How body ials shape the health of gay men

Contents:

• REPORTED EFFECTS OF MASCULE IALS ON GAY MEN
• GAY MEN’S (NON)MONOGAMY IALS AND LIVED EXPERIENCE
• A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
• HOW BODY IALS SHAPE THE HEALTH OF GAY MEN
• HETERONORMATIVY THE LIV OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER YOUNG PEOPLE
• WHY BODY IMAGE ISSU PERVA THE GAY COMMUNY
• REPORTED EFFECTS OF MASCULE IALS ON GAY MEN.
• 4 EASY AND ROMANTIC GAY DATE IAS:
• MCULARY AND THE GAY IAL: BODY DISSATISFACTN AND DISORRED EATG HOMOSEXUAL MEN
• IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
• IALS, NEGOTIATNS AND GENR ROL GAY AND LBIAN -PARENTG ARRANGEMENTS

REPORTED EFFECTS OF MASCULE IALS ON GAY MEN

This exploratory study ed nsensual qualative rearch methodology (Hill et al., 2005) to analyze what gay men associate wh masculy and femy, how they feel mascule ials affect their self-image, and how mascule ials affect their same-sex relatnships. Addnally, more adverse vers posive effects on self-image and same-sex romantic relatnships were reported cludg difficulty beg emotnal and affectnate, prsure to be physilly attractive, and prsure to appear mascule orr to be accepted by society and to be seen as sirable by other gay men.

GAY MEN’S (NON)MONOGAMY IALS AND LIVED EXPERIENCE

While rearch on gay men's experience wh masculy ntu, psychologists should nsir the possible fluence of tradnal mascule ials when nceptualizg their gay male clients.

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A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN

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HOW BODY IALS SHAPE THE HEALTH OF GAY MEN

In our study, rried out at Dalhoie Universy, gay men explored how culture fluenc the way they thk about food and their bodi through a procs lled Photovoice—an arts-based rearch methodology which participants subm their own photographs. The health nsequenc for gay men of not livg up to body ials have been prevly intified and clu disorred eatg, avoidance of sex, stigma, rejectn and isolatn.

Keywords: gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, genr, tersectnaly, sexualy, youth/emergg adulthoodHeteronormativy is fed as the prumptn and privilegg of genr nformy, heterosexualy, and nuclear fai over all other “viant” forms of genr exprsn, sexualy, and fai (Oswald, Kuvalanka, Blume, & Berkowz, 2009).

Ls rearch has explored how sexual mory young adults, fed as youth ag 18–24 who endorse a lbian, gay, bisexual, or queer inty, teract wh their social environments to subvert or reproduce heteronormativy. In the current study, we e the guidg ameworks of queer and tersectnal theori to exame how lbian, gay, bisexual, and queer young adults discs heteronormativy their life history narrativ to better unrstand how they scribe, unrme, and/or rerce heteronormativy. For example, this procs occurs when youth assert social posns of masculy and heterosexualy by engagg homophobic sexual harassment of genr nonnformg youth, regardls of whether or not the youth actually intify as gay (Hequembourg & Brallier, 2009; Marto, 2000; Pase, 2011; Way, 2011) fay theorists have broaned the e of queer ameworks to exame and crique how societal disurse creat, privileg, and stigmatiz particular fay stctur to further mata the social posns of masculy and heterosexualy (Allen & Menz, 2018; Oswald et al., 2009).

HETERONORMATIVY THE LIV OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER YOUNG PEOPLE

For stance, gay men and lbians are more likely to be genr nonnformg than heterosexual people (Li, Pollt, & Rsell, 2016), reject blogil parenthood (Goldberg, 2012), and endorse adoptn as a first choice for parenthood (Tyebjee, 2003).

WHY BODY IMAGE ISSU PERVA THE GAY COMMUNY

Queer embodiment of heteronormativy has created a polics of “homonormativy” that privileg same-genr attracted people who appear heteronormative, highlightg same-genr upl who are genr nformg, monogamo, and fay-oriented (Allen & Menz, 2018; Duggan, 2002). Sexual mory youth also value marriage (Sav-Williams, 2011) and expect to raise children (D’Augelli, Renda, Grossman, & Sclair, 2007), valu nsistent wh homonormativy; however, whether sexual mory young adults n or want to meet the expectatns n pend on other important inti.

Combg sampl of lbian, gay, and bisexual young adults whout examg distctns between and wh the groups ignor the important role that genr and heterosexualy norms play the liv of people at the margs, namely people of lor, transgenr people, bisexual people, and cisgenr women (Few-Demo, Humble, Curran, & Lloyd, 2016; hooks, 2000). The current study was guid by the followg rearch qutns: (1) How do lbian, gay, bisexual, and queer young adults make sense of societal expectatns around genr exprsn, sexual inty, and fay?

REPORTED EFFECTS OF MASCULE IALS ON GAY MEN.

Of the cisgenr women and those assigned female at birth the sample (n = 7), five intified as bisexual or pansexual, and two intified as gay/lbian. Demographic Informatn of Interview ParticipantsAgeAssigned Sex at BirthGenrSexual IntyRace/EthnicyVirgia24FemaleWomanBisexualBlackLeonardo21MaleGenrqueerGayMexinSierra21FemaleWomanBisexualChinaEstrella20FemaleWomanBisexualMultiracial LataKayla18FemaleWomanPansexualWheDaniel23MaleManGayLato Whe MultiracialLus23MaleManQueer/GayLato Native AmerinAutumn18FemaleGenrqueerPansexualWheGraham22MaleQueerGayNative AmerinSofia22FemaleWomanLbianLata WheAspen19FemaleQueerGayWhe MexinMateo23MaleMaleHomosexualLato WheProcreInterviews took place quiet areas nvenient to participants, cludg mp offic, public parks near their hom, and ffee shops. (Virgia)Genr exprsn ()validatg sexual inty8Genr nonnformy signaled nonheterosexualy and genr nformy signaled heterosexualyMen and participants assigned male at birth4Femy was such a clear signal of gay inty that many did not need to e out; but sometim distanced themselv and their genr and sexual inti om femyI wasn’t a very mascule boy so no one said anythg, no one told my mom anythg, no one told my dad anythg [about beg gay].

(Estrella)Negotiatg genred fay formatn6Discsed fay formatn tradnal ways; few nversatns about marriageMen and participants assigned male at birth3Fatherhood is unattaable for gay men; this would be the biggt disappotment for parents which ma disclosure difficult[My mom] was like, “I don’t know why you didn’t tell me sooner, I feel bad, what did I do that ma you thk that you uldn’t e to me sooner?

Participants scribed this genr nonnformy as prent nearly om birth; for example, Leonardo, who intified as Mexin, gay, and genrqueer, unrstood om an early age that, pared to his peers, his behavrs and appearance were genr nonnformg: “I know that I’ve known that I wasn’t like boys. ”“I Thk She Knew that I Was Gay”: Genr Exprsn (In)Validatg Sexual IntyFor many participants, was impossible to separate or unrstand their genr exprsn, particularly exprsns of femy, om their sexual inti; further, participant scriptns of this overlap tersected wh genr and sexual inti. ” Leonardo’s grandmother clearly dited that the domtic behavrs are feme and th he, as a man, uld be signated by others as gay for dog genr differenc emerged, however, how participants experienced the tersectn between genr exprsn and sexual inty.

4 EASY AND ROMANTIC GAY DATE IAS:

Cisgenr men and participants assigned male at birth directly nnected genr nonnformg behavr, particularly femy, to gay or queer inti such that they did not feel they need to disclose their sexual inty to fay members bee their femy ma their sexual inty clear. Siarly, when asked if he was genr nonnformg as a child, Mateo (who intified as a Lato Whe homosexual male) replied, “No, I was jt very hyper and very flamboyant.

When later asked to fe his gay inty, he did so the ntext of his genr inty while also distancg himself om female or transgenr inti: “[My gay inty] means to me is that I see myself as a man.

” The unrlyg assumptn is that some gree of genr nonnformy is socially acceptable if one intifi as a gay man, and that intifyg as female or transgenr would be too transgrsive; th, male inti are privileged even the ntext of feme genr cisgenr men and participants assigned male at birth the sample scribed how their genr nonnformy nfirmed their sexual inty, genr nformg cisgenr women, stggled to have others regnize their sexual inti.

MCULARY AND THE GAY IAL: BODY DISSATISFACTN AND DISORRED EATG HOMOSEXUAL MEN

” However, fay members told her that she was not gay bee she did not “look gay”, and she subsequently felt the need to change her appearance to ci wh what a “typil” lbian should look like:. Th, although genr nformy and nonnformy signal heterosexual and gay inti, rpectively, there were differenc between women and men the extent to which participants’ genr exprsn had to align wh sexual inti. Intersectns wh Race/Ethnicy Close ti between genr and sexualy meant that many of the Latx participants scribed how they feared exprsg genr nonnformy bee of hegemonic masculy and homophobia their muni.

” Siarly, Mateo specifilly said he was aaid to intify as gay bee of “the whole Mexin machismo thg; like, the way of masculzg men is you ll them gay or all the other terms.

Siarly, Aspen, who intified as Whe, Mexin, gay and queer, scribed how genr played a role their sir for romantic and sexual relatnships (Aspen’s pronouns were they/them):.

IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY

” Lus, a queer/gay Lato Native Amerin man and an only child que close to his supportive mother and grandmother, said, “The only thg that I was aaid of once I started realizg my sexualy was that [my mother] would be disappoted that I wouldn’t have kids. Mateo stated that his fay was supportive of his gay sexual inty bee he had heterosexual brothers who uld father children: “They [fay Mexi] were all really supportive and… They were jt like ‘that’s really good. We found that genr and sexual inty were extribly lked unr heteronormativy our sample such that genr nonnformy among men signified gay inti even om early childhood, and women, pecially genr nformg women, often stggled to be visibly read as queer.

IALS, NEGOTIATNS AND GENR ROL GAY AND LBIAN -PARENTG ARRANGEMENTS

This fdg om our sample expands on rearch that shows that genr nonnformy serv as a proxy for sexual inty for all genrs, but small viatns om masculy among men dit nonheterosexualy whereas women mt monstrate much more dramatic genr nonnformy to be seen as nonheterosexual (Mize & Manago, 2018; Nielsen et al., 2000) our tersectnal examatn of this theme, we found that Latx young adults often suated their narrativ of heteronormativy experienc of homophobia or machismo wh their muni.

E., a term ed to scribe hegemonic masculy: practic that stcture men’s place of domance over women [Connell & Mserschmidt, 2005] Latx, specifilly Mexin, cultur) bear remblance to Whe norms of hegemonic masculy and homophobia. This mon belief that hegemonic masculy and homophobia is more prevalent muni of lor than Whe muni is not supported by empiril evince (Lewis, 2003), pecially after acuntg for religsy, church attendance, and socenomic stat (Negy & Eisenman, 2005).

This stereotype that muni of lor are more homophobic and are more likely to enforce hegemonic masculy, bed wh the visibily of Whe lonialism’s direct role enforcg the norms the muni, may lead young adults of lor to scribe their racial and ethnic muni as sourc of heteronormative expectatns ways that Whe young adults do not.