Dallas Bragg explores how gay men stigmatize each other to ease personal discomfort, a cycle that harms the group. The conversation asks what real community looks like beyond bars and fantasy, and how new gathering spaces could build genuine connection instead.
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.
