Gag Rags & Propaganda

Fagland touts itself as an "inclusive community".  Pick up any fag rag and there will be repeated references to "Proudly serving the GLBT community".  There's no shortage of exhortations, taken straight out of 1950s Communism, urging readers to "support our community" or "support our advertisers".

Fagland's apparent inclusivity of sexual orientation is a silly ploy intended to boost circulation figures.  A reality check out on the streets will make it very clear that G, L, B & T are entirely separate cliques, and happy to remain that way.  Ever witnessed the hostile reaction when fags walk into a dyke bar? When was the last time you did grocery shopping with a Transgender?  Why are  Bisexuals setting up their own social and sexual groups to specifically differentiate themselves from fags?

Many fag rags are owned by fag national media companies (usually balls deep in porn production or porn distribution).  Some may be independent but all are desperately dependent on advertising revenue from "the community".

That's why the fag rags are stuffed with ads from lesbian financial planners, a really gay-looking realtor (usually with dog), auto dealerships selling SUVs for dykes and fierce-loking convertibles (or "Versatiles") for the boys, gay travel agents, gay bathouses, gay cruises, gay circruit parties, gay resort hotels, gay immigration lawyers (notice that even in the ads, the lesbians are not that well represented).  And the Transgender? They'll be found in the hooker ads or in the cabaret showtimes for the gay bars.

Flipping through the fag rags, it all seems quaint and village-y (the name of the band, "Village People" was no accident, but rather a factual assertion of demographics and fetish).  But this happy village atmosphere smacks of an underlying commercial bigotry.  Rather like Fox News, if one doesn't toe the party line and "support the community" one is deemed to be unpatriotic to the community and a politically incorrect dangerous reactionary.

So there's no shortage of fags attempting to live up to the motto, only to find that it's impossible to get impartial and objective advice or service from someone they've been drugging with, or fucking with, in the gay saunas or via anonymous sex in the back alleys. The incestuous nature of Fagland makes conflict of interest and compromise inevitable.  One party will end up with a mouthful of cum.  The other will end up out of pocket and a bad taste in his mouth.

More importantly, the fag rags are Gag Rags.  Dependent on advertising revenue, they are subject to diktats, political correctness, boycotts and the pervasive Gay Mafia Code of Silence.  There is more "community-imposed" censorship in fag rags than could ever be lawfully imposed on them by governments.  Whether these mags are glossy or broadsheet, they are astoundingly UN-informative, and sometimes blatantly misleading, on purpose.

That suits the Gay Mafia just fine.  It allows a semblance of  "community buzz", while saying fuck all.

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Originally published 27 February 2011.  
Republished 16 March 2012.
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