The Class-Inflected Nature of Gay Inty on JSTOR

Contents:

• REVIEWSOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIL ASPECTS OF GAY INTY VELOPMENT
• WHAT DO YOU LL A LLECTIVE OF LBIAN, GAY, BI AND TRANS PEOPLE?
• GAY AND LGBT+ LOGOS
• POSTGAY
• GRASPG THE GAY: THE POLICS OF COLLECTIVE INTY THE PK DOT SG GRASPG THE GAY: THE POLICS OF COLLECTIVE INTY THE PK DOT SG GRASPG THE GAY: THE POLICS OF COLLECTIVE INTY THE PK DOT SG GRASPG THE GAY: THE POLICS OF COLLECTIVE INTY THE PK DOT SG GRASPG THE GAY: THE POLICS OF COLLECTIVE INTY THE PK DOT SG
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN
• CAN ADDIVE MEASUR ADD TO AN TERSECTNAL UNRSTANDG? EXPERIENC OF GAY AND ETHNIC DISCRIMATN AMONG HIV-POSIVE LATO GAY MEN

REVIEWSOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIL ASPECTS OF GAY INTY VELOPMENT

Fallg unr the bric of “post-gay, ” recent chang gay life challenge theoretil acunts of llective inty by creatg effects that, while acknowledged, have not yet been articulated g a parsimon and portable amework. Drawg on terview and archival data of a llege LGBT stunt anizatn, this article argu that a post-gay era, activists nstct llective inty g an clive, distctn-mutg logic of “ and them.

It is argued that, orr to velop an effective theory of gay inty velopment, empiril rearch should foc upon the levels of analysis, acknowledgg that there is a dynamic terplay between them; the multiplicy of inty self (nsistg of sometim petg elements); and the motiv that unrp the nstctn, management and protectn of inty (prcipally self-teem, self-efficy, ntuy, posive distctivens and belonggns).

KeywordsGay intyInty velopmentComg outStage-based molsInty procs theoryData availabilyNo data was ed for the rearch scribed the by (0)© 2022 The Author(s). As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. And many feel that this word plac undue emphasis on sexual activy, or that sounds overly clil.” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs.”.

WHAT DO YOU LL A LLECTIVE OF LBIAN, GAY, BI AND TRANS PEOPLE?

Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men. On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri.” A more prehensive history of the Stonewall Rt or the Stonewall Uprisg n be found our Pri Month explaer.

Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot,” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man. If people are faiar wh any terms at all, I would gus most people know about the acronym LGBT — which stands for ‘lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr’. This article reviss a central te the rearch on gay inty: namely, that dtrial palism “created” gay inty and set the stage for the morn lbian and gay movement the Uned Stat.

Specifilly, different kds of palism yield different domant unrstandgs of gay inty held by the movement over s 70-year history: reform palism created a psychiatric gay inty; social ntract palism created an “out” mory gay inty; palism--crisis created a centered and ntted gay inty; and neoliberal palism created a domtited and nsumerist gay inty.

GAY AND LGBT+ LOGOS

Rather than viewg gay inty and the movement through the prism of rourc, opportuni, social works, and social nstctn, the article argu that the procs are bt subsumed unr the broar bric of palist polil artículo revisa una doctra central en la vtigación sobre la intidad gay: ncretamente, aquel que dice que el palismo dtrial “creó” la intidad gay y tableció las bas para el movimiento gays y lbianas en los Estados Unidos.

Específimente, las diferent clas palismo produjeron terpretacn diferent la intidad gay mantenidas por su movimiento a lo largo s setenta años historia: el palismo reforma creó una intidad gay psiquiátri; el palismo ntrato social creó una intidad gay “anómala” moraria; el “palismo-en-crisis” creó una intidad gay scentrada y nflictiva; y el palismo neoliberal creó una intidad gay domtida y nsumista. Más que ver la intidad gay y su movimiento a través l prisma recursos, las oportunidas, las res social y la nstcción social, el artículo argumenta que tos procos mejor englobarlos bajo un más ampl apartado la enomía políti palista.

POSTGAY

In the summer of 2012, posters readg "MORE GRINDR=FEWER GAY BARS” appeared taped to signposts numero gay neighborhoods North Ameri—om Greenwich Village New York Cy to Davie Village Vanuver, Canada.

[1] The signs exprsed a brewg fear: that the populary of onle lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) social media—like Grdr, which nnects gay men based on proximate lotn—would soon replace the bricks-and-mortar stutns that had long facilated LGBTQ muny buildg. The owner of Qut, a popular gay bar that hosted drag nights Baltimore’s Highlandtown neighborhood for almost fifteen years, blamed the bar’s closure 2014 on, among other chang, the populary of gay “hook up” apps like Grdr.

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[1] Steve Weste, “Nightlife Suffers as Gay Men Move Onle, ” Village Voice, June 2012; the signs Vanuver are noted by Am Ghaziani There Go the Gayborhood? [3] For an excellent history of munitn works fosterg the growth of lbian and gay muni see Mart Meeker, Contacts Dired: Gay and Lbian Communitns and Communy, 1940s-1970s (Chigo: Universy of Chigo Prs, 2006).

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

For a study of the vexed of early gay onle works see John Edward Campbell, “Virtual Cizens or Dream Consumers: Lookg for Civic Communy on, ” Queer Intersectns: Revisg Onle Media and Queer Sexuali, eds.

Around the world, lbian, gay, bi, trans and tersex (LGBTI) people ntue to face wispread stigma, excln and discrimatn, cludg tn, employment and health re – as well as wh hom and muni. Colorado Sprgs shootg live updat:'All the trappgs of a hate crime'; heroic patrons fought backLGBTQ rourc:How to help Club Q victims after Colorado Sprgs shootgLet's get startedLGBTQ: The acronym for “lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer.

"It’s prised of inty (I’m gay), behavr (I have sex wh the same genr) and attractn (I'm sexually attracted to the same genr), and all three might not le up for all people. Origal rabow flag: In the late 70s, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official  California, challenged activist Gilbert Baker to sign a symbol of hope for the gay muny. IntroductnSocial acceptance of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people appears to be a spectacular illn that is largely propagated by the emergence of “gay-posive” reprentatns mass media.

IRS 'WHISTLEBLOWER X,' A GAY DEMOCRAT, REVEALS INTY AND TELLS CONGRS HE WAS BLOCKED OM INVTIGATG HUNTER BIN

In particular, Michael Sam’s experienc as an openly gay football player, and Calyn Jenner’s transn have monopolized social media and news outlets, which beg to qutn if wispread LGBT-affirmative attus exist, and whether homophobic and transphobic discrimatn are issu of the past. Both Wallg (2008) and Ghaziani (2011) argue that we do not ri a gay- and trans-affirmative world—a postgay utopia where unrstandg, acceptance, and celebratn are afford to all.

Such notns of postgay imagari ignore or rather downplay the persistence of (hetero/cis)normative climat and systems terms of their regulatory effects (see Wallg 2008) theory provis a lens to exame the lims and possibili of postgay as a basis for explorg the lived reali of genr, sexual, and romantic mori (GSRMs) the twenty-first century.

CAN ADDIVE MEASUR ADD TO AN TERSECTNAL UNRSTANDG? EXPERIENC OF GAY AND ETHNIC DISCRIMATN AMONG HIV-POSIVE LATO GAY MEN

I crique the term postgay as relat to cultural trends that regnize sexual and genr diversy, yet privilege homonormative nformy wh (hetero/cis)centric society (see Ghaziani 2011). Overall, queer theoretil perspectiv facilate the exploratn of the lims and possibili of postgay as relat to queer/trans folks livg the twenty-first century. Throughout this chapter, the analytic and explanatory potential of postgay is explored through examg LGBT media verage and advancements GSRM human rights, postgay utopian assumptns, ntemporary youth’s intifitn choic, LGBT assiatn and diversy, and stunt-led club nam and inti (Lapote 2014, 2015).

I will also reflect on my own rearch as relat to the sights of Ghaziani (2011, 2014) and Wallg (2008) to further illumate the productive aspects of postgay the liv of GSRM People: Media and Human RightsWh creasg LGBT media verage and the troductn of more equable rights for LGBT people North Ameri (e.

G., anti-homophobic cls safe schools polici—see Legislative Assembly of Ontar 2015), appears as if we may be livg a postgay era where discrimatn and harassment are obsolete. The sanctng of “same-sex marriage” or “gay marriage”—a tellg lloquial exprsn—monstrat how (mis)unrstandgs about sex and genr—on that are firmly rooted the male/female bary where sex and genr are perceived to be terchangeable—are routely employed to scribe same-genr partnerships; and how tolerance and assiatn, rather than affirmatn and celebratn, unrgird the advancement of LGBT rights North Ameri.

As such, postgay “may be marked by the acceptance of a segment of gays and lbians who are genr nformg, middle class, upwardly mobile— other words, those bt able to take advantage of the benefs of assiatn and the valorizatn of a particular type of diversy” (Ghaziani 2011, p. Do postgay mean that we are livg a utopian era of gay liberatn where acceptance of genr and sexual diversy is no longer a real problem and where homophobia, heterosexism, heteronormativy, and cisgenrism no longer are issu for GSRM youth? Due to (hetero/cis)normalcy, intifyg one’s queer sexualy, genr, and/or romantic orientatn is a fundamental aspect of youth culture, and but one of many reasons why Wallg (2008) “spect[s] that the extctn of the ‘gay adolcent’ is more distant than Sav-Williams would have believe” (p.

Moreover, schools particular are plac where normative unrstandgs of sexualy and genr circulate and are reproduced (Elltt 2015; Lville 2009), and where homophobic and transphobic prejudice and discrimatn are mon (Kosciw et al. 24–25); th, tegratg GSRMs to (hetero/cis)normative society, and heterosexualizg LGBT culture by vg GSRMs to participate circumscribed ways, monstrat how heterosexism and cisgenrism are displaced wh postgay rhetoric. The tensns between assiative tactics, and cultural prervatn, novatn, and refn illumate the pfalls and productive potential of postgay as a nceptual tegory terms of s explanatory pacy to fe the terms of a particular queer zegeist that is characteristic of the twenty-first century.

In short, by examg ntemporary queer intifitory labels the tegory postgay be more relevant twenty-first century disurse (see also Wallg 2008) Intifitn and ExprsnQueer theory provis a amework for terrogatg the lims of fixed inty tegori (Lville 2009; Sullivan 2003), and for engagg wh postgay sights as a means by which to subvert homonormativy (see Ghaziani 2014) by rejectg “labels of prev generatns” (Wallg 2008, p.

Likewise, Ghaziani (2011) terrogat postracist and postgay assumptns by suggtg that, “Assiatn n mute inty as much as diversy n amplify by highlightg distctns” (p.

The distctive choice to celebrate or supprs particular GSRM inti and/or exprsns monstrat how postgay fluenc n both negatively and posively impact GSRM people, which relat to the lims and possibili of postgay as a nceptual tegory. Stunt-Led Group Nam and Collective IntyGhaziani (2011) clar, “the transn to a post-gay era be theoretilly eful, as prents an opportuny to reimage the relatnship between ‘, ’ ‘them, ’ and even ‘thems si’” (p. Through discsg the three terrelated “groups, ” Ghaziani (2011) explor how diversy and assiatn ncerns fluence the ntemporary namg and llective inty nceptns of stunt-led groups, such as Gay–Straight Allianc (GSA).

Ghaziani (2011) postgay sights to problematize “” vers “them” polil strategi that draw distctns between homo/hetero and cisgenr/transgenr people (see also Sullivan 2003) orr to put the spotlight on the evolutn and transformative possibili afford by the velopment of stunt-led clubs. Assiatn and diversy impact what groups ll themselv somuch that “gay … no longer requir explic mentn the nam of some LGBT anizatns and events” (Ghaziani 2011, p. This is sometim done to signal openns to non-LGBTQ membership (though, of urse, some of the are not GSAs and might not addrs homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia), and sometim bee “Gay-Straight Alliance” seems problematic that “gay” do not necsarily refer to lbians or bisexuals and trans inti are not explicly enpassed by the exprsn.

The acronym GSA, like LGBT, has bee normalized, but youth’s engagement wh postgay perspectiv has the productive potential to fluence social change, specifilly school muni. Ghaziani (2011) asserts, “stunts nstct llective inty a post-gay era by electg a general name (one that do not list specific groups) and an inty-muted name” (p. Th, when GSAs draw on postgay sights, they may be operatg ways that promote acceptance and unrstandg toward homonormative dividuals rather than addrsg the spectm of possibili and pleasur that exist outsi of a heterosexualized and cisgenred gaze (see Ghaziani 2011; Serano 2007).

My Own RearchIn this sectn I draw on rearch wh Canadian high school GSA members and their club advisor to further illumate the explanatory potential of cril postgay perspectiv. … I don’t get athetic attractn eher … [for example] they might have a nice face, but I don’t want to do anythg wh them type of thg … when I first learned about [sexualy], I was like, oh maybe I’m bisexual … but, I prefer pansexual bee … the two genr thg, and then after a while I was like, oh there’s asexual, oh that’s ol … oh, wa a Sasha discsed how his prev inty label was impacted by his knowledge of sexualy as shifted om tradnal to postgay nventns. Drawg on the sights of Ghaziani (2014), is clear that the youth unrstand their genr to be trite and fluid, which signifi how they are employg postgay perspectiv to scribe their Name and IntyRegnizg and embracg sexual, genr, and romantic diversy and buildg allianc wh others were creasgly important for participants.

He munited that the name GSA assum that people are eher gay or straight, but the club is actually for anyone who “intifi anywhere on any of the spectms. You’ll see movi and stuff or books; if they have a gay uple people are like, OMG … But, people don’t dare touch anythg that has to do wh genr inty or anythg.

Overall, the e of gay obft ntemporary unrstandgs of sexualy and genr and fails to pture how today’s youth are intifyg (see Ghaziani 2014; Sav-Williams 2005). ConclnThis chapter drew on queer perspectiv to explore the nceptual efficy of the term postgay as relat to soccultural and polil progrsns, ntemporary genr, and sexualy labels, and the nam and llective inti of stunt-led clubs. The works of Wallg (2008) and Ghaziani (2011) were employed to problematize the notn that we live a postgay utopian world where homophobia, heterosexism, (hetero/cis)normativy, and cisgenrism cease to exist.