Jean Genet (1910-1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only sexually queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social pariah, a bitter opponent of the police state, and an ally of revolutionary anticolonial movements. In Disturbing Attachments, Kadji Amin challenges the idealization of Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological dilemmas at the heart of queer theory. Pederasty, which was central to Genet's sexuality and to his passionate cross-racial and transnational political activism late in life, is among a series of problematic and outmoded queer attachments that Amin uses to deidealize and historicize queer theory. He brings the genealogy of Genet's imaginaries of attachment to bear on pressing issues within contemporary queer politics and scholarship, including prison abolition, homonationalism, and pinkwashing. Disturbing Attachments productively and provocatively unsettles queer studies by excavating the history of its affective tendencies to reveal and ultimately expand the contexts that inform the use and connotations of the term queer.

The editors intended for this volume to provide queer and ally athletes a space to have a voice and share the experiences that have been significant in their identity as an athletic member of the LGBT community. To that end, this book is a collection of autobiographical short stories of LGBT athletes and their experiences in sports and athletics, some who are publicly out and some who are not. Based on the narratives collected, the book is organized around themes that illustrate various perspectives and the power that sport can play in 1) finding one's true identity, 2) bridging communities, and 3) challenging gender norm stereotypes. The goal of this book is to help change the expectations of what it means to be a successful athlete and promote greater inclusivity of LGBT athletes. Providing the space for these voices to be heard will help to pave the way for a non?discriminating sporting environment, allow LGBT athletes to focus on their given sport without any distractions, and enable these athletes to live an authentic life without having to hide their true identity.

Questo libro spiega le basi per un metodo di educazione attraverso un concetto di distinzione della persona-figlio dalle azioni che lui compie.

Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production. In the first book of its kind, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity explores the iconography, themes and ideals that the genre presents. Indeed, John Mercer argues that gay pornography cannot be regarded as one-dimensional, but that it offers its audience a vision of plural masculinities that are more nuanced and ambiguous than they might seem. Mercer examines how the internet has generated an exponential growth in the sheer volume and variety of this material, and facilitated far greater access to it. He uses both professional and amateur examples to explore how gay pornography has become part of a wider cultural context in which modern masculinities have become 'saturated' by their constantly evolving status and function in popular culture.

Prendendo lo spunto dalla dolorosissima vicenda della morte di mio Padre per un tumore al polmone, ho deciso di pubblicare un Blog affinche' tutti, ed in particolare le donne ed i giovani, siano edotti di cosa significhi fumare, e di quali ne siano le conseguenze ed i rischi. Questo libro e' la trasposizione su carta , giorno dopo giorno e post dopo post, di tutto quello che e' stato scritto nei primo 6 mesi del mio blog.

Since the publication of Vito Russo's seminal study The Celluloid Closet in 1981, much has been written about the representation of queer characters on screen. Until now, however, relatively little attention has been paid to how queer sexualities were portrayed in films from the silent and early sound period. By looking in detail at a succession of recently-found films and revisiting others, Shane Brown examines images of male-male intimacy, buddy relationships and romantic friendships in European and American films made prior to 1934, including Different from the Others and All Quiet on the Western Front. He places these films within their socio-political and scientific context and sheds new light on how they were intended to be viewed and how they were actually perceived. In doing so, Brown offers his readers a unique insight into a little known area of early cinema, queer studies and social history.

Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit" identification as it relates to public health and mixed-race identity. Prior to contact with European settlers, most Native American tribes held their two-spirit members in high esteem, even considering them spiritually advanced. However, after contact - and religious conversion - attitudes changed and social and cultural support networks were ruptured. This discrimination led to a breakdown in traditional values, beliefs, and practices, which in turn pushed many two-spirit members to participate in high-risk behaviors. The result is a disproportionate number of two-spirit members who currently test positive for HIV. Using surveys, focus groups, and community discussions to examine the experiences of HIV-positive members of San Francisco's two-spirit community, Indian Blood provides an innovative approach to understanding how colonization continues to affect American Indian communities and opens a series of crucial dialogues in the fields of Native American studies, public health, queer studies, and critical mixed-race studies.

In Sexual States Jyoti Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state. Since 2001 activists have attempted to rewrite Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which in addition to outlawing homosexual behavior is often used to prosecute a range of activities and groups that are considered perverse. Having interviewed activists and NGO workers throughout five metropolitan centers, investigated crime statistics and case law, visited various state institutions, and met with the police, Puri found that Section 377 is but one element of how homosexuality is regulated in India. This statute works alongside the large and complex system of laws, practices, policies, and discourses intended to mitigate sexuality's threat to the social order while upholding the state as inevitable, legitimate, and indispensable. By highlighting the various means through which the regulation of sexuality constitutes India's heterogeneous and fragmented "sexual state," Puri provides a conceptual framework to understand the links between sexuality and the state more broadly.

In the 1960s, a youthful and ambitious lesbian movement began taking shape in Canada. After decades of being pathologized, disparaged, or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene - both by calling attention to themselves and by creating places to come together and forge their own culture. Making a Scene tells this story, revisiting the spaces lesbians created across rural and urban Canada, from physical locations, such as bars, bookstores, and members' clubs, to ephemeral sites, such as conferences, festivals, and protest marches. Enriched with interviews, this volume captures the exuberance and challenges of this transformational period.

Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient Greece, examining a vast array of material and textual evidence that leads him to provocative conclusions. This new release of the 1989 second edition, for which Dover wrote an epilogue reflecting on the impact of his book, includes two specially commissioned forewords assessing the author's legacy and the place of his text within modern studies of gender in the ancient world.

Cuando Arturo, profesor universitario de 45 anos, despierta una tarde de domingo junto a David, un alumno veinteanero de irresistibles ojos verdes, aun no sabe todo lo que se le viene encima: Quince dias despues, se ve arrastrado a una tumultuosa salida del armario en el programa de television "Confiesate al mundo", dirigido por la periodista Fabrizia Sentrana. Y, aun peor: asiste a la conversion subita de su madre, la beata dona Alma, en un "freak" televisivo.

While the topic of gay marriage and families continues to be popular in the media, few scholarly works focus on gay men with children. Based on ten years of fieldwork among gay families living in the rural, suburban, and urban area of the eastern United States, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship presents a beautifully written and meticulously argued ethnography of gay men and the families they have formed. In a culture that places a premium on biology as the founding event of paternity, Aaron Goodfellow poses the question: Can the signing of legal contracts and the public performances of care replace biological birth as the singular event marking the creation of fathers? Beginning with a comprehensive review of the relevant literature in this field, four chapters-each presenting a particular picture of paternity-explore a range of issues, such as interracial adoption, surrogacy, the importance of physical resemblance in familial relationships, single parenthood, delinquency, and the ways in which the state may come to define the norms of health. The author deftly illustrates how fatherhood for gay men draws on established biological, theological, and legal images of the family often thought oppressive to the emergence of queer forms of social life. Chosen with care and described with great sensitivity, each carefully researched case examines gay fatherhood through life narratives. Painstakingly theorized, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship contends that gay families are one of the most important areas to which social scientists might turn in order to understand how law, popular culture, and biology are simultaneously made manifest and interrogated in everyday life. By focusing specifically on gay fathers, Goodfellow produces an anthropological account of how paternity, sexuality, and masculinity are leveraged in relations of care between gay fathers and their children.

Canada is considered a leader when it comes to LGBTQ rights, yet this is a fairly recent phenomenon - one that is largely due to the tireless work of disparate groups of LGBTQ activists. Queer Mobilizations examines the relationships between LGBTQ activists and local, provincial, and federal Canadian governments. The contributors explore how various governments have tried to regulate and repress LGBTQ movements, and how, in turn, queer activists have successfully shaped public policy, across the political spectrum, from city halls to Parliament Hill.

In "Settler Common Sense," Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls "settler common sense," taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed.

In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House of the Seven Gables," Rifkin shows how the novel draws on Lockean theory in support of small-scale landholding and alternative practices of homemaking. The book invokes white settlers in southern Maine as the basis for its ethics of improvement, eliding the persistent presence of Wabanaki peoples in their homeland. Rifkin suggests that Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" critiques property ownership as a form of perpetual debt. Thoreau's vision of autoerotic withdrawal into the wilderness, though, depends on recasting spaces from which Native peoples have been dispossessed as places of non-Native regeneration. As against the turn to "nature," Herman Melville's "Pierre" presents the city as a perversely pleasurable place to escape from inequities of land ownership in the country. Rifkin demonstrates how this account of urban possibility overlooks the fact that the explosive growth of Manhattan in the nineteenth century was possible only because of the extensive and progressive displacement of Iroquois peoples upstate.

Rifkin reveals how these texts' queer imaginings rely on treating settler notions of place and personhood as self-evident, erasing the advancing expropriation and occupation of Native lands. Further, he investigates the ways that contemporary queer ethics and politics take such ongoing colonial dynamics as an unexamined framework in developing ideas of freedom and justice.

La novela suscita una expectativa exigente y coloca en entredicho la solidez de las arraigadas convenciones morales. Respira una densa atmosfera de cautiverio, sensualidad inconfesada, que deja entrever algo, a la vez sereno y terrible. Retrapasion erotica,ta crudamente un mundo marginal vinculado a la que nunca deriva en descontrol de la prosa, y que es precisa en la descripcion de ambientes y acciones. El discurso del extasis religioso y las modalidades del lenguaje policial, puestos al servicio de un homoerotismo tan violento como alucinado, son algunos de los muy variados registros que la novela va pulsando a lo largo de sus cuadros, con total acierto. La fusion de generos,la pornografia con el policial, la vida de santo con la picaresca portena boediana, dan como resultado una forma de extraordinaria potencia narrativa, que se inserta claramente en la tradicion de autores como Jean Genet o Pier Paolo Pasolini, al tiempo que llama la atencion por la ausencia de cualquier tipo de lugar comun".

Durante mas de un siglo se considero la homosexualidad como una enfermedad y la sociedad asumio las conclusiones de los cientificos sin sopesar la fiabilidad de estas investigaciones. A consecuencia de esto, los homosexuales sufrieron los distintos tratamientos medicos destinados a curarles de este mal. Estas terapias eran consideradas verdaderos exitos de la medicina moderna al moderar el paciente sus inclinaciones desviadas. No solo perdian el deseo sexual hacia personas de su mismo sexo, tambien podian perder la movilidad de sus miembros, el habla y la capacidad de entendimiento, pero esto no impedia que se publicaran los resultados de la intervencion y se celebraran como un gran paso para erradicar la enfermedad homosexual en la sociedad Algunos comentarios de los expertos: "Se trata de un ensayo sobre la vision medica y social que se ha tenido de la homosexualidad en la historia reciente" "Desde la misma introduccion queda clara la voluntad de ofrecer opiniones contrastadas y bien documentadas" "El objetivo del autor no es solo denunciar estas falsedades historicas sino, sobre todo, hacer un analisis del desarrollo cientifico, social y humano que las origino y los efectos sobre la poblacion, en una linea de investigacion mas cercana a la de los modernos estudios culturales"

Alegato a favor de la comunidad lesbica, gay, bisexual, transexual y transgenero.

A resounding testament to the power of family and a reassurance that there is no wrong way to be who you are It has been almost two years since Zach Wahls (then 19 years old) bravely stood up in front of the Iowa House of Representative and defended gay marriage and his family. Wahls proudly proclaimed, "The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character," and his speech instantly went viral and became YouTubes #1 political video of 2011. In "My Two Moms," Zach offers a stirring and brave defense of his family. Raised by two moms in a conservative Midwestern town, Zachs parents instilled in him values that families everywhere can embrace--values driven home by his journey toward becoming an Eagle Scout. Zachs upbringing couldnt have been more mainstream--he played sports, was active in Boy Scouts, and led his high school speech and debate team--yet, growing up with two moms, he knows that its like to feel different and fear being bullied, or worse. In the inspirational spirit of "It Gets Better" edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller, "My Two Moms" also delivers a reassuring message to same-sex couples, their kids, and anyone whos ever felt like an outsider: "You are not alone."

Eva sagte, sie sei eine Frau. Die Psychiatrie, sie sei ein geisteskranker Mann! Eva, sie hatte einen Geburtsfehler. Die Aerzte, sie sei verruckt! Eva wollte Chirurgie. Das System bot Psychotherapie an! Eva wollte die Chirurgie trotzdem...Als es endlich erlaubt wurde, nannten sie es einen 'Geschlechtswechsel'! Sie sagten, man gehe als Mann hinein und komme als Frau heraus! Eva sagte, niemand kann mit einem Skalpell Frauen aus Mannern machen, alles was wir konnen ist, einer weiblich identifizierten Person ein Leben als Frau geben...Heute sagten die Psychiater auch, Eva sei eine Frau. Bis sie im Archiv auf Beweise fur die Operation stossen. Dann ist sie wieder verruckt! Aber wer hat hier nun wirklich nicht mehr alle Eier in der Tute? Folgen sie einem Lebensweg, den wenige Menschen gehen und entdecken sie, was es bedeutet, von einer Gesellschaft und einem medizinischen System behandelt zu werden, das Transsexualitaet in etwa so verzerrt sieht, wie es moeglich ist, und entscheiden sie selber!

Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock's legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hollywood-Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin-whose work suggests the pornographic male gaze that emerged in Hitchcock's depiction of the voyeuristic, homoerotically inclined American man. Combining queer theory with a psychoanalytic perspective, David Greven begins with a reconsideration of Psycho and the 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much to introduce the filmmaker's evolutionary development of American masculinity. Psycho-Sexual probes De Palma's early Vietnam War draft-dodger comedies as well as his film Dressed to Kill, along with Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Friedkin's Cruising as reactions to and inventive elaborations upon Hitchcock's gendered themes and aesthetic approaches. Greven demonstrates how the significant political achievement of these films arises from a deeply disturbing, violent, even sorrowful psychological and social context. Engaging with contemporary theories of pornography while establishing pornography's emergence during the classical Hollywood era, Greven argues that New Hollywood filmmakers seized upon Hitchcock's radical decentering of heterosexual male dominance. The resulting images of heterosexual male ambivalence allowed for an investment in same-sex desire; an aura of homophobia became informed by a fascination with the homoerotic. Psycho-Sexual also explores the broader gender crisis and disorganization that permeated the Cold War and New Hollywood eras, reimagining the defining premises of Hitchcock criticism.