Bret Easton Ellis Attacks ‘Culturally Correct Gay Elite’
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Bret Easton Ellis editorial “In the Reign of the Gay Magical Elves,” was prompted in part by the media response to the recent coming out of basketball player Jason Collins, whom Ellis writes is being treated “as some kind of baby panda who needs to be honored and consoled and — yes — infantilized.”
Ellis goes on to criticize “gay self-patronization in the media,” which in his opinion celebrates “the Gay Man as Magical Elf, who whenever he comes out appears before us as some kind of saintly E.T. whose sole purpose is to be put in the position of reminding us only about Tolerance.”
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