"Big gay men incur social wounds produced by the stigmas of their size and sexuality combined. As looks are one of the organizing features of the gay world, gay big men have an added exclusion that has not been fully explored… Gay big men are marginalized both for their sexual orientation in a heteronormative society and for their size in gay society, thereby constituting a subaltern within the subaltern."
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Jason Whitesel, Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma, (July 25, 2014), NYU Press
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