Gay Ballet: Two Men Defyg Tradns the Dance World

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An 11-year-old boy known as "Dmond Is Amazg" danced on stage at a New York gay bar while grown men tossed dollar bills at him.

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VIO OF YOUNG BOY DANCG SEXUALLY STREETS AS ‘GAY’ PRI ATTEN CHEER RAISG CONCERNS

A vio recently posted to YouTube that shows a young boy dancg a sexual manner durg a "gay" pri event while onlookers cheered him on is raisg * dancing gay boys *

He is wrg a book on homosexualism, which is the polil doctre and dogma of the gay rights movement. The story prted here, which so far as he n tell hasn’t happened yet, is an example of homosexualism at work.

If the events picted the story were to happen tomorrow California, they would be said to be harmony wh, and required by, that State’s new laws about teachg gay rights the schools. The homosexualists would rise to the fense of the same-sex dance class, and they would acce their opponents of beg narrow-md, tolerant, and bigoted – and the media would play that way.

Scholars attribute this phenomenon to the historil velopment of dance and s associatn wh male homosexualy, women, and femy; the perceptn of male dancg bodi and prevalent notns of masculy; and the stigmatizatn of the men who dance. The former are wily perceived as strong, athletic, and well-shaped, while the latter are seen, by other boys particular, as “weird, potls, or gay” (Gard, 2008, p.

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While the quali associated wh hegemonic masculy may vary pendg on era or lotn, most s, boys and young men who participate dance are nsired gay and/or effemate.

79); factors such as homophobia, machismo, and the repudiatn of femy posn them at the bottom of the hierarchy of masculi, where they enjoy the least power and prtige (Connell, 2005; Ingram and Waller, 2014; Kimmel, 1994; Plummer, 1999; Roberts, 2014; Segal, 1993) scholars fd that many young men and school-aged boys monstrate hegemonic masculy schools by engagg homophobic acts and rejectg anythg associated wh femy (Haywood and Mac an Ghaill, 2003; Pase, 2007, 2013; Richardson, 2010). Others, however, have documented a shift perceptns regardg masculy, suggtg an creased tenncy for gay-clivy, particularly among that same mographic (Anrson, 2013; Anrson et al., 2012; McCormack, 2012; McCormack and Anrson, 2010). Anrson (2009), for stance, argu that young men n creasgly engage practic wily associated wh femy and symbols of homosexualy whout experiencg margalizatn and disapproval precisely bee homohysteria has cled.

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Further, they strs that Anrson’s overly optimistic arguments fail to pture the hidn procs through which homophobia still functns ( Boise, 2015; Ingram and Waller, 2014; O’Neill, 2015). Those boys who do engage “feme” activi risk beg labeled as “queer, ” “poof, ” and “gay” (Risner, 2007), “cissy. This sort of challenge to genr norms ntu to be wily punishable for young men and boys (Kane, 2006), who are often subjected to homophobic bullyg and harassment.

The terview data prented here prise part of a larger qualative study, which clud terviews wh male dance stunts, profsnal dancers, and choreographers, and observatn profsnal dance stutns Stland as I sought to explore the nstctn and negotiatn of masculy and sexualy a sphere that remas wily regard as femized, female-ncentrated, and welg of gay men (see Christofidou, 2021). Further, the procs of participant recment rulted an equal reprentatn of men self-intifyg as heterosexual and those who intified themselv as gay or bisexual. It was normal for most boys to “play gby” (Le) and “football” (Craig), which is what most boys actually did (Renold, 2005) (2009a) explaed the self-reported experience of feelg different among boys pre-profsnal dance trag by notg heterocentric cultural beliefs and homophobic attus.

Even the youngt participants said that before they beme volved, they perceived dance as an activy “for girls and gay boys” (Gregory). This directly ntradicts claims suggtg that young men n creasgly engage practic wily associated wh femy and symbols of homosexualy whout endurg disapproval (Anrson, 2009; Anrson and McCormack 2018).

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Rather, participants’ experienc monstrate a ntug tenncy toward hierarchil behavrs and cultural norms that divi actns to mascule or feme, gay or straight. The regulatn of young masculi and femi often emerg om homophobic verbal, emotnal, and physil bullyg, genr-based and sexualized forms of microaggrsns, and the policg of children who viate om genr-appropriate scripts (Levque, 2016; Pase, 2013; Renold, 2004; Rgrose and Renold, 2010).

Bee others assumed that they were gay, their sexual inty was qutned and, ed, surveilled (Risner, 2009a). As Risner (2009c) scrib, “stigma is tied to mal who dance, ” “rultg stereotyp that label male dancers as effemate, homosexual and not real men” (p. 3), a belief that may be attributed to the ntug nstctn of (hegemonic) masculy as the oppose of both femy and male homosexualy (Connell, 2005; Kimmel and Msner 2010).

Craig’s story reveals his difficulty g out, both as a male dancer and as a gay man:While I was still at school, boys jt didn’t dance, you know. That was a hard thg to say, and I thk that, not that the two thgs are related, but I thk g to the fact that I was gay at the same time ma even more one of the youngt men participatg this study, Craig’s experience refut Anrson’s (2009) assertn of clg homophobia and the softeng of masculi (McCormack, 2012, 2014). Rather, seems that heterosexualy remas a prerequise of normative masculi, which creat addnal challeng for the young men who both dance and self-intify as gay.

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60) which they are forced to negotiate their dancg on the one hand, and their gay inty, on the other olr men this study felt that dancg was, perhaps, more difficult when they were younger, as they began dancg at a time when society was tensely homophobic and disapprovg of anythg feme men (Connell, 2005; Kimmel, 1994). Nohels, the younger men’s stori reveal the negative experienc that boys who dance ntue to enunter, and highlight the e of homophobic teasg and bullyg as a means to regulate young men’s behavrs, practic, and ways of beg, unterg claims that mascule hierarchi are beg Pleasure of DancgDpe the stigma, ridicule, and physil, verbal, and emotnal harassment they enuntered, all participants went on to dance profsnally.

Dpe the specific strategi ed, the tend out remaed the same: first, to avoid beg seen as different om most boys and young men, and send, to avoid beg labeled as gay and/or effemate (Anrson, 2008; Knight and Giulano, 2003; Msner, 2002; Pase, 2003; Polasek and Roper, 2011). I still got lled nam like gay and the more nasty nam but ls for the dancg and more jt bee I ed to do ’ cisn to lie was rmed by the negative experienc he had endured bee of his dancg.

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