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Gays and lesbians are beginning to define themselves in terms of a 'queer' identity. This is being opposed by an older generation of gays and lesbians because of the negative connotations attached to queer. The younger generation is keen on reclaiming the word because it helps avoid gender, race, class and age associations. The emergence of the 'queer' identity is a redefinition of sexual politics.

The death of Derek Jarman robs us not only of one of cinema's most imaginative postwar independent directors but of one of Britain's proudest and most indefatigably queer gay men. […]

Douglas Crimp, Melancholia and Moralism: Essays On AIDS and Queer Politics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. 304 pages, $30. IN ADDITION TO HIS WELL-KNOWN WORK as a critic and cultural [...]

MAN TROUBLE If we look too hard--or, better, hard enough--at 'masculinity,' its meaning dissipates, 'as when a word is repeated over and over.' This image is from an essay by [...]

I succeeded, one could say, because I work in a very interesting field where I try in a very conventional field of culture, the so-called art scene, to develop a […]

French movies tend to minimize homosexuality and AIDS, as shown by Cyril Collard's 'Les Nuits fauves.' Gay men are portrayed as bisexuals and the main concern of AIDS is for the movie's female lead. Collard directed and starred as an HIV positive bisexual man, and Collard has since died of AIDS. Such a contrast between reality and story is reflected by French society and government's inattention to the problem of AIDS.

DANCE MUSIC HAS BEEN associated with young people and with youth culture throughout modern times. Dance music gets you through your teens, 20s, and beyond, and through the working week. [...]

When I was a child my father took me up to the viewing platform above the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Pointing south he said 'Look. There's the [...]

For more than a decade gay men have responded to the presence of HIV and AIDS in our personal lives in a wide variety of ways. At one end of [...]