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For once, a story of two guys in love is truthful. There’s unabashed sex, passion, real love, heartbreak and all the complexities that come with being a gay teenager: crises of identity, homophobia, and even self-hatred. Blue Neighborhood is the first piece of media I can remember that fully embraces two guys kissing as something totally normal.
Not only that, the full and painful scope of the relationship (and all the pain and heartbreak that, in this case, came after) is showcased. For one, it’s a story a lot of members of the gay community can relate to: two teenagers fall in love, but homophobia and abuse keep them apart. I watched Part 2 of the Blue Neighborhood series, entitled Fools, the day it was released-and it reduced me to a sobbing mess in the middle of the cafeteria for a nice number of reasons. Except, plot twist: Troye is openly gay, so all that emotion is meant for another guy. He recently released an EP entitled Wild (which I’ve been playing on a loop pretty much every day since it came out), and the accompanying music video trilogy, entitled Blue Neighbourhood, is a perfect visual representation of the love, lust, complexity, pain and heartbreak that embody falling in love. The only song that currently comes to mind is “Forrest Gump” by Frank Ocean.Īnd that’s why we need to talk about Troye Sivan, the YouTube star, turned-pop wunderkind who’s currently storming the charts. And relationships between two guys are rare, especially in mainstream music. The sad truth is that this is often all we see.
( Modern Family, I’m looking at you.) While shows like Will and Grace and The New Normal were groundbreaking in that they actually portrayed gay people (gasp-we exist!), these portrayals were too often parodies of gay people. In the same way that African-American women shouldn’t be defined by the “angry black woman” stereotype, gay men shouldn’t be defined by the caricature of the garishly-dressed gay dude with really loud sweaters and a hankering for obscure film-noir references. Troye Sivan’s Blue Neighbourhood Shows Guys in a Real RelationshipĪmerica is totally used to seeing gay men portrayed in media as a checklist of stereotypes.