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

Contents:

• THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT
• UNED FLIGHT ATTENDANT ACCED GAY FATHER OF MOLTG HIS OWN SON
• HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
• HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
• THERE MAY BE SOME TTH TO THE ‘GAY JOBS’ STEREOTYPE

THE GAY FLIGHT ATTENDANT

There was a semi-recent episo that had a cutaway where a plane was crashg and they realized that Peter "borrowed" the parachut and left a note about /plag about the angry gay flight attendant. After the pilot reads Peter's note his head, the angry gay flight attendant says somethg like, "well! the guy stewarss was angry gay, not happy gay.

My flight was beg served by an obvly gay flight attendant, who seemed to put everyone a good mood as he served food and the plane prepared to scend, he me swishg down the aisle and told that "Capta Marvey has asked me to announce that he'll be landg the big sry plane shortly, so lovely people, if you uld jt put your trays up, that would be super. A gay father was acced of moltg his foster son on a Uned Airl flight this past week by a flight attendant who lled the police.

UNED FLIGHT ATTENDANT ACCED GAY FATHER OF MOLTG HIS OWN SON

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.

HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE

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.

HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE

And I’d walk through termals, and I knew if there were gay men, they’d be lookg at me.

So how many flight attendants were and are gay?

THERE MAY BE SOME TTH TO THE ‘GAY JOBS’ STEREOTYPE

They timated that “between 30 and 50 percent of male flight attendants were gay the 1950s, and between 50 and 90 percent the 1970s. "Sir, wh all my rpect, i am not gay as far as i know". now i always heard that most male flight attendants on many amerin rriers are gay, and offurse i dont beleive that.

Te or not, there's a perceptn (misperceptn) that mal volved service dtry are gay. I gus this myth me about as service dtry is the most visible sector for the public, and seeg a gay man at work immediately strik a chord wh other stereotyp out there.