By Readers of The Sun Magazine — 2003
I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.
Read on www.thesunmagazine.org
CLEAR ALL
Meet the model and body activist challenging beauty norms, bullies, and online trolls.
We’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure.
What began as a proud assertion of identity has itself become a trope; the stereotype of a gay man now is one who goes to the gym and takes care of himself.
Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?
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