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Jane Ward. This One Goes Out to the Queers. White Homosociality and Heterosexual Authenticity. A Century of NotGay Sex. The Popular Science of Heterosexual Fluidity. A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight - her boyfriend may even encourage her.

A different look at heterosexuality in the twenty-first century A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight—her boyfriend may even encourage her. By understanding their same-sex sexual practice as meaningless, accidental, or even necessary, straight white men can perform homosexual contact in heterosexual ways.

Instead, Ward argues, they reveal the fluidity and complexity that characterizes all human sexual desire. These sex acts are not slippages into a queer way of being or expressions of a desired but unarticulated gay identity. By understanding their same-sex sexual practice as meaningless, accidental, or even necessary, straight white men can perform homosexual contact in heterosexual ways.

The book illustrates that sex between straight white men allows them to leverage whiteness and masculinity to authenticate their heterosexuality in the context of sex with men. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay?.

Daring, insightful, and brimming with wit, Not Gay is a fascinating new take on the complexities of heterosexuality in the modern era.

39 Not Gay 39 : Writing a book about sex practices—a sub-ject generally devalued in academia despite its high political and ethical stakes—was not only intellectually energizing, but a vital counterbalance to my sleep-deprived existence as a new parent

But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? [2][3].

Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men is a book by Jane Ward, [1] in which the author details the phenomenon of straight-identifying white men seeking out sex with other straight-identifying men despite not identifying as gay, bisexual, or bi-curious. For Jane Ward, these sexual practices reveal a unique social space where straight white men can—and do—have sex with other straight white men; in fact, she argues, to do so reaffirms rather than challenges their gender and racial identity.

Ward illustrates that sex between straight white men allows them to leverage whiteness and masculinity to authenticate their heterosexuality in the context of sex with men.