. I'm not even sure I want to discuss what that means. I'd rather eat ice cream with my niece & nephews or help a gay teen discover that, when asked "what kind of gay are you?" they can answer "none of the above." Well written post Joshua, but I’ve noticed another trend on TNG. The discussions about “what kind of gay” people are never reveal any answers and come at the expense of determining what kind of human being, neighbor, son, daughter, friend or individual we are going to be. New gay, old gay, cyber gay, butch, lipstick or whatever else, when people aspire to become a label, they give up freedom. I like that you seem to appreciate the diversity of SLC. I also like that you don’t try to label it and only refering to it as your “hometown.”

Personally, I am leaning toward the “new” gay remaining undefined. I’m not even sure I want to discuss what that means. I’d rather eat ice cream with my niece & nephews or help a gay teen discover that, when asked “what kind of gay are you?” they can answer “none of the above.”

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