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The Careful Balance of Gender and Sexuality: Rural Gay Men, the Heterosexual Matrix, and "Effeminophobia"

Alexis Annes

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Based on life narratives, this article explores rural gay men's subjectivity in France and the United States. After growing up in rural cultures, these gay men tend to adopt similar hetero-centered ideas about masculinity. We show that these " conventional " ideas impact their sense of self as they express feelings of " effeminophobia. " They differentiate themselves from effeminate gay men and emphasize their similarities with straight men. These ideas are both coercive and disciplinary as they homogenize rural gay men's discourse and masculine identities. KEYWORDS rural homosexuality, gay men subjectivity, heterosexual matrix life narrative On a Friday night in a rural town in the southwest of France, several gay men 1 met to socialize and relax after a long week. While waiting for the meeting to start, a group of three men in their early 40s were talking about their masculine appearance. They came to the conclusion that they looked as masculine as any straight man, and should they walk down the street, no one would be able to notice they were gay. Being able to be identified by heterosexual traits of masculinity (like, apparently, any other man in the street) was at the center of their preoccupations. Having reached a conclusion about their own level of masculinity, so to speak, the three men began Address correspondence to Alexis Annes, 75 voie du TOEC,
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hal-01564761 , version 1 (20-09-2017)

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Alexis Annes, Meredith Redlin. The Careful Balance of Gender and Sexuality: Rural Gay Men, the Heterosexual Matrix, and "Effeminophobia". Journal of Homosexuality, 2012, 5, pp.83 - 288. ⟨10.1080/00918369.2012.648881⟩. ⟨hal-01564761⟩
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