Gender Diagnosticity for the Homosexual Community

Hi Schuolee,

good work! You've organized the topic and developed further. Yes we can narrow the sample size, not only in homosexual community, but specify different roles in both gay and lesbian. That is, separate participants into four groups: butches (masculine lesbians), flamers (gay men who are more femme), femme(feminine lesbian) and masculine gay men. [I don't know whether these slangs are right or I write them in a polite way, I just Google..If so, I apologize...] For example, participants are the equal sample size of Lesbians and gays. Researchers can test the masculine extent both in butches (masculine lesbians) and flamers (gay men who are more femme), to identity whether the butch is more masculine than the flamer or not. Thus, researchers can both test same-sex homosexual and opposite-sex homosexual, and then compared with the data of same-sex and opposite-sex heterosexualities.

Previous studies support the stereotypes that gay men are more feminine than heterosexual men, and lesbian women are more masculine than heterosexual women (Kite & Deaux, 1984). Thinking, for example, that gay men look more effeminate than straight men and lesbian women look more masculine than straight women.

Hey SunnyZHENG,

I wrote a possible entry to the Future Research article below. Narrowing the sample size and looking at specific subsets of the community is a great idea. I think a standardized GD (As mentioned by NicolaVanderliek) paired with narrow focus/small population is much more effective at uncovering any insights that may be "buried" through averages when using large populations/samples.