Homosexual Stori, Fay Stori: Neo-Confucian Homonormativy and Storytellg the Che Gay Communy | The Cha Quarterly | Cambridge Core

Contents:

• BETIFUL THG IS A MASTERPIECE OF GAY STORYTELLG
• REFG GAY STORYTELLG
• REVIEW: ROBERT JON JR. SHEDS LIGHT ON LIV OF ENSLAVED GAY MEN ‘THE PROPHETS’
• HOMOSEXUAL STORI, FAY STORI: NEO-CONFUCIAN HOMONORMATIVY AND STORYTELLG THE CHE GAY COMMUNY

BETIFUL THG IS A MASTERPIECE OF GAY STORYTELLG

Betiful Thg Is a Masterpiece of Gay StorytellgThe 1996 Brish film portrayed s workg-class LGBT characters wh remarkable sensivy and Pictur ClassicsWhen Jonathan Harvey’s love story Betiful Thg buted 1993 as a play, he had no ia would eventually be herald as a crown jewel of gay storytellg. ” It was hardly a cince that Sectn 28—an amendment that prohibed lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” or teachg schools the “acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”—was enacted by Thatcher’s ernment the followg year. The film was genuely subversive for s time and place: Depictg gay kids who don’t succumb to the “plague” or ultimately bow to prsure om their bigoted peers was no small thg at a moment stricken by an pecially vilent, anti-LGBT mood.

Inially, neher boy has fully accepted his sexualy, and Betiful Thg is a lite exploratn of the often-paful procs of g out that evolv to a gay film is filled wh charmg and poignant moments that uld be found any romantic dramedy.

REFG GAY STORYTELLG

Through the film’s two other central characters, viewers also get an illumatg glimpse of gay love crosshatched wh other forms of opprsn rooted inty—primarily class—as well as a broar, arguably fuller pictn of longg for, well, belongg.

Then, as now, the story criqu a culture that herently valu the stori, if not existenc, of “non-normative” Betiful Thg may not have the mastream clout of other films on BFI’s list, such as Todd Hayn’s electrifyg 2015 perd piece Carol, s prence the pantheon of gay cema ntu to expand what dienc might nsir the genre of “great” films, promptg broar awarens of historilly overlooked perspectiv that are nohels worthy of attentn. ” Departg om the tired and tirg pictns of gay people as outsts, seedy sexaholics, and victims, Betiful Thg offers plited characters moored a world which any sort of gay nuance or texture is often redacted.

From Thomas Man III, the first gay Black man elected as print of the Natnal Associatn of Black Journalists, to the bravery of anchors and personali like ABC’s Rob Robers, CNN’s Don Lemon, and the Los Angel Tim’ L. As the three bt gay Black iends you never had, Sam Sanrs, Saeed Jon, and Zach Stafford have utilized their platform and voic to highlight storyl and change the narrative about how Black bodi are seen, perceived, and honored. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster.

REVIEW: ROBERT JON JR. SHEDS LIGHT ON LIV OF ENSLAVED GAY MEN ‘THE PROPHETS’

“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.

In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done.

The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L. Homosexualy is at least as old as the Old Ttament, but outsi of a handful of scholarly reads that explore homosexualy ("A Dired Past, " "Intimate Matters" and "Zami: A New Spellg of my Name, " among others), the overall body of work sheddg light on Black queer life is snt. Rearchers have begun to vtigate, wre and publish stori of Che lbians and gay men, non-ernmental anizatns (NGOs) have started to anize story-sharg activi for gay people and parents of tongzhi Footnote 3 (also known as tongzhi parents), cultural products – such as novels and onle vios about lbians and gay men – have emerged on the ter, and gay people have begun to tell their own stori wh the velopment of new media platforms.

HOMOSEXUAL STORI, FAY STORI: NEO-CONFUCIAN HOMONORMATIVY AND STORYTELLG THE CHE GAY COMMUNY

Footnote 6 Cght up the transnatnal flow of queer culture, gay inty, muny and activism Cha has been the rise of an assiatnist polics a neoliberal form that has domated the Wtern lbian and gay movement the past several s. Footnote 7 Focg on equal rights centred on sexualy and sexual cizenship, this neoliberal sexual polics, or what Lisa Duggan lls “homonormativy, ”Footnote 8 distguish the publicly regnized, rpectable, “good” gay om the dangero, cent, “bad” one, implyg “a normative formatn that mak homosexualy more acceptable vis-à-vis heteronormative society. ”Footnote 9 The emergg neoliberal, homonormative chang “have been wnsed most untri the Global North, creasgly several of the more dynamic emergg enomi the Global South … and [] a smatterg of other natns.

”Footnote 10 Unr such circumstanc, homonormativy has gaed populary and signifince related discipl such as soclogy, anthropology, human geography and terdisciplary fields cludg gay and lbian studi, queer studi, genr studi and postlonial studi. However, this procs homonormativy has creasgly e to be prented as an “all-enpassg and unassailable” ncept scribg “a homogeneo, global external enty that exists outsi all of and exerts s terrifyg, normative power on gay liv everywhere. ”Footnote 11 In orr to crilly addrs this problem and ntribute to the emergg terdisciplary lerature on homonormativy, this rearch emphasiz the productn, circulatn and nsumptn of fay-themed homosexual stori as an analytil startg pot to pict the enunter between the neoliberal assiatnist sexual polics and neo-Confucian faism ntemporary Cha.

Drawg on life-history terviews and participant observatn nducted Shenzhen, South Cha, this article foc on the val importance of fay-themed homosexual stori anizg the gay muny and shapg gay men's lived experienc Cha.