Week 7: Masculinity and Homophobia

So we're gonna change things up a bit this week.  Josef brought up the idea of going to see Zach Wahls speak on Wednesday evening at 7:00.  Some of you may recognize Zach because a video of him speaking to the Iowa House Judiciary Committee went viral (link to video).  Zach was raised by two lesbian parents and is a vocal advocate for GLBQ equality.

Zach is speaking in the LSC theatre as part of GLBT history month and I think this is a perfect time to dig into the ways that conventional manhood drives homophobia.  I was thinking that we could still meet at 6:00, talk about masculinity and homophobia, then head to the theatre to support this event. 

The reading below is one of the better one's that I've found that directly links masculinity to homophobia and it's only 5 pages.  If you all could take the time to do the short reading and try and show up at 6:00 we could still get a good discussion in before the event. 

Also, we were planning on meeting about the plaza event on October 23rd after the meeting.  Zach's speech is only going to last an hour so we should still be able to start our planning conversation by 8:00.  Lastly, for everyone who took thier journals home two weeks ago try and bring those tomorrow so we can get back on track with journaling. 

Masculinity as Homophobia, by Michael Kimmel