LIPSTICKS, TWINKS, AND BEARS, OH MY!: AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER ROLE VARIABILITY IN HOMOSEXUAL INDIVIDUALS, WHO HOLD QUEER IDENTITIES, WHICH HAVE SEX INVERTING GENDER ROLE ASSOCIATIONS.

This study looked at the gender roles of individuals in the LGBT community, who hold gender-inverting and gender-conforming queer identities. The specific identities looked at were twinks (gender-inverted) and bears (gender-conforming) for men, and lipsticks (gender-conforming) and butches (gender-inverting) for women. The hypothesis was that individuals with gender-inverting identities would react effectively to a masculine gender role selecting prime, as well as a feminine gender role selecting prime.