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Contents:

• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN PREFER MASCULE-PRENTG GAY MEN FOR A HIGH-STAT ROLE: EVINCE FROM AN ELOGILLY VALID EXPERIMENT
• ROSS MATHEWS: GAY PEOPLE 'WANTED ME OFF TV'
• SYNONYMS OF GAY

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

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GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN PREFER MASCULE-PRENTG GAY MEN FOR A HIGH-STAT ROLE: EVINCE FROM AN ELOGILLY VALID EXPERIMENT

In the 60s, Lesch was the print of a gay rights anizatn lled the Mattache Society and me up wh the “Sip-In” – a monstratn held at New York Cy bars that banned service to out gay people.

Lesch scribed nti as “agg or middle-aged homosexuals, offtim effemate character” and people of “settled meanor who utns agast temperate acts”. Another siar term, “light the loafers”, is a somewhat rogatory phrase that is ed to scribe someone who acts or appears to be gay.

The drag fai beme a refuge for gay, trans, and genr non-nformg youth who were turned away by their own fai or experienced homelsns due to poverty. Neverthels, evince suggts that feme-prentg gay men are still disadvantaged pared to gay men who prent a more tradnally mascule way. Whereas most studi on perceptns of feme-prentg gay men have manipulated genr nonnformy via wrten scriptns, rearch suggts that behavural cu such as voice and body-language n migate or exacerbate prejudice toward a stereotyped dividual.

ROSS MATHEWS: GAY PEOPLE 'WANTED ME OFF TV'

In the current study, d-visual stimuli were created to vtigate how mascule vers feme behavur would impact stat endowment om other gay and heterosexual men.

48: half gay; half heterosexual) st, om a selectn of six vio-taped ndidat, one gay man to play a lead role a purported ad for a tourism mpaign. For heterosexual men, the preference for mascule-prentg actors was predicted by greater anti-gay sentiment, whereas ternalised anti-gay prejudice did not predict a preference for mascule-prentatn among gay men.

This associatn between masculy and stat endowment has plex implitns for gay men, given the prevailg stereotype that they are more feme pared to heterosexual men (Ke & Dx, 1987; Lippa, 2000; Mchell & Ellis, 2011; Sanchez et al., 2009) Men and the Feme StereotypeSuch a stereotype reflects, to some extent, average differenc genr-typily between gay and heterosexual men. Gay men monstrate signifintly more tert tradnally feme hobbi and occupatns than heterosexual men (Bailey et al., 2016; Lippa, 2000; Lippa & Connelly, 1990). As a rult, gay men often ternalise negative beliefs about male femy (‘femmephobia’), and behavurally femise, to some extent, to avoid negative treatment.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

Policg of masculy among gay men is not only self-directed; there is also evince of prejudice toward more feme gay men om wh the gay muny (Bailey et al., 1997; Hunt et al., 2016) Penalti for Feme Gay MenContemporary theori of effective learship have challenged the perceived virtu of masculy.

Furthermore, has been argued that gay men reprent potentially strong ndidat for learship bee they are more likely to posss such tras (Ste, 2013).

Neverthels, masculy – as a central characteristic of stat potential – ntu to permeate ntemporary nscns (Koenig et al., 2011), wh negative impacts on gay male stat attament. Theoretil explanatns for the fdgs nsistently foc on the possibily that gay men elic such discrimatn bee of the stereotype that they are feme and are therefore perceived as ls equipped to occupy higher-stat posns social hierarchi, such as the workplace (Ke & Dx, 1987; Lord et al., 1984).