UC Davis Experts: Gay Marriage | UC Davis

Contents:

• GAY MEN WH UC
• HOW GAY MEN NAVIGATE THE CORPORATE WORLD
• UC GAY-VIS ED MEANG
• UC DAVIS EXPERTS: GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MEN WH UC

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The downtown nightclub, loted at 18 E Universy Ave, beme Gaville’s first gay club after openg s doors more than 30 years ago.

HOW GAY MEN NAVIGATE THE CORPORATE WORLD

However, wh the progrsn of the natnwi gay rights movement, Gaville’s current nightlife scene is much more clive of the LGBTQ+ muny, and aterny members now e to Universy Club for a fun night out, Spangler said. Jianna D’Addar, a 22-year-old psychology senr, attend her first gay club and drag show at Universy Club sce livg nservative Panama Cy, Florida. Like D’Addar, equentg UC sce the Sprg semter of sophomore year, Swarthman has noticed a change the club’s clientele sce enterg the scene.

Although Unversy Club is the only official gay nightclub Gaville, havg one dited space for LGBTQ+ people to gather mak for a close-kn muny, Summers said. Nick Ste, a rearch and velopment engeer at UC Berkeley’s Seismologil Lab, said he took to studyg abroad Japan a week after tellg his iends he was gay.

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Rosalie Zdzienicka Fanshel, a doctoral stunt and program manager at the Berkeley Food Instute, scrib themself as a “lbian gay boy” as well as a cur person who will fearlsly re for people they love and those who are treated unjtly. Recent soclogy rearch at the Universy of Ccnati looked closely at the var strategi gay men e to manage both their genred and sexual inti the workplace. Travis Dean Speice, a new soclogy doctoral graduate at the Universy of Ccnati, says his rearch dit that gay men often feel they have to change certa distct gtur and body language behavrs orr to avoid potential negative nsequenc om his study, Speice nducted -pth terviews of men between the ag of 22-52 who intify as gay, analyzg their thoughts on masculy, femy, gayns, how they me out and their specific job scriptns, which he says is where a lot of nsc manipulatn of inty management happens.

for gay men many profsnal settgs, ” says Speice. “From the ial terview to movg up the ladr at work, if a gay. man feels his supervisors don’t agree wh a gay populatn, he may not.

”Hidg pla sightSpeice explas the strategi for avoidg scty g a ncept he termed "hegemonic sexualy, " a tool he to unrstand how gay men are posned hierarchilly wh society. The rearcher says some men are labeled as "too gay, " and rponnts associate that label wh var speech patterns, body language and clothg choic that do not f to an ialized form of hegemonic masculy, or other monly known mascule behavrs. Instead, the characteristics often follow mon stereotyp of gay men.

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Men then have the choice to perform masculy and gayns any number of ways, wh some men attemptg to perform a more tradnal mascule versn of themselv at work.

"While many gay men have reers where they are rpected and accepted for beg themselv, several others feel that they have to hi, modify or nceal their behavral characteristics and speak, act and drs more "profsnally. "Speice prented the analysis of the strategi Augt a paper tled “(Gay) Men at Work: Unrstandg Genred and Sexual Inty Management Strategi the Workplace, ” at the annual meetg of the Amerin Soclogil Associatn Sectn on the Soclogy of addrs three cril areas where gay men manage their inty the workplace:.

“The lor of his cloth was signifint his perceptn of his own masculy and gay inty, but later beme too flamboyant the face of scty. ”Many rponnts, he pots out, believe particular lors or patterns on clothg might be terpreted by others as beg "too gay, " or "not mascule enough.

" This is important, Speice says, for how chang the way gay men feel about prentg their genr and sexualy, pecially the workplace. “But I found that when gay men feel prsured to nform to 'profsnal' genr norms, they often e the guise of “profsnal” as a faça for how hegemonic sexualy operat their day-to-day liv. ” Communitn and language characteristics such as the “gay lisp, ” as well as the flectn and speed, pch and rhythm of speech are all cril strategi that Speice says gay men may have to manage orr to nceal or reveal their sexualy.