Both gay men and heterosexual men prefer mascule-prentg men for high-stat rol, acrdg to a new study om the Universy of Sydney, leavg more feme-prentg gay men disadvantaged and facg ternal bias, prejudice and potential discrimatn the workplace, cludg hirg practic and promotn opportuni.
Contents:
- EVEN GAY MEN PREFER STRAIGHT-ACTG MEN LEARSHIP ROL: STUDY
- THE END OF GAY MEN BEG MP
- GAY MEN PREFER A MORE "STRAIGHT-ACTG" GAY MAN FOR HIGH-STAT ROL, STUDY FDS
- HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
- STRAIGHT ACTG: POPULAR GAY DRAMA OM WIL TO RATTIGAN. BY SEAN O'CONNOR. LONDON: CASSELL, 1998. PP. IX + 245. £16.99 PB.
- 20 GREAT ROL: OUR FAVORE STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS
EVEN GAY MEN PREFER STRAIGHT-ACTG MEN LEARSHIP ROL: STUDY
<strong>Kev Troughton:</strong> Effemate gay men are an creasgly rare sight now the 'straight-actg' are the ascenncy * straight acting gay *
So-lled feme-actg men face discrimatn om not only heterosexual male peers but also gay men, acrdg to a new study om the Universy of Sydney Atralia.
Gerrard told the male actors the fake travel ad to read the script both a “mascule-gay” manner and a “feme-gay” manner.
THE END OF GAY MEN BEG MP
* straight acting gay *
Gerrard told the actors to manipulate their voice, posture, and hand movements to align wh what they believed to be more typilly male or typilly creatg the different ads, a group of 256 gay and straight men viewed the vios and were asked to pluck out a “lear” bt sued to reprent Sydney.
Gerrard, who published his rearch the peer-reviewed journal Sex Rol, viewed his fdgs as an dictment of misogyny and ternalized homophobia. "Gay men are potentially blockg each other om posns of power and learship due to this implic bias, " Gerrard told "Men are still expected to nform to more tradnal mascule styl of learship and if they fail to sufficiently project mascule tras they are at risk of stat penalti.
This is an example of ternalized homophobia among the gay muny and impacts opportuni for the gay men. "This homophobic bias is puttg prsure on feme-prentg gay men to nform so they might be passable as a heterosexual man, " Mr. "What we need is an crease thentic reprentatn of empowered feme-prentg gay men—pecially the media: orr to unter misrmed bias regardg their abily to lead.
GAY MEN PREFER A MORE "STRAIGHT-ACTG" GAY MAN FOR HIGH-STAT ROL, STUDY FDS
Indulge your most extreme stereotype of the effemate gay man, and you won't be far occurs to me, sudnly, that there seem to be fewer of the very feme typ around the days. Most of the gay men I know or see around me aren't mp at all: you wouldn't pick them out as gay at work, the supermarket, or even at the hairdrsers.
A small cy like me, where the gay scene amounts to one bar and a men-only ballroom dancg class, is perhaps not the place for flamboyancy to flourish. Has he veloped this persona rponse to what he se as the expectatns of the gay scene, or is geilly pretermed, as evable as his eye lour or whether he'll lose his hair?
HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
If was a straight pub I would have expected this, but this is a gay bar, and virtually all the men here are gay men fd "mp" entertag, funny – attractive, even, as a personaly tra their iends and acquatanc. "Mascule" gay men are the ascenncy; the datg webs are full of them, and the "straight-actg" tag is there the first sentence of the profile, even before GSOH.
STRAIGHT ACTG: POPULAR GAY DRAMA OM WIL TO RATTIGAN. BY SEAN O'CONNOR. LONDON: CASSELL, 1998. PP. IX + 245. £16.99 PB.
Rearch has shown that 20 tim more gay men who vis datg s want a "mascule" or "straight-actg" partner than a "femme".
Even the vast majory of gay men who intify as effemate prefer mascule men as sexual partners, acrdg to a study by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn. Why should gay men choose a phrase like that to scribe themselv? For many gay men "straight-actg" is highly attractive, but "straight" is even more so.
20 GREAT ROL: OUR FAVORE STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS
It's clear and scriptive, and 's f for purpose, providg that you n overlook the implitn that "-actg" means you're jt puttg what of this mascule gay man?
He isn't new, of urse, he's always been there, pecially the leather subculture, but now he's mastream, nfint and cril of the short-gs of the mp--up gay scene. He had been to Birmgham Pri to work on the stall of a gay outdoor pursus group.
"Oh, was all right bee I was by, but 's a b gay for me. Perhaps we should be pleased to see go, an unnecsary relic of a time when gay men risked prosecutn and when a lisp and a limp wrist were a relatively safe way of munitg your sexualy to other men. Or maybe would be a sell-out, allowg ourselv to be railroad to behavg like straight men – and, what is more, the kd of straight men who are most likely to give homophobic abe or a beatg.