Sexual practic among gay and other men who have sex wh men are evolvg South Ai and heteronormative stereotyp are beg ntted. This paper draws om a larger qualative study on how men nstct a gay inty and negotiate their relatnships wh ntemporary South Ain …
Contents:
- FLEXIBLE AND GAY
- OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
- LEARNG BODY TECHNIQU: DANCE AND BODY FLEXIBILY AMONG GAY BLACK TEENS SALVADOR BAHIA, BRAZIL
- 'TOP, BOTTOM, VERSATILE': NARRATIV OF SEXUAL PRACTIC GAY RELATNSHIPS THE CAPE METROPOLE, SOUTH AI
FLEXIBLE AND GAY
How are the words Flexible and Gay related? Flexible and Gay are synonymo, and they have mutual synonyms. * flexible and gay *
Each person may intify as another label at different of the mon misnceptns people have about bisexualy also apply to those who intify as homoflexible or heteroflexible. While some people who intify as homoflexible or heteroflexible may also intify as polyamoro (havg multiple partners at one time), aga is a myth that the people are somehow greedy by nature.
OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
This article is the rult of ethnographic fieldwork among amatr dancers, maly among gay adolcents om the outskirts of Salvador Bahia (Brazil), who label themselv as “flexible”. This self-fn aris out of bodily flexibily techniqu, cultivated through tense physil work. By focg on specific trag suatns, such as stretchg exercis, I trace unrstand how the “flexible” body is built. I propose that the language mobilized by the young people offer an important gui to unrstandg the distctive elements of this practice. The practners’ acunts and my own observatns of the practice dite that the embodiment of acrobatic skills occurs a procs that weav body and environment. Followg Ingold, I argue that an elogil approach help to prehend this kthetic practice as spatial realizatn, as well as providg eful sights to s learng practic explorg the richly sensory dimensn of learng practic and velopment of motor sensibili, such as the sound and the imperative pa experience. Furthermore, I analyze how my terlocutors’ ncept of body fs the theoretil ia of how bodi should not be fed by what they are, but rather by what they are able to do. * flexible and gay *
Though some people fd helpful or thartic to e out, you do not need to be open about your sexual inty wh anyone you don’t want you expla to someone what means to intify as homoflexible or heteroflexible, you n provi as much tail as you’d like. You n simply expla that you are primarily attracted to people of the same sex but sometim feel attracted to someone of another sex (homoflexible), or that you primarily intify as straight but sometim feel attracted to people of the same sex (heteroflexible). This year alone, 4, 172 ngregatns left, acrdg to an unofficial tally by Uned Methodist News the church forbids the marriage or ordatn of “self-avowed, practicg homosexuals, ” many church and nferenc fy those bans.
Conservativ May 2022 officially lnched a new Global Methodist Church, where they plan to mata and enforce bans on thgs that clu gay misters and same-sex weddgs. LGBTQ+ rponseWhile some partg church allow LGBTQ+ members, ’s an unacceptable double standard when they let LGBTQ+ people attend their servic but refe to marry them, said Sonja Feist, print of the Topeka chapter of Parents, Fay and Friends of Lbians and told The Capal-Journal she didn't see how a church that bans same-sex marriage n claim to be welg to gay people.
LEARNG BODY TECHNIQU: DANCE AND BODY FLEXIBILY AMONG GAY BLACK TEENS SALVADOR BAHIA, BRAZIL
* flexible and gay *
IntroductnAfter almost a of experience wh dance culture among gay teenagers of lor who live on the outskirts of the cy of Salvador Bahia, I have heard and observed many stori that ttify to the personal, physil, and real volvement of many of them wh dance.
'TOP, BOTTOM, VERSATILE': NARRATIV OF SEXUAL PRACTIC GAY RELATNSHIPS THE CAPE METROPOLE, SOUTH AI
Participatn dance groups ma up of gay iends and neighbors that rehearse and prent choreographi to popular dance mic, is part of the trajectory of their nstctn of a sense of gay self and ethnographic subjects, the majory of whom are participants or ex-members of such dance groups, are part of that sectn of the gay muny for whom this artistic activy seems to offer an environment of playful sociabily sufficiently open to an exploratory attu terms of a kthetics that is non-normative relatn to the purpos of this article, I only nsir amatr gay dancers who, referrg to a set of bodily flexibily techniqu which they learn, ll themselv flexible. Such a practice, however, is still srcely I translated the emic tegory wh which my terlocutors signate themselv, “flexible gay”, as “flexible gay man”, wh the tentn of producg a more fluid text for the Anglo-Saxon rear, I need to unrle somethg that may be ncealed by this translatn.
The flexible gay youths who participated the rearch refer to their lleagu not only as gay, but nearly always, as “the gay (a gay)”–unrstandg that the “a” is the feme fe article at tim they rerved this lguistic nstctn for people wh whom they were not particularly sympathetic, they generally teract wh their iends referrg to them as viado or bicha. The sounds that rult om the impact of a body that is acrobatilly lnched onto a specific surface n also be heard when we pay attentn to the retellg of their performance of the flexible gay men themselv.
The onomatopoeia participat the narrativ produced, vtg them wh more realy, to the extent that the sound lls our attentn to the richly sensory facet of the practice; on one hand, for the effects, cludg the nois, provoked by the sudn character of some movements, and on the other, regardg how the movement is topics nsired here regardg the theme of the assiatn of the gymnastic abili emerge, therefore, not only through the scriptns produced through participant observatn, but om the retellg of the flexible gay men. In this directn, the language of my rearch participants employs exprsns that are key to unrstandg the practice and of the physil transformatn that mak them petent to act the “dance world” as flexible gay article do not tend to exhstively scribe the rout of assiatn of the abili of the flexible gay man.