Why gay men love Anna Nicole
Being Scene - Anna Nicole Smith and Serendipity
March 18, 2007
by J. W. Arnold
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As a gay man, I guess there was a natural attraction to Anna Nicole Smith. She was the personification of camp, from her clothes to the pink feathers that adorned the pillows in her pink bedroom. She was over the top without even realizing it(or maybe she did). She became a sharp-tongued drag queen every time she donned makeup. If you don’t believe me, just look at the hospital pictures after the birth of her daughter.
Camp:
camp has four meanings:
1. banality so extreme it is funny.
2. to talk in an affected nasal voice.
3. to mimic or exaggerate female mannerisms.
4. to use a sarcastic humour with gay references.
Whether one decides to affect camp behaviour is clearly a choice. This may be the root of the myth that homosexuality itself is a choice. You decide whether to act on your attractions, but you don't decide your attractions.
Why bother to camp? Why humiliate yourself with this degrading self-parody? It is frustrating for closeted gays to keep up the front of being heterosexual. Camping is a way to unwind and say, “F_ _k you world. I can do whatever I want.” Camping though is dangerous because it can end up giving away the closet gay. He may let loose an accidental campy expression or “fabulous” in straight company without thinking if he indulges in it in gay company.
Some out gays camp too, as a way of showing fearlessness, of thumbing their noses at gay bashers.
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