Sean Lim | You're Gay / 2014 [music video]

going gay

by Douglas Messerli

 

Sean Lim (director) You’re Gay / 2014 [6 minutes] [music video]

 

Fresh off of his first major music video Bubble, gay singer/performer Sebastian Castro came out in the very next year with You’re Gay, a high school gay fantasy. This time he plays a schoolboy who, encountering his beautiful young jock and his shower-room friends in the hall, he nearly goes into a dive straight into the school lockers, desperate to hook up with the hallway cutey.  

    He soon finds himself in the library where he discovers a book titled You’re Gay: A Comprehensive Recipe for Straight to Gay Conversion by, who else, but Sebastian Castro. Before you can say straight to gay, the boy is busy cooking up a magic elixir—not so very different from the one Floozy Suzy cooks up in the 2015 Brazilian film Vagabunda de Meia Tigela to convert his track-running heartthrob—throwing in a pretty flower, a large penile-looking pepper, and a condom to create a lovely golden liquid that he bottles in small pink and other colored balloons.

     Dressed all in white, he enters the school cafeteria, jumps to the table where at the far end sit the jock and his friends, and, pulling out the multi-colored balloon from his backpack begins to lob them into the faces of both boys and girls around him, singing:

                                              You, yeah you! You’re Gay

                                              You just don’t know it yet

                                              Na na na na na na na na na na

 

                                              You, yeah! Dump your girl

                                              or you know better yet

                                              Na na na na na na na na na na

 

                                              Let’s get married now

                                              So I don’t have a rack*

                                              But I’m better endowed

                                              be-be-better endowed

 

                                              Invite your friends

                                              two is a company

                                              and we want a crowd

                                              we-we-we want a crowd

 

                                              You’re one one pop pop pop away

                                              from a bubble (from a bubble)

                                              from a bubble, dripping

                                              with my fucking taste

 

     It doesn’t take long before most of his classmates turn gay, and soon after people all over the world come out. His jock friend goes racing down the hall to escape the inevitable, as his now gay classmates follow, on their way bringing out, as well, one of their teachers who suddenly gets the giggles.

 

        Seb finally corners his destined lover in a classroom, and by the third verse is singing:

 

                                           You’re coming out

                                           You’re putting out

                                           And when they ask what

                                           this is all about

 

                                           You’ll say he was so hot

                                           I couldn’t keep it straight

                                           Run right now before

                                           Before it’s too late

 

                                          Close those ears when he opens his mouth

                                          Close your eyes when he eyes you down south

 

     The jock, as warned, goes on the run, but Seb’s classmates catch him, strip him and ready him for the final lob of the last balloon, after which everyone dances in gay abandon.

      One could argue that in this music video we observe the very opposite of the far-too-numerous high school gay bullying movies. Here the nerdy gay boy turns aggressor, determined to right the homophobic situation by converting all the jocks, their buddies, and sports worshipers into joyous queers. 

 

*In urban street parlance a “rack” is a nice set of tits, but it can also mean a “stash of money.” SEB is arguing that while he doesn’t have tits or cash, he still better endowed, if not financially at least with the size of his cock.

 

Los Angeles, May 9, 2024

Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog (May 2024).