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To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culturecan be tough. In spite of affectionate in-group names for big gay males-- chubs, bears, cubs-- the anti-fat stigma that continues American society at largestill haunts these individuals that typically exist at the margins of gaycommunities. In Fat Gay Guy, JasonWhitesel explores the world of Girth and also Mirth, a country wide recognized socialclub committed to big gay men, lighting up the methods which these males formidentities and also area despite adversity. Around for over fortyyears, the club has actually long been a refuge as well as 'safe area' for such guys. Both a partial insider as a gay man and anoutsider to Girth and also Mirth, Whitesel offers an insider's critique of the gaymovement, wondering about whether the social effects of the failure to beheight-weight proportionate ought to be so severe in the gay community. This publication papers performances at club events and also examines howparticipants make use of allusion and also campy-queer behavior to reconfigure as well as reclaimtheir sullied body photos, concentrating on the numerous tensions of marginalizationand self-respect that big gay guys experience and how they bargain these tensionsvia their subscription to a size-positive group. Based on ethnographic interviewsand comprehensive field notes from greater than 100 events at bar evenings, caf\u00e9klatches, dining establishments, meals, holiday celebrations, pool events, motion picture evenings, and also weekend break resorts, the book explores the woundedness that comes from beingrelegated to a substandard setting in gay hierarchies, and yet celebrates howsome gay males can rearrange the shame of fat preconception with circus, camp, andplay. An engaging and also abundant narrative, FatGay Males provides a rare look into an undiscovered measurement of weight andbody image in American culture.

Jason Whitesel is Partner Professor of Sociology and also Women's Sex as well as Sexuality Researches at Illinois State College as well as the writer Fat Gay Guy: Girth, Mirth, as well as the National politics of Preconception.

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