15 Stereotyp That Lim Our Perceptns Of Gay Men

Contents:

• AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP
• 15 STEREOTYP THAT LIM OUR PERCEPTNS OF GAY MEN
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP

In the spir of batg stereotyp by reclaimg and celebratg them, BBDO NY Art Director Jam Kuczynski and illtrator Pl Tuller have created a “Gui to Gay Stereotyp, ” a seri of silk screened imag pturg the sence of your neighborhood gay posters, released this week as we head to Pri season, celebrate the recent Supreme Court cisn on DOMA. They prent portras of gay stereotyp cludg the The Bear, The Otter, The Twk, The Twunk, The Drag Queen, and The Butch. The posters are available for $18 each, and some of the proceeds will go to the “Thk B4 You Speak” mpaign, which supports LGBT teens and rais awarens about homophobia and the e of terms like “That’s so gay, ” “Dyke” and “Faggot.

”Kuczynski says he found himself a gay bar one night listeng on some dus talkg about what stereotypil tegori they belonged . In a 2001 survey of “Canadian Perceptns of Homosexualy, ”[i] people across the untry were asked, “In your opn, are homosexuals the same as everyone else? ” The notn that homosexuals are the same as everyone else (save for the unimportant ltle fact of who we love) was first advanced by queers search of tolerance.

Yet the strategilly important notn of homosexual samens has profoundly failed to unter all the forc marshaled agast . [v] There is a vast and dangero divi between the notn that queer people are the same as everyone else, and acceptance of the social and cultural difference that is homosexualy.

15 STEREOTYP THAT LIM OUR PERCEPTNS OF GAY MEN

Neverthels, the stereotyp prerve queer difference, provg ad nsm that homosexualy do not f fortably wh the domant culture. Genr is one space of great unease for ntemporary society, which we are nonted wh the homophobic stereotyp of the big, butch, man-hatg lbian and the swishy, effemate gay man.

If we keep our rponse to homophobic stereotyp at the level of stereotypil rpons, we valorize genr nformy and “straight-lookg, straight-actg” gays and lbians.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

But if we reach through the homophobic stereotyp to embrace the submerged archetyp, we will fd godss who pot to women’s pacy for anger and vengeance, like Msa (Ancient Greece), Sedna (Inu), and Camunda (India). By attentn to refed archetyp that shape the cultural nstctn of homosexualy, we n embrace genr fluidy and fight for genr equy.

” We n meet the homophobic stereotyp wh plenty of evince of homosexualy nature, and claim a unter-stereotype – we are “born that way. Homophob want nature bifurted to male and female, so that the culture of nature props up the sex-genr system. Through embracg the refed archetyp behd the homophobic stereotyp, we n create queer as a lived unrstandg of blogil diversy.

A host of homophobic stereotyp fall unr this bric – that we are unstable and immature, that we have dysfunctnal, impermanent relatnships, that we unrme the fay. In the homophob heated “Defense of Marriage” om claims by same-sex upl for equal rights, we n see the stabily of the fay as a social nstct.