kontextmaschine:

antihumanism:

argumate:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

We all know The Village People’s classic YMCA, but seriously, in

• the 70s,
• the gym

had a

• men’s dorm

with

• shared bathrooms and showers

to make things easy for

• young men from nowhere moving to the big city

How gay must that have been?

A related thought: how many young men moved into the dorms unknowingly and were just like “huh, so that’s what it’s like for adults in the big city, lots of gay hookups”

I’m sorry are we doing “the Village People are gay” now?

I thought this was going to be about how US cities used to have an easily findable network of cheap, no frills, no strings attached, no questions asked housing and how that contributed to social and geographic mobility as well as independence on the part of young men. But gay hookups are also good, sure.

This is what I’m getting at, mediated by the “turning bisexual” thing. As someone who appreciates the interaction of power and people and structure in cities, absolutely, what @antihumanism said.

But as someone who now has even the merest sense for these things, oh my God that is obviously gonna be a hilariously gay scene

And at this point think about all the scenes including but not limited to the US Navy and the Catholic priesthood that were actively trying to bail out gay and were quite gay in spite of it! Which is why they were trying to bail out gay, so it didn’t become their defining feature, like it did with YMCA residence!