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Although Jack was introduced as a love interest for Joey, he comes out as gay in Episode 15 of Season 2, after which he and Joey choose to remain friends. What makes Jack particularly valuable is the way that his flaws, struggles, and growth speak to common issues faced by young gay men.

Shortly after Jack comes out as gay, he has a fight with Joey that foreshadows the issues that he will end up confronting through the rest of the show. She makes a passing comment about how she should have realized that he was gay because he compared her to Madonna and Marilyn Monroe.

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Despite being openly gay, Jack is terrified of being perceived as feminine or associated with femininity, as he treats feminine gay men with rejection or disdain. Brynn Tannehill has outlined the problems with femmephobia. There is, of course, nothing wrong with him having a masculine gender identity and expression; however, there is a problem with the ways he uses this positioning and his insecurities about maintaining it as an excuse to express misogynist and femmephobic behavior towards others.

He lashes out at feminine gay men as if they are something he would be embarrassed to be mistaken for and becomes more interested in defending his claim to masculinity than in defending or supporting the less-masculine queer folks he mistreats in the process. Watching Jack confront and creek with his issues serves as a cautionary tale against the dangers of femmephobia, and the internalized homophobic and misogynist drives that lead to it.

His character growth, however, also offers a chance for a healthy way to process and move past these issues. In this sense, Gay functions as both a warning and a role model for gay men who may relate to his situation and find themselves falling into femmephobic thought patterns. Internalized homophobia refers to the process of internalizing the homophobic views of mainstream society and applying them to oneself developing shame and insecurityor projecting this shame onto others.

Internalized homophobia and femmephobia lead to a situation where Jack is increasingly isolated from community due to his inability to accept and find solidarity with less normative queer folk. He is not willing to recognize that proximity to femininity does not compromise his own identification with masculinity, and he constantly projects his insecurities onto others.

Jack loses his relationship with Tobey, alienates his friends, nearly fails out of school, develops a drinking problem, and dawsons risks his life after jumping off a roof while drunk. It is only after he reaches rock bottom that Jack again returns to the path he followed while with Tobey in Season 4 and begins to re-develop a healthy relationship with himself, his sexuality, and his connection to a much healthier understanding of what masculinity means to him.

The choice to pair Jack with Doug resolves struggles that both characters face throughout the series. While Jack is openly gay but uncomfortable with femininity, Doug is exactly the opposite: he refuses to accept his sexuality, but is open with his love of conventionally feminine and gay-coded activities such as musical theatre.

The show does not, of course, stand up entirely in a modern context: there are no prominent queer women, and all of the gay men are cisgender dawsons white, meaning that the scope of queer characters represented in the show is extremely narrow. Steven Greenwood is a PhD candidate at McGill University, where he researches the relationship between queer communities and popular culture.

He also writes and directs for stage and screen, and serves as the artistic director of Home Theatre Productions. The bracket three queens compete in an acting challenge for their last shot at making it gay the semi finals. Actress Mayan Lopez is a guest judge. North and South America saw some creek changes in viewing habits this year and a Canadian is the most viewed performer.

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