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Grounded in interviews with gay men aged 19–46 conducted in 2012–2013, the article analyzes how British and American participants negotiate masculinity and femininity through clothing and style. 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Gay men’s negotiations between masculinity and femininity in style and dress in the twenty-first century\nShaun Cole, University of the Arts\nAbstract\nAppearance has long been of concern to gay men, whether manifested as an identifiable visibility, an intentional invisibility or a conscious playing with gendered and social signifiers. This ties to Judith Butler’s propositions that gendered identities are performed in relation to external societal and internal personal pressures and considerations, as well as being regulated by cultural discourses. The notions of gay male femininity and the authenticity of a ‘real’ masculinity, that can be presented through choices of clothing and behavioural traits, have traditionally been a perennial concern within the urban gay male communities of Britain and America. However, perhaps given the changes in social, moral and legal conditions for, and attitudes towards, gay people that have manifested in the twenty-first century, the negotiation of this oppositional binary is no longer of such importance. Thus the question of a contemporary gay male visual identity and appearance is interesting to consider. Based on a series of interviews conducted with gay men between the ages of 19 and 46 in 2012–2013, this article will articulate some of the ways in which these British and American gay men have negotiated concerns with their sexual identity and personal appearance.  It will consider the ways in which style and dress can signify meanings about the multitude of aspects that make up an individual’s identity, with a particular focus on how the acceptance and articulation of their own sexual orientation has varied between operating as a key motivator and an incidental component of the style and dress of these young gay men.\nKeywords\nmasculinity\nfemininity\ngay style\nidentities\nnegotiation\ndress\nGay people are chameleons; we adapt into the scenery by day and like peacocks we come out with our true colors at night.\n(Dave cited in Brekhus 2003: 65)\nThe notion expressed by Dave that gay men change their appearances over the course of the day, blending invisibly during the day and being more overt at night, goes some way towards reflecting the way in which gay men have historically used their appearance management to articulate expressions of their identity.  What Dave does not explicitly articulate but that could be read into his two comparative terms are gay men’s perennial concerns with the authenticity of expressions of masculinity and femininity presented through clothing and behavioural traits. These are expressed by 28-year-old Brooklyn-based artist, Nick when he stated ‘I think that is the huge paradox of the gay world that we’re not traditionally masculine men and yet the masculinity is what we want to uphold and subscribe to in terms of clothes and appearance’.  Nick’s paradox reflects Jamie Gough’s observation that ‘Gay masculinity is not in any simple way “real” masculinity any more than “camp” is [real] femininity’ (1989: 125). It is the way that gay men negotiate between the seemingly binary opposites of masculinity and femininity in their style-fashion-dress (Tulloch 2010) that is the major concern of this article.\nThis article is primarily based on a series of fifteen interviews that were conducted in late 2012 and early 2013 with gay men between the ages of 19 and 46. Ten were conducted in-person and five by written questionnaire. Five were with British men and ten with Americans. This selection of men was chosen as the first stage in a bigger project to examine gay men’s dress styles and relationship with fashion and dressed appearance in the twenty-first century. Initially the imperative for the interviews was in order to provide information for a chapter I had been commissioned to write for the book to accompany the ‘Queer History of Fashion’ exhibition at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.  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