Many gay men grew up feeling ashamed of not conforming to cultural expectations about “real boys” or “real men.” Especially during middle and high school, they may have been bullied or publicly ...

They met in a Brooklyn theater nearly two decades ago — an audition, a role, a spark of camaraderie. Jonathan Gregg was a fresh face in New York City, auditioning for a production of Six Degrees of ...

Sacred masculinity offers a harder but more hopeful path. It tells boys that one day others will depend on them. That self-control and endurance are not about feelings but responsibility. It teaches ...

"It has been a constant journey of evolving and learning to love the new versions of yourself," says Jeremy Pope, who stars in "The Inspection." (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) When Jeremy Pope ...

Editor's note: This story contains language that may be offensive to some readers. Life as a gay man in the U.S. has changed in the past decade — the law and cultural attitudes toward homosexuality ...

Way back in the 1960s, the cartoonist Tomi Ungerer visualized the Sexual Revolution's explosion and mechanization of sex in whimsical drawings of people sporting strange appliances, weird gas masks, ...

Masculinity is often defined by dominance, stoicism, physical strength, and the ability to provide. It has, perhaps, been even more defined by what it is not: soft, sensitive, emotional, feminine, or ...

Luke Macfarlane Reflects on 'Gay Masculinity' Standards Shown in Bros “Our ideas of masculinity came from Abercrombie & Fitch or Calvin Klein ads,” the Bros actor said. By Bernardo Sim September 09 ...

When Jeremy Pope was a young boy, he used to watch the 1996 movie “The Preacher’s Wife,” which stars Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington, over and over again. “I watched it all year ’round, although ...