As U.S. Exceeds 2,300 Coronavirus Deaths, Trump Touts His TV Ratings

Donald Trump on Sunday touted his TV ratings as the U.S. death toll for coronavirus climbed to more than 2,300.

Trump’s tweet was part of another attack on the media meant to distract from the fact that he is failing to respond competently to the COVID-19 crisis, about which he once said, “like a miracle, it will disappear.”

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Must-See LGBTQ TV: ‘The Magicians’ series finale and ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ spring premiere

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What’s the origin of the ‘well-dressed, articulate, educated gay man’ stereotype?

From Stanford in Sex and the City to George in My Best Friend’s Wedding and even David in Schitt’s Creek, we’re overwhelmed with stereotypical depictions of gay men as witty, well-groomed, and well-spoken (and, unfortunately, disproportionately white). But as one Redditor recently asked, where does that trope even come from?

Other Reddit users readily replied with theories. “Gay men from the upper class or bourgeoisie were more likely to be ‘out’ for centuries,” one wrote.

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Another pointed to media depictions from a more censored era of filmmaking: “Gays have often depicted as elite and/or humorous due to the Hayes Code established in Hollywood. Hysterical use of veiled references and inside jokes aimed at an audience a bit more sophisticated.”

A third commenter attributed the stereotype to “societal pressures” that “invalidate the gay identity,” homophobia included. “So some gay men seek validation through achievement in professional careers and personal presentation,” that commenter wrote. “They feel like they need a greater amount of success to get the respect that society gives to straight man automatically.”

Replied another user: “This is a great answer! I’d like to say the same thing in a different way, that internalized homophobia, the fear of being rejected for being gay, and the whole host of circumstances that could drive gay men to be ostracized (which, in some aspects, remains in the gay community) can drive some people to strive for acceptance via secondary achievements as a sort of defense mechanism.”

That user continued: “Being funny, witty, and well-groomed are, to some extents, among the more readily accessible. Absorbing culture through reading, music, theater, movies are also good options, doing double duty as also being ways to deal with loneliness and boredom. Their appeal is also reinforced by being socially acceptable and even encouraged ways to differentiate oneself, and a source of validation by straight society.”

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Meanwhile, another Redditor cited the acclaimed book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by Columbia history professor George Chauncey. “Aristocrats were associated with effeminacy because they were a leisurely class that didn’t do hard labor like those hardy working men,” that Redditor wrote. “It was a show of status to be effeminate. When the middle classes started to form, they used the stereotype to discredit both aristocrats and homosexuality, because the nuclear family was all-important to their ideology. Working-class men usually referred to as ‘fairies’ and ‘pansies’ used the stereotype in the late 19th/early 20th century to give themselves status, and to this day, many queer men (including me) knowingly or not use it to give themselves culture and ‘class’ to make up for the middle-class male privilege they’ve been stripped of.”

For more about this stereotype — and how it robs gay men of the right to be “dull and humorless” — check out The Independent’s coverage of Ashley Brooks’ research into “ambivalent homoprejudice.”

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Dr. Anthony Fauci: U.S. Will See ‘Millions of Cases’ of Coronavirus and Between 100,000 and 200,000 Deaths — WATCH

Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and part of Trump’s coronavirus task force, said “Looking at what we’re seeing now, I would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases… excuse me, deaths. But I don’t want to be held to that. I mean, we’re going to have millions of cases.”

Fauci has become a target of the far right, the New York Times reports: “An analysis by The New York Times found over 70 accounts on Twitter that have promoted the hashtag #FauciFraud, with some tweeting as frequently as 795 times a day. The anti-Fauci sentiment is being reinforced by posts from Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group; Bill Mitchell, host of the far-right online talk show “YourVoice America”; and other outspoken Trump supporters such as Shiva Ayyadurai, who has falsely claimed to be the inventor of email. Many of the anti-Fauci posts, some of which pointed to a seven-year-old email that Dr. Fauci had sent praising Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of State, have been retweeted thousands of times. On YouTube, conspiracy-theory videos about Dr. Fauci have racked up hundreds of thousands of views in the past week. In private Facebook groups, posts disparaging him have also been shared hundreds of times and liked by thousands of people, according to the Times analysis.”

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