books.google.ca - Over time, male homosexuality and effeminacy have become indelibly associated, sometimes even synonymous. In Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen, Peter Hennen contends that this stigma of effeminacy exerts a powerful influence on gay subcultures. Through a comparative ethnographic analysis of three communities,...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Faeries_Bears_and_Leathermen.html?id=OjBZg5aLWqIC&q=performance&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFaeries, Bears, and Leathermen