Freaking Out About Period Breaks in Gay Relations Was Homophobic

Freaking Out About Period Breaks in Gay Relations Was Homophobic

In direct associations with a period gap, phrase like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy spouse’ get hosted around. Whenever it’s a gay connection, those terms switch to ‘pedophile’ and ‘pervert.’

Samantha Allen

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Any time news pennyless early this week that Brit star and comedian Stephen cook, 57, is now engaged to 27-year-old comedian Elliot Spencer, homophobic social media marketing users abruptly determined they must be comedians, too. There have been innumerable and equally unfunny versions from the laugh that Spencer search youthful adequate to generally be Fry’s boy, as Hannah Jane Parkinson relays regarding the Guardian. (And yes, some one has now referred to as Spencer a “Small Fry,” har har.) The world-wide-web impulse accepted a good dark turn whenever “Stephen Fry unpleasant” apparently trended on Youtube and twitter briefly following the statement. (mehr …)