Abstract
On the football matches of European leagues, occasionally, male players kiss each other to celebrate their goals. Generally, it is regarded as the expression of their emotion, however, according to usual context of gender regime, such performance as same sex kissing is likely to be understood as the deviation from common sense of masculinity. The purpose of this paper is to examine the meaning of kiss performance on football.
The concept of homosociality is the key to understand the relation between sport and masculinity, because masculinity is just idea and cannot be shaped without supported by homosociality, which provides the concrete structure. Theoretically, homosociality includes misogyny and homophobia in itself to complete and maintain masculinity. In fact the institution and practice of professional sport has been clearly divided by gender. It means that, as long as remained inside of that structure, the exclusion of women is perfectly completed. Meanwhile homophobia becomes more severe to police homosexuality which is the only one threat for homosociality after the completion of misogyny. As assumed theoretically, homophobia in the realm of sport is much stricter than other social area.
According to the evidences which were drawn from the remarks of players, kiss performance has been doing based on tacit, but firm premise that they were not homosexuals. It should be understood that the kiss between male football players is the expression of masculinity in paradoxical way. This fact also suggests important view to prove that the linkage between gender and identity is arbitrary and gender such as masculinity is constructed performatively by performance.
