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10 SIGNS YOUR BROMANCE IS ACTUALLY A GAY RELATNSHIP

The Leather Boys shows how the mon humany of gay & straight men n be greater than sex. * gay bromance *

Their homosocial bondg exceeds ual male iendships and, some circumstanc, match or surpass heterosexual romance.

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Could gay guys be the ultimate wg men for their straight, male iends? * gay bromance *

There’s nothg really gay about … Not that there’s anythg wrong wh beg gay. Diamond noted that passnate iendships among men are nsired un-mascule and culturally problematic bee “highly timate and affectnate same-genr iendships are more likely to engenr spicn of homosexualy when they occur between men than when they occur between women.

” Whereas women n be passnate wh each other and stay straight, if men are passnate wh each other, they are tagged gay. Bromance might have been vented as a ver, an acceptable cultural script manufactured to let men be emotnally vulnerable wh each other while beg protected om the stigma of gayns. Gay Men’s Friendships: Invcible Communi.

ZAC EON AND MAX JOSEPH CUDDLE IN BED TOGETHER: CELEBRY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CELEBRIBY DAN AVERYOCTOBER 24, 2014/9:46 AMBY DAN AVERYOCTOBER 24, 2014 / 9:46 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"ZAC EON AND MAX JOSEPH CUDDLE IN BED TOGETHER: CELEBRY BROMANCE","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-10-24T13:46:43.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-10-24T13:46:43.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"CELEBRI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SORRY JAM FRAN AND SETH ROGEN, THERE'S A NEW HOLLYWOOD BROMANCE TOWN: ZAC EON AND MAX JOSEPH HAVE BEEN PALLG AROUND ON THE SET OF THE NEW MOVIE, WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS, WHICH EON IS STARRG AND JOSEPH IS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: SILVER FOX MAX JOSEPH IS OUR "CATFISH" {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AN INSTAGRAM PIC JOSEPH POSTED ON OCTOBER 18 (ABOVE) SHOWS THE MCULAR NEIGHBORS STAR SHIRTLS BED AND CUDDLG THE CATFISH CUTIE, WHO HAS HIS FGER ON HIS LIPS AS IF TO BEG THE PHOTOGRAPHER NOT TO WAKE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TWO HAVE BEEN POPPG UP ALL OVER EACH OTHER'S SOCIAL MEDIA, HUGGG OUT AND BEG ALL ROMANTIC. "HE’S AMAZG. HE IS A WORLD-CLASS PERSON. HE’S THE FIRST PERSON TO SAY HELLO TO EVERYONE AND HE’S THE FURTHT THG OM A PRIMA DONNA," JOSEPH TOLD MTV OF HIS LEADG MAN. "HE’S A TROOPER, AND WE HAVE A GOOD TIME."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED:  ZAC EON AND BEAR GRYLLS HAVE AN "INTO THE WILD" {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JOSEPH EVEN HAS A NICKNAME FOR HIS LEADG MAN: SNACK EON. #{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MORE TE BROMANCE BETWEEN MAX JOSEPH AND SNACK EON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BELOW, MAX SHAR SECRETS OM THE WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

* gay bromance *

Gus which one is gay? Symbolizg the g gay revolutn, Reggie asks his widowed grandmother to take Pete as a lodger; that's when the subversive trappgs of the biker subculture--all that badass leather--clash wh the tasteful tradn and old-lady r. It followed several "problem pictur" featurg gay characters (Victim, The L-Shaped Room, The Children's Hour), yet director Furie and screenwrer Gillian Freeman--who based the film on Freeman's novel--nonted the social problem a way that now n be seen as advantageo to the culture's gradual sexual 's maral disrd wh his wife, Dot, bolsters Reggie and Pete's homosocial bromance.

" Here's where The Leather Boys tri unifyg gay-straight a brief renciliatn between Reggie and Dot: They slow-dance to a jebox versn of what sounds like "What Kd of Fool Am I?, " a 1962 h for showbiz in and gay-favore Anthony Newley. He's not gay, but he lov a gay iend and isn't repulsed.

IS BROMANCE GAY?

This suatn rells the genue empathy of an unenlightened era (as when Brick protects Skipper's memory Cat on a Hot T Roof) Pete's secret life as a habue at a docksi gay bar is unvered (Reggie is treated like ndy there), we nnot help but feel for him as Reggie walks away, their iendship seemgly over.

"But spe Reggie's reactn, The Leather Boys still manag to show how the mon humany of gay and straight men--the sence of bromance--n be greater than sex. Openly gay New Zealand Olympic rower Robbie Manson (left) wh his brother Karl, also a rower. For a long time, iendships between gay men and straight men – what some now ll “bromosexual” iendships – were unmon.

Homophobia was likely one reason; another was that straight men probably assumed they didn’t have much mon wh gay men.

BROMANCE, ANOTHER WAY OF SAYG CLOSETED GAY?

Specifilly, we’re terted lookg at the reasons gay men and straight men bee iends (or rema iends after the gay iend out). We currently have a survey vtigatn unrway that explor some of the posive out of “bromosexual” iendships, cludg our theory that gay men and straight men n be optimal wg men for one another.

Friendships between gay and straight men have always existed.

BL / GL / LGBT / GAY CHARACTER / BROMANCE - DRAMAS & MOVI

Many straight men hated to beiend gay men, fearg harassment, rejectn om their straight iends or beg lled gay.

The growg acceptance of homosexualy, however, has allayed some of the fears. Gay men – particularly those nservative and ral environments – rema wary about tryg to beiend straight men, fearg prejudice-fueled rejectn. At the same time, many straight men still doubt that they’ll be able to relate to gay men any meangful way and, for this reason, may not try to iate a iendship.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY BROMANCE

10 Signs Your Bromance is Actually a Gay Relatnship .

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