“Boys Will Be Boys” by AY is onle at BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! promotg queer and gay photography.
Contents:
LEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORYLEARNG FROM THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY
Unrstand health ncerns for gay men and other men who have sex wh men, and learn how to promote good health. * bad gay guys *
Homophobia Is a Real Fear … but of What, Exactly? To be a homophobe 2014 is, creasgly, to fd onelf on the fast track to social srn.
In an environment of growg acceptance, we nmn homophobic feelgs, particularly men, bee we thk they e om si the dividual and are th his full rponsibily. A man who says hateful thgs about gays is “backward. ” He’s protectg his social stat, or maybe he’s secretly gay himself.
However, the ntued existence of homophobia—spe the obv downsis—rais qutns about s basic nature: Do psychologil theori like those above really expla why gayns, specifilly, evok such fear, the kd that n sometim even lead to vlent speech and actn? Do they acunt for why homophobia is such an easy bulwark agast mascule secury? The only way to answer the qutns is to stop thkg of homophobia as a personal choice and unrstand as the evable and liberate rult of the culture which Amerin men are raised.
* bad gay guys *
Clearly, men Ameri have grown up learng to be sred of gayns. Put another way, the zero-tolerance le means that if a man mak one “wrong” move—kiss another man a moment of dnken fun, say—he is immediately assumed to be gay.
Once young men realize they are gay, they bee A Gay Person.