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“If you don’t lose weight, the government will take you away”: An analysis of memorable messages and eating disorders in the LGBTQ+ community. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2011.605007
(2013). No fats, no fems, no problems? Normalizing desire: Stigma and the carnivalesque in gay bigmen’s cultural practices. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/a4cd2ff8-05aa-4d0c-9faa-d48540f13a2b
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Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma
To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture
can be difficult.
Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men–chubs,
bears, cubs–the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at large
still haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gay
communities. Social Science & Medicine, 270. “Flabulously” femme: Queer fat femme women’s identities and experiences.
UKnowledge. Routledge.
ARTICLES
- Brownstone, L. M., DeRieux, J., Kelly, D. A., Sumlin, L. J., & Gaudiani, J. L. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2020.0068
- Chalklin, V. (2016).
Karma eaters: The politics of food and fat in women’s land communities in the United States. Arsenal Pulp Press.
- White, F. R. (2013). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/sub.2016.3
- Chow, J. (2021). Fattening queer femininities: The pitfalls, politics, and promises of queer fat femme embodiments [Doctoral dissertation, York University].
Transgender Health, 6(3). “Fat is a queer issue too”: Complicating queerness and body size in women’s sexual orientation and identity (No. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 14(2-3), 174-184. In existence for over forty
years, the club has long been a refuge and ‘safe space’ for such men.