Cole Escola must be extra well-known, like, yesterday. They wrote and are presently starring in successful play titled, Oh Mary!, a satirized, fictionalized, yassified retelling of the lifetime of former First Woman of america, Mary Todd Lincoln, with many inventive lives, liberties, and pursuits of happiness taken. It began off-Broadway, and tickets have been so onerous to get that I couldn’t even actually suggest the present to individuals as a result of there was no strategy to get in. However now that the present is on Broadway, it’s solely a matter of time earlier than Cole Escola is annoyingly well-known. They’re already getting pictures taken by the paparazzi.
They have been seen sporting humorous little t-shirt that you simply may solely acknowledge in the event you have been tapped right into a homosexual little scene in New York within the late 2010s. Proper up on the collar, it says, “WHAT EXACTLY IS HETEROSEXUALITY AND WHAT CAUSES IT?” It’s a t-shirt by a designer named Willie Norris, and homosexual individuals you adopted on Instagram have been sporting the shit out of it in, like, 2018. It was impressed by the 1975 poster mural made by a British playwright named Alan Wakeman, who was poking enjoyable on the approach conventional tradition spoke about homosexuality.
You possibly can’t get the very same shirt anymore, tragically. However fortunate for us, Willie Norris Workshop retains photographs of all their previous inventory on their web site, they usually nonetheless promote their iconic “PROMOTE HOMOSEXUALITY” shirts. A few of their previous hits embody shirts that includes the metafield textual content from a 2023 Phoebe Philo assortment launch, a humorous assessment from a New York Instances Cooking recipe, and a tee that claims “MY ART IS BETTER THAN YOUR ART.” Love.
