EPISODE

Gay Masculinity and Sneakers

In this episode we discuss D. Travers Scott’s critical ethnography: Contested Kicks: Sneakers and Gay Masculinity, 1964-2008.
Scott marks the relationship between North American gay men and sneakers through articulating three ways that gay men have historically embraced sneakers.

W. Benjamin Myers (Ph. D. Southern Illinois University 2007) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at USC Upstate.