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The emerging science of 'bromosexual' friendships

  • Written by Eric Russell, Ph.D. Student in Social Psychology, University of Texas Arlington
imageMany straight men no longer see befriending gay men as a threat to their masculinity.'Friends' via www.shutterstock.com

For a long time, friendships between gay men and straight men – what some now call “bromosexual” friendships – were uncommon. Homophobia was likely one reason; another was that straight men probably assumed...

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