'Boys will be boys'? Submissive masculinity and sexual harassment in the gay tourism industry
Hadjisolomou, Tasos and Walters, Kyla and Nickson, Dennis and Baum, Tom (2023) 'Boys will be boys'? Submissive masculinity and sexual harassment in the gay tourism industry. Hospitality and Society, 13. 173 - 200. ISSN 2042-7913 (https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp_00068_1)
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Abstract
This paper considers the intersection of sexual harassment and internal hegemonic masculinity in assessing the experiences of men working in the gay tourism industry in Spain. It reports data from 36 interviews with managers and employers in a range of organizations primarily catering for gay, male customers. Consideration of the experiences of men working in the gay tourism industry allows for an understanding of how they navigate the near-constant sexual harassment they experience from customers and how these experiences can be located within contemporary debates about masculinity. The paper introduces the concept of ‘submissive masculinity’ to explain how the sexual harassment suffered by the men working in this context is normalized and accepted, despite being unwanted, contributing to the vulnerability and subordination of men experiencing sexual harassment from other men.
ORCID iDs
Hadjisolomou, Tasos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1993-8715, Walters, Kyla, Nickson, Dennis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3328-0729 and Baum, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5918-847X;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 86974 Dates: DateEvent12 December 2023Published13 October 2023AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General) Department: Strathclyde Business School > Work, Organisation and Employment Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 17 Oct 2023 11:30 Last modified: 11 Nov 2024 14:07 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/86974