Feminine Males as “Gender Offenders”

Feminine gay males are often depicted as the subjects of violent acts of masculinity. They represent the subjugated feminine beneath the dominant masculine.

Feminizer: “Sissy Boys” and “Fags” in the Masculine Gaze discusses the “feminizer”-type discourse surrounding feminine males and their bodies as sites of resistance to the masculinity often imposed upon them.

The Reddest Rouge: Feminine Transgression addresses the feminine appearance on males and how this becomes constructed as “feminine transgression” to masculine ways of performing and presenting gender.