The inner circle/outer circle stereotypes don’t just describe sexual acts. They also describe the stereotypes thrown at people of color. The inner circle is white. Then, to be black makes queerness easier to achieve. As gay men become respectable, more conservative, and homonormative, the category of gay becomes connected with whiteness. Take Back Boystown shows us the racial consequences of gay Disneyland and the heritage commodification of gay habitus. The transformation of these spaces to respectable inner circle morality encourages us to think about gayness as a kind of white ethnicity.
