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International Gay & Lesbian Review

Navigating Differences: Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men

by Jammie Price
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Navigating Differences is an activist, participatory study that explores the relationships of 44 pairs of cross-sexual men's friendships. Price analyzes how the men negotiate the terrain of their emotional, sexual, social, and psychological differences in today's climate of often publicly defended homophobia and heterosexism.

Price uses his case studies to explore how different sexual orientations impact the way men spend time together, maintain friendships, cope with sexual struggles, and open good communication channels. Price also considers issues of hegemonic masculinity, groups demographic characteristics, outness, and perceptions of difference.

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International Gay & Lesbian Review
Los Angeles, CA