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Contents:

• WHAT IS "POST GAY" AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
• POST GAY
• IT’S A NEW DAY THE GAYBORHOOD
• “POST-GAY”: HOW QUEER VALU BENEF ALL PEOPLE WH RABBI JOSHUA LSER. A CLGS JEWISH QUEERI SERI EVENT
• ARE TEENS “POST-GAY”? CONTEMPORARY ADOLCENTS’ SEXUAL INTY LABELS
• POSTGAY
• POSTGAY
• IN CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• MOSW GAY BARS

WHAT IS "POST GAY" AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?

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POST GAY

Iran seems to hang gay people on a regular basis, Senegal's penal  lls for imprisonment of gay people and Senegale police regularly target gay men for arrt and extortn, as do other sub Saharan Ain untri that enforce laws crimalizg gay relatnships. So we n have our "Go Go Boy" ft on Santa Moni Boulevard Wt Hollywood, but I wouldn't try Rsia which has enacted very new anti gay laws as of April 8, 2013, or Lhuania which forbids gay relatnships by natnal law. They never experienced Duran's "Post Gay Era" bee don't exist any more than there is a post discrimatn era for any group or mory that has spent life tim, ed generatns, fightg for equal rights & digny but never havg really experienced or gaed them and never havg known te eedom their whole liv.

There are no feral laws protectg gays & lbians om discrimatn the workplace based on their sexual orientatn, 14 stat have anti sodomy laws on the books as "crim agast nature" & even as we approach 2014, there are Uned Stat senators & others llg for the ath penalty for gay men & women.

IT’S A NEW DAY THE GAYBORHOOD

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. A way to scribe quali or characteristics that may stereotypilly be regard as gay while simultaneoly implyg that labels based on sexual inty are unnecsary, old fashned or the Post Gay notn that homosexuals should be able to fe their inti by somethg other than sexual preference. Get rid of your affectatns, you live fuckg NYC (or SF or Seattle or Paris or Berl), and there are like 5 neighborhoods where gay upl regularly hold-hands, unls your only iends are stock brokers 's no big al here, 's all about post-gay now!

“To my iends, I’m kd of sexually gay but ethnilly straight, ” Silver those terted Silver’s characterizatn was a soclogist named Am Ghaziani, who has wrten a new book about Ameri’s urban gay enclav, “There Go the Gayborhood?

” “Those who nsir themselv post-gay profs that their sexual orientatn do not form the re of how they fe themselv, ” Ghaziani wr, addg that “post-gays” spend jt as much time wh straight iends as wh gay iends. But he documents a transformatn that mimics that of earlier immigrant enclav, triggered largely, he says, by the acceptance of gay men and women the document the untry’s changg gayborhoods, Ghaziani b mographic analysis wh an examatn of forty years of newspaper reportg on gay neighorboods. But we do learn more about a ls-regnized, ls-studied gay bars and clubs have existed sce the late neteenth century, but Ghaziani trac the rise of the gayborhood to the Send World War, when the ary discharged thoands of men and women for beg gay, and many looked for new hom the ci that hoed or were near their ary bas, cludg San Francis, Seattle, New York, and Miami.

“POST-GAY”: HOW QUEER VALU BENEF ALL PEOPLE WH RABBI JOSHUA LSER. A CLGS JEWISH QUEERI SERI EVENT

Gays and lbians ngregated mostly out of self-protectn, Ghaziani explas, but gradually tablished rich social, bs, and polil works that beme draws themselv, givg rise to such fixtur as the Castro San Francis, Dupont Circle Washgton, D. After the Send World War, gays and lbians first ngregated Old Town, a bohemian area, and then travelled up to New Town; rponse to the Stonewall rts, New York, 1969, gay men and women Chigo tablished Boystown, Lakeview, which quickly beme the cy’s premier gay neighborhood; today, many gay men and women are leavg Boystown for Anrsonville, farther north still.

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ARE TEENS “POST-GAY”? CONTEMPORARY ADOLCENTS’ SEXUAL INTY LABELS

Others suggt that the g out procs may be plited for ethnic or racial mory adolcents, who mt navigate cultural prsur that may disurage homosexualy as well as ethnic or racial prejudice wh predomantly Whe LGBTQ muni. For same-sex attracted youth of lor, the implitn uld be ls likelihood of endorsg any non-heterosexual sexual inty; on the other hand, uld mean that, rather than intify wh the tradnal tegori of “lbian” or “gay, ” they might prefer alternative sexual inti. ” The stunts advoted for the cln of “queer” and “qutng” as distct sexual orientatn tegori (see Diamond 1998; Horner 2007), addn to the historilly typil tegori of gay, lbian, bisexual, and straight/ sexual inty, participants were asked: “What is your sexual orientatn?

”Differenc Based on Ethnicy, Genr, Age, and GSA MembershipWe pared differenc between those who wrote- an alternative sexual orientatn and each of the other non-heterosexual inty tegori (gay/lbian, bisexual, queer, and qutng). Our rults suggt that is wrong to nclu that gay, lbian, and bisexual inti are irrelevant to ntemporary the small number of participants who provid an alternative sexual inty to scribe themselv, ntent analys revealed two notable them nsistent wh prr work. Th, although we fd that some youth do not adopt the well-known labels, only 19 out of over 2, 500 were ristant to or ambivalent about them, far fewer than one would expect if youth are ed abandong the notn of “gay” (Sav-Williams 2005) or ristg (Sav-Williams 2008) parg those who wrote alternative rpons for the qutn on sexual orientatn to those who endorsed the provid tegori, we found no differenc based on race or ethnicy, nsistent wh prr rearch (Rosar et al.

POSTGAY

Our fdg that 70% of non-heterosexual youth endorse LGB labels may, fact, be an unrtimate of the gree to which “lbian, ” “gay, ” and “bisexual” are meangful labels for ntemporary young people other regns, at least the Uned rults challenge the ia that diversy sexual inti—or ristance to them—is now the norm among adolcents (Sav-Williams 2005, 2008): the old labels appear to matter and have meang for today’s youth. 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.

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. 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. 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.

POSTGAY

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 CHIGO, A NEW APPROACH TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN WH PROSTATE CANCER

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. 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.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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. 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).

… 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.

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.

MOSW GAY BARS

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.