This psychologist’s “gaydar” rearch mak unfortable. That’s the pot. - Vox

Contents:

• STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
• 'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY
• HOW TO LOOK GREAT AS A GAY MAN
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• WHILE STRAIGHT MEN FACE TNAL CRISIS, GAY MEN EXCEL AMILLY, STUDY FDS
• FACIAL HTS SHARPEN PEOPLE'S 'GAYDAR'
• THIS PSYCHOLOGIST’S “GAYDAR” REARCH MAK UNFORTABLE. THAT’S THE POT.

STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED

It turns out that the last place anyone saw Mulhy was an Upper East Si gay bar named The Townhoe, where olr, sophistited men met each other, or met younger men attracted to their type.

Through extensive archival footage and terviews wh people who participated the AVP particular and New York’s gay scene general, we are remd of jt how dangero was for people who were jt beg themselv, ually via vlence perpetrated by people who ma a practice out of queer-bashg. But the realy is brought home by the members of AVP and Edgar Rodriguez, a former NYPD sergeant and a member of the Gay Officers Actn League, who discsed the rampant and open homophobia the partment, which was so severe that Rodriguez knew was unsafe for him to e out while he was a p.

This is illtrated a really tellg scene durg the terview wh the two Pennsylvania State Police, when the director asks them if he missed anythg durg the terview and one of them potedly says, “Why is the emphasis [of the terview] on the gay part? ” To them, the fact that Anrson was gay was irrelevant, but ’s important for a lot of reasons that they jt n’t wrap their mds around. Weeks after his trip to Mosw, Kosski published a ntroversial paper which he showed how face-analysg algorhms uld distguish between photographs of gay and straight people.

'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY

”In a paper published last year, Kosski and a Stanford puter scientist, Yilun Wang, reported that a mache-learng system was able to distguish between photos of gay and straight people wh a high gree of accuracy. Prented wh two pictur – one of a gay person, the other straight – the algorhm was traed to distguish the two 81% of s volvg imag of men and 74% of photographs of women.

’ Photograph: Jason Henry/The GuardianNeher did many other people, and there was an immediate backlash when the rearch – dubbed “AI gaydar” – was previewed the Enomist magaze.

HOW TO LOOK GREAT AS A GAY MAN

) There was also anger that Kosski had nducted rearch on a technology that uld be ed to persecute gay people untri such as Iran and Sdi Arabia, where homosexualy is punishable by ath.

His fdgs are nsistent wh the prenatal hormone theory of sexual orientatn, he says, which argu that the levels of androgens foet are exposed to the womb help terme whether people are straight or gay. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Prev studi have shown that homosexual men differ om heterosexual men several somatic tras and lay people accurately attribute sexual orientatn based on facial imag.

Homosexual men showed relatively wir and shorter fac, smaller and shorter nos, and rather massive and more round jaws, rultg a mosaic of both feme and mascule featur. Th, our rults showed that differenc facial morphology of homosexual and heterosexual men do not simply mirror variatn femy, and the stereotypic associatn of feme lookg men as homosexual may nfound judgments of sexual orientatn.

Vcent Keh of MASCULAR Stud and Oliver Zke of Photomolekuel are pleased to announce the lnch of A Portra Isolatn, a project explorg emotnal and physil space the end of March 2020, as the COVID-19 global panmic grew spe and impact, gay men around the world were asked to subm self portras that reflected their experience of the ronavis lock-down.

WHILE STRAIGHT MEN FACE TNAL CRISIS, GAY MEN EXCEL AMILLY, STUDY FDS

Livg liv which are often agmented between nventnal work ndns and their private liv leav many gay men whout the tradnal support mechanisms of heterosexuals and this shows through the separated by geography, culture and age, the men the imag all share fears for the future, lonels, job secury, and separatn. 1 Based on a survey of 935 LGBT adults nducted May 2021, this report foc on the workplace experienc of cisgenr bisexual adults pared to cisgenr lbians and gay men the workplace.

Overall, we fd that cisgenr bisexual employe are signifintly ls likely to report experiencg discrimatn and harassment the workplace than cisgenr gay and lbian employe. When we foc only on employe who are out to at least some people the workplace, we fd that cisgenr bisexual employe face siar or higher rat of discrimatn and harassment as cisgenr gay and lbian employe. Once we ntrol for who is out the workplace, our analysis also shows that many stanc workplace experienc also differ by genr, wh cisgenr bisexual and gay men often reportg higher rat of unfair treatment pared to lbian and bisexual women.

FACIAL HTS SHARPEN PEOPLE'S 'GAYDAR'

More specifilly, the fdgs suggt that gay and bisexual men may face unique and tersectg forms of stigma associated wh their genr and sexual orientatn and addnal prsure to nceal their LGB inty at work. About 60% of gay men and lbian employe and bisexual employe reported that they avoid social events or avoid talkg about their liv at work orr to avoid discrimatn and harassment.

Addnally, bisexual men and women were more likely than gay and lbian employe to report that they changed their appearance at work to ver their sexual orientatn (26. For example, gay and bisexual men were more likely than bisexual women to say they avoid social events, hid fay photos, and did not brg fay to work events orr to avoid discrimatn.

THIS PSYCHOLOGIST’S “GAYDAR” REARCH MAK UNFORTABLE. THAT’S THE POT.

Discrimatn: Overall, cisgenr bisexual employe were signifintly ls likely to report experiencg discrimatn the workplace than cisgenr gay and lbian employe. 8%) of gay and lbian employe reported that they had experienced at least one form of employment discrimatn (beg fired or not hired) bee of their LGB stat at some pot their liv, pared to one-quarter (24.

Lifetime experienc: Among those who were out the workplace, gay and bisexual men were more likely to experience employment discrimatn than lbians and bisexual women: 46. Gay men who were out the workplace were signifintly more likely to experience recent discrimatn than out bisexual women and lbian employe.

Harassment: Overall, cisgenr bisexual employe were ls likely to report experiencg harassment the workplace than cisgenr gay and lbian employe.