Gender roles and Sexuality: biology or culture?

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Another gender role in Thailand is gay men who are just as, or even more concerned with their masculinity as heterosexual men; their sexual orientation is the only difference between them and the dominant heterosexual male. This is a separate gender role because these males often fulfill their "social obligation" by marrying and fathering a family, despite their sexual preference towards a male partner...
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This is a separate gender role because these males often fulfill their "social obligation" by marrying and fathering a family, despite their sexual preference towards a male partner. This shows how biology did not determine their characteristics to be feminine; in Thai culture the norm for these sexually homosexual men is to be very masculine in behavior and occupation, so that is what they went by...
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