![]() ![]() ![]() But the fact is they don’t want me to be something else - I mean, if they’re like that, that’s just what they want to see. making sure people know I’m something else. And to sort of just have to accept that for a while I was going to be this thing for people, regardless of what I actually was.ĭid you ever try to force it on people’s minds that you’re not a twink? It’s been over for so long now, but it was something to be that young and to represent something very specific to people that I was not necessarily. I never was a club kid, I generally have facial hair. Did you ever feel like you had to live up to that label in real life? I mean, I’m much older than I was then, so people are pretty delusional if they’re still fetishizing me as a 17-year-old twink. I think it made it so I can never quite have a normal social life, which I accepted a long time ago. I think it didn’t enormously challenge power dynamics in a way that I find even most straight relationships do.ĭo people still think of you as Justin? Do people fetishize you? It was a very archetypal thing to draw viewers in, in a certain capacity. I mean, I think Justin was very complex, but I do think much of the relationship dynamic was somewhat heteronormative - in a very, you know, romantic way. What do you think of the character Justin, and do you think gay characters are more complex today? ![]()
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