Gay dwarfs
Damian Fatale
Dwarfs hold a few things in common with the LGBT community. Historically, both hold had a pretty difficult time of it, marginalized and ostracized despite the fact there’s not really a huge amount you can do about your size or sexuality. So you’d expect there to be some mutual kind there, right?
According to the gay dwarf drag performer Damian Fatale: no. He says homophobia is as rife among little people as prejudice towards dwarfs is in the LGBT community, definition if you’re a queer dwarf you’re subject to bigotry from both sides. This, of course, is just one man’s experience—it’s safe to assume that not all dwarfs are raging homophobes—but Damian is adamant that more should be done to promote acceptance of different body shapes and sizes among gay people.
I recently spoke to him about some of the problems facing LGBT minute people.
Damian in drag
VICE: What do you reflect are the unique obstacles that gay little people face?
Damian Fatale: When you’re a little person, you feel like you’re alone in a society that wasn’t made for you. When you attach homosexuality on top of that, that fe
Gay Dwarves of America
There are no gay dwarves in Gay Dwarves of America, but there’s a mother of a teen with dwarfism who worries he might be gay, and there’s a parasitologist named Edna who’d rather not hear the words ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian’ but longs for the love of a certain young chick, and a boy on a unicycle — there is always a young man on a unicycle — and a hockey mom in Toronto who pretends to be Swiss. Hut, hut, hut, she shouts in the stands, ringing her cowbell like she was at a ski hill. There’s a story that’s a musical (numbers include “You Can’t Depart a Man in a Coma” and “The Total Quality Management Waltz”) and a story that’s one family’s puke diary. With a nod to the circus and a wink at the kitchen sink, Gay Dwarves of America is like a mixed tape made by your pirate radio DJ buddy who never quite grew up, and who shelters, behind that fun shiny nerdy schtick, the tenderest of tender hearts.
Three stories from Gay Dwarves of America won National Magazine Awards, the title story was up for The Journey Prize, and the book was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Are there any (many) out gay little people?
mangeorge1
Seems logical that there would be, but I don’t want to presume here.
I’ve known and encountered a lot of gay people, but only a few little people. None of whom I knew to be queer . I’ve seen quite a lot of little people at gatherings and such but have no way of knowing if any of them were gay.
None of the same-sex attracted people I’ve known were little.
So I wonder. Being in the brief culture could, I infer , discourage gays from coming out.
Is this a silly question?
panache452
I have famous four gay little people . . . three men and one woman.
nani3
Well, one thing that seems to be mentioned whenever this subject comes up is that there are not a lot of out gay LPs. One that I found that seems to have some prominence is Josh Walker, who among other things wrote the “Anthem of Little People.”
panache454
Well, one thing that seems to be mentioned whenever this subject comes up is that there are not a lot of out queer LPs. One that I found that seems to have some prominence is Josh Walker, who among other things wrote the “Anthem of Little People.”
Josh is one of the four I have recognizable. An amazi
Dwarf Love Thread ⛰️
Quinzal-stormrage (Quinzal) 1
Lad or lass, spicy or mild, short or slightly less short… All the children o’ Khaz Modan are welcome here. Take a seat and grab a mug, I’ll be over here gettin’ the roast goin’.
Everyone else, ye can join us, but only if ye pledge yer loyalty to the Council all proper.
No Gnomes, sorry. (Except Grumbles.)
EDIT: Okay, yes Gnomes, but no Blood Elves.
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anon455483782
By y’er pretty white beard Quinzal, I pledge my loyalty to the Dwarves.
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Miree-shadowsong3
Ach. I was going to switch to my main Glynis, Dwarf Enh Shaman. Except it won’t load my characters…
Ah well…
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Mjolnir-earthen-ring4
I’m here an I’m wearin’ me drinkin’ shoes
Fluffybuns-zangarmarsh5
may Ragnaros return in a glorious blaze of flame and disintegrate all non believers
Evilbadguy-malganis (Evilbadguy) 6
Dwarves are only slightly less ugly and lame than gnomes and they were only hip in Lord of the rings, change my mind.
Grumbles-hellscream (Grumbles) 7
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Yocasta-stormrage9
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