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...Bacardi and Diageo, have launched ad campaigns to trumpet their spirits' carblessness. Diageo, which makes Smirnoff, the world's top-selling premium vodka, created the website LowCarbParties.com to tell drinkers how to decarb their cocktails. "The spirit is not the problem," says food and wine expert Ted Allen from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, who helped launch the site. "It's the mixer." Liquor and grocery stores are beginning to carry products like Baja Bob's low-carb margarita mix, which has been sold online and in specialty stores for four years and is now getting space at Meijer...
...because male fashion doesn’t feature what Mountain termed ‘flamboyant peacock shows,’ doesn’t mean that men don’t take advantage of the opportunity to flaunt a few feathers. With TV shows like Bravo’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy glorifying the newly stylish male, customers are flocking for fashion help. “Sometimes I really have to work from the bottom up,” Mountain says. “I’ll want to get someone into a slimmer jean...
...stereotypes are only exacerbated by the stereotypes of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Some females remain skeptical even when Carson and the gang serve up a demitasse of glam and style for the clueless, beer-gutted straight male; it’s all good on television, but when their boyfriends and male friends start hogging the mirror, reality TV hits home. “I have this one guy friend who looks in the mirror more than anyone I know,” says Long. “Sometimes I wonder if he is doing it to overcompensate...
Caught amidst the buzz of the metrosexuals, gay men are also feeling the wrath of Queer Eye. Stillwell owns up to this fact. “I hate not being able to work out because I have a paper due... It is nice to be able to rip off your shirt at Manray with all eyes on you,” he says. Gay males are constantly bombarded with the image of the slim, toned, coiffed, fragrant and designer-clad boyish hunk. “Gay culture is very conscious of appearance,” says Foster. Mountain, the wardrobe...
...said that though queer. is not the first undergraduate queer issues publication—Berkeley and Stanford have similar journals dealing with issues of gender and sexuality—it is the first to be written and read by students on more than one campus...