Annie Proulx’s Imaginative Leap: Constructing Gay Masculinity in “Brokeback Mountain”

Black masculinity matters in attitudes toward gay males.

Recent work on attitudes toward homosexuals promotes the view that males typically have more negative attitudes than females; and African Americans have more negative attitudes than their white counterparts. However, among African Americans, women are thought to have the greatest negative attitudes because they perceive themselves as competing for a limited pool of black male partners. This stu...

” There ’ s too many gay categories now ” : Discursive constructions of gay masculinity

“Masculine capital” refers to the social power afforded by the display of traits and behaviors that are associated with orthodox, stereotypical masculinity. Men who are concerned with their masculine identity may utilize these traits and behaviors to increase their overall masculine capital, and to mitigate “failures” in other domains of masculinity. However, their success at accruing and tradi...

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Orphan Annie-eye Nuclei

The nucleus forms the central part of a cell which controls gene expression and mediates the replication of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) during cell cycle. Two main types of nuclei which we usually encounter are the open face (transcriptionally active cells), consisting of large areas of euchromatin and the closed faced nucleus (transcriptionally inactive cells-most of its genome is in inactive ...