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Title: | What a difference a gay makes: The constitution of the 'older gay man' | Contributor(s): | Leonard, William (author); Duncan, Duane (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2013 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17587 | Abstract: | There's an old joke in gay circles that 30 years in gay time is the equivalent of 80 years in straight time : gay men, it seems, are over the hill by the time they hit 30! The joke conjures, as it parodies, a common stereotype of gay men and commercial gay culture, ageist and youth-obsessed, even as it highlights the ways in which being gay is constituted in relation to a heterosexual norm. However this joke is read, it captures the exceptionalism of being gay that is still part of many gay men's lives: sexual oddities within an overwhelmingly heterosexual, if not heterosexist, culture. This exceptionalism may be waning for a new generation of gay and queer young men, at a time when support for same-sex marriage and equal love is on the rise and gay issues are being mainstreamed in many Western countries (Gardiner 2011; Victorian Government Department of Health 2009). But for many middle-aged and older gay men, feelings of exceptionalism have framed their sense of who and what they are, and their place, or lack thereof, in the culture at large. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine, p. 105-120 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | London, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 9780415699389 9780203081372 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 169901 Gender Specific Studies 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality 160805 Social Change |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440599 Gender studies not elsewhere classified 440504 Gender relations 441004 Social change |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 920504 Mens Health 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 200504 Men's health 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/184631056 | Series Name: | Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness | Editor: | Editor(s): Antje Kampf, Barbara L Marshall and Alan Petersen |
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