Gay And Lesbian Studies

Case Comment: South Africa: Constitutional Protection for Homosexuals-A Brave Initiative, But Is It Working

by paula gerber

Queering the Temporality of Cancer Survivorship

by Mary Bryson

Jackie Stacey and Mary Bryson

Survivorship suggests a temporal relation. It speaks to the endurance of past trauma and looks forward to a future... more Survivorship suggests a temporal relation. It speaks to the endurance of past trauma and looks forward to a future that it wills into being through the overcoming of adversity. This article traces the warped temporalities of cancer survivorship, exploring its queer dimensions by combining theoretical discussions with readings of two lesbian interventions that address normative visions and narrations of healthy/diseased bodies. Cancer survivorship in each case becomes a poetic narration of desire and disease through the queering of temporality. The authors argue that the extent to which cancer's time warp here belongs to queer temporality depends on whether the queerness refers only to the odd, the uncanny, the indeterminate and the undecidable. Or if, instead, cancer's time warp is queer in the sense that sexuality is already present in cancer's disturbance to temporality. In so far as queer carries with it the traces of sexualities deemed undesirable and perverse, then such connections move beyond an analogous and into an ontological register.

Temoral Disconnect: Historicizing the Stonewall Riots

by Tyler Carson

¿ Un libro homófobo? ¡Que lo lea Rita! Criterios de valoración con referente pedegógico para los materiales LGTB destinados a menores.

by Iñaki Tofiño

A Channel For Gay America? A Cultural Criticism Of The Logo Channel's Commercial Success On American Cable Television

by Michael Johnson Jr.

American Circus (Re)Invented-Queering Cirque Du Soleil

by Michael Johnson Jr.

Here's A Little Lagniappe For You

by Michael Johnson Jr.

Queer Negotiations Between Love and Work

by Michael Johnson Jr.

Queer Popular Culture

by Michael Johnson Jr.

Taking the Word 'Out' West: Movie Reception and Gay Spaces

by Scott McKinnon

‘… And the Theatre was Full of Poofs and I Thought it was Fantastic’: Researching the History of Gay Men and the Movies

by Scott McKinnon

Dorian G (r) ay: el monstruo en el armario

by antonio dominguez leiva

Baffled Hopes and Bad Habits: Men, Marriage and Conformity in Queer Theory and Gay Representation

by Berthold Schoene

in Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. by S. Horlacher (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012), pp. 209-18.

What was the true relationship between a Hittite man and his LU HA.LA-SU according to the Hittite Laws in Bronze Age Anatolia? Partner, shareholder, Associate, household live in man friend, an amibuity or just a much oversighted case of Same-Sex Marriage Bronzed style.

by Mark Shindel

Proposition 8 struck down US Court of Appeals 10-16696

by Romero Anton Montalban Anderssen

Thinking Globally and Reading Diversely: Issues of Gay and Lesbian International Literature for Young Adults

by Amy Elliott

-Presented at the 28th Annual College of Communication and Information Research Symposium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN. Feb. 2006.
-Written at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
-Won Best Master's Research Award, 28th Annual University of Tennessee College of Communication and Information Research Symposium.
-Won School of Information Sciences Best Paper Award, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2006.

Young adults need information on issues of sexuality in a way that relates to them. This becomes particularly... more Young adults need information on issues of sexuality in a way that relates to them. This becomes particularly important to young adults who identity as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or queer, as well as those who may be questioning their sexualities. This paper examines one form of information: the young adult novel. It looks at the presence, lack, and need for international GLBTQ young adult literature. It surveys the genre’s past and present and speculates on its future. It discovers that although publishers have significantly increased GLBTQ and international GLBTQ young adult literature in the last few years, there is still quite a gap to be filled.

Crystalline listening, refusing to be God, intimate epistemology and the new sermon: A rhetoric of sexual tolerance

by Cynthia Mahaffey

A rhetoric of inclusion and tolerance for "sexual minorities" (LGBT) persons A rhetoric of inclusion and tolerance for "sexual minorities" (LGBT) persons

Bringing out "Roland Barthes" from Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man (Huangren shouji)

by Chih-wei Chang

Published in Comparative Literature 63.4 (Fall 2011): 423-37.

This essay attempts to “bring out” Roland Barthes as an unnamable textual figure in the Taiwanese writer Chu... more This essay attempts to “bring out” Roland Barthes as an unnamable textual figure in the Taiwanese writer Chu T’ien-wen’s Huangren shouji (Notes of a Desolate Man). Chu’s “gay novel” is notorious for its narrator’s seemingly inexhaustible references to a legion of writers, film directors, thinkers, and artists from across the globe. Among these encyclopedic references are allusions to Barthes’s writings, most notably A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments and The Pleasure of the Text. However, when the narrator of Chu’s novel quotes from The Pleasure of the Text, he apparently forgets who he is quoting. In fact, the name “Roland Barthes” is elided throughout the novel. As a result, Barthes seems to become an unnamable figure in the novel, occupying the textual non-place usually reserved for homosexuality itself. To bring out “Roland Barthes,” this essay explores the intertextual space between Chu and Barthes. It uses Barthes’s theorization of “text” and “intertextuality” to demonstrate that the seemingly endless—and controversial—quotations and references in Chu’s novel are connected to its concern with promiscuous homosexuality. It thus serves as an alternative reading to Ng Kim Chew’s influential essay on Chu, which “heterosexualizes” Chu’s novel through an author-centered biographical approach. Barthes’s textual theory, by contrast, dismisses the relevance of the author’s intention and problematizes the use of the author’s biography in reading a text. This essay follows his encouragement to play with the signifiers of a text (including the author’s “biographemes”) so as to generate meanings unforeseen by the author. Ultimately, the unforeseen textual echoes between Chu’s novel and Barthes’s text almost (but not quite) produce the perverse and impossible enunciation “I am Roland Barthes.”

Istana kecantikan: the first Indonesian gay movie

by Ben Murtagh

South East Asia Research, 2006, 14 (2). pp. 211-30.

This article discusses the first Indonesian film to deal with specifically gay rather than waria (male to female... more This article discusses the first Indonesian film to deal with specifically gay rather than waria (male to female transvestites) subjectivities. The 1980s was a period that saw growing public consciousness of the gay subject position, and the release of this film in 1988 may be seen as the first cinematic attempt to react to this new level of awareness. For this reason, it can be argued that the film says as much about Indonesian perceptions of the gay world as it does about the reality of life as a gay man in Jakarta. The movie has been criticized for its pessimism and negativity regarding the portrayal of gay life in Indonesia, the main character being imprisoned for murder in the final scene. This stands in contrast with more upbeat representations in the recent film, Arisan. However, despite a generally pessimistic ending, the film's portrayal of homosexuality is perhaps more complex, particularly with regard to how family, friends and even psychiatrists relate to the principal gay character. This article argues that rather than the lead character's homosexuality being the reason for his eventual demise, it is his perceived hypocrisy that leads to his ultimate incarceration.

Chocolate strawberry: an Indonesian film breaks new ground on the subject of teenage sexuality

by Ben Murtagh

Inside Indonesia, 93, Jul-Sep 2008.