Essays on identity, culture, and the politics of meaning

Paradise Lost?! Gay Culture and the Promise of Sexual Liberation

Gay culture promised freedom from shame, restraint, and fear, yet increasingly turned sexuality into something to display, rank, manage. The old world of nightlife gave way to apps, pornography, and chemically manufactured intensity.

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The Sentimental Exhibitionist. Gay Culture on Social Media

The Sentimental Exhibitionist looks at the new culture of gay self-display on social media: the endless portraits, confessions, healing language, coaching slogans, and carefully staged vulnerability. What presents itself as freedom often becomes a performance of identity.

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Professional Gays

The professional gay is a recognisable contemporary type: a public figure who has turned his homosexuality into a career, a mission, and a claim to moral authority.

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About Me

Thomas Jung is a writer from Germany, living in the Netherlands. He came to writing late, after years of thinking in private

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Foreword

Over the years, I have watched with ever-growing astonishment how homosexuality is represented in culture and the arts. These pages are written for readers who notice, without quite being able to say why, that something is off.

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Homosexuals and Gays

The words “homosexual” and “gay” are now used as if they meant the same thing, but they name different realities. Sex is not identity, and the loss of that distinction has allowed gay culture to become trapped in victimhood culture, which is flattening.

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Introducing the First Essay Collection

Deconstructing Pride is an essay collection about homosexuality, identity, culture, and the language that now surrounds them. It begins from a growing

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Coming soon

In the next couple of weeks I will release some more essays from my collection. When you subscribe, you will be send

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