This is an old post, but I enjoyed reading it this morning, because I think he makes some very valid points. I think in our current culture, gay men are stereotyped, and the "mainstream," i.e., straight, people don't even realize it. The limp-wristed, lisping, interior decorating gay man has become the icon, and it's ridiculous and, I'm sure, not true, or at least not universally true. Like the butch, crewcut, stocky lesbian woman -- it's obviously not the universal norm, but a stereotype.

Anyway, I thought it was interesting. It fed off a current post from the same author about the movie "Alexander."

We started off as godless, sex-obsessed, dirty monsters and we fought and we've rebelled. And now instead we're god-loving, relationship-focused, kitchen-cleaning princes among men who like little dog, Versace and television where 'we' get to patronise people. Our 'positive' image has already been reincorporated and recontextualised and reconsidered and represented. The tremendous variety of gay male experience - from the most delicate to the most brutal, from the most elegant to the most fierce, from the most diplomatic to the most battle-ready, even from the most tacky to the most trivially crass - all of it is reduced down to the image of gay men as a fussy little child - who plays at 'houses', plays at 'cooking', plays at 'being a man', plays at life.

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