A professor at New York University said about gay black culture that "today's queer mania for ghetto fabulousness and bling masks its elemental but silent relationship to even more queer impulses toward fabulousness in the 1980s."
A professor at New York University commented on gay black culture, stating that 'today's queer obsession with flashy materialism and luxury conceals its underlying yet unspoken connection to even more queer desires for extravagance in the 1980s.