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This 3 page paper analyzes Nardi’s article on men’s friendships, and gives a brief reaction to it. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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to Nardis work. Discussion Nardi writes that friendships among gay men and lesbians are of a different kind than those that unite straight men to other straight men and straight
women to other straight women. Because homosexuals of both sexes continue to be considered "outsiders," their relationships are both a form of family, and a "powerful political force" (Nardi 316).
This idea, of friends banding together in a political structure is important in a society where "the political, legal, religious, economic and health concerns of gay people are routinely threatened
by the social order" (Nardi 316). Gay friendships are formed in part because the core of any friendship is acceptance of the other person as they are; gays want to
be able to be themselves, but they face a society that "may not approve of that self" (Nardi 316). Friendships like this, Nardi argues, actually form because the participants are
united in their dissent against the mainstream, and by their need to establish a legitimate identity as gay men. Friendships are also different from other social relationships because they
allow people to form strong bonds with people they really like, rather than being constrained to remain in familial relationships that may be extremely difficult (Nardi). In other words, we
can pick our friends but we have no choice about family, even when that relationship is ugly. Often too, gay men and lesbians cannot express themselves truly in the context
of their family life; its only when they are with friends who accept them that they can relax and be themselves (Nardi). Nardi also makes the point that heterosexual men
in general are terrified of forming close relationships with other men for fear they will be thought gay. This idea that caring for someone of the same sex automatically implies
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