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| the, tournament bar, electronic, pilgrims, insider, plump teen , crossings, berkelouw, mobile, sports humor, football trading card collectables, thoroughbred racing shares, inscription, 1994, australian aboriginal studies, nintendo ds, | While the very existence of an openly gay man in the national rugby league competition may work to problematise heterosexual hyper-masculinity, the way the football world and its culture manages advertizing this gay body is crucial. Finding Out is a veritable litany of violent incidents. advertizing According to Roberts himself, his teenage years were marked by confusion over his sexuality and, with it, a pronounced tendency toward violence as he ‘wanted to fight everyone. All the time. Over anything! If anyone ever laughed at me I would challenge them ... I would never hit anyone first, though’.16 Roberts speaks advertizing of these tendencies in past-tense terms: ‘That’s what I was like’ but, by the text’s own admission, his adulthood has seen its fair share of fighting both on and off the field.17 |
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| ‘Hitting Blokes’: Ian Roberts’ Violent Resistance berkelouw The effort to balance the demands of a heterosexist world with a queer identity is a process familiar to many berkelouw non-heterosexual people. This delicate juggling act is particularly visible in Ian Roberts: Finding Out due to Roberts’ location in the aggressively homophobic world of rugby league. In his examination of the experiences of gay athletes, Brian Pronger has argued that gay men in general ‘employ masculine and feminine behaviours at will, depending on the social context and berkelouw what they are trying to express’.15 This social fluidity is, according to Pronger, an important element of gay subjectivity. However, the representation of Ian Roberts in Freeman’s book is not about putting on and taking off masculine and feminine behaviours, so much an attempt to negotiate opposing versions of masculinity. |
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