Over the two years since SGPL began, another half a dozen additional “Stuff Gay Men Like” or “Things Gays Love” titles appeared, but nobody – coming before us or after us – bothered to keep writing for more than 10 topics. When SGPL began in January 2010 we thought it was a pretty cool idea, only to find out after few months that about a dozen other gay people had already started similar blogs, discoverable using Google. ![]() ![]() SGPL itself was a blog before being printed, so yes, we’re getting meta. All these roads lead to one fact: a blog is a gay man’s perfect outlet of expression.Įvery bar conversation a “creative” gay man gets in will involve someone at some point planning to “start a blog about that.” Roughly 10 percent of those bar conversations – so one per week – lead one of them actually getting on WordPress and starting a blog, which will receive no more than three updates before he forgets the password and moves on with his life. Additionally, gay people are really good at talking openly about shit that should be private, mainly because the world itself is obsessed with talking openly about gay peoples’ private shit. ![]() We’ve long argued gay people are on the forefronts of art, technology, and hot trends. Figure 1: Stuff Gay People Like, a gay blog about gay blogging.
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