It’s safe to say Karamo Brown, one of the stars of Netflix‘s Queer Eye reboot, has a complicated relationship with gay pop culture.
On the one hand, he’s spoken about how “oversexualized” facets of gay life are, and how potentially damaging that can be for young people.
And don’t even get him started on dating apps:
“I think they’re the worst,” he said in a recent Gay Times interview. “I think they’re horrible. I do not own an app and never have. I think dating apps are keeping us apart.”
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He added: “I can’t tell you the last time I met a couple who said, ‘I met on Grindr or Scruff, and I’m in a long term relationship.’ It just does not happen.”
Actually… It does happen, often. But OK we see what he’s trying to say.
He is also very critical of the nudity and near-nudity that pervades at Pride events, though he does have this to say as well:
“I’m by no means – because I love a shirtless selfie – taking away from someone’s right to do that. But as a community, we’ve forgotten that there’s a generation behind us that are watching. That are mimicking what we do and what we say.”
Well if they are indeed watching, they’ve no doubt stumbled onto Karamo’s shirtless, pantsless, entirely clothing-free photos, and we hope (the ones who are of age) can appreciate how amazing he looks!
You can enjoy those here, but don’t enjoy them too much, OK?
Vince
I was expecting BBC. Not BBA.
BCbreeze
Thirsty… lol
Kangol
Didn’t a version of this same article run on Queerty a few months ago? I have no issue with looking at Karamo Brown, who’s really beautiful, but you know, mix things up a bit, and share something new about him. We get that he dislikes how gay men show too much skin but then he sort of does the same, etc. What’s it like to be on the new show? What does he hope to do in the future? How is his relationship with his father, which was kind of troubled when he was on Real World? Who’s he dating?
Zambos271
He has a nice butt.
chris33133
If someone doesn’t agree with posting, almost exclusively, some combination of shirtless, near nude, and/or nude pix, then it would be nice (to say nothing about being consistent) if said someone posted a-few/a-lot full dressed pix. Otherwise, this isn’t such a complex relationship with any-sort-of pop culture; my mom summarized this messaging decades as “do as I say, not as I do.”
Aromaeus
Karamo has always been kind of unnecessarily preachy. When he is on The Young Turks he loves to remind everyone he’s a black gay father as if we forgot the last 100 times he mentioned it. He was like that on The Real World with the way he came at some of his housemates.
Dymension
Just love people who protest too much…