How not to look gay
How to dress gay when you look straight
Within my first few weeks at Trinity, I realized I didn&#;t feel any pressure to like men, so I didn&#;t. It wasn&#;t until months later that I realized I was a lesbian. First I came out to myself, then to my friends.
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I started telling everyone I knew, &#;Did you perceive, I&#;m gay!&#; and I was met with nothing but love and sustain from the Trinity community. Then I called my lesbian friend from back home &#; we&#;ll call her Sarah.
Sarah has always had a very &#;lesbian&#; look; all the queer women knew she was gay. She wanted to be a police officer, and all the men felt intimidated by her. Then there was me. All those years of tennis had hardly made my wimpy arms any stronger; I didn&#;t long to be a police officer but rather a writer; I liked to wear skirts and cute shoes. To be honest, I f
by Fred Penzel, PhD
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“But you don’t watch gay”—Queer fashion and nightlife
With lockdown entering its twelfth week and every Netflix show on my list binged to completion, I did something that I vowed I would never do; I downloaded TikTok.
It took a total of twelve hours before I was hooked, and in my mindless scrolling stupor, one trend in particular stood out to me: “#ifiwasstraight.” A typical video under this tag is as follows: a queer person, dressed in their usual style, cosplays as their heterosexual alter-ego. They shed their gay exterior, removing piercings, scrubbing off layers of bold makeup and ditching their thrifted wardrobe as a voiceover says: “This is what I think I would look like if I was straight.” The final peek is conservative, generic, and stripped of character. With over million views, the trend is wildly popular. But as much as I enjoy watching the LGBTQ+ community poke fun at the blandness of heterosexual fashion trends, it does beg the question: What does straight look like? What does gay look like? And should we be enforcing aesthetic binaries based on sexuality?
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