77 and 79). A functionalist perspective of gender states that gender roles arise from the need to establish a certain division of labor that will help maintain the stability of society resulting in boys and girls being raised and socialized to fit specific roles in the family and in the force Work. In this growth process, boys are taught instrumentally while girls are taught to be expressive. It is in this upbringing that homosexuals are socialized differently and play a more feminine role in the world of work by undertaking more "feminine" career paths such as fashion and journalism. An example of this is seen in the film when Felix explains that his role as a journalist for the New York Times is to write columns about gay fashion, gay acting, gay everything but he simply doesn't refer to it as gay in his articles . He explains that he has no real power over what he is allowed to write about. She takes on a more typically female role as a columnist for the New York