2,696 research outputs found
Writing (gay and lesbian) wills
No full textThis article presents some of the findings of an empirical research project that explored writing wills for gay men and lesbians. The research aimed to examine the extent to which wills might contribute to sociological debates about alternative kinships and intimate citizenship. While the overarching aim of the project was an interest in the contents of the wills (which is to say the intentions of the testators), it also revealed the influence of the lawyers on the contents of the wills and the extent to which changes in legal practice in England have impacted on the place of will-drafting within the legal profession. Exploring this throws light on the extent to which wills express the authentic voice of a testator and raises questions about access to qualified will writers. Turning to the content of the wills, the place of ‘god children’ or children of friends’ is examined. While a very particular type of beneficiary, the focus provides a space for thinking more widely about the construction of the ‘inheritance families’ of gay men and lesbians
Honeypot : Apr. (1993)
No full textThis issue of HoneyPot starts with a financial report of the LRC’s credit union. There is information that gives hypothetical expenses and budgeting strategies. Article on 1970’s and 80’s activism and the Women Movement. Calls for resources and donations. News information on the Texas Triangle, a state gay and lesbian newspaper. Information on Womyn’s 30’s groups. Attention was given for gay games in 1994. Talent show and community calendar events
Queering Nazism or Nazi Queers? A sociological study of an online Gay Nazi Fetish group
No full textThis thesis is a qualitative sociological study into the phenomenon of gay Nazi fetishism in the Internet age, and its wider social and political implications. This sociological research is timely because of the proliferation of online groups targeted at those with fetishistic sexual interests as well as the increasing adoption of queer theory as a theoretical framework through which to analyse non-normative sexualities. Data was collected through examining a range of websites and groups targeted at gay men who enjoy Nazi fetishism. Drawing on interviews with 22 members of one particular gay Nazi fetish group, it is argued that the Internet provides real and important benefits for those exploring non-normative desires, compensating for a number of perceived offline dis-satisfactions as well as offering opportunities to enhance and experiment with sexual play. Nonetheless, this proliferation of non-normative sex does not mean that the world will necessary be a ‘queerer’ place. Not only do problematic hierarchies and exclusions operate on Nazi fetish websites, but its members demonstrate a firm (over)conformity to heteronormative masculinity. Moreover, the appropriation of Nazism for both sexual fantasy and sexual practice draws from and re-iterates its well-established and horrific history rather than, as some queer theorists assert, providing a means to re-signify Nazi regalia. I conclude that the subversive effects of non-normative sexuality should not be assumed but rather that research needs to pay closer attention to the gendered and sexual identities and political sensibilities of its practitioners as well as the ways through which they frame, experience and understand their embodied sexual practice
ALGA Update : v.3:no.1(1996:Apr./May)
No full textThe ALGA Update is a monthly publication by the Amarillo Lesbian/Gay Alliance with a focus on local and national news stories of interest to the lesbian and gay communities
Marlowe's Edward II: from page to screen
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras/Inglês e literatura CorrespondenteMinorites have, during the last decades, manifested their dissatisfaction towards unequal civil rights all over the world. Homosexuals inparticular, both gay and lesbian, constitute groups that have fewer privileges than the heterosexual majority in society. Thus, homosexuals have pursued their civil rights and struggled, above all, for freedom of expression. Some out homosexuals participate in political activism as they pursue legal rights, and such is the case of Derek Jarman (1942-1994), an artist who used film as a medium to ideologically reflect upon the condition of gay males. Jarman appropriated Christopher Marlowe´s play Edward II and produced the screenplay Queer Edward II. The main point of this thesis is that Jarman´s choices imply a different cinematic perspective, namely, that of gays in contemporary society. Thus, what I have defined as queer aesthetics emerges if the visual effects of the film are considered. Nevertheless, Jarman´s Edward II does not actually offer a new form of social system, where gays might achieve power by being accepeted competitively in society. Jarman´s version ultimately restates the same prejudiced behaviour we find in Marlowe´s play, as he replaces the homophobic order by a heterophobic one. Moreover, Jarman ignores thart the formation of desire is a result of the social, historical, political and cultural variables. He appears to be ´trapped´ in the conventional dichotomic view of the genders which establishes difference so as to create social strratification where heterosexual white men are superior and women and gays are inferior. So, although Jarman´s Edward II shows the homosexuals´ strife for equal civil rights, it re-esrtablishes the prevailing socio-political system which in Jarman´s view should oppress heterosexuals
The workshop as the work: white anti-racism organising in 1960s, 70s, and 80s US social movements
No full textThis thesis explores the rise of anti-racism workshops developed by white activists in various United States social movements from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. The shifting ideology of the black freedom movement in the late 1960s, from integration to Black Power, transformed white activists‘ place within racial justice struggles. While recent scholarship has begun to turn its attention towards whites‘ ongoing racial justice activities, one of the most radical and widespread of these efforts is consistently overlooked: anti-racism workshops. Increasingly prevalent from the late 1960s through to the diversity-trainings explosion of the 1990s, this thesis demonstrates that these workshops had their roots in the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation movements. White activists from these movements led these workshops in order to examine white racial domination and privilege within both leftist social movements and larger US society.
Analysing case studies from the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation/rights movements, this thesis explores the foundational assumptions of anti-racism workshops. It seeks to explain how and why these efforts sought to frame race and racism as issues of knowledge and consciousness and why such efforts constituted radical praxis. It is argued that early anti-racism workshops were pedagogical projects that sought to confront the racial ignorance that structured the lives of whites in the US, including progressives and their liberation movements. This thesis draws attention to the efficacy and power of these workshops in terms of their epistemological effects, in the transformations they brought about in whites‘ understanding, or awareness, of racial realities
A few respectable steps behind the world? Gay and lesbian rights in contemporary Singapore
No full textCirculando entre práticas esportivas e sexuais: etnografia em competições esportivas mundiais LGBTs
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Ciências HumanasEsta pesquisa nasceu de meu desejo em tentar investigar, de modo mais acentuado, as sexualidades esportivas de lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, travestis e transgêneros com a chamada "masculinidade hegemônica" nos esportes. Para tanto, e por questões de delimitação teórico-metodológica, escolhi analisar as práticas sociais e simbólicas de "atletas gays" e suas negociações no tocante a tal temática, em torneios esportivos específicos. Assim, meu objetivo era refletir sobre a materialização de corpos e a produção de subjetividades destes sujeitos, articuladas com as construções sociais e discursivas de masculinidade nas competições esportivas LGBT. Utilizando-me de pressupostos da antropologia multisituada, desenvolvi trabalho de campo em três cidades-sedes dos jogos (Copenhague, Colônia e Vancouver), em momentos distintos do período doutoral regulamentar. Entrevistas, conversas, treinamentos, redes sociais, as próprias observações participantes nestas competições, levaram-me a eleição de dezoito tópicos temáticos, que se entrecruzaram e se interseccionalizaram numa escrita hipertextual. O texto é labiríntico, rizomático e se outorga o direito de não ter início, meio ou fim. Como considerações finais-chave da etnografia exploro as seguintes indagações: a) as práticas esportivas queer (dissonantes e subversivas) proporiam um novo modelo de esporte?; b) a busca pela participação internacional em competições esportivas LGBT seria parte de uma estratégia de circulação global de corpos e "capitais ejaculantes" de sujeitos participantes?; c) a relação esporte-festa-sexo, componente constituinte das contendas, corrobora com a hipótese de vivermos uma nova era no capitalismo contemporâneo, notadamente farmacopornográfica?.This research has born from my desire to investigate, most notably, sexualities of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people within the "hegemonic masculinity" in the arena of sports. For this purpose (and by questions of theoretical and methodological delimitation), I have chosen to analyze social and symbolic practices of "gay athletes" and their negotiations related to this subject, at specific sports tournaments. Thus, my aim was to reflect upon the materialization of bodies and the production of subjectivities of these subjects, articulated with the social and discursive constructs of masculinity in LGBT sports competitions. Using the main assumptions of the multisited anthropology, I have conducted fieldwork in three international events (in Copenhagen, Cologne and Vancouver), at different times of the doctoral investigation. Interviews, conversations, training sessions, social networks, participant observation in all these competitions have led me to the election of eighteen thematic topics, which are intersected and written in a hypertext. This text is chaotic, rhizomatic, and grants the right to have no beginning, middle or end. As final key-considerations of the ethnography. I explore the following questions: a) The queer sport practices (jarring and subversive) would/could propose a new model of sport?; b) The search for international participation in LGBT sports competitions would be part of a strategy of global circulation of bodies and "ejaculation capitals" of the participating subjects?; c) The interrelation between sport-party-sex (intrinsic part of the contends),corroborate to the hypothesis that we live in a new era of the contemporary capitalism, notably "farmacopornograpic"
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