Can you name glass-closeted idols who are all but out as gay or bi?
That is, most everyone with a reasonable level of literacy with gay culture can tell.
Presently, I can only think of one:
- Intense, nonstop diva-worship (Beyonce, Lady Gaga)
- Flamboyant dresser (when on his own time)
- Campy, nelly humor and demeanor, e.g.:
- Appropriation of manners of speech, phrasing, and gesturing most commonly and originally exhibited by some popular Black American female entertainers
- Enthusiastic appropriation of twerking, which he uses as a form of humor to amuse and sometimes shock (thus garnering attention)
- Musical theater since childhood
- And, possibly counterintuitively:
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Strict avoidance of/aversion to skinship and showers with other members, who themselves commonly shower together at the dorm (to save time)
- This may be because he's from English-speaking Canada (English-speaking North American mainstream aversion to same-sex nonsexual physical affection, etc.), but fellow Canadian member Jacob is very comfortable with skinship (e.g., commonly with Hyunjae)
- But, to be fair, cf. Felix from Stray Kids, Australian (arguably comparable Western/English-speaking "New World" settler-colony nation with arguably closely similar contours re masculinity), who enjoys it very much
- This may be because he's from English-speaking Canada (English-speaking North American mainstream aversion to same-sex nonsexual physical affection, etc.), but fellow Canadian member Jacob is very comfortable with skinship (e.g., commonly with Hyunjae)
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Strict avoidance of/aversion to skinship and showers with other members, who themselves commonly shower together at the dorm (to save time)
Who else is in the glass closet?
(I am a differenly abled gay man of color. Nothing above should be "offensive" to non-homophobes.)