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>
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 ’
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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!
WORKG-CLASS GAY DADS: QUEER STORI ABOUT FAY AND WORK
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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).
WHY G OUT AS WORKG CLASS WAS HARR THAN G OUT AS GAY
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 * 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).
WORKG-CLASS GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
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.
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
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).