Things Millennial Gays Love

voting for "Defying Gravity"

At least 60 percent of those options are unknown to me.

just makes me glad they don't love me

For the record, I'm 5 at best out of these. Just wanted to point out that millennial gays also love weak parody.

Am I allowed to vote? Because: WINE.

A vote for anything other than wine is wrong.

I presume growing up with the last 20 years of SNL makes that true across the Kinsey scale.

xxp

is there a Things Millennial Goys Love yet

*barfs*

Hun-cal fro-yo.

ugh no why

every letter in this poll gives me a headache

a severe migraine headache

top 4:

Wine
Beyoncé
Tank tops
Anderson Cooper

I keep forgetting if i'm a millennial or a gen x'er (b. 1978).

you are meaningless

I always suspected as much.

Missed being a millennial by about five months. I spent those five months really soaking in the last bit of Gen X culture.

Is there a classification for those of us who fall just in between Gen X (which I always assumed was just *slightly* older than me) and Millennials?

Poop stains.

nm, my bf (b. 1979) just informed me that we're gen x.

just want to thank millenial gays for voguing

Glee and Real Housewives (and probably Wicked, I'm guessing) make me happy not to be a millennial gay.

Yes, voguing. Tank tops are awesome too. I didn't know they were a millennial thing, are people from horrible gen x allowed to use those?

who is inside the tank top, I wanna know.

more like "things lamestreamer millenial gays love" harrumphed the gen x-er

I mean, Logo TV and "parades", really? really?

one mention of Wicked was bad enough, but then ...

if I'm squaring this with the actual millenial gays I know, it's missing: Golden Girls, Le1f, MikeQ, beards, queer theory, trap and kombucha

If rampant stereotyping offends you, you probably don’t want to read this. My boyfriend (gay) and I (also gay) made it. It’s fun; don’t over think it!

My boyfriend (gay) and I (also gay)

(gay) (also gay)

just some harmless rampant stereotyping, just accept it & don't think critically about the kyriarchy

was gay (not was gay)

don't over think it!

can i vote for 'not overthinking things'

Don't overthing your vote.

Or overthink it, even.

nm, my bf (b. 1979) just informed me that we're gen x.

But we're definitely not who Douglas Coupland was writing about in 1991.

OK, we fit by a number of these definitions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

We're def the very tail end of Gen X. The generation that kinda hates Gen X.

welcome to the club that wouldn't be a member of itself!

self hatred is *very* Gen-X

millenials, in my experience, are way less into the language of guilt and shame- for Gen X I think the focus on being "transgressive" and the lingering angst about authenticity discourse / "selling out" vs "keeping it real" etc. and the whole focus on melancholia, abjection and failure throughout the gen X era (surely a political symptom) means that some sort of self-hatred is just part of the deal- millenials don't seem as attached to that way of carving up the world (there are things they like and things they don't like, but it doesn't seem hung up on what is real and what is fake to the extent that the previous generation spent a lot of energy doing that)

insert generalization about how the flattening of the web and the ease of access to culture / information / community and the central ascendance of social media mean that millenials are more upfront in how they carry their narcissism- i.e. gen X-ers were all about the wounded ego and slacking as a pre-emptive pullout from competition (a "you can't fire me cuz I quit" gesture)- millenials grew up watching their own popularity and self-worth being externally quantified through Facebook likes and friend lists and follower numbers and so their egos are more prosthetically enhanced but also more up for grabs / at-sea. Maybe each generation gets its own flavor of despair?

I am a millennial and am all about self-hatred

anyway "millenial" and "generation x" are really lazy reductive ways of looking at how humanity is reorganizing & the reactions of certain groups of people to changes in the human environment

Millennials and Gen X probably have a lot in common. It's that generation of babies that can take iPhone pictures and Skype eachother that's messed up.

i am nominally a millenial, i guess

honest question: generally speaking, do millenial gays even have the experience of cruising physical spaces, or only virtual ones

i do but i am by no means typical, if this list is any indication

Cruising = FB friend requests off of one chance meeting, if that

they have their heads in their "devices" in a packed bar, often

i prefer CyberTeen, thx

i haven't really done any trolling for dick online since the early 2000s and it was still location-based chat rooms at that point

I grew in an era of nihilism like gangster rap and Kurt Cobain and people killing themselves and mental illness and drug addiction.

catholic the-rapture guy talking about his gen-x experience. that sounds v familiar and imo this is why it is difficult to relate to millennial gays. they seem so cheerful, shiny, all surface and it works.

b-b-but there were cheerful shiny all-surface people in the grunge era, and there are alienated bummed out slacker kids now.

honest question: generally speaking, do millenial gays even have the experience of cruising physical spaces, or only virtual ones

I'm Gen X and I came out in '99 and was on AOL chat rooms practically the next day. A relief!

Where are the dicks and butts on this list. Are Millennials not into those things

How have you met guys since then, elmo? xxxxpost

if I'm squaring this with the actual millenial gays I know, it's missing: Golden Girls, Le1f, MikeQ, beards, queer theory, trap and kombucha

so otm, like I am remembering this one time I was hanging out w a mutual friend of ours (m1ke f) and we bought kombucha and talked abt queer theory and Golden Girls in an alley while we drank it.

No idea what kombucha or trap are.

Lies!

; )

qiqi, i didn't really meet that many guys! and while i did try going to gay bars and did my share of IRL cruising when I was single, i've also been in an exclusive monogamous relationship for nigh on 6 years now

do millennial gays like monogamy?

i'm cool with it

No idea what monogamy is.

insert generalization about how the flattening of the web and the ease of access to culture / information / community

Initially read this as "the flattering of the web..." which I think makes just as much sense.

so this is the #2 result on google for "things millenial gays love" lol

Apparently I was the only one who gave it any referral traffic. Sorry about that.

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Wine and vogueing are the two rightest answers. Good job.

Yes, but hardly the most millennial-defining.

I keep forgetting if i'm a millennial or a gen x'er (b. 1978).
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:10 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you are meaningless
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:17 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always suspected as much.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:17 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Missed being a millennial by about five months. I spent those five months really soaking in the last bit of Gen X culture.
― the evening dj there (Eric H.), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 10:12 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is there a classification for those of us who fall just in between Gen X (which I always assumed was just *slightly* older than me) and Millennials?
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 10:15 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Et voila! We're Xennials, the portmanteau of Iannis and Xenakis.

http://magazine.good.is/articles/generation-xennials