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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"gay identity"”.
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The Corporate Closet Managing Gay Identity on the Job
… Working within these environments, gay professionals adopt one of three strategies in their management of sexual identity. Some men "counterfeit" a heterosexual identity through the manipulation of outward appearances. Others "integrate" an identity by minimizing, normalizing, …
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Learning, Living, and Leaving the Closet: Making Gay Identity Relational
Gay identity is inextricably tied to the metaphor of the closet. This tie is best exemplified by the act of "coming out of the closet," an act when a person discloses a gay identity to another, an act of self-identification and confession that others can motivate but never force, an act typically …
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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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Gay identity formation: An (auto)ethnographic look at gay volleyball
… until May of 2010, I was part of the SCVL, a gay volleyball league in Pittsburgh, PA. At the same time, I was a graduate student, working to advance my status within the Academy. In this study, I use autoethnography to talk about my experiences at the nexus of these two institutions: the SCVL …
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Gay in Game: A Rhetorical Analysis of Gay Identity Through Varus and Sett/Aphelios in League of Legends
… how the company Riot Games represents gay identity in the video game League of Legends (LoL) but reifies negative frames historically associated to gay individuals. Riot Games’ history of harassment and discrimination in the workplace, as well as the gaming industry’s overall history, …
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Documenting gay identity through the cinematic lens an investigation of representations of South African gay identities through film
This paper looks to delve into a rounded exploration of a queer cinematic culture in the post-apartheid era. Through an appreciation of South African cinematic history, the socio-political seems intertwined in the very fibre of this cinematic history; with factors such as race, class, wealth …
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Ethnic Identity, Gay Identity and Sexual Sensation Seeking: HIV Risk-taking Predictors Among Men of Color Who Have Sex with Men
This study examined relationships among ethnic identity, gay identity, sexual sensation seeking, and HIV risk-taking behaviors among 302 men of color recruited from gay bars, bathhouses, community agencies, and the 1998 United States Conference on AIDS. The sample included 24% African American, 28% …
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An Investigation of the Relationships between Gay Identity, Perceived Social Support, Gender-Role Conflict, and Parenting Intention in Childless Gay Men
… a higher likelihood of becoming a parent. For gay men, this process can be increasingly complex. There are a substantial number of factors that could play a role in a gay man’s decision to parent. Gay identity might play a role in the parenting intentions of gay men, as it has been found that …
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"Travestis politiques": The gay value of Michel Tremblay's dramatic work in translation
Michel Tremblay often denies that he writes about gayness, despite frequent themes of sexual difference in his plays. In Hosanna , for example, he has suggested that the gay content is a metaphor for Quebec's aspirations to independence. In other plays, such as Les anciennes odeurs and Messe …
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Coming Out: One Family's Story
… out of a 6 member family-of-choice of an adult gay man in rural New Hampshire. 27.5 hours of face-to-face interviews were conducted with the family individually and collectively. Reflexivity, as a technique, was used extensively. Four themes were identified: Embracing gay identity, integrating …
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How do gay men experience ruptures in the relationship with their therapist? An interpretative phenomenological study
… higher prevalence of mental health problems for gay men, who experience higher rates of depression, substance misuse problems and suicide. Gay men use therapy at higher rates than the general population, but are also more likely to report unsatisfactory experiences in therapy – otherwise known as …
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Queer American expatriate writers in France and the birth of the gay modernist subject
… and colonies to construct early narratives of gay identity. This project argues that French literature and art, which had already articulated discourses and paradigms of queer sexuality through writers like Proust, Gide, and Colette, and French cultural spaces in which a vibrant underground …
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Maricas de etiqueta: identidad gay en el cine reciente de España y el Cono Sur
My dissertation analyzes 21st-century gay-themed films from Argentina, Chile, Spain, and Uruguay, and seeks to determine how their portrayal of men who have sex with men (MSM), much more diverse and self-aware than before, integrates an identity- based paradigm for the understanding of sex between …
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Perimeters, Performances and Perversity: The Creation and Success of a Gay Community in Madrid, Spain
This dissertation utilizes the gay neighborhood of Chueca as the foci for understanding the rise of public gay identity in Madrid and Spain. By "reading" the urban space and coupling that reading with information gathered from ethnographic and historical methodologies, my work sheds light on the …
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Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond
… and when our contemporary understanding of gay identity was becoming a widespread and recognizable epistemology. The connections forged in this study--based on archival research from Joseph Blotner's extensive biographical notes--reveal a version of Faulkner distinctly not anxious about …
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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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On Objects and Affections: Contemporary Representations of the Gay Man/Straight Woman Dyad in Popular Film and Television
… the representational strategies used to depict a gay male/straight female dyad across a variety of popular media. The study problematizes and critically evaluates how the narrativization of the dyad both challenges and reinforces stereotypes of gay men and at the same time circulates a troubling …
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Faith's Late Procession: Poems
… poet's ongoing struggle with faith; his father's gay identity; the difficulties of watching, as a child, his father worsen over time with advancing stages of schizophrenia, and the duality of growing up in urban St. Louis, while spending summers on his father's farm in upper east Tennessee. The …
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Punch-Drunk
… figuring out and coming to terms with your gay identity is a complicated ordeal, familial relationships are not always stable, and the world will sometimes crumble at your feet.
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Documenting the Use of Appearances Among the DJ and Nightclub Patrons
… the literature on fabulous appearances: the gay nightclub patron and the club DJ. This study used a large Midwestern gay nightclub as the field setting. Fabulousness involves the way patrons costume themselves in order to communicate status within the setting. This study revealed that …
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