Michelle Davi, Correlat of Negative Attus toward Gay Men: Sexism, Male Role Norms, and Male Sexualy, The Journal of Sex Rearch, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Aug., 2004), pp. 259-266
Contents:
AMBIVALENT SEXISM AND GAY MEN THE US AND UK
Y, sexism do exist wh the gay muny * gay sexism *
This study exam the tersectn of genr, sexualy, and natnaly to unrstand possible sexist attus of gay men the US and UK. Introductn“Gay men are as misogynistic as straight men, if not more so…” quipped actor Rose McGowan durg a podst terview 2014 (Fris 2014, para. The ment ma headl and sparked onle bat about gay men and their attus towards women (e.
Even though McGowan later apologized for generalizg gay men (Hare 2014), the cint challenged the myth gay men nnot be misogynistic, or more generally sexist.
Comprised are specific exampl such as negative stereotyp of women that are sometim enacted popular culture like on Rupl’s Drag Race (Tabberer 2017), the firg of a Gay Tim magaze edor for sexist and anti-Semic tweets (Rudgard 2017), Stephen Fry’s public ments about women cludg his view on why women do not enjoy sex (Newkey-Burn 2016), Milo Yiannopoulos’ nstant misogyny agast women (Lopez 2017), and so forth. Televisn and film have also normalized male privilege through proment whe gay cisgenr male characters, overlookg lbian, bisexual, and transgenr viewpots (Shugart 2003). HuffPost blogger Donovan (2017) argu that given the abundance of negative gay stereotyp, the exampl should not be labeled as gay sexism, but rather sexism by gay men.
Y, SEXISM DO EXIST WH THE GAY MUNY
However, plitns exist when discsg the shortgs of an already margalized group, such as gay men (Donovan (2017).
The challenge for rearchers is to intify potentially harmful negative attus towards women by gay men whout overgeneralizg, spegoatg, or fettg the heterosexism gay men face (Simoni and Walters 2001). Further nfoundg this issue is prev rearch that shows sexism and homophobic or anti-gay attus are often rrelated.