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While Drag Race and Looking are two different shows, the sentiment remains the same: use your platform wisely. Former Drag Race contestant and trans model Carmen Carrera said that the show should “Use their platform to educate their viewers truthfully.” Last year we saw the RuPaul’s Drag Race fanbase divided over the show’s use of the word “shemale.” We saw the fandom take sides over if it was fair to say it or not. That said the reality is that Russell Tovey is a star on one of the biggest networks, on a show that is directly about the gay community and that is what makes his words carry more weight. Those and Tovey’s words are ones that don’t further a conversation but rather lets one crumble.īut who cares what Tovey said? They are his views after all is and he’s entitled to them. These terms are as destructive as they are worthless. This line of thinking is what explains why some guys to use terms like “Masc (short for masculine) Only” or “No fems” to describe the kind of guys they are looking for. Words that aren’t too far from the ones Russell Tovey uttered. We have heard the names they have been called, seen the devastation on their parents faces at the loss they will never recover from. We have seen, in the last few years, a sad number of young gay teens bullied to death because of their effeminate nature. I am questioning Tovey’s vocal betrayal of the community that he is a part of both as a gay man and celebrity. Now I understand that not everyone is an activist or wants to be the grand marshal of the pride parade, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Tovey has exposed his internal homophobia and personal views of the gay community. If you don’t know that term, Internalized homophobia is when a GLBTQ person resents their own sexuality and goes out of their way to distance themselves from the community or external social perceptions of their sexuality. Those words speak volumes and unfortunately the volumes are about a disease that has always affected the gay community, internalized homophobia. I thank my dad for that, for not allowing me to go down that path.” Where I felt like I had to toughen up…If I’d have been able to relax, prance around, sing in the street, I might be a different person now. “I feel like I could have been really effeminate, if I hadn’t gone to the school I went to. Russell Tovey, unfortunately, has one other thing, a giant mouth that just got him in a world of trouble.