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A researcher spent years studying gay gang members and found a reality nothing like the stereotypes.
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In this episode
- How gay men navigate identity and belonging inside gang culture
- Where hypermasculine and gay stereotypes collide in real life
- What research on gay gang members actually reveals
- Why the mainstream picture of both groups gets it wrong
About this episode
What happens when two groups of men who are often stereotyped in opposite ways intersect? When we think about stereotypes for men in gangs, we might think of hypermasculine, heterosexual, maybe violent. When we think about the stereotypes assigned to gay men, we go the opposite direction.Be sure to follow Vanessa on Twitter!
Read her article, "What it’s like to be gay and in a gang", and check out her book, The Gang's All Here.
Your host is Levi Chambers, co-founder of Gayety.
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