Informed by feminist theory and critiques of masculinity, this
narrative ethnography focuses on how gay men come to understand and
negotiate the meaning of masculinity in a country- western gay bar.
Gay bars, specifically designed to wall out straights, remain a
central social institution and leisure context for a number of gay
men. To understand the space as a leisure context, this project
thoroughly documents the bar's relationship to the community, its
physical location, design, dcor and ambiance, its inhabitants, its
historical existence, and how it varies according to different
nights of the week. Moving beyond this description I also focus on
the social practices of dance, dress, patterns of migration, and
competing discourses about Lesbian Night. These factors elucidate
how organized social space can allow non-heterosexuals to both
resist and reinforce compulsory heterosexuality and hegemonic
gender ideologies in and through leisure.
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