Cosmo, Girl? The New Gay Minstrelsy
Their shirts are unbuttoned, their hair is moussed, and their default expression is “Fierce!” They may not tap dance, but the post-Will-and-Grace era has our reality TV schedules filled with stereotypical re-imaginings of actual homosexuals so predictable in their gayface that even Charles Nelson Reilly would have winced. They’re waxed and tweezed and teased and highlighted.