Sean Harris on gay men: What do limp wrists have to do wh homosexualy?

Contents:

• WHAT DO LIMP WRISTS HAVE TO DO WH GAY MEN?
• PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

WHAT DO LIMP WRISTS HAVE TO DO WH GAY MEN?

After enuragg fathers to “punch” sons who exhib stereotypilly gay behavr, North Carola pastor Sean Harris said on Tuday that he should have chosen different words.

In the 18th century, however, Europeans me to thk of homosexualy as a character tra rather than an ocsnal behavr, and gay sex beme the anthis of manls. Durg this time, limp wrists me to signify not jt ill disciple, but var other supposed failur of manhood, such as homosexualy, exhibnism, and foppery. ) As the ornamentatn and leisure of urtly life fell out of favor wh men, a limp wrist—often wh the other hand placed on the hip an “I’m a Ltle Teapot” pose—me to symbolize the unmanly homosexual stereotype.

PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

” At some pot—certaly by the early 20th century, but maybe even earlier—gay men -opted stereotypil postur and hand gtur as a way to signal their sexual orientatn. In his ntroversial stctns on how to al wh gay-actg children, Pastor Sean Harris picked up on a recurrg theme popular culture: how to tra apparently gay men to assume stereotypilly heterosexual mannerisms.

Meanwhile, among the male tws, the bisexual or gay brothers had more "male-typil" hands than the straight on—ntrary to what the rearchers expected—although the difference was not signifint. "Rearch suggts that our sexualy is termed the womb and is pennt on the amount of male hormone we are exposed to or the way our dividual bodi react to that hormone, wh those exposed to higher levels of ttosterone beg more likely to be bisexual or homosexual, " the thors wrote.

However, is important to strs, that the evince is currently not strong enough to accurately predict whether someone is gay, straight or bisexual by lookg at the rat between their fgers.

"Some work has shown that gay men have more "male-typil" rats than straight men; other work has shown the oppose pattern; and still further work has shown no difference at all. As such, is not clear whether there is any real difference the level of ttosterone exposure between straight and gay men or how ttosterone exposure might map on to sexual orientatn differenc. I pretend to be straight and passed as such sce I did not exemplify the stereotyp, held by many of those around me, of what meant to be a gay man.