A recent study om Brazil shows how gay and bisexual men’s attus toward masculy and femy affect their mental health.
Contents:
- 6 STEPS TOWARDS WHOLE-HEARTEDLY LOVG YOURSELF AS A FEME GAY MAN
- THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL FEME GAY MEN OUT THERE.
- GAY MEN DISCRIMATE AGAST FEME GAY MEN, NEW STUDY FDS
6 STEPS TOWARDS WHOLE-HEARTEDLY LOVG YOURSELF AS A FEME GAY MAN
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Published: 26 June 2018 Tags: Femy, Gay, #MyFemmeSelf, Hor By Jam Harris. looks at the importance of talkg about the issue of femy the gay. #MyFemmeSelf is Hor’s new mpaign to fight toxic masculy the gay muny.
Problematic statements like “no fems, ” “no queens” or “masc4masc” equently ed on datg apps only foreground the need to challenge the prejudice faced by mp, feme gay men om members of their own muny. The associatn between mp, feme quali men and male homosexualy is eply graed. Consequently, mp/feme men are often tomatilly tegorised as gay (or at least placed on the ‘maybe’ pile), visible a way that other, more mascule, ‘straight-actg’ gay men are not.
THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL FEME GAY MEN OUT THERE.
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This n attract homophobic attentn, which is possibly part of the reason why many gay men feel the need to ‘pass’ as straight; to avoid beg sgled out as a target for abe, judgement and discrimatn.
However, the ncept of ‘passg’ as straight (or even as a certa genr if you’re trans) is highly troublg; impli that beg both feme and male, and/or homosexual is shameful and unsirable. It also impli that there’s an patibily between homosexualy and masculy, that masculy is an exclively heterosexual male tra – which is accurate, bee mascule gay men exist.
Historilly, homosexualy has been reprented – and even ridiculed – as a illy mp cliché, and so, unrstandably, many gay men wanted to distance themselv om such rtrictive, rctive stereotyp.
GAY MEN DISCRIMATE AGAST FEME GAY MEN, NEW STUDY FDS
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The problem is that homosexual male mpns and effemacy was portrayed such an unflatterg, pejorative way that accurate negative nnotatns (i. In an overwrought attempt to pe such negative nnotatns of femy appears that, many gay men (and ed men general) have ventured too far the oppose directn, supprsg the feme sis of their nature the procs. Any gay men wh even remotely prejudiced attus towards mp, feme guys should ask themselv why, and answer hontly.
They may disver that trac back to their own ternalised homophobia (y that old parase), an upwellg of misguid self-hate redirected onto others.