Get Thee to a Big Cy: Sexual Imagary and the Great Gay Migratn | GLQ | De Universy Prs

Contents:

• THE GREAT GAY MIGRATN
• CY ON A HILL: SAN FRANCIS AND ‘THE GREAT GAY MIGRATN’ THE U.S. COLONIAL PRENT
• GET THEE TO A BIG CY: SEXUAL IMAGARY AND THE GREAT GAY MIGRATN

THE GREAT GAY MIGRATN

“… (Cryg ont of me) … My parents didn’t want to have a gay child so they stopped the relatnship.

CY ON A HILL: SAN FRANCIS AND ‘THE GREAT GAY MIGRATN’ THE U.S. COLONIAL PRENT

That is a touchg story om one of my terlocutors when I terviewed 20 Indonian gays Paris as part of my PhD rearch about migratn of Indonian gays to Paris. The migratn of gays has happened wh and between many untri the world.

One peak uld be seen the Uned Stat the early 1970s and early 1980s as the “Great Gay Migratn”, which was marked by “an flux of tens of thoands of lbians and gay men (as well as dividuals bent on explorg their sexualy) to major urban areas across the Uned Stat. ”(1) Why then, are some gays and lbians movg to other untri?

Acrdg to Takács, Mocsonaki, and Tóth, Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr (LGBT) people n be seen as members of a mory group; that is, a group characterized by a relative powerlsns regardg their tert reprentg abili. Along wh this go homophobia: the cultural valuatn of homosexualy. Their sexualy th disparaged, homosexuals are subject to shamg, harassment, discrimatn, and vlence, while beg nied legal rights and equal protectn – other words, nials of regnn.

GET THEE TO A BIG CY: SEXUAL IMAGARY AND THE GREAT GAY MIGRATN

Gays and lbians also suffer ser enomic jtic; they n be summarily dismissed om paid work and are nied fay-based social-welfare benefs. The ia that homosexualy is a disease is wily shared Indonia where they suffer the nsequenc of a severely homophobic society.

At the begng of the 1980’s, homosexualy beme closely nnected to the spread of the aids vis the mds of many Indonians.

As a nsequence, Indonia, people ll gay people ‘orang sak’ (the ‘sick’).