Genr, Sex, and the Gay Male Teacher

Contents:

• WHILE STRAIGHT MEN FACE TNAL CRISIS, GAY MEN EXCEL AMILLY, STUDY FDS
• GAY MEN MAY HOLD THE KEY TO CLOSG THE AMIC GENR GAP, STUDY FDS
• GAY MEN HAVE THE HIGHT RAT OF DEGREE ATTAMENT U.S., STUDY FDS
• OPN WHAT GAY MEN’S STUNNG SUCCS MIGHT TEACH ABOUT THE AMIC GENR GAP
• GAY MEN EARN DEGRE AT HIGHT RATE, STUDY FDS
• GAY COUPL MORE EDUTED, HIGHER-INE THAN HETEROSEXUAL COUPL
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

WHILE STRAIGHT MEN FACE TNAL CRISIS, GAY MEN EXCEL AMILLY, STUDY FDS

“I love gay people, ” activist and playwright Larry Kramer proclaimed at the outset of a 2004 speech New York Cy. ”A new study makg wav among LGBTQ-foced amics lends empiril crence to the inic Act Up -founr’s priful claims — not to the supposed sweepg superry of gay men, rather to the more narrow assertn that this group is remarkably cled to excel the paper, which was published the Amerin Soclogil Review on Feb. 20, to starkly opposg nclns about how growg up gay appears to affect the amic performance of mal vers femal.

Courty Amy LevJoel Mtleman, a Universy of Notre Dame soclogist and the paper’s sole thor, found that on an array of amic measur, gay mal outperform all other groups on average, across all major racial groups. Conversely, he nclud that lbians perform more poorly school overall and that Black gay women have a much lower llege graduatn rate than their whe unterparts.

“This article is focg a lens on what we do to all kids, ” Lisa Diamond, a psychology profsor at the Universy of Utah, said of the societal prsur that appear to impe lbians school even as the strsors possibly unnerve gay mal to pensatg for homophobia through amic strivg.

GAY MEN MAY HOLD THE KEY TO CLOSG THE AMIC GENR GAP, STUDY FDS

The three surveys of Amerin adults nsistently dited that gay men are far more likely than straight men to have graduated om high school or llege, wh jt over half of gay men havg earned a llege gree, pared wh about 35 percent of straight men. Mtleman found that gay men’s nsirably higher levels of tnal attament hold even after takg to acunt differenc men’s race and birth horts. What’s more, gay men’s llege graduatn rate dramatilly bts even that of straight women, about one-third of whom have a bachelor’s longudal survey showed that pared wh their straight male peers, gay mal earned higher GPAs high school and llege, enrolled harr class, took school more serly, had more amilly md iends and had a much lower rate of ever droppg out for a month or more.

GAY MEN HAVE THE HIGHT RAT OF DEGREE ATTAMENT U.S., STUDY FDS

But Mtleman found this advantage was limed almost entirely to whe lbians, and among women born more recently, gay women’s tnal edge has erod. But as nstrictns on women’s potential have eased sce the 1960s, straight women’s llege graduatn rate has risen to the pot of statistil pary wh lbians among today’s young Nancy Drew effect Searchg for the drivers of the differenc school performance between straight and gay stunts, Mtleman ed a mache-learng algorhm to intify rponse patterns to survey qutns that predicted beg male vers female among members of the longudal hort. In turn, he found that beg atypil for their genr survey rpons helped expla at least part of the gay stunts’ GPA variatn.

This suggted that not jt sexual orientatn, but s tersectn wh genr affectatn uld have fluenced how well the gay and lbians stunts did school. Gay boys, however, appear willg — even eager — to flout genr norms amics. “To the extent that ’s feme to study and appreciate validatn an amic sphere, the gay boys will have an advantage, ” Yale School of Public Health psychologist John Pachankis said.

“Girls who prent as mascule are seen as troublemakers, are seen as spic some way, ” Mtleman ‘Bt Ltle Boy the World’ phenomenon An addnal factor that Mtleman argued driv the average gay boy to surpass even the average straight girl amilly is what’s known queer psychology as the “Bt Ltle Boy the World” phenomenon. This refers to the tle of the 1973 memoir by former Democratic Natnal Commtee treasurer Andrew Tobias, which he chronicled his youthful csa to appease his ternalized homophobia through admissn to Harvard Universy and other feats of superlative a 2013 paper published Basic and Applied Social Psychology, psychologist Mark Hatzenbuehler, now of Harvard Universy, and Pachankis found evince suggtg that gay male llege stunts ed sought to pensate for anti-gay stigma by rivg their self-worth part through amic mastery and other forms of petn.

OPN WHAT GAY MEN’S STUNNG SUCCS MIGHT TEACH ABOUT THE AMIC GENR GAP

This psychologil paradigm also pris the bedrock of “The Velvet Rage, ” psychologist Alan Downs’ go-to bible for queer men, published 2005, on “overg the pa of growg up gay a straight man’s world. Chris Remishofsky, is gay and said the fdgs of Mtleman’s paper closely reflect his personal experience.

GAY MEN EARN DEGRE AT HIGHT RATE, STUDY FDS

“From a young age, ” said Remishofsky, a rmatologist Sterlg Heights, Michigan, “I was termed to bee a doctor so I uld prove to everyone that I uld be succsful even though I was gay.

”An analysis by the Brookgs Instutn’s Haton Project published January found that gay male upl earn $30, 000 more annually than lbian Meyer, a rearcher at UCLA’s Williams Instute, exprsed trigue over the story Mtleman’s paper tells of many gay men apparently overg nsirable odds.

Meyer poted to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn’s Youth Risk Behavr Surveillance reports that have chronicled the myriad strsors lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr young people weather school and the lany of leter impacts, cludg prsn and, Mtleman found that on the whole, lbian, gay and bisexual young people reported feelg more unsafe school and suffered higher levels of discrimatn and what’s known as mory strs than their straight peers. “We’re basilly sayg gay boys have a terrible school environment, but still, on average, they’re dog fantastilly well.

GAY COUPL MORE EDUTED, HIGHER-INE THAN HETEROSEXUAL COUPL

” The price queer youth payBrian Mtanski, a profsor of medil social scienc at Northwtern Universy, utned that the relative succs of gay men uld amount to a double-edged sword. “While certaly, ’s good news for the young gay men that they’re able to succeed well amilly, I do have some real ncerns about what kd of prsure they’re puttg on themselv, ” he said.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Suggtg that feverish amic strivg search of validatn n e at a steep st to mental and physil health, Mtanski poted to his own rearch fdgs that gay men have disproportnately high levels of chronic flammatn. She noted that gay women, particular lbians of lor, tend to be disproportnately sgled out for school disciple and are overreprented juvenile rrectnal facili.

Notg what an overwhelmgly unsafe place school still is for many queer kids, Wilson further utned the public not to nclu, for example, “that a poor Black gay boy livg Montgomery or Mobile, Alabama, feme-prentg and genr-nonnformg, is actually succeedg high school right now. But gay men, who tend to excel the classroom, uld hold the key to closg the genr gap, Universy of Notre Dame soclogist Joel Mtleman argu. Acrdg to Mtleman’s rearch, roughly 52 percent of gay men age 25 or olr the U.

As the genr gap Amerin higher tn wins to the largt has ever been, gay men uld hold the key to closg , new rearch has found. Ranks nth the world llege pletn, but “if Ameri’s gay men … formed their own untry, would be the world’s most highly ted by far, ” Joel Mtleman, a Universy of Notre Dame soclogist and the study’s thor, wrote a recent Washgton Post op-ed. Gay men are also “signifintly overreprented” among advanced gree holrs the U.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

Importantly, Mtleman not that his fdgs are not limed to whe gay men, and gay men nsistently outpace straight men llege pletn regardls of racial or ethnic background. His fdgs aren’t limed to higher tn eher, and gay male high school stunts are more likely than their heterosexual unterparts to earn better gras more advanced class and mata better study habs. It’s likely that the succs of gay boys and men the classroom is tied to the fact that they often feel like “outsirs to the culture of masculy enforced by their straight peers, ” acrdg to Mtleman, which ultimately leads them to be more nscient stunts – somethg straight men are often tght not to be.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

Usg data om roughly 7, 000 stunt surveys, Mtleman found that while many straight boys valued time spent playg vio gam or sports, gay boys reported puttg a premium on amic succs. As adults, gay men also outperform women, likely bee they often work exceedgly hard to pensate for not meetg mascule expectatns, acrdg to Mtleman. Mtleman his rearch also found that gay women tend to perform more poorly school, and Black gay women have a much lower llege graduatn rate than whe gay women.