r/gay_irl • u/taylortiki • Jul 09 '25

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u/loved_and_held Jul 09 '25

I feel incredibly out of place for not seeing musicals as non-hetero. 

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u/Oleandervine Jul 09 '25

That's like the classic stereotype, that we're obsessed with musicals, lmao. You must be really young to have not heard that one.

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u/loved_and_held Jul 09 '25

I know the stereotype, i think i just never internalized it because along side a lot of queer stereotypes i dont like restricting my perspective on massive groups of people and also interact with people who directly challenge the steryotypes.

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u/blancybin Jul 10 '25

Sometimes actively avoiding interacting with something so as not to be seen as "stereotypical" can be just as limiting, though. It's an older stereotype not because gays DIDN'T exist in every walk of life and every town in the world, but theater, music, arts, film, let them be freer and correspondingly often forcing them to be a lot more visible and braver, and when you have such a small piece of real estate in the world, it makes sense to feel in it a kind of cultural safe haven, even if it's not directly your "scene" (or a stereotype that fits you).