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Contents:
- 6 STEPS TOWARDS WHOLE-HEARTEDLY LOVG YOURSELF AS A FEME GAY MAN
- THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL FEME GAY MEN OUT THERE.
- THE ‘GAY GLASS CEILG’ IS REAL: HERE’S WHY FEME MEN GET OVERLOOKED FOR LEARSHIP ROL, REARCHERS SAY
- ‘GAY GLASS CEILG’: WHY MORE FEME MEN GET PASSED OVER FOR LEARSHIP ROL
- THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL FEME GAY MEN OUT THERE.
6 STEPS TOWARDS WHOLE-HEARTEDLY LOVG YOURSELF AS A FEME GAY MAN
A recent study om Brazil shows how gay and bisexual men’s attus toward masculy and femy affect their mental health. * feminized gay *
Queer men who harbor negative attus about effemacy suffer om ternalized homophobia more than those who don’t, acrdg to a report the journal Trends Psychology.
“The biggt surpris were related [to] the tensy of the associatn between ternalized homophobia and anti-effemacy, ” Mozer M. All were over 18, intified as eher gay or bisexual, and were separated to two groups: those who saw themselv as maly mascule and those who saw themselv as primarily feme.
THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL FEME GAY MEN OUT THERE.
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THE ‘GAY GLASS CEILG’ IS REAL: HERE’S WHY FEME MEN GET OVERLOOKED FOR LEARSHIP ROL, REARCHERS SAY
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”The survey asssed negative attus towards effemacy, ternalized homophobia, and outns and found that negative attus toward effemacy n e shame, self-hatred, and hostily towards others, while ternalized homophobia n e mental health issu like anxiety, prsn, and low self teem. Internalized homophobia also wh “elements of sexism, prejudice agast women and femy, ” acrdg to sum, the men who sired to be more mascule had the most negative attus toward effemacy, srg over 10 pots higher than their effemate peers. On a sle that measured ternalized homophobia, they sred almost 3.
“Those who are not fortable wh how effemate they are and would like to be or appear more mascule (even if they publicly intify themselv as non-effemate) also tend to have higher rat of ternalized homophobia, ” Ramos told them. And this data giv a clue as to how the rejectn of femy is actually nnected wh the rejectn of the gay inty. Another important takeaway om the study, Costa add, is that ternalized homophobia n be thought of as more than jt a rejectn of one’s sexual orientatn.
‘GAY GLASS CEILG’: WHY MORE FEME MEN GET PASSED OVER FOR LEARSHIP ROL
Mascule bias is prent among gay and straight men, acrdg to new rearch, and ’s havg an effect on feme men’s reers * feminized gay *
”The good news: We n prevent ternalized homophobia by tg ourselv and beg more aware. ”Rearchers are fdg that racism, petn, and a fixatn on sex wh the gay and bi muny are drivg anxiety and thors note that the study ntaed some bld spots, sce looked only at Brazilian men, and attus around genr n vary between cultur and ethnici. In Lat Ameri and particularly Brazil, “ is very mon that, om the pot of view of those who exprs prejudice, social norms related to genr overlap norms related to sexualy, ” said Costa claimed the LGBTQ+ muny has done a “great job” at rcg prejudice around sexualy, has yet to grapple wh genr “hierarchi” that overvalue mascule exprsn and value those that are seen as feme, he explaed, addg that the stereotyp are often “reified” through media everyone, not jt queer people, needs to play a role rcg ternalized homophobia, acrdg to Ramos.
“It is important to create a ls homophobic society, rememberg that is not possible to do this by reproducg hierarchi wh the mory group self.
When I was a teenager, I was volly adamant about not beg attracted to other feme gay boys. I knew I talked like what people image gay men talk like.
THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL FEME GAY MEN OUT THERE.
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No one celebrated feme gay men, and I wasn’t strong or pennt enough to stand on my own and celebrate myself. I thought myself above the stereotyp – I was not like those gays, I told myself.
I saw other feme gay boys as ritur and myself as a fully three-dimensnal person. I tried sperately to expla my thought procs, hopg somehow that my distaste for feme gay men was jtified – that I would still be the right. I didn’t fd all the answers that night, or the next week, or month, but he set me on the path to self-love, out of the shadow of an unfortunately homonormative fluence.
I loathe g the word victim, but seems the most accurate terms of the young, feme gay male experience – an experience which we’re never even given a shot to love ourselv bee we’re told not to om the start.