It’s such a bland two-dimensional depiction that we don’t all fit. We were shown as lean, muscular, with great fashion sense, perfect teeth, quaffed hair and an abundance of knowledge on Judy and Liza. If you look back through pop culture, representation of cisgendered gay men was very one note for a really long time. Speaking about my own experiences as a cisgendered gay man, these pressures are exhausting to match and have inflated a lot of my struggles with body image and disordered eating.
There are so many societal expectations, stereotypes and pressures placed upon us in the LGBTQIA+ community and on our bodies.
