What Being a Gay Black Man Abroad Taught Me About Objectification

After spending 13 years living outside the U.S., I finally understood what women deal with every day.

Jeremy Helligar
This Must Be the Place
6 min readNov 24, 2023

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Miranda and Blimpie guy (Photo: HBO)

One of my all-time favorite Sex and the City subplots involves Miranda and a guy wearing a Blimpie sandwich suit. Every time she walks by him on her way home from work, he says, “Eat…

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Jeremy Helligar
This Must Be the Place

Brother Son Husband Friend Loner Minimalist World Traveler. Author of “Is It True What They Say About Black Men?” and “Storms in Africa” https://rb.gy/3mthoj