Why Are So Many Gays and Lbians Attracted to Same-Sex People Who Look Like the Oppose Sex? - Washgton Cy Paper

Contents:

• BUTCH, FEMME, OR STRAIGHT ACTG? PARTNER PREFERENC OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS
• WHY ARE SO MANY GAYS AND LBIANS ATTRACTED TO SAME-SEX PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE THE OPPOSE SEX?
• GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN PREFER MASCULE-PRENTG GAY MEN FOR A HIGH-STAT ROLE: EVINCE FROM AN ELOGILLY VALID EXPERIMENT
• GENR ROL THE RELATNSHIPS OF LBIANS AND GAY MEN
• HISTORY MA / MASCULEFEMEGAYCOUPLE

BUTCH, FEMME, OR STRAIGHT ACTG? PARTNER PREFERENC OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS

Compare wh Noble Male, Roguish Male, where the Noble Male is still nsired to be "manly" a chivalro fashn, and Mascule–Feme Gay Couple for explicly romantic duos. While the real world, LGBTQ+ persons are jt as varied personaly and tras as straight/cisgenr on, has sued televisn wrers to e mon stereotyp for their gay characters li of actually makg them "real people". Gay Bravado: Characters makg homoerotic ments and suggtns to one another is Played for Lghs, bee of urse they're too macho to really be gay.

WHY ARE SO MANY GAYS AND LBIANS ATTRACTED TO SAME-SEX PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE THE OPPOSE SEX?

If It's You, It's Okay: When a gay or straight character mak a sgle exceptn for sex or romance wh someone outsi their normal genr preference.

When gay and lbian upl have children, they often beg to divi thgs as heterosexual upl do, acrdg to new data for larger, more reprentative sampl of the gay populatn.

Even when gay and lbian parents took on different rol, they still generally felt was equable — which is not te as often heterosexual relatnships, and suggts a different mol for achievg equaly.

GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN PREFER MASCULE-PRENTG GAY MEN FOR A HIGH-STAT ROLE: EVINCE FROM AN ELOGILLY VALID EXPERIMENT

Homosexual people were more likely than heterosexual people to mentn tras related to sex typily and more likely to requt sex-typil than sex-atypil partners. On average, gay men preferred men who scribed themselv as mascule rather than feme, but this preference was weaker among men who rated themselv as relatively feme. The scholarly lerature on what homosexuals fd attractive isn’t as robt as we might like, and for some reason has foced more on lbians than gay men.

GENR ROL THE RELATNSHIPS OF LBIANS AND GAY MEN

In a 2010 survey, both lbians and gay men reported that what they’d ially been most attracted to their partners were personaly tras: “fun, ” “sense of humor, ” and “telligent” were at the top of the list for both groups. The same study of personal ads found more than 96 percent of the tras gay men sought their partners were characteristilly mascule, and all of the unsirable tras were feme. What exactly those terms mean is batable, though—gay men have been found to exhib a wir spectm of stereotypilly mascule and feme mannerisms and speech patterns than straight men.

Surveys notwhstandg, gay men’s appreciatn of a well-toned male body surely is at least the equal of straight men’s tenncy to drool over a shapely woman. A perennial ntroversy the gay muny ps “gay-actg” typ agast gay mal who terms of manner and appearance are distguishable om straights.

A related qutn is whether a gay or lbian relatnship one of the partners habually assum the mascule role while the other plays the female. A study of gay Lato men found their adoptn of domant or submissive rol was suatnal and pend upon the perceived masculy of their partners.

HISTORY MA / MASCULEFEMEGAYCOUPLE

Whereas most studi on perceptns of feme-prentg gay men have manipulated genr nonnformy via wrten scriptns, rearch suggts that behavural cu such as voice and body-language n migate or exacerbate prejudice toward a stereotyped dividual. In the current study, d-visual stimuli were created to vtigate how mascule vers feme behavur would impact stat endowment om other gay and heterosexual men.

48: half gay; half heterosexual) st, om a selectn of six vio-taped ndidat, one gay man to play a lead role a purported ad for a tourism mpaign. For heterosexual men, the preference for mascule-prentg actors was predicted by greater anti-gay sentiment, whereas ternalised anti-gay prejudice did not predict a preference for mascule-prentatn among gay men.

This associatn between masculy and stat endowment has plex implitns for gay men, given the prevailg stereotype that they are more feme pared to heterosexual men (Ke & Dx, 1987; Lippa, 2000; Mchell & Ellis, 2011; Sanchez et al., 2009) Men and the Feme StereotypeSuch a stereotype reflects, to some extent, average differenc genr-typily between gay and heterosexual men.