Lo's derriere or how 'women everywhere' are swooning over Ashton Kutcher, it's a reminder that for a shocking number of people in this culture, gay people just don't exist. With such a thick coat of heterosexual whitewash splashed over every sexual image, it takes a powerfully queer imagination-and sometimes many nights at Crazy Nanny's or the Spike, or years in therapy-to construct an object of desire that's truly our own, fully hetero-free.Įvery time some gossip rag talks about how 'no man can resist' J. Heck, even the flagrantly homoerotic Abercrombie & Fitch ads toss in a bikini-clad woman for every 10 buff shiftless dudes, lest we think the fellas aren't hankering for female companionship. What leads lesbian and gay grown-ups to abandon reason and pursue the sexually unobtainable?ġ EVERYONE IS STRAIGHT To paraphrase Harvey Fierstein in Torch Song Trilogy, we live in a world where every movie, every TV show, and every billboard tells us we're straight. We've all done it, and some of us do it over and over again.
