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It looks like Olympic medal-winning athlete Gus Kenworthy celebrated (at least part of) Thanksgiving with friends and chosen family last week.
The freestyle skier posted photos of himself over the weekend in drag with a bunch of pals. He tagged them as being taken at the famed Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood.
“Potluck dinner but we only served lewks! 💅🏼 Happy Dragsgiving everyone! 💄💋 Thank you @jonniereinhart for my gorgeous transformation.”
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Aside from celebrating the holidays, Kenworthy, who came out as gay in 2015, has recently posted videos of himself back in training.
In 2019, he announced he was switching from Team USA to Team GB to hopefully compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing (Kenworthy’s mother is British and he was born in Essex).
Last week, he also announced he’s fronting a new Fall/Winter 2021 campaign from Prada.
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CatholicXXX
He just lost all sex appeal.
Charlie in Charge
Oh gosh I’m sure no l he will be terribly disappointed to hear he no longer meets your standards.
DarkZephyr
And you never had it.
SamB
I don’t know why good looking guys feel they need to dress in drag. We should encourage them to continue to be masculine and not feed into the fem-frenzy.
Cam
Or we could mind our own business and not take somebody else living their life as an attack on us.
SamB
@Cam: You’re more than welcome to mind your own business as well.
Kangol2
Maybe because they want to? Let him live his life and you live yours.
Cam
@SamB
You commented, don’t get salty because I pointed out that you were taking somebody else living their life as an attack on you.
DarkZephyr
He’s sexy in drag and out!
jayceecook
Not ashamed to say he looks good in drag. Well, from the neck up. Whomever did his makeup and wig did a good job. Though they had an already attractive canvas to paint on.
Also, for just a quick second I thought the one guy in drag was Victoria Beckham. I thought, “Sh*t, Posh Spice was there!” not sure if that was intentional on his part or not but he could make a convincing VB impersonator.
Thad
I’ll always love Gus Kenworthy for the anti-bullying ad he did with baseball’s Pete Alonso. I’m glad he’s having fun and in training.
Hank31
Disgusting, but not particularly surprising. I remember when I first saw still pics of him some years ago. He looked great. But then I saw and heard him on video, and it was plain as day that he was effeminate. So it’s not especially shocking that he would eventually engage in further degrading behavior such as this. Self-abasement is nearly always part of a fem’s malformed psyche.
Kangol2
Your effemephobia comes through every time you post on here. I hope you are truly butch in person and Birkin bags don’t fall out of your mouth every time you open it because you really show tremendous hatred and fear of anything feminine or effeminate.
Hank31
1) I only post on the subject when Queerty posts on the subject.
2) I do not have a “hatred and fear of anything feminine.” I love and value femininity. In women. Not in men.
3) I am not, and hope that I never will be, “butch.” “Butch” is a fake performance of masculinity, a counterfeit. It is as toxic as effeminacy, and indeed, can be considered related condition, as both stem from a failure of genuine, innate manhood.
SamB
Hank, well said.
DarkZephyr
No real man is disgusted by femininity in other men. If it doesn’t appeal to them they simply move on without comment. Only fake men have to yap about it.
When Kangol spoke of you being “butch” he was not describing what you described. Your description of the word is your own invention. He meant “traditional masculinity” by the term “butch”. You avoid addressing his actual intention by playing word games. I see what he’s getting at though and I am pretty sure you do too. I have not met ONE “Masc 4 Masc” type in real life who didn’t spew rainbows and glitter when their mouths opened to speak. And most of the men that I have met who don’t care about femininity the way you do have been very traditionally masculine. True and real men don’t care. And again, if it doesn’t appeal to them they simply move on without comment or judgement.
SamB
@DarkZ:
1. “No real man is disgusted by femininity in other men”. Citation needed. Yes obviously some real men are disgusted, disappointed, upset by femininity in other men. If you have study to prove otherwise please share.
2. You are absolutely lying when you say you have not met one Masc 4 Masc guy who in real life did not spew rainbows and glitter. Some lie, some do not.
3. What is a true and real man? I know this will be your interpretation so don’t worry, there are no wrong answers.
DarkZephyr
@SamB
1. Bigotry and hate for people who aren’t doing a damned thing to you and are just living their own lives are not qualities that one finds in “real men”. So WRONG.
2. I am absolutely not lying at all. I have NEVER met a guy face to face, over the phone or through video chat who claims to be “Masc 4 Masc” and isn’t a queen when he speaks. Heck, one such person ended up coming out as a trans woman. So WRONG.
3. Someone kind, decent, has integrity and isn’t a douche bag to people who he may not find appealing sexually or romantically. If he can’t handle a person’s style, personality or mannerisms, he simply politely moves on without nasty, dickish comment. So definitely not creatures such as yourself or Hank.
Hank31
@DarkZephyr “Butch” means exactly what I said it means. If “Kangol2” had meant to talk about masculinity, he could have used that word.
Men in every culture all over the world express revulsion for male effeminacy and strive to be more masculine in their own lives. Every survey on this subject has shown this, and that includes surveys of gay and bisexual men.
It’s true that men don’t all feel compelled to comment on someone’s effeminacy when it doesn’t impact them and when there is no other good reason to opine. But that’s not what we have here. What we have on Queerty, is a continuous, intentional campaign to promote and normalize effeminacy and cross-dressing among gay and bisexual men. This does affect me and every G/B male. So it’s important for the majority to speak up and make clear that this is not normal or normative behavior for men of any sexual orientation.
cliche guevara
Dear lord are you ever so fragile.
Cam
@Hank31 and @SamB
LOL!!! Your troll game is always sad and weak, I LOVE that you always have another one of your screenames to come on and defend your comment.
Apparently your troll screenames are insecure.
DarkZephyr
@Hank31
“@DarkZephyr “Butch” means exactly what I said it means. If “Kangol2” had meant to talk about masculinity, he could have used that word.”
Its because true masculinity isn’t the same as what you view as masculinity. You mistake “machismo” for “masculinity”. I suppose he could have said “macho” rather than “butch”, but it wasn’t necessary. True masculinity can take on many forms and oftentimes it doesn’t match what YOU consider “masculinity”.
“Men in every culture all over the world express revulsion for male effeminacy and strive to be more masculine in their own lives. Every survey on this subject has shown this, and that includes surveys of gay and bisexual men.”
Yes its true there are dickish brutes in every culture all over the world. Who gives a flying f***k? Widespread hatred and bigotry is still hatred and bigotry. Some straight men claim that a majority of men hate ANY man who is gay or bisexual no matter how traditionally masculine he is. If you have sex with another man, *especially* if you are the receptive partner, but really just if you have sex with men, period, you are are by default tagged by these types as being in a category of effeminate or woman-like men simply by virtue of your attraction to other men. If your views are acceptable by virtue of some mythical “majority” then you would logically have to accept the views of these homophobic straight men as well. To them, even you at your MOST chest pounding masculine are no different from any other “homo”, “queer” or “gay-wad”.
I assume that you are solely into frottage when it comes to gay sexual intercourse? Or maybe just plain old abstinence and celibacy? I mean if effeminate men are so heinous then there is NO WAY you would ever lay on your back and raise your legs for another man or get on all fours and arch your back for another man, and there is NO WAY you would find a man doing either of those things for you to be in any way acceptable. And you CERTAINLY wouldn’t accept opening your mouth for another man’s penis or a man doing that for you. This is traditionally feminine behavior no matter how “manly” you might walk or talk when not doing it. Straight men who claim to be the majority certainly wouldn’t consider taking d*ck or giving d*ck to another man to be very masculine at ALL.
“It’s true that men don’t all feel compelled to comment on someone’s effeminacy when it doesn’t impact them and when there is no other good reason to opine. But that’s not what we have here.”
Yes it is. You aren’t being injured by articles about subjects that fall under the “Queer” umbrella at a blog called “Queerty”. In fact, an “effeminate” gay man would be the very epitome of what the word “queer” has been used for in reference to gay men over the decades. And as a reminder, to your straight brethren who hold similar views as you, by virtue of your attraction to your own sex, you are by default an effeminate human being.
“What we have on Queerty, is a continuous, intentional campaign to promote and normalize effeminacy and cross-dressing among gay and bisexual men.”
It IS normal. Just because it doesn’t match your preferences doesn’t make it abnormal. NOBODY is holding a gun to your head and declaring that you have to stick around here and continue to read these articles that make you clutch your pearls so hard. YOU aren’t “normal” either, are you? I mean what is meant when you say “normal”? If by “normal” you mean “the majority”, you as a gay or bisexual man aren’t “normal” by any stretch of the imagination. You are very much in the minority, very much abnormal.
“This does affect me and every G/B male.”
It really doesn’t.
“So it’s important for the majority to speak up and make clear that this is not normal or normative behavior for men of any sexual orientation.”
Why? This is the kind of crap homophobes have done to all LGBT people for decades untold. Why emulate them? Why trip over yourself in your frantic need to be just like them?
And why are you so proud of yourself for being SO venomous and horrible to people who simply behave in a way that is unappealing to you and just want to live their lives as they see fit? You don’t think you are being a repellent a**hole at all? You are being perfectly reasonable and kind, compassionate and empathetic to these particular LGBT peers of yours?
Hank31
@DarkZephyr I have no particular desire to parse through your 1000 word rant, picking out the myriad self-contradictions, fallacies, false comparisons, and incoherent claims. Suffice it to say that the promotion of effeminacy and gender deviance does impact us all. It is not a private matter. Effeminacy reflects abnormal development of the male psyche or of the fetal brain, or both. It is associated with significantly worse mental and physical health outcomes. No G/B youth coming here should think that this is his future or that his sexual orientation means that he should be thinking of himself as a quasi-female or as a cross-dresser. You can scream “bigot!” all you like, but it is no more bigoted to oppose effeminacy than it is to oppose animal cruelty, domestic abuse or any other harmful or anti-social behavior.
Hank31
@SamB Thanks for the support. As for your enumerated exchange w/DarkZephyr, please remember that you are talking to a guy who cites as authority his unverifiable claims about his personal experiences on hookup apps. So keep your expectations low.
DarkZephyr
@Hank31
“@DarkZephyr I have no particular desire to parse through your 1000 word rant, picking out the myriad self-contradictions, fallacies, false comparisons, and incoherent claims.”
Then lets boil it down to this. Dude, you like d*ck. That is traditionally a female’s thing. Or are you going to tell me that you’re attraction to your own sex is “unverifiable”?
The “normal” people who like d*ck are women, since “normal” to you seems to be merely “the majority”. So you absolutely *aren’t* “normal”.
Straight homophobes don’t care how “manly” you walk or talk. As far as they’re concerned, you are a bitch boy girly man who places himself in the domain of women. You know the old saying. “Silly f*gg*t, dicks are for chicks”.
So any time you talk crap about so called “effeminate” men and try to make them feel as lowly as any straight homophobe would gladly try to make YOU feel, you are one big nasty @$$ hypocrite. Point blank period.
Its actually kind of funny and not a little ironic. You come across as such a nasty little mean girl, and yet you expect us to believe that you are this big macho guy. Laughable.
Kangol2
Wait, did you slip up and start posting under multiple screen names, Hank31/SamB? Your replies appear almost to have come from the same person, down to the numbering and syntax! At least try harder!
Hank31
@DarkZephyr I think it’s awesome that you try to insult me by calling me effeminate (“mean girl”). At least we agree that effeminacy is a negative and therefore a potentially hurtful insult. Thanks for confirming!
I appreciate that you are desperately trying to change the subject from Gus Kenworthy’s degrading crosddressing to some supposed belief by some unnamed homophobes about gay sex acts. Since you have no real argument about the post, you are reduced to mumbling something along the lines of “Well, a homophobe believes X is abnormal and effeminate. Therefore, your beliefs must be formed in reaction to this homophobe and thus nothing can be abnormal, and/or everything effeminate must be accepted! Or something!”
Sexual orientation is neither effeminate nor masculine. Gay sex is not “sex with a man.” It is a man having sex with a man. Thus, it is not a “female thing.” Potentially, gay sex could be an effeminate act if one or both of the participants were mimicking women. The same could be said of heterosexual sex, when the man acts out the role of a woman with a woman (as in a the case of submissive men, crossdressing heteorsexual men, and men with lesbian fantasies). Any behavior can be effeminate in its particular circumstances, based upon the motive and conduct of the man. If I ever found myself with a partner who thought of himself as a quasi-female in bed, he would be out the door!
In Gus Kenworthy’s case, he is intentionally seeking out women’s clothes and wigs and makeup specifically to look and act and talk like a woman. It’s disgusting and shameful. If it were something he did by himself, it would still be disgusting and shameful, although not perhaps something requiring comment. But Kenworthy uses his celebrity to promote this cancer, and Queerty boosts his toxic message. Thus, a response is in order.
DarkZephyr
@Hank31 its just a point of fact. Its how you come across and I know it would be seen as insulting by the likes of you. I am not saying certain men (including yourself) aren’t effeminate. That was never my argument. MY argument is two fold and the first part is that a man being effeminate is simply NOT a bad thing. My pointing out that you come off like a mean girl, which really IS how you come off, is not an attack on femininity or femaleness. One can behave like a nice girl too! Its only relevant here because you place such a ridiculous amount of value on being “masculine” and it makes your claim of BEING masculine hard to swallow. If you were so masculine you wouldn’t need to be such a mean spirited little brat about those who aren’t. That’s simply NOT a masculine quality.
“I appreciate that you are desperately trying to change the subject from Gus Kenworthy’s degrading crosddressing to some supposed belief by some unnamed homophobes about gay sex acts. Since you have no real argument about the post, you are reduced to mumbling something along the lines of “Well, a homophobe believes X is abnormal and effeminate. Therefore, your beliefs must be formed in reaction to this homophobe and thus nothing can be abnormal, and/or everything effeminate must be accepted! Or something!”
You are truly deluding yourself. This is the type of thing you have been saying this *whole* time. You claim that because most “normal” masculine gay men are supposedly disgusted by effeminate gay men, THAT makes being disgusted by effeminate gay men the normal, regular, good thing. You are making your argument an (unverifiable) numbers based one, I was simply taking your argument to its logical conclusion and making my argument a numbers based one as well. And I never said “or something”. I was pretty clear and definite with my wording. There are scores of straight, very “masculine” (by YOUR standards) men who would consider your lust for other men to be very effeminate and very woman-like. If you want to claim that this is “unverifiable” then you may as well say that homophobia no longer exists and you might want to refer to the FBI’s own hate crime statistics table (16.7 percent of all hate crime victims are LGBT and 61.8 percent of those are specifically gay MEN as of 2019). YOU are making a *personal* argument why this isn’t the case but those men who see you as nothing but a batty boy certainly don’t agree or care. The second part of my point is simple. You are just like them and you are just as reprehensible and cruel. Being nasty to your effeminate brothers is truly a hill that you want to die on. You are going out of your WAY for that. How black and shriveled must your heart be? Its a good thing you aren’t anywhere close to being as relevant as you seemingly like to think you are.
Hank31
@DarkZephyr At this point, you are almost completely incoherent. Your claims about conversations on hookup apps are unverifiable. That doesn’t mean that statistics compiled by law enforcement are unverifiable.
You didn’t refer to me as a “girl” as a neutral observation and trying to spin it that way only highlights your dishonesty. In th emidst of a hostile exchange, you were trying to put me down by calling me a girl. That’s the way to do it, sir! Moreover, your attempted insult, which implies that there is a specific way that girls act, contradicts everything else you have been saying about gendered behavior. But you lack the introspection to even understand that you are contradicting yourself.
I didn’t claim that “good” is whatever the majority says is good. Rather, you made the claim that “no real man” is disgusted by effeminacy. Given that the large majority of men around the world revile effeminacy, this would mean that the vast majority of men on Earth are not real men b/c they don’t like to cross-dress. You’re a loon and your understanding of words and the world is impaired.
I could go on, but I don’t think you have even read my comments above because your responses don’t track with them or rebut them. Do better.
DarkZephyr
@Hank31
Its amazing how self-unaware you are. Your clap trap is unverifiable as well. You keep claiming that most men on this planet revile effeminacy. You don’t know every man one earth. You’re full of crap. And even if you were correct that wouldn’t make it right, so who gives a sh**?
You ridicule my personal testimony because there is no way to prove that I am telling the truth. I suppose that’s true, since its only my word. I certainly didn’t take video footage or audio recordings of these incidences. Oh well. I don’t give a rat’s a** if you believe me or not. I mentioned it once and now you can’t stop talking about it. But there most certainly is no way to prove that MOST men in the world revile effeminacy either. But once again, if that were true, they would revile you too. Do you honestly believe that these men ONLY revile “effeminacy” and NOT homosexuality itself? Am I making my point clear this time or am I still “incoherent”?
You are a terrible person and an immense hypocrite. Buzz off.
Jaquelope
@Hank31: Spoken like a true, card carrying, dyed in the wool effemephobe
SamB
@Jaquelope: effemephobe is not a real word.
DarkZephyr
@SamB
All words start somewhere and the term “Effeminophobia” has been in use since at least 2009 when used in the article “Effeminophobia, Misogyny and Queer Friendship: The Cultural Themes of Channel 4’s Playing It Straight” by Niall Richardson and its been used many times since, so yeah, its a real word with an etymology like many other words in existence. All words have a beginning.
Hank31
AFAIK, there’s no card. If there is, please send me one!
cliche guevara
Hank, you are correct. There is no card for male fragility. There is therapy though.
ryanss
Aren’t We all so tired everything is drag or trans right now? I’m not a bigot, but please. We’ve had enough…
Cam
Yeah, because there’s SO much more of them on TV and in articles that say, a movie about a straight girl lying to her family about having a boyfriend and hiring some guy to pretend, then falling in love with him. Which you can see 300 times a month on hallmark or Lifetime.
cliche guevara
“Aren’t We all so tired everything is drag or trans right now?”
No, no we are not. Gender variation is a thing of beauty.
“I’m not a bigot, but please.”
…..but you are a bigot.
“We’ve had enough…”
We haven’t, you have. But even then, you haven’t. You clicked on this article so clearly you see the draw. If you don’t like it then don’t expose yourself to it but don’t demand it not exist because you can’t help yourself. I don’t like country music. The amount of country music I’m exposed to is close to zero. Country music is way bigger than drag. Avoid it or deal with why it makes you uncomfortable.
LessThanZeroMasculinity
Okay now, headsup! And this means both DarkZephyr and Hank31! First of, some two cents worth from me, so no cites needed, because I AM the damn cite! Re: “No real man is disgusted by femininity in other men” THANK YOU SO MUCH DZ! YOU SIR ARE THE MOST REAL MAN I HAVE ENCOUNTERED TO DATE! So much so that I am deliriously steamin’ Boy-Hot and Girl-WET for you and none of you have a clue how mind-blowingly significant it is for me to say, write, and/or think that! Yet I shall elaborate because I have read this entire comment section, and of course the article and I can guaran-gd-dmn-tee that nobody here has ever met anyone even close to THIS quirky freakin’ bird thang, and I see an excellent opportunity to positively enlighten some deserving, wonderful, intelligent, learned, educated, open-minded, non-bigoted, non-hateful, long-time highly self-actualized, dear fellow humans who had already “passed” one of my rudimentary human being, sort of pre-opinion screening tools by counting and/or declaring yourselves as members of OUR seemingly always evolving alphabet soup of an acronym societal sub-segment of greater humanity well known by the alias I prefer (since I STILL [I’m 62] cannot always get the ‘B’, ‘T’, ‘L’, ‘G’ in the right order) “Rainbow Community”. I shall strive to stick to facts and if I present only facts it may still appear to some that I think pretty effing highly of myself, which I do but only because every person I do and have admired and respected has and still does tell me such good things about myself that over the years THEY changed me from a painfully shy, introverted, self-disgusted, self-defeating, self-sabotaging wreck having less than zero self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-respect, into the well-healed, super healthy, college degree’d, comfortably retired, ever-happy, sort of asexual but more like sexually self contained husband and wife happily married and still madly in love in the same body!
FACTS:
My two closest, long-time: (30+ and 40+ years), dearest friends are gay males whom I would trust with my life! And I would trust myself to if need be show, do, and prove to them that they can trust me with theirs! If I died tomorrow, one would get my $300K+ 401K and the other would split share the after sales market value of my $600K+ house in Northern California with my two-years-older-than-me big brother. I have a wildly creative, very fun, brain-teasing “game” of sorts that all three will inherit jointly as the dynamic, self-sustaining receptacle for all spare, loose, after-ash-scattering-on-San-Francisco-Bay-From-A-Rented-For-Party-Catamaran freshly liquidated-from-tangible-goods-CASH, and earned-by-“minor”-investment account-CASH that a former detective turned mystery writer helped me devise and create that will live on with the sole purpose of bringing the three dear ones together and ensure they remain friends and in touch should I be the first of us four to pass.
So, I MUST attend to some truly pressing matter right now but I WILL return post-haste to continue and complete this missive within oh, say, 60 hours whether or noy anybody cares about any of this one way or another because writing is just something I really love to do!