Body Shapes and Stereotypes

Welcome author Richard Pearsonwith an excellent post about our detrimental habit of stereotyping the bodies of gay men. ~ B.

So when you hear these words:“You should meet my friend Richard, he’s in his early 30s, an attorney, an actor, and an author, oh, and he’s gay,” what mental image do you have?

Something like this?

What if I told you he actually looked like this?

Not what you were expecting? Why is that?

For the record, the first one is Djordje Bogdanovic, a runway model, the second one, is m...