Tag Archives: masculinity

Quote Of The Day – Joan Collins

“There’s a big difference between the male stars of bygone years and today’s slightly metrosexual-looking actors. Johnny Depp, Leonardo Di Caprio and Sean Penn are all wonderful actors, but they are chameleon-like when it comes to their place on the masculinity meter. As for today’s TV stars, to me they seem just like ordinary, faceless men cut from the same …

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Bromosexuals

Ugh. Another gay trend piece, this one from the New York Observer. Apparently, some people don’t know when somebody is gay! And some gay guys deliberately dress butch! Fascinating! In his own job as a bartender at Lavish Lounge, a gay bar in Queens, Tom Karl, 25, routinely gets mistaken as straight even though he could not be more entrenched …

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The Butch Factor

A documentary examining masculinity and gay men titled The Butch Factor is scheduled to be released on DVD in December after having toured gay film festivals in recent months. One review from the film’s site: The 87-minute feature explores gay men’s complicated relationship with masculinity. The core segments of the film, and the freshest material here, are profiles of several …

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Butching Up The Cat

According to the New York Times, more and more hetero men are embracing cat ownership, upending the public’s perception that cats are for women and gay men. [A] growing number of single — and yes, heterosexual — men who seem to be coming out of the cat closet and unabashedly embracing their feline side. To that end, they are posting …

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