Autoethnography of a Gay Man’s Social Identities in a Homosocial Environment

Benigno B. Agapito Jr.

Abstract

This study systematically examined the gay character representation of the researcher in a male homosocial interaction using an autoethnographic approach. It employed the researcher's personal narrative of his experiences in joining a university fraternity in one of the institutions in the Philippines. To represent identities in the personal narrative, the researcher utilized an autobiographical essay by considering his self-conception and memory. This autobiographical narrative focused on the recollections of his significant personal events in the university fraternity as a gay man and how he portrayed himself in a homosocial interaction with the male members of the brotherhood. The researcher identified his social identities in each of the three chapters of his personal narrative. The gay character representation limited its interpretation within the social identity of the researcher as evaluated using Ellemers, Kortekaas, and Ouwerkerk's three significant factors that influenced the researcher's social identities: the cognitive, evaluative, and emotional components. This study undertook the endeavor to accurately describe the undisclosed facts about the researcher's personal experience in fraternizing with the heterosexual male members of a brotherhood through a personal narrative documentation of his own emotions, behavior, and motivations and how these influenced his perception of the situation.

 

Keywords: Homosocial interaction, Gender, Gay man, Social identity, Fraternity, Autoethnography

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55463/hkjss.issn.1021-3619.64.18


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