Gay men once veloped s to ensure safety the hunt for sex. Can they help #MeToo do the same?
Contents:
- THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF THE WORLD TRA CENTER
- WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?
- THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
- THE END OF GAY CULTURE
THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF THE WORLD TRA CENTER
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WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY … MOROC?
The short film 'Tra Center' chronicl the WTC’s legacy as a cisg haven for gay men the 1970s. * cruising in gay culture *
Even so, 50 years after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn talyzed the mastream LGBTQ movement, gay people still mata spher of separatn om the wir world: nightclubs, vatn spots, and datg apps where like n meet like. ”Sex spac such as the ll back to when queer life had to be furtive, for fear of danger, but also when, almost paradoxilly, gay men found safety and eroticism by surrenrg privacy together.
To dance on a summer night at Provcetown’s Atlantic Hoe, one of the untry’s olst gay bars, is to feel the loss of bodily tonomy that any crowd supercharged by the wi prumptn of flirtg. It was also lghed off as “gays beg gays, ” as my somewhat rattled iend put after he phed his way out om unr the beg gays sounds a lot like the boys will be boys exce-makg that the #MeToo movement has discreded.
THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
Promiscuo sexualy remas a central source of cultural fear and fascatn, as seen the rurgence of heated bat wh Amerin gay culture on s place the era of AIDS. Cisg Culture provis the first extensive cril examatn of petg unrstandgs and experienc of promiscuy, both post-war Amerin gay culture and Amerin culture more broadly. In this origal and provotive book, Ben Gove unpicks the root assumptns and ntradictns which ntribute to domant punive notns of promiscuo sex and sire. He challeng normative dichotomi between 'good' monogamo sexuali and 'bad' promiscuo sexuali by illtratg the herent promiscuons of all sexual sire, regardls of nscly exprsed attus to sexual practice. The rear is guid through the maze of nflictg attus towards promiscuy Amerin gay culture wh novative readgs of texts by fluential, but hherto crilly neglected, thors such as Andrew Holleran, Larry Kramer, John Rechy, Edmund Whe and David Wojnarowicz. The book also draws on numero cril and historil perspectiv to reprent an trite picture of promiscuo sexual life ntemporary Ameri. Cisg Culture will be sential readg for gay/elbian/queer studi, genr studi and Amerin studi, and for anyone else seekg a thorough discsn of the plex bat surroundg promiscuy. * cruising in gay culture *
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THE END OF GAY CULTURE
The ncept of cisg has typilly foced on gay male activy and, as such, has been narrowly foced and limed. This view has rerced negative stereotypil imag of gay men and has valued women's more subtle styl and longer-term relatnships. This paper argu that lbians do ci … * cruising in gay culture *
Broachg that ia public risks revivg old imag of gay promiscuy and predatn at jt the moment when such stereotyp are losg their be, thanks to the growg visibily of the queer experience all s variety. Acrdg to a CDC survey based on self-reports, the share of gay men who have experienced sexual vlence other than rape is almost as great as the share of straight and lbian women who have. Gay men often don’t report attacks to thori out of fear of beg outed, mistreated by homophobic ps, and subjected to stigmas that st male victims as petg explanatns for the particular malens of predatn, one theory rts heavily on blogy, and the gay cisg mentaly n serve as a prop for that se.