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. “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.

“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. 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.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

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). 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.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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.

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).

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

(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). 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. We further rtrict our analys to those who also have valid rpons on the var dimensns of sexualy, th rultg analytic sampl of 3675 mal g the behavr dimensn of sexualy, 4028 mal g the attractn dimensn, and 3960 mal g the self-intifitn mentn one last fal pot about the analys to be prented below of oby and overweight among gay male and straight male rponnts g data om the 2017–2019 NSFG. RultsWe beg our analysis by examg the distributn of the BMI tegori among gay mal and straight mal; we do this three tim, tegorizg the mal as gay or straight each time acrdg to each of the three sexualy dimensns.

After unrtakg the scriptive analys, we turn to logistic regrsn analys timatg equatns wh a pennt variable of sexual orientatn (gay or straight) and wh the pennt variabl of obe (one set of equatns) or obe/overweight (send set of equatns); each set ntas three equatns, one for each of the three sexualy first prent the scriptive analys. We exame the distributn of all five body mass x (BMI) tegori among the gay male and straight male populatns to terme whether the distributns differ signifintly among the two populatns. In sum, pared to straight mal, gay mal tend to be more characterized by normal weight and ls characterized by overweight and terme whether there is a statistilly signifint difference the distributn of the five BMI tegori among the gay mal pared to the distributn among the straight mal, we lculated a Pearson χ2 statistic which was then rrected for the survey sign wh a “send-orr rrectn” (Rao & Stt, 1984), and nverted to an F statistic.

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

23 dit that the gay male and straight male groups, tegorized by the behavr dimensn of sexualy, do not differ signifintly wh rpect to the distributn of the five BMI 16.

1 Distributns of BMI tegori among gay mal and straight mal, 20–49 years of age by each of three dimensns of sexualy: 2017–2019 Natnal Survey of Fay Growth (Survey adjted g NSFG rponnt samplg weights)Full size tableWe next exame the distributns of the BMI tegori among gay and straight mal, tegorized as beg eher straight or gay acrdg to the attractn dimensn of sexualy. Of the male rponnts the NSFG who are between the ag of 20 and 49 (meang they have valid BMI data), 4028 may be signated as gay or straight acrdg to the sexual attractn dimensn. As wh the behavral dimensn, those men classified as gay on the basis of sexual attractn have much higher levels of normal weight, and they have ls overweight and oby pared to men who are attracted to women.

But, only the analysis classifyg the sexual orientatn of the rponnts acrdg to the sexual attractn dimensn did we fd the distributn of the BMI tegori for gay mal to be signifintly different om the distributn for straight now foc on the oby and overweight variabl our parisons of gay mal wh straight mal. 0 or higher, and 0 if tegorized as unrweight or normal rather than lculatg chi-squared statistics based on cross-tabulatns of each of the two variabl wh whether the mal are gay or straight, as we reported Table 16. 1, we opted to f a logistic regrsn equatn wh the gay male dummy variable (gay male = 1) as the pennt variable, and the oby dummy variable (obe = 1) as the pennt variable one equatn, and then the overweight/obe dummy variable as the pennt variable a send equatn.

FAT GAY MEN AND FEMALE EX-PRISONERS

2 we prent the rults of one logistic regrsn equatn examg the log odds relatnship between the dummy variable of gay male and the pennt variable of oby, and then the rults of a send logistic regrsn equatn but wh the pennt variable of overweight or obe.

2 prents for gay mal and straight mal, so signated acrdg to the behavr dimensn of sexualy, the log equatn rults of the gay male dummy variable regrsed on the obe dummy variable; and next the rults of the equatn regrsg the gay male dummy variable on the overweight or obe dummy variable. 2 Logistic regrsn equatn efficients of gay mal vers straight mal on the pennt variable of oby (y/no), and on the pennt variable of overweight or oby (y/no), by each of three dimensns of sexualy: 2017–2019 Natnal Survey of Fay Growth (Survey adjted g NSFG rponnt samplg weights)Full size tableIn the middle panel of Table 16.

The rults om the send equatn rm that the overweight or obe pennt variable is signifintly related wh a male beg gay vers beg straight; the log efficient has a value of −0.

GAY FAT

2, we aga f two logistic regrsn equatns wh the pennt variable of the male beg gay vers beg straight; but the gay/straight classifitn the two equatns is based on the mal’ self-intifitn of their sexualy. Acrdg to the self-intifitn dimensn of sexualy, gay mal are signifintly ls likely than straight mal to be obe or this sectn, we nducted two separate analys of gay mal and straight mal, each time signatg the mal as gay or as straight acrdg to one of three dimensns of sexual orientatn. We first classified the mal as gay or straight acrdg to their sexual behavr, we next classified them as gay or straight acrdg to their sexual attractn, and lastly, we classified them acrdg to their sexual self-intifitn.