@article{ref1,
title="Dude-Sex: White Masculinities and `Authentic' Heterosexuality Among Dudes Who Have Sex With Dudes",
journal="Sexualities",
year="2008",
author="Ward, Jane",
volume="11",
number="4",
pages="414-434",
abstract="Based on examination of an online community in which white `str8'-identified men assert that sex with other white men bolsters their heterosexual masculinity, this article examines the heterosexual and racialized meanings that white str8 dudes attach to their same-sex behaviors. The study points to the role of whiteness in the process of establishing heterosexual `realness', or believable straight culture. Findings indicate that for the white str8 dude, Black male bodies disrupt the staging of normal `male bonding', and occupy a distinctly queerer space `down low'. I argue that in a culture constituted by both a racial and sexual binary, whiteness and heterosexuality are `natural' bedfellows that simultaneously signify the `really, really normal' subject.<p />",
language="",
issn="1363-4607",
doi="10.1177/1363460708091742",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460708091742"
}