Mean gays tour

Aaron Goldenberg and Jake Jonez, otherwise known as the Mean Gays, invited us over for “fun” on Sept. 1, —though they really invited the whole world via a viral video on social media. The POV video features the duo rolling their eyes, offering us water for looking “dehydrated,” and questioning when we took the photos on our online profile.

ABOUTCity Winery Philadelphia presents The Mean Gays: Live on October 16th at pm Viral comedy duo, Aaron and Jake broke out at the end of They are app. Funny guys Aaron Goldenberg and Jake Jonez make up the comedy team known as “The Mean Gays.” They’ve racked up millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram and have turned their social media. Get ready for an unforgettable experience with The Mean Gays! Don't miss the chance to see one of your favorite stars in action - browse our selection of The Mean Gays tickets and secure your seats today!.

The Mean Gays have three dates remaining on their tour of City Winery venues: October 23 in Atlanta; October 25 in Nashville; and October 27 in Pittsburgh. For ticket information, follow this link. We all love it. I was recently caught out gossiping about one of my very close friends, dipping my beak in things that were absolutely not my business but relishing every minute of it.

I subsequently had to do a bit of self-exploration, a mini-journey of accountability and genuine apology, and honestly, it was eye opening. Welcome to the world of Mean Gays. OK, so I think we all know the Gay Best Friend trope, which was splattered all over 90s and 00s teen films and chick-flicks, the constantly-available-never-sexual-hilariously-witty-sometimes-mean side kick in films like Mean Girls and The Devil Wears Prada, gay male characters that were an open support system for the main girl, and little else.

The defining characteristic for these roles was the comic relief they provided, memorable zingers, amusing but usually toothless nips at the heterosexual world around them. Girls would be so pleased with themselves for having made this connection, for realising that this character was gay, and you were gay, so therefore, you were sympatico. I can assure you, the gay boys you said this to were not flattered. This gave rise to the less well known gay stereotype of Mean Gay.

These demon twinks thought they were the hottest shit in the club, laying claim to the best dance spots on the stage, the pool table in the gay bar only when with lesbians , making friends with all the bouncers just so they can have anyone else ejected at will, partying at the same club three times a week, acting as though they were better than everyone else, and incredibly incestuous within their own group.

I know about these boys because I saw them, and for a while I was one of them. We were monsters, overly bitchy, completely stuck up, affecting the kind of mature-world-weariness that only 19 year-olds can. We were mean not only to people who tried to be nice to us, but also to each other.

Gossip and rumour were like currency, sometimes completely fabricated, just to take a target down a peg or two, devious plots unfolding in real time whilst we sniggered into our vodka and diet cokes. We danced on stages in skinny jeans, drunk on our own self importance, newly confident thanks to our youth and beauty.

This was a kind of anarchic way for many of us to hit back at the social hierarchy systems that oppressed so many gay kids in school. This was a world where you could be top dog, queen bee, the most popular girl in school if you ACTED like it, and how do popular girls act?

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Like Regina George. Instagram throbs with memes about Demon Twinks and West Hollywood gays, perfectly coiffed influencers prowling Pride parades and gay clubs. Sometimes, there is a place for actual cruelty in gay friendships. It appears in some very close relationships and is part of the bond between participants, not serving as a barrier for emotional intimacy, but as a lubricant for it. We all know about playful shade, jokily picking at each other for fun, but often, I think this actually can run very deep, in a way that only queer people know.

A Faggot is someone who has been called a Faggot on a crowded street in the middle of the day and not had anyone around them speak up. When we experience this harshness during our tender formative years, it becomes internalised as what many previous gay writers have called Gay Shame. I think the kind of extreme cattiness displayed from AMAB femme gays has a psycho-social root in how they experienced school. I, like many other queers my age, found school difficult and lonely because of the innate feeling of being different, never fitting in fully with the boys or the girls, inhabiting an unhappy middle ground, both and neither at the same time.

You were grouped with boys by teachers in single sex groups, which was horrendous, or you managed to join a gang of sympathetic girls who let you sit with them at lunch but you were NEVER allowed in to the inner sanctum of joining a sleepover. This leads to experiencing part of the socialisation both sexes stereotypically go through at school, mixed with your own potent toxic cocktail of sociopathy.

Boys usually strive to compete with each other, they implement social hierarchies by being the bravest, the most daring, the most stupid, seeing who can jump off the highest wall, who can say the worst thing to a teacher, who can be the most aggressive, who can deliver the most fatal blow. Girls work in more subtle ways, exercising their power in social manipulation and testing their own loyalties and those of their friends.

If a problem occurs between best friends, direct confrontation is thrown out the window, one must say something to another friend who passes it on to another and then it finally gets back to the original offender, whilst creating constantly changing social atmospheres, either as punishment or as entertainment. Effeminate gay boys can take on the worst traits of all of these, the extreme daring and stupidity of boys mixed with the clever cunning of girls.