Just for gays
‘Not just for gays anymore’: men, masculinities and musical theatre
Lovelock, James Michael (). ‘Not just for gays anymore’: men, masculinities and musical theatre. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.
Abstract
This thesis explores how the changing masculinities of the
21\(^s\)\(^t\) century have affected how adolescent men connect to musical theatre as a genre that has been stereotypically seen as gay. The investigation is first located in the theoretical framework of masculinities, utilising the concepts of the male sex role, hegemonic masculinities and inclusive masculinity to chart how the show of the male gender has changed over the past century. The plan then adopts an empirical approach to a community of men and 25 women, establishing a methodological framework for correlating sexual orientation with attitudes towards musical theatre. There is a further honing of this methodology through the adoption of Jenifer Toksvig's \(The\) \(Fairytale\) \(Moment\) practice, which identifies how each participant connects to narrative through a core passionate drive. Finally, th
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Do gays have a boost in admission?
It's hard to explain . I think it comes down to who is reading your application. I think Elite schools, especially some Ivys are pro-LGBTQ applicants but others perhaps can't give them the environment they're seeking. For instance, I would consider it would be challenging to be at Dartmouth or Cornell because 1/2 of the social life revolves around CIS White Greek Life (frats and sororities).
But if you are attending Columbia, then you are in the middle of the most exciting town in the planet where you can find support systems both on campus and off. The Columbia queer alliance is the oldest LGBTQ club in America ( founded).
With regards to other top schools, I think it would be hard to be an "out" LGBTQ student at Notre Dame, Georgetown, and Boston College since they are all Jesuit Catholic Institutions. And anywhere in the South, like Wash U, Vanderbilt, Duke, UVA, seems more problematic than USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford. Being a lgbtq+ student at a top Liberal Arts college like Swarthmore, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
A man standing alone is often assumed to be straight. A man holding the hand of another man is often assumed to be gay. You don’t have to look very challenging at our society to recognize that it’s obsessed with binaries. You’re either good or poor, a man or a chick, straight or gay. There is no in-between.
Or rather, there is, but the people who be situated either in between the two “real” options or outside of the binary altogether are often forgotten or dismissed as a small, unimportant minority.
Lately, we’ve seen a lot of progress entity made for the LGBTQ+ community: the introduction of a bill that could ban conversion therapy, the coming-out of a novel transgender icon, and, perhaps most notably, the spread of legalization of same-sex marriage.
On May 17th , the day that Massachusetts began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Robyn Ochs and Peg Preble got married. Their marriage, though, became known not because it was one of the first same-sex marriages in the state, but because it was a prime example of bisexual erasure.
Though the widely-read article by The Washington Post