{"id":64,"date":"2019-06-30T21:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=64"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:45:26","slug":"when-aziraphale-says-the-southern-pansy-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

deermouth<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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evilphrog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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evilphrog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When Aziraphale says,\u00a0\u201cthe<\/b>\u00a0southern pansy,\u201d it is a defining character moment for him.\u00a0 It is proof that he is not obliviously pinging everyone\u2019s gaydar.\u00a0 He is making an active choice to appear as gay as possible, and is proud to do so.\u00a0 He intentionally chose to live in the gayborhood, and go to discrete gentlemen\u2019s clubs, because he identifies strongly with gay culture.\u00a0 In this essay I will<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh my gosh, DictionaryWrites wrote<\/a> the essay!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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From the beginning, I expect Aziraphale felt strangely disenfranchised amongst his own people, even though he\u2019s never done anything specifically wrong. Even though they never see him in his private moments, or perhaps his time with Crowley, they can clock just in conversation that he is Not Like Them, and they treat him curtly, stiffly, accordingly. They probably feel awkward and uncomfortable around him, even though he isn\u2019t doing anything like, unkind or unpleasant, just that he\u2019s different. It isn\u2019t anything he can help, either: it\u2019s just the way that he is, and much as he might try to appear angelic in the right way, it\u2019s impossible to keep it up, because it\u2019s something undefinable that makes him noticeably different in conversation.<\/p>\n

So why, indeed, would Aziraphale identify so much with gay people?<\/p>\n

Why, indeed, would he go out of his way to present himself as a gay man? Not just as a matter of being non-threatening, then, but as a matter of kinda clicking with people like him \u2013 also subtly (or not subtly) pushed out by their own families, without being pushed out all the way. Gossiped about, and undergoing a great personal risk just while living his life, constantly worrying about presenting in the right angelic\/straight way, constantly tiptoeing this line between being himself, and being disgraced, cast out by his family.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

deermouth: evilphrog: evilphrog: When Aziraphale says,\u00a0\u201cthe\u00a0southern pansy,\u201d it is a defining character moment for him.\u00a0 It is proof that he is not obliviously pinging everyone\u2019s gaydar.\u00a0 He is making an active choice to appear as gay as possible, and is proud to do so.\u00a0 He intentionally chose to live in the gayborhood, and go to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}