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Both the film and the footballer seem to offer alternative masculine ontologies to the iconic masculinity valourised in national discourse, but these ‘alternatives’ are effectively contained by the beta oxidation of fatty acids hegemony of heterosexuality. Ultimately, Ian Roberts’ body performs hegemonic masculinity so well that his effectiveness for queer politics beta oxidation of fatty acids is numbed. It is only his ability to play football that allows him status in rugby league. This kind of homophobia is less visible but just as pernicious as outright vilification to which the silence of other gay footballers (Roberts attests that there certainly are beta oxidation of fatty acids others)49 is testimony. In Finding Out, Ian describes the traumatic (and all too common) adolescent battle to ‘hold it together on the outside. Blend in and that ... I was always trying to run from having to deal with what I thought was me being a fake’.50 ‘Faking it’ while remaining firmly within the safe borders of heterosexuality constitutes the ‘real’ drag in Priscilla.
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