WHY ARE YOU SO GAYYYYY: A study on male cheerleaders and gender

• Main Author: Chiew, Cheryl Suet Ning
• Other Authors: Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social structure
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70030
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper explores how male cheerleaders in Singapore negotiate gendered mechanisms to construct their identities. Male participation in the female domain of cheerleading is seen as a transgression. Their “inappropriate gender behaviour” evokes the fag discourse. The collected data seeks to provide...