the met gala brings out the worst in you, straight people.

The annual day of celebrity excess represents many things — one of them is queer joy. This isn’t for you.

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Our relationship as a humanity of living creatures to the phenomenon of the red carpet is a pretty strange thing when you stop to think about it.

Here’s how the pattern re…