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Readers Write/Vanity

By Readers of The Sun Magazine — 2003

I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.

Read on www.thesunmagazine.org

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For Queer Men of Color, Pressure to Have a Perfect Body Is About Race Too

For many of us, men with broad shoulders, narrow hips, taut muscles, and white skin — sun-kissed or pale under hot lights — became an ideal we couldn’t escape. We coveted images of these bodies like treasure, and they educated us in the rules of attraction.

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Body Image