There's Now a Study That Prov Gay Men Fat Shame One Another

Contents:

• ARE GAY MEN MORE F? OBY AND OVERWEIGHT DIFFERENC AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• FAT GAY MEN AND FEMALE EX-PRISONERS
• GAY FAT

ARE GAY MEN MORE F? OBY AND OVERWEIGHT DIFFERENC AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league,” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

This seems to suggt that the public acceptance and unrstandg of sexualy and sexual orientatn may have changed, and that gay men, at least certa rol, are now more accepted, and perhaps even celebrated. Stereotypil gay mal may be portrayed as flamboyant, hypersexual, effemate, fashnable, th, and preoccupied wh body image (Madon, 1997; McLghl & Rodriguez, 2017; Rothmann, 2013), The last two stereotyp have potential relevance for several health out, cludg overweight and many margalized inti, sexual orientatn and sexualy have been narrowly fed based on certa behavrs, characteristics, and expectatns of what means to be a gay man Ameri. In fact, rearch suggts that gay men, more so than straight men, place a greater emphasis on physil attractivens orr to nform to bety ials and to be more sexually attractive (Siever, 1996; Wood, 2004).

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

Dpe an expansive lerature the last few s on the quali and characteristics of gay and straight men, rearch that explor the prevalence of oby and overweight the gay male populatn is much more limed, pecially parg them to the straight male populatn. We also exame the likelihood of overweight or oby gay mal pared to heterosexual first discs the ma approach ed the rearch lerature on the nceptualizatn and measurement of what means to be a gay or straight man. Quantative measur intify gay mal as those who are sexually oriented toward persons of the same sex, straight mal as those who are oriented toward persons of the oppose sex, and mal who are bisexual as those who are oriented towards persons of both sex.

If the stereotype of gay mal as more physilly f and more mcular pared to straight mal is accurate, then BMI might be a particularly problematic measure studyg the te risks of oby as relat to sexual orientatn. Acrdg to the CDC (2022), BMI is morately rrelated wh both the prevalence of those out and objectively better measur of body posn offered by more direct measur of body fat such as skld thickns measurements, belectril impedance, unrwater weighg, dual energy x-ray absorptmetry (DXA) and the like (see Denton & Karpe, 2016; Goyan, 2012; Scerpella et al., 2013 for more tailed discsns of the alternative methods) Gay Mal More or Ls Likely to Have Overweight and Oby than Straight Mal?

In a siar study g self-reported data, Periera (2021) found that the stereotypil expectatns of gay men as th and f were fact associated wh lower risks of beg obe and overweight.

FAT GAY MEN AND FEMALE EX-PRISONERS

For example, Carpenter’s (2003) rearch shows that oby gay mal tends to crease the likelihood of a partnered relatnship pared to the likelihood for straight men, even when ntrollg for the overall lower percentag of partnerships among gay men. At least one analysis suggts that gay mal may actually be at a greater risk of beg unrweight and malnourished to meet this “body fascist ‘no pecs; no sex’ world of metropolan gay masculy” (Richardson, 2015: 646). (2015) found that mal who are gay are ls likely to engage strenuo physil activy, perhaps for siar reasons as those for straight women, so as to be more appealg to rults of the limed rearch are mixed; some fd that sexual mory stat is associated wh healthier weights (Tuthill et al., 2020).

GAY FAT

Rearchers have also documented other health related trends wh dispari between mal who are gay and mal who are straight, cludg a higher cince of smokg, creased accs to healthre, and creased mental health issu, which might impact weight and the cince of oby (Carpenter, 2003; Laska et al., 2015; Sang et al., 2021; Tuthill et al., 2020) this chapter, we attempt to addrs some of the voids and overe some of the nsistenci the lerature jt reviewed.

MeasurWe now discs the qutnnaire ems om the NSFG that we will e our analysis of gay mal and straight mal pertag to the three most mon dimensns of sexual orientatn, namely, sexual behavr, sexual attractn, and sexual self-intifitn. We have tegorized gay mal as those who are only or who are maly attracted to mal, while straight mal are those who report they are only or are maly attracted to femal.