Stories of members joining when looking for a suicide hotline number for example are really powerful. It is a group that provides fat gay men a safe space and support. His ethnographic study of big gay men is mostly about the Ohio chapter of Girth & Mirth club but it also discusses about the issue more widely. Whitesel becomes member of a fat gay men group called Girth & Mirth. Jason Whitesel, an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Pace University, enters the stigmatized world of fat gay men in his book Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma (2014). The social stigma is so strong that they usually need to get away for a period of time in order to feel confident in their bodies. The marginalized groups in LGBT movement often look for a ways they can feel natural and comfortable. These groups are often stigmatized and have multiple issues in society. Inter groups suffer from intersectionality because they fall under two or more social categorizations in today’s heteronormative society. While the LGBT movement has gained more support over the last few decades, some groups in the movement still experience discrimination because of the white cisgender groups in the frontlines leaving other marginalized groups in their shadow.
