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Originally posted by Lady Claire
Honestly i feel like gay magazines really need to stop with straight guys on their covers tbh.
Straight people already have their space everywhere. Leave at least our space to us.
It's lowkey toxic to feature a privileged straight white man on a gay magazine cover since our community is so diverse and needs a lot of representation. And a lot of them are probably homophobes and don't give a single **** about us, just want our coins (i'm not talking about Ben since i don't even know who he is, it's just a example). It's easy to take the shirt off and make a "sexy" face to the camera so the gays can fap to it but when there's serious issues that needs help inside our community these "gay-friendly" straight guys are nowhere to be found.
I don't wanna sound like a SJW but.... that's my opinion, don't come @ me.
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I agree.
The glorification of straight white guys in the gay community is problematic. Just look at phrases like "straight acting" .
And most gay guys care more about celebrities when they are still in the closet or straight. When a celeb comes out its all congrats in the beginning, but then they are paid dust.
But, I understand why it happens though, it's a forbidden fruit kind of thing. Also the media enforces that this is the ideal, so of course a lot of people will want it. But it is a problem that needs to change. I respect that Ben Hardy said that he wouldn't mind gay guys on "straight" magazines, but the truth is they rarely are. And it feels like they are rarely on gay magazines as well.
kinda feels like scraping the SJW barrel
