... to a persecuted social group.” Rahman’s expe- rience is one of only a few hundred cases in which the applicant’s “sexual orientation”—that is, his “homosexuality”—qualified him for membership in a “social group.” But Rahman’s discourse...

...José Quiroga Originally delivered as a talk in a New York University conference titled Queer Cuba, organized by José Esteban Muñoz and others, this essay explores the present and the past histories of homosexuality and revolution, and it zeroes in on the work and presence of a group of young Cuban...

... the culmination of almost fifty years of sexual politics. To answer this question, the essay returns Guy Hocquenghem’s seminal 1972 text Homosexual Desire to consider the latent friction between sexual and politics that Hocquenghem identifies and that continues to characterize our contemporary moment...

... self-interested but also to the conservative concepts of adjustment and adaptation that are central both to neoliberal governance and to the psychological movement that sought to depathologize homosexuality. Copyright © Duke University Press 2017 LGBT queer neoliberalism social media coming...

...Richard T. Rodríguez This article examines Latino male homosexual practices emerging in Chicago’s presumably impermeable neighborhoods. Drawing from a range of texts—the sociological studies comprising The Sexual Organization of the City (2004), Achy Obejas’s short story “Above All, a Family Man...

... homo- sexuals in particular, are wise or desirable.” Rather, the majority opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick formulated its judicial task in the following blunt terms: to determine “whether the Federal Constitution confers a funda- mental right upon homosexuals...

... familiarity, queers are at once present and still despised. Gays—par- ticularly white, affluent, stereotypical gays—experience visibility in shows such as Will and Grace and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy; homosexual sodomy has been legalized in the United States...

... amount of cultural hegemony at this moment, on the later gay liberation movement. But it is worthwhile at first to recall how the character of this movement was overdetermined by the ways homosexuality had been politicized in the fifties. As numerous...

... of this queer been far more preoccupied with gay marriage and gays in the military exceptionalism than the war on terrorism or even the “homosexual sex” torture scandal at Abu Ghraib.2 In fact...

... The Lawrence decision repudiated the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick ruling and explicitly extended the rights of privacy and sexual freedom to adult consenting homosexuals. Justice Kennedy’s decision drew on over thirty years of Supreme Court decisions that limited government...

... to the imagination of the foreign voyeur, the disenchanted white homosexual who follows the footsteps of a mod- ern-day Rimbaud—leaving civilization for the “menacing” context that beauty provides, in a constant “deréglement des senses” of suspended logic. The magic was all in the eyes of the beholder...

... raid of a Havana neighborhood in search of “pederasts, prostitutes, and pimps” signaled that homosexuality would become one of the “conditions” that the regime attempted to “purge” from the new social order.8 The strategic singling out of gays became even more evident when...

... 10/19/05 2:36:39 PM ily. When it comes to gay identity, because the “freedom” of wage labor allows people to make a living outside the structure of the family, people who might have engaged in homosexual practices...

... this postcolonial Foucauldian analysis of sexuality, I am concerned with the production, regulation, and mobilization of sexualities (reproductive, het- erosexual, homosexual, other, and so on) in communalism and postcolo- nial nationalisms...

... homosexual” and a “male pejorative term for any other male without similar interest; a weak man; any male who gives in to anal inter- course in prison.”16 It is this American Africanism, I argue, that has been popularized on the practical joke television show Punk’d...

... overindulgences. I’ve borrowed and adapted his quip as a title for our extended conversation. Benderson identifies as a “pre-­Stonewall,” “unliberated” homosexual who spent, as he puts it, “white nights in the company of Midtown Manhat- tan hustlers, ex-­cons and junkies, sponging up their speech...

... and ars erotica. Whereas Western civilization (which began some- where in Greece and reached perfection in France) enjoyed a science of sexuality that discursively produced “the homosexual” as a species (in a manner similar...

... their placing the possible homosexual connotations of body movements. West Side Story is a racialized tale visualized as a musical feast of gay style, partners is part of desire for working-class, gentile, “rough” ethnic men, as well as a tribute...

... for abortion and the welfare policies that severely violate the privacy rights of poor single mothers. In another domain, liberal homosexual activists often champion reforms such as same-sex marriage in exclusively bourgeois terms. They insist that les- bian...

... , 2002 . Dickinson Robert Latou . Atlas of Human Sex Anatomy . Baltimore : Williams and Wilkins , 1949 . Gibson Margaret . “ Clitoral Corruption: Body Metaphors and American Doctors’ Constructions of Female Homosexuality, 1870–1900 .” In Science and Homosexualities , edited...