The only song that currently comes to mind is “Forrest Gump” by Frank Ocean.Īnd that’s why we need to talk about Troye Sivan, the YouTube star, turned-pop wunderkind who’s currently storming the charts.

And relationships between two guys are rare, especially in mainstream music. The sad truth is that this is often all we see. ( Modern Family, I’m looking at you.) While shows like Will and Grace and The New Normal were groundbreaking in that they actually portrayed gay people (gasp-we exist!), these portrayals were too often parodies of gay people. In the same way that African-American women shouldn’t be defined by the “angry black woman” stereotype, gay men shouldn’t be defined by the caricature of the garishly-dressed gay dude with really loud sweaters and a hankering for obscure film-noir references.

Troye Sivan’s Blue Neighbourhood Shows Guys in a Real RelationshipĪmerica is totally used to seeing gay men portrayed in media as a checklist of stereotypes.