Many gay men feel that getting a professional job is the only way to live with a decent level of prosperity and safety. Straight men can take on manual labor,

Many gay men feel that getting a professional job is the only way to live with a decent level of prosperity and safety. Straight men can take on manual labor, but jobs like construction and repair are so pervasively burdened with machismo and homophobia that working in those fields may be completely intolerable.