Gay Men's Style
eBook - ePub

Gay Men's Style

Fashion, Dress and Sexuality in the 21st Century

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Gay Men's Style

Fashion, Dress and Sexuality in the 21st Century

About this book

Through an astonishing series of interviews, Gay Men's Style will take you on a dizzying journey through shops, bars, clubs, gyms, workplaces and global city streets. Based on the lived experience of gay men of all ages from the UK, USA, Europe, Australia and Japan, Shaun Cole calls for a more nuanced understanding of gay male dress and style. Gay male identities in the 21st century are increasingly intersectional, fluid and flexible, from hyper-masculinity and muscularity seen in clubs and on the pages of gay magazines to self-knowing drag culture and androgynous gender play in the fashion industry. Gay Men's Style explores these multiple identities and the ways in which gay men self-identify and present themselves to the world through dress. This analysis is set alongside seismic shifts in technology, global communication and gay rights to redress and readdress the subject of gay men's style in a time of social and sexual upheaval.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 What’s the difference?: situating gay men in the new millennium
  11. 2 Gender[ed] play
  12. 3 Millennial gay bodies
  13. 4 “Coming out” and first gay styles
  14. 5 Bars, clubs, and scenes
  15. 6 Dressing for and in relationships
  16. 7 Creating the gay wardrobe
  17. 8 We’re here, we’re queer, are we going shopping?
  18. 9 Dressing for work
  19. 10 Comfort and fit
  20. 11 Ambiguities of age and ageing
  21. Conclusion
  22. Appendix: Interviewees
  23. List of illustrations
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. Plates
  27. Copyright