Dallas Bragg examines how gay men stigmatize each other, fracturing community and trapping social life in bars. Breaking these patterns could let gay men build something more authentic than what exists now.
Horizontal oppression. You know, it's, it's, you know, like these people look down on me, um, and stigmatize me. So I'm gonna do the same thing to you. Makes me feel much better.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah. If we can move past that, we might be a much healthier, well, we might be a community, which right now it's hard to say that if we're a community or not.
Right. Yeah. I mean, I use that term lightly just, just so you know what I'm talking about, but I don't mean it in the, in the true sense.
Right. I know usually we kind of use I use community as a stand-in for population. Sure. Population of gay men, you know? Right. What, what would it mean to be a community? You know, it's, it's like, it's almost this idyllic, um, fantasy of what it would look like. Um, but wouldn't it be nice if that was no longer a fantasy? You know, we, we, we, we still have to create what that's going to be. Um, outside, outside of bars or, or inside of bars.
