Love this. NLOG-ing should become a neologism that goes viral on queer tik-tok.
More sadly, I suspect that if you found yourself transported back to the 70s and 80s (maybe something AI will let us do someday!), you may have been very unwelcome in many of the exclusively gay male spaces of the time. NLOG-ing was a typical response to the stifling conformity. Dennis became a prime representative of the strategy. A better, but more difficult response was (and still is) to create new spaces altogether (and to be fair, Dennis did that, too). The problem is that any newly created space quickly became a place where you only belonged if you were also NLOG-ing in the right way. A performative coterie of conforming non-conformists. Quite the dilemma...
Love this. NLOG-ing should become a neologism that goes viral on queer tik-tok.
More sadly, I suspect that if you found yourself transported back to the 70s and 80s (maybe something AI will let us do someday!), you may have been very unwelcome in many of the exclusively gay male spaces of the time. NLOG-ing was a typical response to the stifling conformity. Dennis became a prime representative of the strategy. A better, but more difficult response was (and still is) to create new spaces altogether (and to be fair, Dennis did that, too). The problem is that any newly created space quickly became a place where you only belonged if you were also NLOG-ing in the right way. A performative coterie of conforming non-conformists. Quite the dilemma...