...Judith Halberstam Duke University Press 2005 Shame and White Gay Masculinity When I first received an invitation to speak at the University of Michigan’s Judith Halberstam “Gay Shame” conference, I felt...

...Teemu Ruskola Duke University Press 2005 Gay Rights versus Queer Theory WH AT IS LEFT OF SODOMY AFTER L AWRENCE V. TE X A S? In effect, we live in a legal, social...

...Daniel Balderston; José Quiroga Duke University Press 2003 A Beautiful, Sinister Fairyland GAY SUNSHINE PRESS DOES LATIN AMERICA Fairyland...

...Kevin Floyd ST 66.05 Floyd 4/9/01 3:25 PM Page 103 Rethinking Reification MARCUSE, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND GAY LIBERATION In his 1937 essay “The Affirmative Character...

... gayness. Nicky claims, “If you were gay, that would be okay.” The problem with Rod, in Nicky’s view, is not that Rod is gay but, rather, that he has not asserted it. The audience is placed in the same position as Nicky. We are meant to think that there is something wrong with Rod’s expression of his...

...Gustavus Stadler This essay examines contemporary lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) activism in the light of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's important Social Text piece from 1991, “How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay.” It revisits the restrictive views of gender that she discovered in the psychotherapeutic...

...Drew Daniel This essay examines the phenomenon of “queer minstrelsy”—roughly, straight performers pretending onstage and in their lyrics to be gay, here exemplified by the Meatmen, the Frogs, and Zeigenbock Kopf—as a means for thinking about performance as both a catalyst for, and a solvent...

... in a linear, chronological fashion and that gays and lesbians have always been positioned by the state as subjects that are both within and outside the island, and it underscores the relationship between queerness and modernity. It is from these tenets that the formation of the Maceo Brigade, and the relative...

... not only mainstream ones but also various publications that purport to serve the “gay community.” Examples from recent gay print media show that a significant number of gay journalists and scholars are in fact complicit with neoliberal...

...” body commodified by dominant gay male culture. I propose regarding that brown body as an axis in the formation of a cosmopolitan gay male identity and community. More specifically, I argue that this brown body mediates gay male shame. These preliminary speculations...

... Planet,” and eight years after “Queer Transexions of Race, Nation, and Gender,” this special double issue reassesses the political utility of queer by asking “what’s queer about queer studies now?” The contemporary mainstreaming of gay and lesbian identity—as a mass...

... and political action? Do we move, for example, from gay liberation to queer resistance? While queer politics initially promised an alternative to the problematics of gay liberation, as a number of scholars and activists have now concluded, and as the editors of this special...

... identify gayness with being foreign. But I do remember that in college we made parallels, thinking of gay people as the Jews of Cuba: the suspect, immoral outsiders. FNM: That recalls Jean-Paul Sartre’s observation that the Cuban state had to persecute gays because there were no Jews. AV: Oh, yes...

...” negotiation of identity and apply them to rethinking the design of ubiq- uitous computing systems. I analyze how gay identity is managed in per- sonal and political terms and map the prerequisites of successful identity 96 David J...

... as “gay” and “Latino”) but a need to unveil the strategies to sustain the impermeability of interlocking geographical, gender, and sexual divides. Commonly known as “the city of neighborhoods,” Chicago is, according to sociologist Robert J. Sampson...

... for unbur- dened-by-kinship gays and lesbians. The second genealogy, of the queer liberal subject before the law, culminates with the 2003 decriminalizing of sodomy through Lawrence and Garner v. Texas. While both consumptive...

... IN THE CONTE X T OF FA MILY RIGHTS I came to the United States from Pakistan in 1991 as a student. I had come Chandan Reddy to the United States because I had a thought that coming out as a gay man would be safer for me in this country. After graduating...

.... But I’ve got news for them, too. . . . We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the red states. —Barack Obama, Illinois state senator, keynote address, 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston...

... . “ Plato’s Doctrine of the Truth ”. In Pathmarks , edited by McNeill William , 155 – 82 . London : Cambridge University Press . Hocquenghem Guy . 1980 . Le Gai Voyage . Paris : Albin Michel Hocquenghem Guy . 1987 . “ L’Homosexualité est-elle un vice guérissable? ” Gai...

... the possibility of a demobilized gay constituency and a privatized, depoliticized gay culture anchored in domesticity and consumption.” 22 Clare Hemmings offers a provocative argument that the continued fantasy of the marginality of lesbian and gay identities, or gayness as the “repeated celebration...