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Acts of Gaiety explores the mirthful modes of political performance by LGBT artists, activists, and collectives that have inspired and sustained deadly serious struggles for revolutionary change. The book explores antics such as camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside more familiar forms of "legitimate theater." Against queer theory's long-suffering romance with mourning and melancholia and a national agenda that urges homosexuals to renounce pleasure if they want to be taken seriously by mainstream society, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of "gaiety" as a political value for LGBT activism.

LGBT transnational documentary "Becoming" / Christopher Pullen -- Trauma and triumph: documenting Middle Eastern gender and sexual minorities in film and television / Rebecca Beirne, Samar Habib -- Transsexual in Iran: a fatwa for freedom? / Sahar Bluck -- Sub-Saharan African sexualities, transnational HIV/AIDS educational film and the question of queerness / David Oscar Harvey -- The floating/fleeting spectacle of transformation: queer carnival, gay pride and the renegotiation of postapartheid identities / Ernst van der Wal -- The Argentinean movement for same-sex marriage / Margaret Cooper -- The politics of reclaiming identity: representing the Mak Nyahs in Bukak Api / Andrew Hock Soon Ng -- Queer (im)possibilities: Alaa Al-Aswany's and Wahid Hamed's The Yacoubian building / Stephanie Selvick -- Andrew Salkey, James Baldwin and the case of the "leading aberrant": early gay narratives in the British media / Kate Houlden -- The exotic erotic: queer representations in the context of post-colonial ethnicity on British TV / Peri Bradley -- Documenting the queer Indian: the question of queer identification in Khush and Happy hookers / Bryce J. Renninger -- Screening queer India in Pratibha Parmar's Khush / Daniel Farr, Jennifer Gauthier -- Gay pornography as Latin American queer historiography / Gustavo Subero -- Quo vadis, queer vato? Queer and loathing in Latino cinema / Richard Reitsma -- Queer art of parallaxed document: visual discourse of docudrag in Kutluǧ Ataman's Never my soul! (2001) / Çüneyt Cakirlar -- The drag queers the s/he binary: subversion of heteronormativity in Turkish context / Serkan Ertin -- If art imitated reality: George Takei, coming out, and the insufferably straight Star Trek universe / Bruce E. Drushel -- A Chinese queer discourse: camp and alternative desires in the films of Yon Fan and Lou Ye / Jason Ho Ka-Hang

Political blogging : politics and participation -- Rainbow bloggers : race and the blogosphere -- Gender and sexual orientation in the blogosphere : women and LGBT bloggers -- Congress members 'r bloggers -- Blogging for red and blue states : campaigns and elections -- The future of political blogging in politics and civic engagement.

The city of Buenos Aires has guaranteed all couples, regardless of gender, the right to register civil unions. Mexico City has approved the Cohabitation Law, which grants same-sex couples marital rights identical to those of common-law relationships between men and women. Yet, a gay man was murdered every two days in Latin America in 2005, and Brazil recently led the world in homophobic murders. These facts illustrate the wide disparity in the treatment and rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations across the region.The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America presents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Invoking "a larger freedom" -- 1 Looking (at) "Afro-Cuba(n)" -- 2 Discursive Sleight of Hand: Race, Sex, Gender -- 3 The Erotics and Politics of Self-making -- 4 De Cierta Manera . . . Hasta Cierto Punto (One Way or Another . . . Up to a Certain Point) -- 5 Friendship as a Mode of Survival -- 6 ¡Hagamos un Chen! (We Make Change!) -- Coda: ¡Vamos a Vencer! (We Will Win!) -- Notes -- References -- Index

A lively memoir of LGBT activist Steve Endean?one of the most influential political strategists ever to lobby Washington DC!Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress is the spirited and provocative memoir that blows the lid off the complex machinations of state and national politics. LGBT activist Steve Endean's autobiographical chronicle, completed shortly before his death in 1993, tells insider stories that are sometimes rousing, other times infuriating, recounting the fight for lesbian and gay rights from the trenches of the Minnesota state capital to the

Annotation Sexuality and Socialismis a remarkably accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Inside are essays on the roots of LGBT oppression, the construction of sexual and gender identities, the history of the gay movement, and how to unite the oppressed and exploited to win sexual liberation for all. Sherry Wolf analyzes different theories about oppression & mdash;including those of Marxism, postmodernism, identity politics, and queer theory & mdash;and challenges myths about genes, gender, and sexuality. & ldquo;Sexuality and Socialismis the most intelligent and enlightened discussion on sexuality to come from the Left in a long time. No other work that comes to my mind explains the history of sexuality and sexual repression in the United States as comprehensively and compellingly. & rdquo; & mdash;Ron Jacobs, Dissident Voice & ldquo;Sherry Wolf: Lesbian, Activist, Communist & Badass-ist ... spoke to a pre-National Equality March rally. She. Blew. It. Up. & rdquo; & mdash;Austin Chronicle & ldquo;Sherry speaks with such eloquence and plain common sense that I can't help but want to know more about her ideas and convictions. & rdquo; & mdash;Derek Washington, & ldquo;In the LV & rdquo; radio host, Director of LGBT Outreach, Clark County Democratic Black Caucus & ldquo;The icons of the new generation of activists are people like Lady Gaga, Dustin Lance Black, Judy Shephard, Lt. Daniel Choi (ret.) and Sherry Wolf (author ofSexuality and Socialism). & rdquo; & mdash;Don Gorton, Join the Impact Board Member & ldquo;Surprisingly funny, very readable and a fitting tome for a new movement in these troubled times. & rdquo; & mdash;Dave ZirinforProgressive's Best Books of 2009 & ldquo; & lsquo;What humans have constructed they can tear down. & rsquo; This is the powerful insight of this rare book that is at once politically important, theoretically and historically sophisticated, and clearly written. Sexuality and Socialismis enlivened in its engagement with a number of controversies, including those over the alleged biological determination of homosexuality, the myth of Black homophobia, and the consequences of postmodernist theories for the politics of gay liberation. Above all else, Wolf puts forward a cogent defense of the Marxist tradition & mdash;long and wrongly reviled as homophobic in itself & mdash;as a way to explain how LGBT oppressio ...

Learn how lesbian couples deal with political, social, and legal issues related to their relationships?and their professions Lesbian Academic Couples is a collection of writings by scholars who examine?in theory and in narrative?issues faced by partners working in the academic field, including the politics of spousal hiring, discrimination in hiring practices, collaboration between partners, long-distance relationships, team teaching, and job sharing. This unique book presents firsthand accounts from senior faculty with lengthy credentials in LGBT scholarship who have been able to land academi

This collection addresses the politics of queer representation in multiple contexts. Articles cover the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of representations of blackness alongside work on queer, Taiwanese, online communities; a transgender Israeli pop star; and film mimicry in Kerala, India

Current planning practices have largely neglected the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community for safe urban spaces in which to live, work, and play. This volume fills the gap in the literature on the planning and development of queer spaces, and highlights some of the resistance within the planning profession to incorporate gay and lesbian concerns into the planning mainstream. Planning lags behind other disciplines concerned with queer urban issues. In contrast, the field of geography has developed a rich sub-specialty in the geographies of sex and gender that examines spaces and the variety of non-heteronormative populations that inhabit them. This volume brings together both planners and geographers with experience in planning to examine some of the fundamental assumptions of urban planning as they relate to the LGBT community. The first few chapters are substantial revisions and expansions of earlier influential work on planning for non-conformist populations and the preservation of LGBT neighborhoods. Subsequent chapters comprise original contributions that draw on the rich literature from queer theory, planning theory and the geography of sexualities to explore the ways that nonconformist populations struggle with heteronormative expectations embedded in planning theory and procedures. These chapters consider the intersection of planning and a range of populations including transgendered and gender variant individuals. Subsequent chapters examine the ways that variations in the scale of urban and regional governance influence local politics around the implementation of more equitable policies at the city level. In addition, several chapters critically examine the implications of using the tolerance component of Richard Florida's "creative cities" arguments. The final section consists of two chapters that

Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of "The Traffic in Women," an essay that had a galvanizing effect on feminist thinking and theory. In another landmark piece, "Thinking Sex," she examined how certain sexual behaviors are constructed as moral or natural, and others as unnatural. That essay became one of queer theory's foundational texts. Along with such canonical work, Deviations features less well-known but equally insightful writing on subjects such as lesbian history, the feminist sex wars, the politics of sadomasochism, crusades against prostitution and pornography, and the historical development of sexual knowledge. In the introduction, Rubin traces her intellectual trajectory and discusses the development and reception of some of her most influential essays. Like the book it opens, the introduction highlights the major lines of inquiry pursued for nearly forty years by a singularly important theorist of sex, gender, and culture

TORY PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is an authoritative but highly accessible account of the Conservative Party's social attitudes from the 1950s to the present day, with a particular focus on homosexual law reform and equal rights for LGBT citizens. Presented in the context of contemporary social and political developments, it draws upon extensive primary research and exclusive interviews to chart the party's progress from a stubborn unwillingness to decriminalise homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, via tacit acceptance in the 1970s and Section 28 in the 1980s and 1990s, to the current Conservative-Li

Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the disavowed politics of lived embodiment. While acknowledging the internal contradictions and damaging exclusions of subaltern self-empowerment, Sheller roots out from beneath the historical archive traces of a deeper freedom, one expressed through bodily performances, familial relationships, cultivation of the land, and sacred worship.Attending to the hidden linkages among intimate realms and the public sphere, Sheller explores specific struggles for freedom, including women's political activism in Jamaica; the role of discourses of "manhood" in the making of free subjects, soldiers, and citizens; the fiercely ethnonationalist discourses that excluded South Asian and African indentured workers; the sexual politics of the low-bass beats and "bottoms up" moves in the dancehall; and the struggle for reproductive and LGBT rights and against homophobia in the contemporary Caribbean. Through her creative use of archival sources and emphasis on the connections between intimacy, violence, and citizenship, Sheller enriches critical theories of embodied freedom, sexual citizenship, and erotic agency in all post-slavery societies

Foreword / by Kenneth David Kaunda -- Introduction: Africa at the crossroads / Matt Meyer and Elavie Ndura-Ouédraogo -- Planting the seeds: contexts for potential hope -- Seeds of new hope / Bill Sutherland -- Some thoughts on nonviolence / Judith Atiri -- Ubuntu and African conceptions of peace and reconciliation / Horace G. Campbell -- Waves of nonviolence and the new revolutionary movements / Jørgen Johansen -- From Haiti, 1804 to Nagasaki to Iraq: fidelity to humanity is the only way to peace and justice / Jacques Depelchin -- War, globalization, and reproduction / Silvia Federici -- Solidarity struggles: African Americans, Africans in America, and the fight for immigrant rights / Nunu Kidane -- Roots causes of peacelessness and approaches to peace in Africa / Yash Tandon -- We wanted peace: African women's initiatives for peace / Shelley Anderson -- Working the land: contemporary issues in African peace studies -- The four horsemen of the apocalypse: structural causes of crisis and violence in Africa / Laurie Nathan -- Conflict resolution in Africa: a comparative empirical analysis / Richard Jackson -- Be/coming home girls: beyond victims-power and agency for African and other women / Bernedette Muthien -- The role of gender in conflict prevention: an examination of four conflict-ridden countries: Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, and Sudan / Judith Atiri -- Resistance and the transnational fight for LGBT rights in Africa / Chesterfield Samba -- Expand the list! Life over debt and the eradication of African poverty / Imani Countess -- Redesigning peace in Africa: overview of the Great Lakes conflict / Raïs Neza Boneza -- Under the palaver tree: a moratorium on the importation, exportation, and manufacture of light weapons / Andrew Murray

Preliminary Material -- NATURALIZING HOMOSEXUALITY: BIOLOGY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AND THE NATURE/CULTURE DISTINCTION /Patrick D. Hopkins -- SEEING SEXUAL ORIENTATION THROUGH THE LENS OF GENDER /Edward Stein -- WHAT MUST A BISEXUAL DO? /Carol V.A. Quinn -- FIRST GAYS, THEN POLYGAMISTS? /John Corvino -- AUTONOMY, GAY RIGHTS, AND HUMAN SELF-FULFILLMENT: AN ARGUMENT FOR MODIFIED LIBERALISM /Vincent J. Samar -- INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHER AS "PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL" /Raja Halwani -- MORAL EXPERTISE? CONSTITUTIONAL NARRATIVES AND PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT /Martha C. Nussbaum -- DOES THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL HAVE INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY? /Linda Martín Alcoff -- MINORITIES AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL MARKETPLACE /Jorge J. E. Gracia -- THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES /DAVID L. HULL -- RESPONDING TO HATE CRIMES /Claudia Card -- LGBT PHILOSOPHY AND UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING /Mark Chekola -- THE USE AND MISUSE OF PRIVACY IN THE OUTING DEBATE /Mark Chekola -- PROMISCUITY AND SEXUAL TEMPERANCE /Raja Halwani -- THE COALESCENCE OF DICHOTOMY IN DRAG AESTHETICS /Bassam Romaya -- "THE WAR ON TERROR" AND THE QUEER BODY: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AIDS, AND SHAPING UNITED STATES PUBLIC OPINION /Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo -- MARTIN HEIDEGGER AND THE PLACE OF THE BODY /George Wright -- QUEER PORTRAITURE AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION /Kayley Vernallis -- GAY IDENTITY: WHAT DO WE WANT? /Andy Wible -- IS IT A CHOICE? SEXUAL ORIENTATION AS INTERPRETATION /William S. Wilkerson -- MORE THAN JUST ACCESS TO OUR PARTNERS: A SOCIAL JUSTICE APPROACH TO HETEROSEXISM AND HOMOPHOBIA IN HEALTH CARE /Allison B. Wolf -- CELEBRATING THE CAREER OF RICHARD D. MOHR: A PERSONAL HISTORICAL NARRATIVE /Claudia Card -- HONORING RICHARD D. MOHR /John Corvino -- IN HONOR OF RICHARD D. MOHR /Raja Halwani -- A RESPONSE TO MY CRITICS: REFLECTIONS ON THE SLGP'S SESSION "SPECIAL RECOGNITION: DISTINGUISHED LGBT PHILOSOPHER HONOREE, RICHARD D. MOHR" /Richard D. Mohr -- A RESPONSE TO RICHARD D. MOHR /Raja Halwani -- LIVES AND LOVES THAT DARED NOT SPEAK THEIR NAMES: WELL-BEING AND LGBT PERSONS /Mark Chekola -- BEYOND TRAGEDY TO WHAT? /Claudia Card -- MARK CHEKOLA'S HAPPINESS /Raja Halwani -- SINGULARITY AND COMMUNITY: AN APPRECIATION OF MARK CHEKOLA /Anita Silvers -- HONORING MARK CHEKOLA /Carol V.A. Quinn -- WALKING IN OUR HEELS? MEDIA, IDENTITY, AND PEDAGOGY /Christopher La Barbera -- DISCIPLINING THE PUBLIC: ENEMY COMBATANTS, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND A NEW KIND OF CONTAINMENT /Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo -- RACISM AND THE POLITICAL ROMANCE OF THE BROWNING OF AMERICA /Ronald R. Sundstrom -- THE SPECIAL OBLIGATION OF GAY MEN TO FIGHT HIV AT HOME AND ABROAD /Andy Wible -- THE BISEXUAL WOMAN AS AN INAUTHENTIC LESBIAN: FROM BEAUVOIR TO THE L WORD /James A. Martell -- WHY COMING OUT IS RATIONAL /Gary Jaeger -- CATHOLICS AND EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS ON HOMOEROTIC DESIRE: THE INTELLECTUAL LEGACY OF AUGUSTINIAN AND PELAGIAN THEORIES OF HUMAN NATURE /Richard Nunan -- HETERONORMATIVITY AND (SARTRE ON) ANTI-SEMITISM /Christine Pierce -- MILL, DIGNITY, AND HOMOSEXUALITY /Carol V.A. Quinn -- KANT, DIGNITY, AND THE GAY BATHHOUSE /James A. Martell -- ON MY RELUCTANCE TO DEFEND A QUEER POINT OF VIEW /Carol V.A. Quinn -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) -- INDEX -- VIBS.