The Danvers High School hockey team allegedly enforced "Gay Tudays," where players were orred to get naked and touch each other.
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THE 'GAY' SI OF HAZG
I was a young gay man hopg universy athletics would help me f . Then the oil wrtlg began * gay hazing free *
Jús Ian KumamotoIn her prentatn entled “Whe Heteromasculy, Anal Rilience, and the Erotic Spectacle of Repulsn”, Jane Ward, thor and explorer of genr at the Universy of California Riversi, shows a ptive NYU dience provotive imag of the whe Amerin heterosexual male’s obssn wh homoerotic acts. Ward’s book “Not Gay: Sex between Straight Whe Men” was published last July, and Tuday night’s talk was an extensn of the topics vered the work. At the talk, Ward discsed the homosexual ntact between straight whe mal as a part of hazg ruals and how affects their heteromasculy.
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“Hazg creat a ‘not gay’ ntext which straight men n touch each other’s bodi and bolster their heteromasculy at the same time, ” Ward said. What isn't beg talked about much is the elephant the room, the issue that most people are thkg about when they hear about stori of what sports teams are dog to one another ually at night behd those closed doors: Both latent homosexualy and homophobia are playg a huge role the hazg abe our kids are experiencg, and our societal standards that dictate what a "real man" is are to blame.
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Whether 's sodomizg them or makg them wear women's panti, the notn of forcg younger players to subm to team veterans right out of the handbook of anti-gay stereotyp. Many of the acts that younger players are submted to are also homoerotic or homosexual.