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During the peak of the AIDS crisis, when so many HIV-positive men were wasting away, shirtless dancing was also a way to demonstrate good health – so for men of a certain age, there remains a bit of tension around the practice, something younger men may fail to absorb. Shirtless dancing, more broadly, has been a well-established announcement of being unashamed of one’s body, of claiming a return for the investment of time spent at the gym. For men who are into that scene, the video was probably more of an advertisement than a source of laughter. A video of a dance-floor fight at last year’s party went viral, partly because so many of the brawlers had similar builds, tans, body hair and wardrobes. Gym bunnies spend top dollar to fly to the Excelsior party in Mykonos, mainly to be among men whose body types are remarkably similar. Within the LGBT community, we form neo-tribes by sending appropriate signals to those we’re like – and those we want to be like.
This kind of subconscious conformity can lead to problems like racist profiles, where users echo the “no this, no that” they see in other profiles, with “personal preferences” piling up into a heap of collective toxic sludge. “It’s a lot less face, a lot more ass and dick,” he laughs. Smith, an assistant professor of ethnic studies at Wisconsin’s Lawrence University, has noticed users modelling their profile images after the porn-star images in the ads. On one hookup website, for example, researcher Jesus G. In an interesting academic research paper about the culture of a gay-male-oriented resort in Australia – where 24/7 porn and walking around naked were all part of the resort experience – researcher Oskaras Vorobjovas-Pinta found himself wondering “whether the consumer ‘lifestyle’ embodied by the resort stands in service of the particular gay male ways of life, or whether the mores and sentiments uniting the neo-tribe might be generated by the commercial resort space itself.” Humans like to think their identity comes from within, but we are also composed of what surrounds us.
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Do gay men love The Wizard of Oz because of some innate spiritual connection to “somewhere over the rainbow” or did gay men subconsciously teach themselves to love it because it provided a handy password for making friends? In more closeted times, an established canon of movies and music could be wielded to establish bona fides. I had his number from the moment he mentioned his love of opera. When I mentioned the Pet Shop Boys, he moved a little closer. I remember once during a long train ride in India, a handsome fellow traveller politely asked me about my musical tastes. But the gay world found ways to share ideas to get through life, and experience pleasure, long before screens became the centre of our cultural connectivity.
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Social media, movies and TV are ideal avenues for spreading ideas around, especially now that LGBT people are increasingly represented on screen. RuPaul’s Drag Race alone has colonized our brains with “If you can’t love yourself, how the hell are you going to love somebody else?,” “Miss Vanjie” and the brazen move of tossing off one’s wig as a perfect mic drop. LGBT people also have a knack for producing cultural ephemera: expressions and catchphrases, trends in style and travel, dating rituals and, ahem, sexual practices.
One minute it’s a funny passing thought the next it’s a meme. One night, my tipsy friend came out with “ huachi culero” – “culero” meaning “asshole” – and spread it around through his various WhatsApp groups. An old word with Mayan origins, huachicolero, which used to have something to do with a pole for carrying fruit, has recently been resurrected as a label for the thieves who tap into gas pipelines. In Mexico, the creation of new slang terms is something of a passion. The gay world has always found unique ways to get through life…