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The writer just comes off as a horn-dog who wants to have sex with hipster boys but is sexually frustrated from rejection. Also for the record, Members Only jackets are retro, not gay.

Being from LA, I am not sure which came first, the hipster or the gay … Read Morehipster. It seemed to be a fusion of both when I was coming to age, going out every night, listening to the new electro band and shopping at vintage (because we were in LA)/thrift shops.

We are trying to guard our culture from being misrepresented by the masses who we feel are bastardizing the authenticity of what we knew. There was once a standard and now the bar had been lowered to include many, many more individuals. But how can we lay claim to culture? As if we were the first to rock bow ties, jeans that fit as if they were painted, matted hair, an excess in jewelry, androgyny. For me, we should embrace the evolution of the hipster. I mean, now the hip hopster is rocking the socks which is actually an awesome fusion for the Black, Gay and hipster in me. Yes, I admit to being a hipster.

Hear hear.

Oh, and Brian, this is America. Straight males don’t know what “camp” is.

Isaac, get lost.

“Mainstream cooption is a major predecessor to equality.”

your predictable use of the word “equality” as the supposed end all and be all to the queer struggles that this author invokes shows that you don’t understand the struggle that a lot of people who identify as queer are engaged in – one not for assimilation but liberation. which is beyond any liberal notion of equality in the traditional sense.

mainstream cooption involves a watering down of a culture and its meaning (in this case, a culture forged in struggle that no straight person could understand).

and i cannot tell you how many outright homophobic (and subtly heterosexist) hipster dudes i’ve encountered. boys in skinny jeans who sling around words like “faggot,” which is a slap in the face to those generations of homos who’ve protested, rioted, come out of the closet, faced down firing squads in some instances, been murdered and beaten and spit on and jeered at just to love one another openly and express their gender as they please, without whom these very same hipster boys wouldn’t be able to step two feet outside their door without getting the shit beaten out of them for being dressed that way.

it’s maddening to see them still exercise their ridiculous privilege in the garb of a culture forged in the context of struggle (kuffiyes, anyone?). i’d like to see just one of these boys walk hand in hand with another boy in public for a month – then maybe they’ll be in a place to understand what ppl like us are on about.

I think it’s important to draw that distinction. The liberal mainstream media likes to PRETEND society is more accepting of us. It’s a phony form of public relations designed to keep us gays on the side of the Democratic Party, a party with links to papers like the New York Times .

When the New York Times publishes a picture of two men kissing on its cover, that will indicate acceptance. A guy dressed in hipster glasses and tight trousers is no more gay than James Dobson wearing a fur stole.

It’s intellectually vacuous to generalize about groups of people, especially when the generalities are based on superficialities and appearances. Of all people, we especially should avoid generalizing about others, since what we are up against is narrow-minded bigotry, prejudice and generalizations.

As for Mommam, what can she possibly gain from expressing anger at gay people on this site? Do her comments merit a response from us? Ignorance is usually overcome through understanding and communication; name calling and anger do not work.

My suggestion is to focus on things and people that will make life better and richer for yourself and others, and this includes not judging and condemning everyone and everything. We need greater subtlety, intelligence, and positive direction in our thinking, and we need to concentrate on actions.

The author of this editorial? Right, I don’t know who he is… What’s your point? I have no idea what you’re yammering about.

Mommam you’re 40? You sound 8. Get the fuck off the site if you don’t like what you see here. Really.

What offer for sex? LOL! I’d sooner chop my junk off fucking a woodchipper…ewwwww, goddamn….ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, pwt pwt pwt…

What the hell are you doing on this website?

Please go away, bigot.

Also, while the gay struggle is something incredibly real and praiseworthy, gay style isn’t. At all. Would it really take much digging to find that people wore raybans and hoodies before gays did? Do you really want to be this fiercely protective of suspenders and a damn fanny pack?

Haha, it is also a recommended reading in my Managing Creative organisations course at Parsons for my Design Management BBA…

So, seriously, anyone who thinks they own any particular bit of fashion can fuck off. You don’t own anything and you probably don’t dress as hot as you think you do.

Don’t beat up on our fans. Love them while we have them. (love them twice, if you can).

Yeah, it sucks, but it’s the cycle of life. Get over it.

Are you drunk or, perhaps, have a few chromosomes over 46? WTF are you talking about?

Still. The real hipsters don’t think they’re hipsters.

Ouch.

Well said.

Pass on the shake down. They don’t know what the fuck they’re doing anyway. I’d sooner stick my in a lawnmower–same effect.