so what is this?
It’s a newsletter! Like, for reading. Each week’s issue will have two parts, and yes, they’ll be short because I’m aware gay people have no attention spans.
First, I’ll honor an icon you didn’t know was gay culture, according to me, a homo with absolutely no qualifications other than having a keyboard and depression.
Second, I’ll include a roundup of all the super gay stuff that happened that week so you can stay up to date on just how gay the world is. Because gay shit is happening all around us, every single day! Mostly this will be random stuff that made me laugh and/or set my homo senses a-tingling.
why should I subscribe?
Subscribe so you won’t have to remember to look for it every week! It’ll just show up in your inbox, right next to all the emails from brands pretending to like gay people for Pride. That way, you can save your energy for more important gay things, like cyberbullying Kacey Musgraves into releasing her next album.
Also, if you don’t subscribe, you might miss an issue. And then everybody will think you hate gay people.
is it free?
You bet your gay ass it is! Even for straight people! Just hit that subscribe button and it’ll *poof* right into your inbox so you’ll never miss out. Just be sure to share and spread the word. It’s a nice thing to do, and you’ll be supporting me, a homosexual desperate for attention.
who are you anyway?
I’m Matt, a gay writer and comedian who is not qualified for this task, or any task. If you’d like, you can follow me on Instagram and Twitter. And you can listen to my podcast.
one important note.
This is a very dumb newsletter and definitely not a history book. But it’s important to note that true queer culture — the things that bring the LGBTQ+ community joy, the stuff that contributes to our sense of communal identity, the very way we move about the world — grew out of tremendous pain and struggle. The mainstream long denied our existence, so we created our own culture so that we could see ourselves. And overwhelmingly, “gay culture” as we know it today was created by the most marginalized among us, those who were held down by straight white society, yet chose to celebrate themselves proudly and radically in spite of it. The queer/trans black community, in particular, is responsible for what many gays (and straights!) take for granted today: ball culture (the precursor to drag as we know it), kiki-ing, voguing, “throwing shade,” “reading,” basically everything on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Black trans women led the charge at Stonewall and paved the way for the gay rights movement of today, a movement that still largely leaves trans people of color behind. As always, no celebration of queer culture, not even a very dumb newsletter like this, could exist without their contributions. We must continue to fight for trans folks so that every single member of the LGBTQ+ community can enjoy a full, joyful, gay-as-fuck life.
