Am Ghaziani, an assistant profsor the Department of Soclogy, spoke wh ArtsWIRE about the ‘post-gay’ era and Vanuver’s ‘gaybourhood,’ Davie Street. Ghaziani is currently workg on his upg book, "There Go the Gaybourhood? Sexualy and the Cy a Post-Gay Era".
Contents:
- MEET DR. AM GHAZIANI: SOCLOGY PROF EXPLOR ‘POST-GAY’ ERA
- PRISON BREAK'S NEW BAD GUY IS GAY, MLIM, AND A FORCE FOR GOOD HOLLYWOOD
- HOW ACTIVISTS FAILED A GAY BLACK MAN NEARLY CONVICTED OF A HATE CRIME
- GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
- THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERIN GAYBORHOODS
MEET DR. AM GHAZIANI: SOCLOGY PROF EXPLOR ‘POST-GAY’ ERA
* amin hayat gay *
Am Ghaziani, an assistant profsor the Department of Soclogy, spoke wh ArtsWIRE about the ‘post-gay’ era and Vanuver’s ‘gaybourhood, ’ Davie Street. Ghaziani is currently workg on his upg book, There Go the Gaybourhood? Sexualy and the Cy a Post-Gay Era.
One of the chang the cultural meang of sexualy is what I’ve lled the ‘post-gay’ era, a perd of time which people feel ls pelled to fe themselv prcipally terms of their sexualy. It don’t necsarily mean un-gay, or anti-gay, or ex-gay. In the past, people generally nied beg gay or champned their sexualy as an activist or as a scholar.
PRISON BREAK'S NEW BAD GUY IS GAY, MLIM, AND A FORCE FOR GOOD HOLLYWOOD
As a gay, black, Mlim man acced of a 'hate crime' agast two gay whe men, Bayna-Lehkiem El-Am was ught an inty trap. * amin hayat gay *
Today the ‘post-gay’ era, there are many more nuanced ways of beg gay, and that’s affectg the way people relate wh each other and the way they choose to live. The ‘post-gay’ era affects pop culture. The ‘post-gay’ era also affects lleg and universi, such as the velopment of, and enrollment , genr and sexualy programs.
You’re workg on a mancript lled There Go the Gaybourhood: Sexualy and the Cy a Post-Gay Era. What are your thoughts on Vanuver’s gay neighbourhoods?
When discrimatn exists society the expectatn some branch of Soclogy is that mory neighbourhoods, such as gay neighbourhoods, exist as safe spac. As such, I thk ’s notable that there’s a sectn on Davie Street wh rabow flags the Wt End that is popularly nsired the ‘gaybourhood.
HOW ACTIVISTS FAILED A GAY BLACK MAN NEARLY CONVICTED OF A HATE CRIME
In Canada, lbian and gay people have full legislative equaly pared to heterosexuals; for example, lbian and gay marriage is legal. As such, the expectatn is there should be no need for gay neighbourhoods.
This creat an tertg theoretil puzzle to expla the existence of the Davie Street ‘gaybourhood.
How do Vanuver’s Davie Street ‘gaybourhood’ pare to Amerin unterparts that you discs your upg book? There are gay people and straight people who are visible on the streets of the Wt End, and that’s que nsistent wh what I’ve found my rearch on Amerin ‘gaybourhoods’.
GAY PEOPLE ARE RECLAIMG AN ISLAMIC HERAGE
The public imag of gay men and lbians seem very proment, which is somethg I fd fascatg and would like to explore my rearch. After I plete my book on Amerin ‘gaybourhoods, ’ my tentn is to wre the next book on parg Canadian gay enclav wh Amerin on. My current book on gay neighbourhoods up both my urs, and I have often brought my rearch to the classroom.
An Arab-Amerin, he is Mlim and gay, and also an arnt activist for tersectnal ncerns. The leadg man broke new ground when he me out 2013, a letter to a film ftival Rsia nmng the untry's antigay legislatn. It really showed that gay actors n do anythg.
THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERIN GAYBORHOODS
"Especially some of the harsh and vlent suatns and environments that we were , jt felt very fortg to have someone who was there who was like, I see you, I unrstand your ncern, " El Gamal, along wh another gay actor on set, Augt Prew -- "so rare, pecially on a broadst show" -- helped El Gamal give plexy and heart to a character who might have been monstro. "It don't mean that I n't play a character that's not gay. He strsed was not a mp magism that drew him to the Wizard of Oz star and gay in.
After El Gamal me out his sophomore year at Stanford Universy, he worried that his fay would stop payg for his schoolg or cut off munitn.
On a trip to Egypt, his father forba him to wear "gay" cloth. He's had to addrs "homophobic microaggrsns" wh former reprentativ, who would ask qutns like "Did you butch up enough? "El Gamal fds the tactics of the Tmp admistratn, which has ed homophobia as a jtitn for s ban on travelers om predomantly Mlim natns, "horrifyg.