Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma
by
Jason Whitesel
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture
can be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men–chubs,
bears, cubs–the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at large
still haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gay
communities. In Fat Gay Men,...