scholarly journals Understanding Chinese Gay Men’s and Lesbians’ Experiences of Coping with the Pressure to Marry from the Lens of Suzhi Discourse

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 796
Author(s):  
Xuan Ning ◽  
Sijia Guo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Multiple Challenges

Chinese gay men and lesbians are faced with multiple challenges by living in a heteronormative society, and marriage is considered to be a major concern among this group of people. Anchoring from the lens of suzhi discourse, this research carried out a qualitative study by interviewing 21 gay men and lesbians to explore how they refer to the suzhi discourse to justify their choices when faced with the pressure to marry, so as to align themselves more with the mainstream social values. Results indicate that when faced with the pressure to marry, gay men and lesbians refer to the suzhi discourse to construct a positive same-sex identity and civilized community, pursue civilized same-sex relationships, or construct a flexible life.

scholarly journals Changing landscapes: Gay men in the west and northwest of Ireland

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072098169
Author(s):  
Aidan McKearney
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
The Many ◽  
Northwest Region ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

This article focuses on the experiences of gay men in the rural west and northwest region of Ireland, during a period of transformational social and political change in Irish society. These changes have helped facilitate new forms of LGBTQI visibility, and local radicalism in the region. Same-sex weddings, establishment of rural LGBT groups and marching under an LGBT banner at St Patricks Day parades would have been unthinkable in the recent past; but they are now becoming a reality. The men report continuing challenges in their lives as gay men in the nonmetropolitan space, but the emergence of new visibility, voice and cultural acceptance of LGBT people is helping change their lived experiences. The study demonstrates the impact of local activist LGBT citizens. Through their testimonies we can gain an insight into the many, varied and interwoven factors that have interplayed to create the conditions necessary for the men to: increasingly define themselves as gay to greater numbers of people in their localities; to embrace greater visibility and eschew strategies of silence; and aspire to a host of legal, political, cultural and social rights including same-sex marriage. Organic forms of visibility and local radicalism have emerged in the region and through an analysis of their testimonies we can see how the men continue to be transformed by an ever-changing landscape.

scholarly journals Differences in digit ratios between gay men who prefer receptive versus insertive sex roles indicate a role for prenatal androgen

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashlyn Swift-Gallant ◽  
Victor Di Rita ◽  
Christina A. Major ◽  
Christopher J. Breedlove ◽  
Cynthia L. Jordan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Gender Nonconformity ◽  
Critical Periods ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Digit Ratios ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Prenatal Androgens ◽  
The Right ◽  
Prenatal Androgen

AbstractAmong non-human mammals, exposure to androgens during critical periods of development leads to gynephilia (attraction to females), whereas the absence or low levels of prenatal androgens leads to androphilia (attraction to males). However, in humans, retrospective markers of prenatal androgens have only been associated with gynephilia among women, but not with androphilia among men. Here, we asked whether an indirect indication of prenatal androgen exposure, 2D:4D, differs between subsets of gay men delineated by anal sex role (ASR). ASR was used as a proxy for subgroups because ASR groups tend to differ in other measures affected by brain sexual differentiation, such as gender conformity. First, we replicated the finding that gay men with a receptive ASR preference (bottoms) report greater gender nonconformity (GNC) compared to gay men with an insertive ASR preference (tops). We then found that Tops have a lower (male-typical) average right-hand digit ratio than Bottoms, and that among all gay men the right-hand 2D:4D correlated with GNC, indicating that a higher (female-typical) 2D:4D is associated with increased GNC. Differences were found between non-exclusive and exclusive same-sex attraction and GNC, and ASR group differences on digit ratios do not reach significance when all non-heterosexual men are included in the analyses, suggesting greater heterogeneity in the development of non-exclusive same-sex sexual orientations. Overall, results support a role for prenatal androgens, as approximated by digit ratios, in influencing the sexual orientation and GNC of a subset of gay men.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study of Motivators, Strategies, Barriers, and Learning Needs Related to Healthy Cooking during Pregnancy

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 2395
Author(s):  
Travertine Garcia ◽  
Kerith Duncanson ◽  
Vanessa A. Shrewsbury ◽  
Julia A. Wolfson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Cooking Skills ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
Meal Planning ◽  
Skills Education

Nutrition during pregnancy has lifelong impacts on the health of mother and child. However, this life stage presents unique challenges to healthy cooking and eating. Cooking interventions show promising results, but often lack theoretical basis and rigorous evaluation. The objective of this formative, qualitative study was to explore motivators, strategies, and barriers related to healthy cooking during pregnancy. Pregnant individuals’ preferences for a cooking education program were also explored. We conducted five focus groups with pregnant individuals (n = 20) in Southeast Michigan in 2019. Focus groups were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim, then double coded by two members of the research team. Mean gestational age was 18.3 ± 9.6 weeks. Common motivators included feeding other children, avoiding pregnancy complications, promoting fetal growth, and avoiding foodborne illness. Challenges included pregnancy symptoms, navigating nutrition recommendations, mental energy of meal planning, family preferences, and time constraints. Strategies employed were meal planning and including a variety of foods. Participants identified organizational strategies, recipes, nutrition information, and peer support as important components of a cooking intervention during pregnancy. This study characterized multiple challenges to healthy home cooking during pregnancy, providing novel insight to inform the development of cooking skills education programs during this important life stage.

On the intersections of age, gender and sexualities in research on ageing

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Toni Calasanti
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Age Relations ◽  
Original Concept ◽  
Sex Partner

This chapter outlines an intersectional lens that considers the impacts of age, gender, and sexualities on gay and lesbian elders.  It defines social inequalities and specify intersectionality as a theory of how they relate, drawing on Crenshaw’s (1991) original concept, which indicates how overlapping categorical status creates unique effects. It then outline the intersections of age, gender, and sexuality in the study of gay and lesbian elders.  It focuses in particular on age relations as this inequality is often left out of scholarship on gay men and lesbians, even that which focuses on elders.  The last part of the chapter suggests a model for research on same-sex partner caregiving that would illuminate intersections of gender, sexuality, and age in this context.

scholarly journals THE POLITICS OF RECOGNIZABILITY: GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF IRANIANGAYMEN’S LIVES UNDER REPRESSIVE CONDITIONS OF SEXUALITY GOVERNANCE

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Martino ◽  
Jón Ingvar Kjaran
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Male Subject ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minorities ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
And Gender

AbstractIn this article we examine accounts of self-identifying Iranian gay men. We draw on a range of evidentiary sources—interpretive, historical, online, and empirical—to generate critical and nuanced insights into the politics of recognition and representation that inform narrative accounts of the lived experiences of self-identifiedgayIranian men, and the constitution of same-sex desire for these men under specific conditions of Iranian modernity. In response to critiques of existinggayinternationalist and liberationist accounts of the Iraniangaymale subject as a persecuted victim of the Islamic Republic of Iran's barbarism, we address interpretive questions of sexuality governance in transnational contexts. Specifically, we attend to human rights frameworks in weighing social justice and political claims made by and on behalf of sexual and gender minorities in such Global South contexts. In this sense, our article represents a critical engagement with the relevant literature on sexuality governance and the politics of same-sex desire for Iraniangaymen that is informed by empirical analysis.

Why They Did Not Identify as Gay or Bisexual

2021 ◽  
pp. 126-140
Author(s):  
Tony Silva
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Legal Equality

The men interviewed identified as straight largely because of their embeddedness in straight culture and desire to remain a part of a socially dominant group. Most felt that gay men were too feminine, urban, or incompatible with conventional marriage or family formation. Nonetheless, a majority supported equal legal rights, including same-sex marriage. Yet many also expressed various types and degrees of homophobia, some subtle and some more obvious. In this sense the men interviewed were like the majority of straight people, who support many forms of legal equality but not always informal rights. The men interviewed identified as straight not only because of homophobia, any more than most straight men identify as straight only because of homophobia. Homophobia was only one of many reasons for their straight identification. Relatedly, most of the men interviewed knew that bisexuality was a possible identity but did not adopt that identity for themselves in large part for three reasons. First, they considered it incompatible with having a woman partner. Second, they had no interest in romantically partnering with a man. And third, they thought identifying as bisexual would threaten their other relationships.

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