Flatmates: Straight Lads Turn Gay

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asserting their straightness. The underlying joke is that LGBTQ intimacy is less real than their strong, infallible heteromasculine bond. This resulting straight male energy forms a magical force field to negate queer possibility. [note] men who have sex with men (MSM) define sex by social context rather than the sexual activity involved.

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Man up, boys don’t cry, toughen up. For Yorkshire-born artist Corbin Shaw, this stuffy rhetoric was all too common in the male heavy-environments he grew up in: football pitches, boxing gyms, his dad’s metal fabrication workplace. Places where machismo overshadows the need to open up, get talking and have acry on your pal’s shoulder from time-to-time. I watched him steadily rise into the air, as if transcending this mortal plane of pain and suffering and chairs. It was beautiful to watch his worn-out body rise above the rooftops and into the endless sky. Icarus was finally achieving his dream. While it wasn’t two shirtless hunks holding each other, there was still a sense of gentleness here. At ECW Hardcore Heaven 1994, a pro wrestler asked for a chair to smash on a fellow performer. Fans proceeded to give him many chairs, literally hundreds thrown onto the stage. This avalanche derailed the entire match. The staff begged the audience to stop, but the chairs just kept flying. It was a massive surreal breakdown in the laws of pro wrestling events. Among many queer moments in pro wrestling, this ranks among the queerest.Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by Dutch renaissance painter Bruegel (or some other painter, who cares) emphasizes the humiliation of Icarus’ failed ambition. Viewers familiar with the myth will first look for Icarus in the sky — only to eventually locate Icarus awkwardly drowning in the ocean near the bottom-right corner. No one in the painting gives a shit about Icarus. Not only was Icarus foolish, but no one was even recording him on video! Gay poet W. H. Auden famously saw this painting in a museum and felt moved to drag / lament Icarus: As for the Legs been banned - not sure if your getting confused with our lot - The Kippax - who were def banned for about 18 months before eventually been reinstated - they were a banned Supporters club who drank and based themselves around The Three Legs & Nags Head late 70s early 80s alongside loads of other Leeds Lads and continued to run coaches - The Legs was a flag ship pub for Leeds fans in those days simlar to Spencers and The Monkey today The Three Legs to my memory always had an offical branch & eventually evolved into what's now become the Vine Branch[/quote] The rain of chairs is also a succinct way to show some sympathy, because when one lad gets hit by a chair, we all get buried in chairs. It’s about solidarity. But with who?

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At the start of the video, the men kiss briefly and instinctively, as if they’ve done it before so many times. It’s a strong and surprising hook. The real insult is that they think queer energy can be dispelled so easily! The video shows how straight mate energy is actually quite fragile. It just takes one minute to utterly destroy the lad’s masculinity on video. In the end, I argue that queer love is also the force that honors masculine vulnerability, that only we have the power to reclaim these lads. This research and sympathy are important here, because that work is about love — and the video ends with love.

Borderline (1930)

Even if lad-on-lad kissing were a casual norm across the UK, I question whether it’d lead to less homophobia in society. Straight Men Being More Interesting doesn’t liberate gay people. Don’t enrich straightness and call it allyship! I think anti-realism designers overlook possibilities for realism in game aes­thetics. Hard Lads is, perhaps, neo­realist. The characters were generated from Mixamo Fuse, the camera doesn’t cut to the action, and it endeavors to maintain social realism with documentary framing.

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It was the tragic suicide of his dad’s friend, who he regularly played football with, which first prompted him to explore the damaging effects of hyper-masculinity through his art. Bold lettering is stitched on top of St. George’s flags, featuring slogans such as ​ “soften up hard lad” and ​ “save our bastard sons”. When finished, they form awitty take on the ever-recognisable pitch, pub and PE banter. As a nod to this incident, Hard Lads recreates this moment at the end of every round. Once the lad collapses from too much pain, the game drops additional chairs down from the sky, starting with only 1 chair on the 2nd round, and accumulating 69 chairs in the final 7th round. The purpose of those traps is to hide a third way: an intersectional history of solidarity, especially in the UK. In 1984, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) supported mineworker unions against Thatcher during the national strike, and in turn, miners supported gay rights movements and pushed against the 1988 anti-gay law, Section 28. This was a political alliance forged long ago by our elders, proof that we can all organize together. Let’s assume these lads are straight. In her book “Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men”, Jane Ward asks, why do seemingly Straight White Men do such seemingly Gay White things? This was also a central question in my previous game The Tearoom, whose primary source, Laud Humphreys’ “Tearoom Trade”, shows how

Nighthawks (1978)

Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation – not judgment. Camp is generous. It wants to enjoy [… and] it doesn’t sneer at someone who succeeds in being seriously dramatic. What it does is to find the success in certain passionate failures. That’s when chair lad bosom buddy launches into a rousing rendition of “Truly Madly Deeply”, by Australian pop sensation Savage Garden: The lads’ shaved haircuts, fitted fashion, muscled bodies, exposed underwear, Tyneside flats, and Northern accents, signify a specific working class identity from North East England. In the 2000s these lads might’ve been called chavs, and in the 2010s they would’ve evoked the US reality TV series Jersey Shore or its British off-shoot Geordie Shore, and TV critics noted the clear social class implications. Brendan Keogh once wrote that my characters “are so perfectly imperfect as to fall square into the uncanny valley,” and Hard Lads continues this descent into uncanny queer embodiment.

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For this game I dive deeper into fumble­core, an indie game genre involving humorously inefficient and cumbersome player embodiment. Each round, the hurt lad is barely keeping it together, flailing in a very unmanly way in reaction to the slightest disturbance. When talking about White working class people, there are at least two traps here. The conservative trap is to “defend” a “White working-class heritage” racist dog

Young Soul Rebels (1991)

In naïve, or pure, Camp, the essen­tial element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails. Of course, not all seriousness that fails can be redeemed as Camp. Only that which has the proper mixture of the exaggerated, the fantastic, the passionate, and the naïve… High above the rooftops, just as the lads’ final chorus swells triumphantly, there’s a randomized 50% chance for him to suddenly plummet to the ground like Icarus. I thought the morbid humor would feel appropriately British; Even with the magic of love, these lads are still merely men, God giveth and God taketh away, and so on.