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Abstract
This study examines the rhetoric of straight-acting among gay men by analyzing the website entitled, Straight-Acting.com. The straight-acting rhetoric emerges because some gay men want to achieve hegemonic masculinity to overcome gay effeminate images. Also, gay effeminate men are unattractive to straight-acting gay men, because they violate normative gender-performative expression valued by the “straight-acting” men. This attitude is called, “sissyphobia.” Last, some website members view straight-acting as fluid, while others view straight-acting as stable. By exposing this topic, this analysis aims to further understand the role of gender in gay men's identity negotiation and their interpersonal relations.
Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank Drs. Deborah Borisoff (New York University) and Melbourne Cummings (Howard University) and blind reviewers for their critique and evaluation on this study. Also, the author would like to specially thank Drs. Deborah Borisoff (New York University), James Chesebro (Ball State University), Victoria Chen (San Francisco State University), Melbourne Cummings (Howard University), Karen Lovaas (San Francisco State University), William Starosta (Howard University), and Carolyn Stroman (Howard University) for their support and encouragement on obtaining his scholarship.