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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Gay culture"”.
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Gay Comics and Queer Male Comics in America: History, Conventions and Challenges
This thesis is focused on American gay male comics and queer alternative comics. I argue that the field of gay male comics' production is dominated by two key genres: gay porno comics and gay ghetto comics. The conventions and characteristics of these genres help to construct and reinforce a …
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Unnamed Lands
… an exploration of twenty-first century gay culture, viewed from the vantage point of successive lifestages: childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, maturity, and old age. These texts cumulatively display a broad approach to experimentation as they range in style from realism to …
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Faceless things: South Korean gay men, internet, and sexual citizenship
… pathways that the Internet was offering Korean gay men, primarily in their 30s and 40s, in terms of exercising their sexual freedom and being gay at a moment of neoliberal reforms in South Korea when an increased emphasis on individual productivity and efficiency, especially through the use of …
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Reconsidering Randy Shilts: examining the reportage of America's AIDS chronicler
The role of openly-gay reporter and author Randy Shilts (1951-1994) is examined related to his use of journalistic practices and places him on a continuum of traditional reporting roles as considered in the context of twentieth century philosophers Walter Lippmann and John Dewey. Reporter functions …
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The Circle Always Grew: Folklore and Gay Identity, 1945-1960
It has become a common place in Gay studies that the rise of Gay culture as we know it today has its roots in the years immediately following World War II. Using life history field techniques as a means of doing field research, the folklore of Gay men of this era is examined. Interviews were …
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Wah Eye Nuh See Heart Nuh Leap: Queer Marronage In The Jamaican Dancehall
… argue that queer men participate in a dancehall culture—one that is perceived as heterosexual and homophobic—undetected because of the over-arching (cultural and aesthetic) queerness of the space coupled with the de facto heterosexuality afforded all who ‘brave’ dancehall’s homophobia. Queer …
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"I Have a Sense that Gay is Diluting Significantly." Gay Nostalgia in a Post-Gay World and the Intergenerational Transitions of Toronto's Church-Wellesley Village (1973-2023)
Understandings and/or experiences of being gay in Toronto have changed over the past 50 years and are now at risk of being revised or forgotten. There is a diminishment of gay villages, spaces, and organizations across North America, Western Europe and Australia. A post-gay period has emerged in …
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Spectacularizing the homosexual body: the secret rendezvous among global gay media, local straight women, and the media industry in South Korea
… explores the relationship among global gay media, local straight women, and the media industry in relation to the current popularity of gay popular culture in South Korea. While the homosexual body in Korea is currently pervasive in popular media, negative attitudes toward homosexuals …
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Pagbukadkad ng bulaklak = Blooming of the flower : an ethnographic study of a friendship group of same-sex attracted middle-class young men from Metro Manila in the Philippines
In this dissertation I examine “gay” life in the Philippines by focusing on a longstanding friendship group of same-sex attracted middle-class young men living in Metro Manila who identify as bakla/gay/homosexual. I explain how dynamics of gender and sexuality including identity expression are …