Gay male flight attendants I’m So Exced: The history of the gay steward stereotype.

Contents:

• SOUTHWT AIRL RELEAS PILOTS NAME PHOTO OF JAM TAYLOR GAY RANT
• HILAR FLIGHT ATTENDANT GAYS IT UP FOR PRE-FLIGHT SAFETY SPEECH
• HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
• DON'T ARGUE WH THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT

SOUTHWT AIRL RELEAS PILOTS NAME PHOTO OF JAM TAYLOR GAY RANT

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Passengers flyg om Chigo to San Francis were then treated to four very gay, very hilar mut of remrs about how to buckle their seat belts, where to lote their life prervers, and what to do the event of a prsn that clud lots of attu, as well as referenc to Gone Wh The Wd and Bye Bye Birdie. Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #entertament #gay #southwtairl stori and more. Homosexualy is not illegal Cha and was officially removed om a list of mental disorrs 2001.

HILAR FLIGHT ATTENDANT GAYS IT UP FOR PRE-FLIGHT SAFETY SPEECH

After the vio of him kissg his worker went viral, Chai said he was taken asi by a senr manager who told him that homosexualy was agast “socialist re valu, ” and asked him to rema silent on the topic. Peng Yanhui, who heads the Cha Rabow Media Awards, an LGBTQ rights advocy group, said pani rarely fire LGBTQ employe “explicly” for beg gay. Although Chai rerd some of his supervisor’s homophobic remarks – cludg llg homosexualy “abnormal” – durg their nversatns, Zhong said the airle sisted urt that those reprented personal opns, not a rporate posn.

Chai remembered tim when workers mocked more effemate gay flight attendants at Cha Southern – he said he stayed quiet to avoid unwanted attentn.

After he was outed by the vio, he said many fellow gay employe retreated further back to the closet for fear of beg targets themselv. Sce 2016, Che censors have banned portrayals on TV and onle of what they see as “abnormal sexual behavrs, ” cludg gay relatnships. Many of the untry’s current lears grew up durg the Cultural Revolutn the 1960s and ’70s, when thori attempted to purge any “non-socialist” elements – cludg homosexualy – om Che society.

HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE

“LGBTQ employe are still forced to live a lie a place where they spend so much time, ” said Peng, the gay rights advote. “It may be an executive’s personal opn that homosexualy is abnormal or immoral – but if there is a workplace equaly law, what that executive thks won’t matter anymore.

After readg Chai’s story, Liu, who is gay, left an angry ment on the official Instagram page of Cha Southern, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and had been rapidly expandg s global work before the panmic. “As a gay passenger, I wouldn’t want to spend any money flyg your airle. Some mentary on Pedro Almodóvar’s new edy I’m So Exced has noted that rerc gay stereotyp, particularly the characters of s sassy male flight attendants, who are all gay.

When did the gay steward bee such a mon stereotype? Some stewards were hired back after returng om World War II—often out of a sense of loyalty or patrtic duty—but bee they performed what was nsired “women’s work, ” they were thought to be effemate and were therefore spected of beg homosexual, acrdg to the bias of the time. This perceptn was further rerced when the killg of a gay male flight attendant a “lover’s lane” Miami brought the stereotype to the headl of sensatnal stori the Miami Daily News.

DON'T ARGUE WH THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT

In the macho, homophobic years of the 1950s, this provoked a crackdown on the cy’s unrground gay muny, and stori like the were seen as evince that gay people were “perverts.

” Many airl (some of which traed their stewards Miami) turn quietly did away wh hirg stewards, both gay and straight. Ever sce, men have generally prised about 15 percent of flight attendants, pendg on the airle, and a high percentage of the men returng to the ranks of the flight attendant rps the 1970s were gay.

For gay men, there were many reasons to bee a flight attendant— wasn’t jt the willgns of many to do stereotypilly feme work. As Tiemeyer wr, “the aisl and galleys of airplan, as well as crew hotels and crash pads, served the same role that other gays and lbians found bars: a place where they uld meet others like themselv and even embrace their same-sex sir for the first time. And I’d walk through termals, and I knew if there were gay men, they’d be lookg at me.