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10 SIGNS YOUR BROMANCE IS ACTUALLY A GAY RELATNSHIP
Could gay guys be the ultimate wg men for their straight, male iends? * is a bromance gay *
Their homosocial bondg exceeds ual male iendships and, some circumstanc, match or surpass heterosexual romance.
IS BROMANCE GAY?
* is a bromance gay *
There’s nothg really gay about … Not that there’s anythg wrong wh beg gay. Diamond noted that passnate iendships among men are nsired un-mascule and culturally problematic bee “highly timate and affectnate same-genr iendships are more likely to engenr spicn of homosexualy when they occur between men than when they occur between women.
” Whereas women n be passnate wh each other and stay straight, if men are passnate wh each other, they are tagged gay. Bromance might have been vented as a ver, an acceptable cultural script manufactured to let men be emotnally vulnerable wh each other while beg protected om the stigma of gayns. Gay Men’s Friendships: Invcible Communi.
For a long time, iendships between gay men and straight men – what some now ll “bromosexual” iendships – were unmon. Homophobia was likely one reason; another was that straight men probably assumed they didn’t have much mon wh gay men.