Carlos L. Dews, Carolyn Lte Law, Anti-Intellectualism, Homophobia, and the Workg-Class Gay/Lbian Amic, The Radil Teacher, No. 53 (Fall 1998), pp. 8-12
Contents:
- SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’
- WORKG-CLASS GAY DADS: QUEER STORI ABOUT FAY AND WORK
- WHY G OUT AS WORKG CLASS WAS HARR THAN G OUT AS GAY
- WORKG-CLASS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
SIE MCCABE: ‘THE WORST ADVICE I’VE HAD? DON’T BE TOO GAY YOUR MATERIAL – MEN WON’T LIKE ’
I’ve left the closet twice - as a gay man, and as an amic om a workg-class background. The send was at least as hard<br> * working class gay *
There’s been a lot of chat about womanhood recently so I cid to look at how my genr and inty have been somethg that has taken me until now to unrstand – and that I’m a gay woman.
Even though I’ve been livg as a gay woman sce I was 17. “Don’t be too gay your material, men don’t like that.
” Heaven forbid they get a woman who’s gay on stage – this will throw men! IntroductnAt the work-fay terface, workg-class gay dads navigate parentg and work rol wh the ntext of enomic prery, a ntext shared by workg-class parents generally (Smh, 2010). Furthermore, their paths to parenthood often differ om those of upper middle-class gay dads (Perr et al., 2019), and unique soccultural aspects related to class may differentiate their work and fay experienc, warrantg more nuanced approach to supportg LGBTQ+ fai (Carroll, 2018a).
WORKG-CLASS GAY DADS: QUEER STORI ABOUT FAY AND WORK
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * working class gay *
Explorg the work-fay terface wh workg-class gay dads, therefore, holds promise for advancg the field of votnal populatns, fay and work experienc fluence one another, and studyg them together offers a fuller picture of parents' votnal activy (Schultheiss, 2006; Whiston & Camon, 2015). Dcribg the work-fay experienc of gay fathers, scholars have documented chang inty for gay men who bee parents, such as a shift away om domant gay male culture and toward a more relatnal and domtic gay masculy (Armto & Shapiro, 2011) and a foc on parentg while -emphasizg reer (Panozzo, 2015). Several studi have explored how gay male upl share parentg and hoehold rponsibili, generally documentg a pattern of egalarianism (Farr & Patterson, 2013; Tornello et al., 2015), but also specializatn based on uple-specific negotiatn (Kelly & Hck, 2015) and the paid work rol of each partner (Goldberg et al., 2012) the studi advance our knowledge of distctive work-fay nsiratns for gay men, the oversamplg of upper middle-class, Whe participants lims generalizabily (Carneiro et al., 2017).
WHY G OUT AS WORKG CLASS WAS HARR THAN G OUT AS GAY
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Nohels, rearch wh this populatn also highlights the tenncy to engage more daily parentg tasks when pared wh more privileged fathers (Gerstel & Clawson, 2014), the sharg of parentg rponsibili among iends and extend fay (Lare, 2015), and the aspiratns of many workg-class heterosexual dads to be warmer and more nurturg wh their own children than their fathers were wh them (Ed et al., 2019) separate bodi of rearch wh upper middle-class gay dads and wh workg-class heterosexual dads offer prelimary guidance for unrstandg the experienc of workg-class gay dads. The work of queer, workg-class activists and scholars monstrat that the experienc and prri of workg-class LGBTQ+ people are more plex, and have more to do wh basic human rights, than the mastream gay rights movement (Hollibgh & Weiss, 2015) prent study builds on prev work wh gay dads, workg-class dads, and workg-class/queer scholarship to better unrstand the experienc and perspectiv of workg-class gay dads themselv. To pture this, parentg and other hoehold/regivg rponsibili are often referred to as unpaid re work (Richardson, 2012) the prent study, we explored workg-class gay dads' unpaid re work and paid work experienc g the lens of Psychology of Workg Theory (PWT).
The current study rponds to the remendatns, fillg a gap the rearch by examg the work-fay experienc of workg-class gay dads via the followg qutns:Rearch Qutn 1: How do workg-class gay dads' fay-work stori challenge the grand reer narrative and provi new ways of thkg about parentg and cent work? We anticipated that workg-class gay dads' fay-work stori might challenge the grand reer narrative by disptg the notns of lear work trajectori and the centraly of paid work and would provi alternative narrativ of how work-fay rol are lived and navigated the ntext of heterosexism, enomic nstrats, and other systemic barriers.
The first thor started this project exced to talk wh workg-class gay dads about their daily work and fay experienc. Recently a lleague asked me what was like growg up gay Arkansas. Now that I’m a wrer, now that I’m a profsor, now that I’m 37 and still happily sgle – the fact that I’m gay is one of the least queer thgs about me.
WORKG-CLASS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
Although public policy and social programs rpondg to the AIDS and hate crime epimics of the past s are supposed to be signed for the workg-class gay man, actualy they have been based more on socenomic bias, stereotype, and anecdote than on social science. The answers are found Workg-Class Gay and Bisexual Men, the landmark ternatnal study that is among the first to empirilly exame the liv, attus, needs, and ncerns of this hidn populatn. Workg-Class Gay and Bisexual Men reports on rearch nducted throughout the Uned Stat, Canada, Atralia, and New Zealand g a broad-based sample of workg-class men.
The imprsively tailed and nsistent rults should pel policymakers to rethk their assumptns about workg-class gay men. Topics clu: What giv them the strength to pe wh vlence, homophobia, AIDS, and discrimatn?
How do ral gay and bisexual men handle their isolatn?
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
How do Lato gay men handle the double discrimatn of gay and mory stat? Workg-Class Gay and Bisexual Men is a powerfully persuasive work of scholarship wh broad-rangg implitns.
Social workers, policymakers, AIDS activists, and anyone else ncerned wh the liv of gay and bisexual men will fd this rmative study an sential tool for signg effective programs. Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.
“One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man.