Whether you love him, love to hate him or just plain hate him (we’ve read your comments, Queerty fans), you have give credit to internet personality Davey Wavey for plugging along. The YouTube queen is making lots of new friends on his royal tour of Down Under and joined forces in Sydney with self-proclaimed professional fangirl Tyler Oakley to make an educational video.
The duo offers an extremely naughty countdown of “25 Ways to Know You’re Gay” that includes imaginary sex acts with Darren Criss, Anderson Cooper and a Sharpie stand-in for Leonard DiCaprio. They also believe having certain, ahem, LGBT blogs bookmarked on your computer is a dead giveaway. Thanks for the shout out, guys!
Dixie Rect
This sets the gay movement back 40 years. Enough with Davey Dumb A$$!
yaoming
Why are these guys both in Australia?
Jake357
I see he found his piggy bank. I can only assume he pays you guys: “you have to admit that internet personality Davey Wavey keeps plugging along”. I had never heard of this guy before this website started shoving him down our throats like Stoli ads disguised as articles or the innumerable other exampled of paid content on this site.
Dxley
Davey, please disappear. And why are you holding your shirt like that? We all know you want to be a woman but you know you don’t have tits, right?
This thing is a girl, yet he claims to be a top. LMGAO!!!!
Cam
Is somebody on the Queerty staff friends with him or does he pay for the space. If he pays for the space fine with it. I get it Queerty is a business. But if you are putting him on here because somebody is friends with him, that’s just bad business.
If you want to put up posts from Youtube you could pick from thousands. There is no reason to keep posting this guy.
Lifepathnine
Pretty funny
Spike
Another Davey Wavey post on Queerty. UGH. Has he been hired as an intern at Queerty?
tardis
Queerty should write and article and ask members of the gay community how they view the gay community in today’s fight for equality. It’s quite interesting, really. I was reading an interview with Anton Hysen where he was asked what he thought of PRIDE events, or somewhere along those lines, and he gave a response that I’ve seen and heard from time to time, that they essentially give the LGBT community a bad name. So, there’s that, and then there’s this: Davey Wavey. I wish the guy all the luck in the world, but it terms of how I relate to his videos…I just don’t. This guy is all about gay. Yet, at the same time, I know that if he were making the same videos in the 90s where gay wasn’t an emerging, accepted identity, I’d very much embrace him. I guess the dynamics change when you think about it. Still, it’d be cool if Queerty ran a story about the gay identity today.
MK Ultra
@tardis: I don’t see how the Pride parades have given LGBT a bad name when every year they get increasing bigger, with bigger crowds, more sponsors, way more people attending, and have spread not just across America, but to many places throughout the world.
If it were an advertising campaign, it would seem to be an exceptionally effective one.
tardis
@MK Ultra: Well, as I said before, there are people who feel that way. I’d even go as far as to compare it to Lady Gaga where gay people don’t relate to her because that’s not them. It’s the same with PRIDE, some gay guys just don’t relate to that experience. It’d be interesting if someone did a story about the gay identity today. It’s quite fascinating, really.
Elloreigh
I assume the intent behind this video is humor, but I’m not laughing. It’s nothing more than the usual, tired, “gay culture” BS that has nothing to do with being gay or my life as a gay man.
Katbox
That tyler guy look like that old not-gay gay “comedian.”
I honestly thought he was 40.
mgmchicago
@tardis: I think one has to make a distinction between younger and older gay men. Coming out is still an uncomfortable situation for most young men and, when you finally do, the freedom to be “gay” is very liberating and, yes, some young men take it to the extreme. It’s called “finding yourself.” I came out in the disco-era 70s and I wore the tightest pants, shiniest Quiana shirts, and tallest platform shoes I could find, danced my ass off, and cruised the bars for tricks. The incredible sense of freedom was fabulous and I have no regrets.
Now that I am older and more involved in my career, home, relationships and family I don’t really have the desire for bars, tricks, and fashion. But, I am not so stodgy that I don’t remember how exciting it was to be a young gay man. I am sometimes disappointed that so many gays today want to assimilate into the straight culture, get married, move to the burbs, plant a garden, have kids, etc. They deserve those rights, of course, and I do support gay marriage for those that want it. But it seems as if some of the benefits of being gay (freedom to explore non-traditional careers without extraneous financial burdens, multiple intimate relationships, etc.) are now being presented as negatives.
While the Pride Parades and Davey Wavey’s might seem “too gay” for the more conservative-type gay faction, don’t forget that it was the Stonewall drag queens, the Act Up protesters, and the Jack’s from Will & Grace that caught the straight world’s attention and (IMHO) helped us progress to where we are today.
Cam
@tardis:
Actually the story that you are saying should be written has been and is about every 2 years.
The “Is Pride good or bad” story is literally written in at least ONE magazine nearly every summer.
The “Do Gays Related to Lady GaGa story” is also written constantly, it just changes the name of the female icon every few years.
You not feeling you relate to the “Gay Community” has also been constantly covered. In fact a magazine came out targeting you several years ago called “Hero” it didn’t last very long, but the idea was there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERO_%28magazine%29
loua61
@mgmchicago: Excellent perspective, I actually read it twice. Kudos to you.
Pistolo
I don’t know that I *hate* Davey Wavey, I think to be hated you have to be contentious, inspire some sort of passion and Davey Wavey doesn’t really do that for me. Him and Tyler Oakley are just not that clever or funny to me so I don’t watch their videos. And frankly, nobody else does. They don’t have so much influence and sway, there’s only a certain amount of mileage you can get from the same old jokes. Shirtlessness, cliches, blatant sex talk, and recycled Deepak Chopra philosophy only gets you so far.
Pistolo
Clarification – By “nobody” watching their videos I mean that even if they get a million hits, it’s over a few days or a week. Nobody’s rushing to their videos and they only appeal to a certain crowd. It’s not as mainstream as they’d have you think.
loua61
He’s too in love with himself for me. Yes he has a good body and he should be proud of it but does he actually own a shirt with sleeves. We have all seen your body there is no need to flaunt it anymore. I have seen his videos and he talks about how sees straight guys at the gym flexing in the mirror and admiring themselves, suggesting that they may love they male form more than they admit. Pot calling the kettle, he would probably die if all the mirrors in his house broke.
yaoming
Between Wavy thinking he’s so hot and the eyeglasses guy thinking he’s so cute, it’s a little more than my body will tolerate.
asby
are there no other gay “internet celebrities” around?….it seems all i see is one of these 2 all the time….and they just are not relatable……one seems like a 35 y/o twink wanna be ….and the other pretty boy muscle boy who does not own a shirt with sleeves on it
tardis
@Cam: Thanks for the heads up, Cam. However, I was only using Pride as an example. The article I’d like to see is one about the gay identity today and how men identify and relate to it today.
@mgmchicago: Wow, very interesting. Perhaps each generation is in accordance to its time. I, for one, am entirely the opposite of everything you described. I guess we all have different ways of seeking our identity and regardless of what it is, it’s a journey nonetheless. It’s interesting that you say there’s a liberation that one feels when one comes out. I’ve never really considered that. The gay identity is quite an interesting subject.
Cam
@tardis: said…
“@Cam: Thanks for the heads up, Cam. However, I was only using Pride as an example. The article I’d like to see is one about the gay identity today and how men identify and relate to it today.
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And as I said, that story is constantly written. Even here on Queerty multiple times you will read a post that starts off with “I’m newly out and I don’t identify with (Insert name of gay Stereotype here).
sfsilver
I find the comments on this thread completely depressing. You don’t like Davey Wavey’s point of view, then go make a video series of your own. No single person is ever going to be able to make every single LGBT person happy. The Bros will hate it because it talks about musicals and pop divas. The queens will hate it because all it talks about is sports. The academics will hate it because it didn’t adhere to the current Queer theories. The activists will find some flaw in the PC language. The prudes and assimilationists will hate it because it mentions sex too much. The sluts will hate it because it ignores sex. The Queer bloggers, podcasters and video bloggers will hate it because they think it takes audience away from theirs. I salute Davey for putting himself out there and for expressing his queer point of view!
tardis
@Cam: Alright, alright the story is constantly written.
Fang2012
I don’t know my everybody has so much hostility towards Davey Wavey. He’s cute, he’s fun, his humor is campy and vapid. Nothing about him is so offensive to inspire such animosity! I like seeing his face pop up on youtube and queerty.
MK Ultra
Those two are like gay entertainment for a straight crowd, like Johnny Weir to Russians.
Dxley
Is this article still on? This is disgusting. This dumb, girly, attention seeking, narcissistic, sex starved, fucked up guy who’s got nothing in his head always pops up whenever I’m just reading through these articles. Gross!!!