Gay Macho: The Life and Death of the Homosexual Clone
Gay Macho, “Martin P Levine”- Birth of the Gay Clone
“ I n the sence, Gay Macho captures a moment in time, an exuberant period when gay men had thrown off the opprobrium of social stigma as failed men and widely, ecstatically, and somewhat recklessly articulated a new kind of gay masculinity. No more were gay men the “pitful effeminates” that Magnus Hirschfeld has called them, the inverts, men trapped in woman’s bodies. Gay men were real men , and their sense of themselves as gay was shaped by the same forces by which the experience themselves as men: traditional masculinity.”
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Gay Macho, “Martin P Levine”- “ Raining Men”, The Sociology of Gay Masculinity
“The straight world has told us that if we are not masculine we are homosexual, that to be homosexual means not to be masculine… One of the things we must do is refine ourselves as homosexuals.” – Tony Diaman (1970)
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Gay Macho, “Martin P Levine”- The Clone as a man
“All men in American culture, regardless of the future sexual orientation, learn the male gender role and sexual script, mainly because or culture lacks a anticipatory socialization for adult homosexuality. Regarding same- sex love as a loathsome aberration, the agents of socialization prepare all youths for heterosexual masculinity” – Dank (1971)
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“Camp: a behavioral style entailing the adoption of feminine dress, speech, and demeanor.”
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Gay Macho, “Martin P Levine”- The Birth of Gay Macho
“ Gay activists formulated radically different images of the postcloset homosexual (Marotta 1981, chaps. 5-6). Some gay liberationists viewed this man as a politicized hippie who eschewed traditional manliness, conventional aspirations, and established institutions. He avoided the quick sex associated with the sexual marketplace and formed instead lasting relationships. And he wore “gender fuck” attire that mixed masculine and feminine (beards and dresses). (Marotta – 1981, 144.)
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“The image heralded the
“ I n the sence, Gay Macho captures a moment in time, an exuberant period when gay men had thrown off the opprobrium of social stigma as failed men and widely, ecstatically, and somewhat recklessly articulated a new kind of gay masculinity. No more were gay men the “pitful effeminates” that Magnus Hirschfeld has called them, the inverts, men trapped in woman’s bodies. Gay men were real men , and their sense of themselves as gay was shaped by the same forces by which the experience themselves as men: traditional masculinity.”
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Gay Macho, “Martin P Levine”- “ Raining Men”, The Sociology of Gay Masculinity
“The straight world has told us that if we are not masculine we are homosexual, that to be homosexual means not to be masculine… One of the things we must do is refine ourselves as homosexuals.” – Tony Diaman (1970)
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Gay Macho, “Martin P Levine”- The Clone as a man
“All men in American culture, regardless of the future sexual orientation, learn the male gender role and sexual script, mainly because or culture lacks a anticipatory socialization for adult homosexuality. Regarding same- sex love as a loathsome aberration, the agents of socialization prepare all youths for heterosexual masculinity” – Dank (1971)
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“Camp: a behavioral style entailing the adoption of feminine dress, speech, and demeanor.”
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Gay Macho, “Martin P Levine”- The Birth of Gay Macho
“ Gay activists formulated radically different images of the postcloset homosexual (Marotta 1981, chaps. 5-6). Some gay liberationists viewed this man as a politicized hippie who eschewed traditional manliness, conventional aspirations, and established institutions. He avoided the quick sex associated with the sexual marketplace and formed instead lasting relationships. And he wore “gender fuck” attire that mixed masculine and feminine (beards and dresses). (Marotta – 1981, 144.)
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“The image heralded the