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"Depuis que la visibilité a gagné la rue et que la tolérance vis-à-vis des homos a grimpé dans les sondages, une croyance tenace a aussi envahi les esprits: celle qui consiste à penser qu’il est beaucoup plus facile pour les jeunes, aujourd’hui, de faire leur coming out. Il n’en est rien..."Translation:
'The increasing gay visibility and tolerance of gay people has been associated with the strong belief that it is far easier for contemporary gay youth to come out. This is not true.'
Troiden's
model of the formation of homosexual identities. - Cass’
model of gay and lesbian identity formation. - Five Stages of Coming Out. - The Stages of Coming Out. - SIECUS:
Sexual Orientation and Identity. - Defining
sexual orientation.
- Sexual Identity and Gender Identity Glossary: Text of a pamphlet
which defines common terms in the gender- and sexual-identity
communites, including androgeny, butch, camp, drag, femme, and
transvestite.- Sexual
Identity and Gender Identity Glossary (Alternate
Link). -
Sex
School: Reading the Gendermap. - Transgender
Identity. - The Gender Identity Fallacy: How an Irrational Concept Prevents a Rational Understanding of Transsexuality. - Confused and Hurting, Teens Are “Coming Out” Earlier. - Coming Out is Getting Harder. - Acts of ‘coming out’ and the development of resilience (PDF Download). - Sexual Disorientation. - Gay By Choice? The Science of Sexual Identity:
If science proves sexual orientation is more fluid than we've been led
to believe, can homosexuality still be a protected right?
The Closet: Psychological Issues of Being In and Coming Out: (Alternate Link)
Closeted individuals frequently cannot acknowledge to themselves, let
alone to others, their homoerotic feelings, attractions and fantasies.
Their homosexuality is so unacceptable that it must be kept out of
conscious awareness and cannot be integrated into their public persona.
Consequently, these feelings must be dissociated from the self and
hidden from others. If and when same-sex feelings and attractions can
no longer be kept out of consciousness, the individual becomes
homosexually self-aware. Individuals to whom this happens can
acknowledge some aspect of their homosexuality to themselves. While
homosexually self-aware people might consider accepting and integrating
these feelings into their public persona, acceptance is not a
pre-determined outcome. For example, a religious, homosexually
self-aware man may choose a celibate life to avoid what, for him, would
be the problematic integration of his religious and sexual identities.
The
Self-Discovery of Being Queer. - Why
should gender or sexuality define our identity? - (Be)Coming out: lesbian identity and politics. - Defining terms
used in working with male-to-male sex: PDF
Download. - Faire
les premiers pas à la recherche de son identité sexuelle N/A.
- Feeling comfortable with your sexual orientation - Men with homosexuality
(PDF
Download). - Feeling comfortable with your sexual orientation - Women
with homosexuality (PDF
Download). - Coming Out: 6 steps to coming out of the closet as a gay person. - Coming out as an adult. - Coming Out Trans.
Two-spirit people and sexual diversity. - Asians, Cultural Attitudes and Sexual Identity. - The Mixed-Race Queer Girl Manifesto. - My Identity: Who Am I? Korean-American? Queer? Man? - Teen's
journey to transgender identity. - Concordance
between sexual behavior and sexual identity in street outreach samples
of four racial/ethnic groups. - "Coming Out" Is Still Difficult For Korean American Daughters.
The "g0y" phenomenon:
Their slogan is "G0ys take the 'A' out of 'Gay'. They are men who have
feelings of "real warmth and affection for other guys" but do not
classify themselves as homosexual. Turned off by the idea of anal sex,
g0ys enjoy being affectionate with other men, whether that means
kissing, cuddling, hugging, drunken wrestling (according to
http://www.g0ys.org) or oral stimulation. Furthermore, while they
respect masculinity, they detest the ways in which homosexuality has
been linked to effeminacy. - G0YS.org - Spelled with a ZER0. - g0ydar. - g0y sites & groups.
Sexual
labels: useful & limiting. - I
Think I Might Be Bisexual, Now What Do I Do? - The
Bisexual Identity. - Bisexuality
Basics. (PDF Download) - Japanese
male gay and bisexual identity. - Reflections on Coming Out. - "It's
me. I'm it.": defining adolescent sexual identity through relational dialectics
in Dawson's Creek. - Apples
and Oranges: My Journey to Sexual Identity: "Most Gay people have pondered
the following notion, however fleeting or subconscious: What if, after
coming out to family, friends, and co-workers, I fall in love with a member
of the opposite sex." - Témoignages
: le jour où j’ai découvert mon homosexualité.
- Who
Am I?: What is it? What if i'm not sure? About relationships?
'Out' to be gay. Sex to know if i'm a gay? What about aids? Tell my family?
Tell my friends? What will they say Get more information? A final word...Gay teens coming out earlier to peers and family. - Coming Out In College: Confronting One's Sexual Identity (PDF Download). - Inside and Outside the Closet: Coming Out and Binary Social Structures. - Narrative
Psychology: Gay and Lesbian Identity.
Coming Out in the Sciences: A Graduate Student's Perspective. - Coming out in college residence halls: Negotiation, meaning making, challenges, supports. - Self-Help Information: Coming Out. - Coming out, finding a fit: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students share advice on searching for inclusive programs, coming out and more. - Olson's poetry explodes issues of sexual identity. - Coming out from behind closed doors: For gay and lesbian musicians, it’s the music that really matters. - Coming Out in Corporate America.
Androgyny
and Gender Dialectics. - Border
Crossings. - Homosexuality;
choice or fixed orientation? - Answers
to Your Questions About Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality by the American
Psychological Association. - Sexual
Orientation: Questions and Answers for Teens. - Boys
will be girls. - It's
what you do: Most of the men who have sex with men in the South probably
don’t identify themselves as ‘gay’ or ‘bisexual’. - Gay
Shame Conference (2003). - It’s Not Coming Out, So Then What Is It? Sexual Identity and the Ex-Gay Narrative (PDF Download). - True Life: I’m Coming Out (Film): Program Overview and Questions for Discussion. - When Kids Come Out of The Closet: What to say and do when a student tells you he's gay.
Comparative Female Masculinities (Judith Halberstam, University of Southern California) (Abstract, Must Scroll: PDF Download. Full text):
"Recent anthropological work on "same-sex female desire" has been
rightly hesitant about using the term "lesbian" for variations on same
sex desire found in different parts of the globe. Where anthropologists
have used a Euro-American template to read and study same sex female
desires in non-Western contexts, they have run the risk of obliterating
alternative sexual economies and taxonomies. My paper will look at
comparative renderings of "female masculinity," a non-identitarian
model of gender, and will ask whether we can draw any kind of
meaningful parallels between "tombois" in Indonesia, onabes in Japan,
T's in Taiwan, toms in Thailand, marimachas in Mexico and tomboys in
the Philippines, just to give a few examples. My paper is less an
account of these different models of gender variance and more of a
search for a methodology for studying gender variance in a comparative
framework."
Orientational
Diversity: A New Spin, Part 1: "In this first of a three-part
series, the author invites us to recognize the ways we unconsciously label
ourselves when we play by and listen to society’s recordings. The b-side
may surprise and enlighten you." - The
Myth of Queer Labelling. - La
science nouvelle: La sexualité du futur. - How
many homosexuals are there? - Bisexuality:
identities behaviors, and politics. - Attracted
to men? Attracted to women? Attracted to both?? - Behaviour
/ feelings / identity : 3 aspects of sexuality. - Possible
reasons for picking your sexual identity. - Bi
diversity. - Bisexuality
and relationships. - Seven
popular myths about bisexuality. - Some
classic elements of bi-prejudice. - Five
basic ways to be supportive of someone who's coming out as bi. -
Social
Protest and the Performance of Gay Identity (Related
Information).
Beyond
Gay Identity. - Having Sex With Men Does NOT Make Larry Craig Gay. - Valuing
a Gay or Lesbian Self-Identity. - Gay Men and Social Exclusion (PDF
Download): "If we are to practice effective health promotion with
all gay men, we need to leave the notion of a totalising gay identity behind."
- Spirited Identity (PDF
Download N/A): "`We were interested in how these men managed to hold a
Jewish identity and a gay identity simultaneously... We had assumed that
gay identity would take priority but for some of our participants, that
wasn't the case they were primarily Jewish men who were also gay.'"
- Sexuality and space: sexual identity in South African mine compounds
and prison (PDF
Download). - Gay
and Lesbian Youth Fare Well Psychologically Despite Chronic Stress.
- The
Process of Gay Identity: Internalized Homophobia. - Media
and memory: building a gay subjectivity. - GLBTQ On Coming Out. - Coming Out: Journey without Maps. - Coming Out to Oneself as Bisexual. - Coming Out of the Coming Out Story: Writing Queer Lives. - Sexual identity getting difficult to keep straight.
Homosexuality.
Why all the fuss?
"Benin, West Africa. The year is 1976. Two women get chatting on a bus.
One is a local woman, the other a European. Towards the end of their journey
the African invites the other to stay with her large family. That night
they sleep together in one bed. They talk for a while, then, responding
to each other’s gestures, they make love. The next morning the European
woman asks her new friend whether she often has such experiences with other
women, and how she feels about being a lesbian. Astonished, the African
woman answers that it is quite usual for her to let a friend comfort her
in this way. Later, describing the event, Dutch sociologist Ingrid Foeken
comments: ‘For her the incident had nothing to do with homosexuality. She
asked me how my friends and I offered each other comfort, which was when
I realized how painfully our Western habits contrasted with hers. What
she had experienced as comfort had seemed to me at the time to be lesbian
lovemaking. In Western culture most sexual activities come with some kind
of label. And it is virtually impossible for two people of the same gender
to exchange sexual affection without having to ask themselves: what does
this make me? What will others think of me? Will their attitude towards
me change? Will they be hostile, rejecting? Sexual identity matters intensely
to most of us. And we behave as if it is fixed and tells us exactly what
a person is. The people who at this moment are beating up a gay man or
a lesbian in Liverpool or Bombay or Los Angeles have identified that person
as a homosexual. The hundreds of thousands of people who parade through
the streets of capital cities on Gay Pride marches once a year, do so because
they identify themselves as lesbians and gays..."
Be
Yourself (From PFLAG): Questions and Answers for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Youth - Includes - "I think I might be gay. But what if I don't know for
sure?" - I might be gay, what do I do? - I might be a lesbian, what do
I do? - You know your gay when ... - The
Relationship between Gay and Lesbian Identity Development and Psychological
Adjustment. - Transitions
from Heterosexuality to Lesbianism: The Discursive Production of Lesbian
Identities. - Growing
Up with a "Spoiled Identity": Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth at Risk.
Butch:
What defines "straight acting", or "femme", or "butch"? Columnist Alan
Ilagan gives his perspective and what his role in the stereotypes is. (Other
Articles. - Alan's
Web Site) - The
man who made gays macho. - Beyond
Lisping: code switching and gay speech styles. - Butchs-fems,
un combat de genre. - Genres
et orientations sexuelles: une question d'apparences?
Comment
puis-je savoir si je suis homosexuel?
- Comment
fait-on pour savoir si on est homosexuel? - Le
fait homosexuel. - Je
pense être gai ... ... qu'est-ce que je fais? - L'Express
- Dossier - Etre homosexuel aujourd'hui. - Réponse
à: ALAIN (je ne veux pas être homosexuel). -
Peur
d'être homosexuel. - Est-ce
vrai que chez les homosexuels on fait une différence entre les termes
suivants : "tapette", "gay" et "homosexuel"? Merci pour votre réponse.
- Vogay: Association
vaudoise de personnes concernées par l'homosexualité.
- Autour
du coming-out: Quand la sortie est mal acceptée par la famille Réfléchir
avant de sortir de son placard.
Coming
Out and Being Out: What You May Need to Think About.- Coming Out,
An Act of Love. - The
HRC Resource Guide to Coming Out. - Out
on Fraternity Row: Brotherly Love: An Excerpt. - The
role of the Internet in facilitating the "coming-out" process of gay and
lesbian youth: An ethnographic study. - Narratives
of women's sexual identity development: A collaborative inquiry with implications
for rewriting transformative learning theory. - Coming
out carefully N/A. - Closets
Are Not For Us: Views From Five Lesbians. - Gays
and Lesbians who come out later in life face different challenges.
- Coming Out in Communities of Color. - Coming Out in Communities of Color: African Americans: PDF
Download. - Coming Out in Communities of Color: Latinas/Latinos. - Asian Pacific Americans and Coming Out. - Friendly
advice: Coming out to friends, and what approach to take. - Gay & Lesbian Adoptees: Coming Out Again.
Introduction
to coming out. - The
process of coming out. - The Process of Coming Out: A Journey (PDF Download). - Coming
Out. - Read
this before coming out to your parents. (PFLAG). - Resources
from PFLAG. - Chapter
1: Homosexuality: The Shocking Discovery. - Gay
Men, Coming Out - What Does Coming Out Mean? - Landmark
survey shows gay youth coming out earlier than ever. - Assumer
son homosexualité lorsqu'on est adolescent(e). -
Coming
Out as a Straight Ally. - Films
related to Coming Out. - Coming
Out - My Story. - Disclosing
a Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual Identity in Graduate Psychology Programs: Risks
and Rewards. - Acts
of 'coming out' and the development of resilience.
Some
suggestions for coming out to parents, relatives, and non-gay friends.
- Growing
Up Gay New York may be the best place in America to come out. Which doesn't
necessarily mean it's easy -- especially if you're 16. Rory Evans reports
from the teen front. - Parental
Reactions to Their Child's Disclosure of A Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual Identity
N/A by Richard Savin-Williams. - Homophobia:
Discrimination and violence can male 'coming out' a dangerous choice.
- L adolescente omosessuale e la sua famiglia d origine: PDF
Download.
The
OutProud "Coming Out" Archives: Personal Stories / Personal Journeys.
Categories - Male / Female / M2F / F2M / Other - and by age groups. - Coming
Out and Staying Out Guide for gay and bisexual men. - Coming
Out: Realizing Bisexuality In A Straight World. - Coming
out advice for GLB individuals in Trinidad. - Trinicontact
reports on his coming out to self and others. - Coming Out:
Resources and Readings (PDF
Download).
Expressing
Our Needs: Coming Out for Transsexuals and Transvestites. - Transgender:
What is it? - Is
This Child Gay, Transgendered, or Both? (PFLAG). - Myth,
Stereotype, and Cross-Gender Identity in the DSM-IV. - An
open letter to the parents of transsexual children. (Alternate Link) - Disclosure:
Share It Or Bear It. - Coming
Out as Transgender. - Coming
Out Of The Classroom Closet. - ‘Coming
Out’ as a Catholic School Teacher.
Coming
Out in Spanish."Raymond Pifferrer's father, a Cuban-born janitor,
threw him through a window when he told his father he was gay. "- Coming
out - what does coming out mean? - Coming
of Age and Coming Out: Representations of Gays and Lesbians in Young Adult
Literature. - The
Importance of coming Out: Techniques for Success. - Coming
out in Africa. - Coming
out in Africa: Anthony Orliange previews Dakan, the first African movie
about homosexuality. - Family
Adjustment Following Disclosure of Homosexuality by a Member: Themes Discerned
in Narrative Accounts.
A
coming out guide for gaydads. - A
gay dad comes out, reports on his attraction to a man as a boy, and then
- after a marriage - comes out to himself and others - to then become the
major force in the founding of: - The
Lambda Institute for Gay and Lesbian Studies (Edmonton, Alberta). -
Out
Of The Closet And Out Of The Family [and suicide related problems].. - Out
of the closet. - Outing
In Gay Paree. - Out
of the Closet and On to Fraternity Row: Gay college kids are making their
brotherhood official on U.S. campuses.
Gay Asians hesitant to 'come out' in New Zealand (Must Scroll):
"Asian lesbian, gays and bisexuals (LGBs) in New Zealand are more
likely to keep their sexuality a secret compared with Westerners , a
Massey University study says. Senior social work lecturer Mark
Henrickson said his findings reinforced the notion that the idea of
having an LGB identity was a highly westernised, European concept... In
New Zealand's largest study of LGB people, Dr Henrickson surveyed 2269
respondents, of which 491 (21 per cent) were born overseas. Of these
nearly 11 per cent were Asian. The study found that while Asian-born
immigrants were aware of having same-sex attractions at an earlier age,
they were less likely to tell friends, family or colleagues as they
grew older. Only 3 per cent of non-Asian respondents said they hadn't
disclosed their identity to anyone, compared with 15.3 per cent of
Asian people..."
The
importance of being "out" in many cases (Newsweek) N/A. - Secrets
and lies take a hefty toll on Gay lives. - Coming
out as spiritual revelation N/A.(Not Available from the Harvard
Gay and Lesbian Review) - The
Gift That Never Goes Out of Fashion; The Truth. - "Out"
problems in law school.
Coming-Out
Stories Collection N/A. -
From
Yawning Bread (Singapore): Asian
Coming Out Stories Google Search at YawningBread.org: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8.
The
Case for Remaining in the Closet. - "(Oh
no!) I'm Gay!" - Breaking
Out (of the closet). - Yagga
Yagga (Support Group). - Guidelines
to Help School Personnel Respond to GLBT Students When They Disclose Their
Sexual Orientation. - Guidelines
for Coming Out to Parents.
Elite
athletes inch out: Volleyball coach was fired for being a lesbian.
All of the panelists agree that sports helped them through adolescence.
"Swimming saved my life," says gold medal swimmer Mark Tewksbury, 31. "I
was so ostracized in high school. [Swimming] gave me a place where people
wanted to be like me. It gave me confidence."
My
Personal Story: Growing Up Gay [and coming out in Sweden]. - Lesbian
& Gay The Swedish Way (A booklet). (Same
Booklet in Spanish: La Homosexualidad es Amor.)
Australia's
"Get all the facts on the ins and outs of being young & queer in the
90's".
From
Medscape: - For
Family Physicians: "Homosexuality in Adolescence is Important to Identify."
(Must register for access.) - Gay
and Lesbian Resources from psychpage.com such as: Coming Out, Coming
Out to Parent, Issues for Gay and Lesbian Adolescents.
Can
we understand? A guide for parents. (PFLAG) - Help
for parents with gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered child. -
Casual
Remarks, Daggers Through the Heart. - On the Outs: Living Proof Helps Gay City Teens Cope With Coming Out of the Closet.
The
social construction of identities: "The perils of postmodernism".
-
The
social construction of homosexuality. - The
social construction of male homosexuality, related suicide problem.
- A
Critique of Social Constructionism and Postmodern Queer Theory.
- Des
identités homosexuelles: Propos sur la génèse
et les avatars d'un genre contesté. - Studies
on Gay & Lesbian Language: A Partial Bibliography. - The
Scenography of HIV Infection for Young Gay Men: Educating Emotion and Desire:
Individuation and sexual identity.
Young
people, leisure and the construction of sexual identities: a report on
work in progress by Martin Holt (PDF
Download): "My research therefore seeks to problematise the concepts
of ‘youth’ and ‘sexual identity’ employed in mainstream psychological research
and employ alternative qualitative approaches to investigate how young
people construct their own identities in talk about their lives. For me
identity, is not fixed, unvarying and essential as often portrayed in research
on sexual identity (e.g. Troiden, 1988), but instead is an ongoing process,
subject to change and fluidity, contingent on the social and historical
setting, and contested and enacted in discourse (Butler, 1990; Sampson,
1989; Weeks, 1995). Any sense of fixity and coherence we experience in
our identities requires ongoing work at a personal and social level to
weave convincing ‘narratives of the self’ (Giddens, 1991; Plummer, 1995),
together with work at a cultural and ideological level to preserve the
idea of subjectivity as unified and individually-based (here in the West)."
- Leisure,
Narratives and the Construction of Identity Among Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual
Youth by Beth D. Kivel.
Un-queer
anti-theory. - Multiple
Masculinity's a world of subculture and homosexual interaction.
- The
Role of Masculinity in Male Homosexual Culture N/A (by Shazza Nakkim,
1999). - The Range of Sexual Identity. - The
(Re) Construction of African-American Masculinity -- Homosexuality (Janice Cools, 1998).
- Boys
in Schools: Addressing the Politics of Hegemonic Masculinities. - Foucauldian
Cautions on the Subject and the Educative Implications of Contingent Identity.
- Décade
de Cerisy sur la propriété. "Sex is but something else to
belong to". L'identité sexuelle comme propriété?
Les
méandres de l'identité et de l'orientation sexuelle des hommes.
- Exploration
of the Preconceived Notions of Homosexuality. - An
Analysis: heterosexuality in the male. - A
queer geography: journeys toward a sexual self: "'Do Gays exist?' is
the provocative question behind Frank Browning's latest jaunt around the
globe." - Identité
homosexuelle et communauté gaie. - Gay
and homosexual are terms, used sometimes interchangeably, but the two words
have different meanings. - Social
Protest and the Performance of Gay Identity. - New
Directions for Gay Liberation: The Politics of Identity.
Gay
Identities, communities and places in the 1990s in Istanbul. -
Performing
Sexual Identity: Naming and Resisting 'Gayness' in Modern Thailand.
- Greek
Masculinity and Male Homosexuality. - Young people, leisure and
the construction of sexual identities: a report on work in progress (PDF
Download). - Lesbian Identity Development, Parental Acceptance, and
Self Esteem among Hong Kong Lesbians - 2002 - by Fiona Ho Man Lam, Catherine
McBride-Chang: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Word
97 Download). - Tomboi masculinities and the transgression of gender
in the Indonesian state - by Evelyn Blackwood (Draft paper for the IASSCS
Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 1-3, 2001: Word
97 Download N/A). - Gay
identity in university EFL courses in Japan. - Coming Out in Japan: Book Review. - Coming Out by South Asian Gay Men in the United Kingdom. - Coming out in China.
La
construction de l'identité homosexuelle dans les lois aux états-unis
et en france, , Scott Gunther DEA de Sciences Sociales, EHESS, ENS
Paris, 1995. - Le
mouvement homosexuel français face aux stratégies identitaires,
Yves Roussel, Les Temps Modernes, mai-juin 1995. (PDF
Download, or
access web page for PDF Download) - Le
lexeme comme facteur identitaire: le cas des homosexuels a Istanbul,
Philippe-Schmerka Blacher, mai 98. - The Sociology of Sexualities: Queer and Beyond.
The Kingdom in the Closet (Part of Article): (Alternate Link) (Alternate Link) (Alternate Link)
Sodomy is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, but gay life flourishes
there. Why it is “easier to be gay than straight” in a society where
everyone, homosexual and otherwise, lives in the closet... “It’s
a lot easier to be gay than straight here,” he had said. “If you go out
with a girl, people will start to ask her questions. But if I have a
date upstairs and my family is downstairs, they won’t even come up.”
... "They’re quite shameless about it." Talal, a Syrian who moved to
Riyadh in 2000, calls the Saudi capital a "gay heaven." This is
surprising enough. But what seems more startling, at least from a
Western perspective, is that some of the men having sex with other men
don’t consider themselves gay. For many Saudis, the fact that a man has
sex with another man has little to do with "gayness." The act may
fulfill a desire or a need, but it doesn’t constitute an identity. Nor
does it strip a man of his masculinity, as long as he is in the "top,"
or active, role. This attitude gives Saudi men who engage in homosexual
behavior a degree of freedom. But as a more Westernized notion of
gayness -- a notion that stresses orientation over acts -- takes hold
in the country, will this delicate balance survive? ... When Yasser hit
puberty, he grew attracted to his male cousins. Like many gay and
lesbian teenagers everywhere, he felt isolated. "I used to have the
feeling that I was the queerest in the country," he recalled. "But then
I went to high school and discovered there are others like me. Then I
find out, it’s a whole society." ,,, In Saudi Arabia, "It’s easier to
be a lesbian [than a heterosexual]. There’s an overwhelming number of
people who turn to lesbianism," Yasmin said, adding that the number of
men in the kingdom who turn to gay sex is even greater. "They’re not
really homosexual," she said. "They’re like cell mates in prison." ,,,
What is ‘gay’? In The History of Sexuality, a multivolume work
published in the 1970s and ’80s, Michel Foucault proposed his famous
thesis that Western academic, medical, and political discourse of the
18th and 19th centuries had produced the idea of the homosexual as a
deviant type: In Western society, homosexuality changed from being a
behavior (what you do) to an identity (who you are). In the Middle
East, however, homosexual behavior remained just that -- an act, not an
orientation. That is not to say that Middle Eastern men who had sex
with other men were freely tolerated. But they were not automatically
labeled deviant. The taxonomy revolved around the roles of top and
bottom, with little stigma attaching to the top. "‘Sexuality’ is
distinguished not between ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ but between
taking pleasure and submitting to someone (being used for
pleasure),"...A magazine editor in Jeddah told me that many boys in
Mecca, where he grew up, have sexual relations with men, but they don’t
see themselves as gay. Abubaker Bagader, a human-rights activist based
in Jeddah, explained that homosexuality can be viewed as a phase.
"Homosexuality is considered something one might pass by," he said.
"It’s to be understood as a stage of life, particularly at youth." This
view of sexual behavior, in combination with the strict segregation of
the sexes, serves to foster homosexual acts, shifting the stigma onto
bottoms and allowing older men to excuse their younger behavior --
their time as bottoms -- as mere youthful transgressions...
Veil of Separation, Veils of Identity:
But it prompts the question: why do homosexuals exist in societies
where a separation of sexes doesn't necessarily apply? Moreover, does
such a separation predicate the effect of genuine homosexual desires?
And then, are these so-called "homosexuals" homosexuals in the sense
that we in the West have defined it? Or are they individuals forced to
fulfill a natural desire in the only way they can? Maybe homosexuals
[or men who engage in sex with other men] in countries like Saudi
Arabia are not necessarily "in the closet" but actually free from
having to identify themselves. And rather, we [both homosexuals and
heterosexuals in the West] are trapped in a closet of our own, a closet
of monosexuality where we veil ourselves with endless layers attempting
to define and label sexualities that we eventually [like with
everything] ship and market around the world [the international gay?!?].
Des
identités homosexuelles - Propos sur la génèse et
les avatars d'un genre contesté,
Cécile Bénito de Sanchez, Revue h, été 1996.
(PDF
Download, or
access web page for PDF Download) - Genres
et orientations sexuelles: une question d'apparences?, Rommel Mendès-Leité,
1990. (bibliographie)
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et Lesbianisme: mythes, mémoires, historiographies. Actes du colloque
international (3 volumes). Lille, Cahiers GKC, 1989-1990. pp. 109 - 147.
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folles de Saint-Germain-des-Prés au fléau social. Le discours
homophile contre l'efféminement dans les années 50 : une
expression de la haine de soi ? par Georges Sidéris (2000).
Lesbian
Identity and the Politcs of Butch-Femme Roles. - Butch
- Femme Information. - Butch
An Evolving Identity. - Butch-Femme
Resources on the Web. - The
Porcelain Throne: Meditations by a hickster dyke on the conundrums
of identity, activism, diversity, and toilets (On Labels). - On
Sexuality, Labels and Identity. - Sorting the Alphabet Soup of Sexual Orientation and Identity: a Guide to LBGT Sources (PDF Download).
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Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies." - Straight
School, Gay Lives. Managing Gay Identity in a Heterosexual Environment:
Field Research Project Based on Interviews with Gay Men at The Wharton
Business School. - Creating
Accessible Queer Community: Intersections and Fractures with Dis/Ability
Praxis.
Journal
of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy ( Adopted as the Official Journal
of the Association of Gay nd Lesbian Psychiatrists): Links
to Abstract for Volumes 1 to.... - Journal of Gay & Lesbian
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Coming
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Adult Literature Rob Linné. Reprinted from Taboo: The Journal of
Culture and Education Fall 1996, pp. 71-87. 9 (Full
Text online) - Articles
by members of Treeroots exploring Gay Psyche in Psychology, History, Politics,
Spirit, Sexuality,Culture and Soul.
WS
375 NAT Topics: Sexual Outlaws (Instructor: Jessica Nathanson,
Fall 1997): The purpose of this class is to provide a comprehensive understanding
of sexualities and sexual identities in America. To this end, we will spend
the semester examining sexual cultures and identities that are outside
American"norms". We will begin by exploring more generally the social construction
of identity, noting the ways that gender, racial, and sexual identities
intersect and collide, and are, as Dana Takagi says, "qualitative," rather
than "quantitative," in nature. From here, we will move on to an overview
of "Western" and "non-Western" conceptualizations of sex and gender, recognizing
that such notions are located in and very much a product of particular
times and places, and thus far from universal. We will then begin our study
of outlaw sexualities, focusing first on an interrogation of the origin
and eventual "norming" of heterosexuality as an identity before moving
on to explore gay male identity and community and the political construction
(and deconstruction) of lesbian identity. Finally, we will focus on women's
core concerns in several identity groups that have recently emerged from
within the larger gay/lesbian community -- bisexuality, butch-femme, S/M,
sex work, and transgenderism-- and on the relationships between these "sub-subcultures"
and the larger lesbian culture."
The
Ultimate "Planet Out" Guide to Queer Movies (Subject: Coming Out).
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Out:
Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth (Film, 1993). - Boys
Don't Cry - Movie Review.
Éloge
de la diversité sexuelle - 1999 - par Michel Dorais. "Partant
de ce fait évident que la plupart d'entre nous vivent leur sexualité
dans un régime binaire (homme/femme, masculin/féminin, hétéro-/homo-,
etc.), Michel Dorais s'attaque aux stéréotypes des intégrismes
fondant ce qu'il appelle « l'apartheid sexuel." - Gay liberation:
is the fight over? Presentation to Marxism 2001 conference, University
of Technology Sydney, 26 August 2001 (PDF
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Out Resources. - HRC:
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Men. - Lesbians
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others. - Coming
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Books:
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Lesbian,
Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the Lifespan: Psychological Perspectives
- 1996 - edited by Anthony R D'Augelli and Charlotte Patterson (Review)
(35
Sample Pages). -
Lesbian,
Gay, and Bisexual Identities in Families: Psychological Perspectives
- 1998 - edited by Charlotte Patterson, and Anthony R. D'Augelli (24 Sample
Pages) (Review).
- Lesbian,
Gay, and Bisexual Identities and Youth: Psychological Perspectives
- 2001 - edited by Charlotte J. Patterson. Anthony R. D'Augelli (24 Sample
Pages). - Modern
Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences - 1992
- by Ken Plummer (Abstract) (Routledge
Reference). - Growing
Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology - 1994- edited
by Bennett L. Singer (Abstract) (Barnes
& Noble Reference) (Amazon.com
Reference). - Positively
Gay: New Approaches to Gay and Lesbian Life - 1992 - edited by
Betty Berzon (Abstract) (11
Sample Pages). -
Books:
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PoMoSexuals:
Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality - 1997 - edited
by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel (Review) (9
Sample Pages) (Abstract,
Contents). - The
Other Side of the Closet: The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses and
Families, Revised and Expanded Edition - 1994 - by Amity Pierce
Buxton (34 Sample Pages). - Contested
Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing - 1993 - by Larry Gross.
- Children
of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teens Are Leading a New Way Out of the
Closet/With a New Epilogue - 1996 by Andrew Boxer, Gilbert H. Herdt
(1993
Edition). - Testimonies:
Lesbian and Bisexual Coming-Out Stories - 2002 - edited by Sarah
Holmes, Jenn Tust, Jennifer Tust. - Am
I Blue? : Coming Out from the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer
(10 Sample Pages).
Gender
Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity - 1990 - by Judith
Butler (Review) (Amazon.com
Reference) (List
of Reviews). - Read
My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender - 1997 - by Riki
Anne Wilchins (Review) (9
Sample Pages). -
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
- 2000 - by Anne Fausto-Sterling (33 Sample Pages). - Female
Masculinity - 1998 - by Judith Halberstam (19 Sample Pages) (Review:
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Download). -
Trans
Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue - 1999 - by Leslie Feinberg (11
Sample Pages). - Genderqueer:
Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary - 2002 - edited by Joan Nestle,
Riki Wilchins, Clare Howell. - Transmen
and Ftms: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities - 1999 -
by Jason Cromwell (20 Sample Pages). - Lessons
from the Intersexed - 1998 - by Suzanne J. Kessler (Review).
Books:
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Invented
Identities? Lesbians and Gays Talk About Migration - 1997 - by
Bob Cant (Review) (Amazon.com
Reference). - Lesbian
and Bisexual Identities: Constructing Communities, Constructing Selves
- 1997 - by Kristen G. Esterberg (Review) (Amazon.com
Reference). - What
is She Like? Lesbian Identities from the 1950s to the 1990s - 1995
- by Rosa Ainley (Review) (Amazon.com
Reference). -
Looking
Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender
Communities - 1998 - edited by Dawn Atkins (27 Sample Pages). -
Different
Rainbows - 2000 - edited by Peter Drucker (7 Sample Pages) (Review:
PDF
Download). - The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities: Beyond Identification - 2005 - edited by Eleanor Conlin Casella, Chris Fowler.
Books:
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Coming
Out in College: The Struggle for a Queer Identity - 1994 - by Robert
A. Rhoads (Review) (Amazon.com
Reference). - "...And
Then I Became Gay" Young's Men's Stories - 1997 - by Ritch Savin-Williams
(Commentaries) (11
Sample Pages). -
The
Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out - 1994 - by Robb
Forman Dew (Abstract) (24
Sample Pages). - There
Must be Fifty Ways to Tell Your Mother: Coming Out Stories - 1996
- by Lynn Sutcliffe (Abstract). - Outing
Yourself: How to Come Out as Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Friends, and
Coworkers - 1996 - by Michelangelo Signorile (32 Sample Pages)
- Sexual
Identity on the Job: Issues and Services - 1996 - edited by Alan
L. Ellis, Ellen D. B. Riggle.
Books:
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Contested
Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing- 1993 - by Larry Gross
(Abstract) (Amazon.com
Reference). - Epistemology
of the Closet - 1990 - by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Review) (Amazon.com
Reference). - The
Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality and the Movies - 1987 - by Vito
Russo (Review) (27
Sample Pages). - The
Price of Achievement: Coming Out in Reagan Days - 1995 - by W.
Scott Thompson (Review) (Amazon.com
Reference). - Step
Children of Nature: Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexual
Identity 2000 - by Harry Oosterhuis (Review) (23
Sample Pages).
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Google.com. - Search
Google Scholar. - Search
Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN
Search. - Search
findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.
Academic
Searches: Search
IngentaConnect: The most comprehensive collection of academic and professional
publications. - Search Project
Muse: Scholarly Journals Online. - Search
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive. - Search
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