![]() To confirm that the neat freak/domestic diva stereotype I keep failing to live up to isn’t just a reflection of my own addled, neurotic imagination, I reached out to Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure and a professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. ![]() Perhaps it’s the inevitable outcome of my generation’s growing up during the original run of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy that we must all live in the shadow of the Fab Five, cursed with the knowledge that we may never measure up to their clean, manicured vision of queerness. Still, it’s one that hangs on strongly within the gay community itself. We all know that the cultural assumption that all gay men are meticulously neat interior-design wunderkinds is an outdated stereotype. Look, I’m aware I risk coming off like I’ve composed this whole article to excuse myself for being a total mess.
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