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Contents:

• GAY STEREOTYP AND THE PRSUR THAT LGBTQ+ PEOPLE N FEEL TO EHER ACCEPT OR REBEL
• GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
• STEREOTYP, EMOTNS, AND BEHAVRS TOWARD LBIANS, GAY MEN, BISEXUAL WOMEN, AND BISEXUAL MEN
• WHAT ABOUT THE GUYS WHO DO F THE 'GAY STEREOTYPE'?
• 15 STEREOTYP THAT LIM OUR PERCEPTNS OF GAY MEN
• WHAT DO PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT GAY MAL? A STUDY OF STEREOTYPE NTENT AND STRENGTH
• GAY BRAS STCTURED LIKE THOSE OF THE OPPOSE SEX

GAY STEREOTYP AND THE PRSUR THAT LGBTQ+ PEOPLE N FEEL TO EHER ACCEPT OR REBEL

When the Met Gala rolled out s annual red-rpet fashn show New York last month, the theme was “mp” – that elive qualy of exaggeratn or theatrily that has, sce Osr Wil’s day if not before, been associated wh homosexualy. Arguments raged among stylists and the gay muny over whether the Kardashians were drsed full mp regalia (note: Kris Jenner was mp already), along wh Jared Leto and Harry n, of urse, be found almost anywhere – om old black-and-whe mils to Eurovisn – but this event was an unprecented celebratn of mp the mastream.

The prsure to act straight vers the worry of ‘straight washg’On the one hand, society polic gay people for allegedly tryg to prent themselv as straight. Democratic printial ndidate and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at Capal Cy Pri Ft D Mo, Iowa (Photo: Stt Olson/Getty Imag)There aga, some gay people still actively choose to panr to stereotyp. “It’s absolutely shockg I end up beg gay, ” he said wryly, rercg the ia that some tast are perceived to be typilly MP Chris Bryant (Photo: Oli Srff/Getty Imag)When I was rearchg my book Queer Intentns, which explor how far LGBTQ+ acceptance really extends, I met gay men om the Middle East who wanted to exprs a more mp si of their character but uldn’t out of fear for their safety, alongsi gay men om the US who felt “trapped” by the ia that they might need to be flamboyant orr to somehow f as gay.

GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?

Yet a history of “pulsory heterosexualy” has meant that gay people have long been punished for appearg gay, Ghaziani explas, and have therefore been prsured to “act straight”. Matthew Todd, a former edor of Attu magaze and thor of Straight Jacket: How to be Gay and Happy, has experienced the prsur himself. He explas that, growg up gay London the 80s, he reacted to threats by eher beg mp, flamboyant and funny – “playg up to a gay cliché so that people would lgh at me stead of hurtg me” – or else he “beme far ‘ls gay’” so that people would not hurt him.

There are untls labels to scribe one’s genr or sexualy (Facebook has 76 genr optns) and gay culture is largely embraced by the mastream – jt look at the astronomil populary of the TV show RuPl’s Drag and fellow producers at the Crics’ Choice Real TV Awards Beverly Hills (Photo: Alberto E.

STEREOTYP, EMOTNS, AND BEHAVRS TOWARD LBIANS, GAY MEN, BISEXUAL WOMEN, AND BISEXUAL MEN

We are gradually movg beyond the one-dimensnal reprentatns that he, part, blam for perpetuatg the stereotype: the “sissy” characters popular early Hollywood films, and the 70s and 80s films where gay men were eher viants or killers or else victims of vlence. Recently, I’ve bee aware of LGBTQ+ club nights judgg who is and isn’t “gay enough” – on the basis of beg sufficiently flamboyant – to enter on the basis of their appearance. ” And I know untls feme-prentg lbians who are told they n’t be gay, or they mt at least be bisexual, bee they “look or act so straight”.

15, 2006 — -- Gay activists often cricize media verage of gay pri paras, sayg, rrectly, that the media foc on the extreme, the more flamboyantly feme men and very mascule women. Not all straight men are bad drsers, " he is rearch that suggts gay men do prefer certa profsns, like fashn, terr sign and hair lorg, and that lbians are more likely to prefer sports and the ary.

Rearchers say 's bee lbians, on average, are attracted to more mascule occupatns, and gay men tend to prefer more feme is te that hostily toward gay people drove many away om some other profsns. "Whether you work, you know, as an artist or a sger or a dancer, those are all really creative plac where gay people are embraced, " Krsley saidIncreasgly gay people are visible every profsn. And probably has to do wh the of sexual orientatn and early effects of hormon on the bra, " Bailey did a survey of profsnal dancers and found half the men were gay.

WHAT ABOUT THE GUYS WHO DO F THE 'GAY STEREOTYPE'?

You n tell far better than chance who's a gay man om jt listeng to him say four sentenc, " Bailey Bailey's help, "20/20" ran a tt 2004 to see if people uld tell who was gay and who was straight.

The man who most people thought was straight was actually people do thk that gay men are more promiscuo than straight men, and fact, Bailey said, gay men do have more sex partners. "I thk that the typil straight man would have as many sex partners as the typil gay man if he uld, " Bailey, we asked Bailey, isn't stereotypg harmful? "The simple answer is that queer and gay photography is grossly unrreprented the fe art world, and even more so the mastream media.

15 STEREOTYP THAT LIM OUR PERCEPTNS OF GAY MEN

Heterosexual adults pleted a survey measurg stereotyp, emotns, and behavral tennci toward lbians, gay men, bisexual women, and bisexual men. But people should also be acceptg of men, gay or straight, who don't nform to tradnal genr Los Angel Galaxy midfielr Robbie Rogers took the pch on Sunday, he beme the first openly gay man to play on a major profsnal team the U.

(Danny Moloshok/Rters)A uple weeks ago, Mark Carson, a 32-year-old gay man drsed a tank top, cut-off shorts, and boots, was walkg wh his iend the Wt Village when they were approached by Ellt Moral. " Moral followed the men down the street shoutg anti-gay slurs before fatally shootg Carson at pot-blank range jt blocks om the Stonewall Inn.

There have been 29 reported this year, up om 14 the same perd last year, even as hate crim overall have cled durg that time by almost 30 recent uptick anti-gay vlence also durg the same month that three more stat passed laws legalizg same-sex marriage and jt weeks after NBA veteran Jason Colls revealed that he is gay—and was largely greeted wh open arms by the sports world. When he took the pch a Los Angel Galaxy match on Sunday night, he beat Colls to the punch to bee the first openly gay athlete to play a major U.

WHAT DO PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT GAY MAL? A STUDY OF STEREOTYPE NTENT AND STRENGTH

Men's profsnal moment of staggerg ntradictns seems like a good time to take stock of how far we have—and haven't—e dismantlg homophobia. But Ayanbajo got to the heart of why the importance of a figure like Jason Colls extends beyond the celebry factor: "People thk gayns has somethg to do wh femy when really we jt need to erase that stereotype om our mds, " he said.

GAY BRAS STCTURED LIKE THOSE OF THE OPPOSE SEX

And sce for women, we thk gayns "has somethg to do wh" masculy, we hold the opposg set of assumptns about female athlet: "In sports right now, there are two different stereotyp—that there are no gay male athlet, and every female athlete is a lbian, " Patrick Burke of the gay sports advocy group You Can Play explaed to the New York Tim. The news that Grer, who wore a whe tux on her 6-foot-8 ame at the WNBA draft, is gay didn't fundamentally challenge our notn that sexualy has somethg to do wh genr—and jt nfirmed the stereotyp we had about women who excel sports.

"Wh this ntext, the hope is that a high-profile gay male athlete—or, more realistilly, a few of them—uld fally smash the stereotype that "gay" equals "unmascule" once and for all.