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Numerous studies explore racial differences in attitudes toward homosexuality in the United States, but relatively little research focuses on Asian Americans. Using the 2016 National Asian American Survey and the 2012 Pew Asian-American Survey, this study examines the factors shaping Asian Americans' likelihood of supporting legal protections against sex-based discrimination and socially accepting homosexuality. It finds that second-generation Asians are much more likely to socially accept homosexuality and support legal protections for sex-based discrimination than the first generation, which hints at intergenerational acculturation. Among other factors, ethnicity, religion, and education all shape Asians' attitudes, but their relative importance varied by immigrant generation and the dimension of attitudes. Taken together, the findings highlight the heterogeneity of Asian Americans and confirm the importance of accounting for the multidimensionality of attitudes toward homosexuality in research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Critiques of hegemonic library classification structures and controlled vocabularies have a rich history in information studies. This project has pointed out the trouble with classification and cataloging decisions that are framed as objective and neutral but are always ideological and worked to correct bias in library structures. Viewing knowledge organization systems from a queer perspective, however, challenges the idea that classification and subject language can ever be finally corrected. Engaging queer theory and library classification and cataloging together requires new ways of thinking about how to be ethically and politically engaged on behalf of marginal knowledge formations and identities who quite reasonably expect to be able to locate themselves in the library. Queer theory invites a shift in responsibility from catalogers, positioned to offer functional solutions, to public services librarians, who can teach patrons to dialogically engage the catalog as a complex and biased text, just as critical catalogers do. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes up the challenge posed by McDonald (2006) among others to interrogate queer privilege in the analysis of sport and sexuality. Using Puar's (2007) concepts of sexual exceptionalism and homonationalism, and Morgensen's (2010) notion of settler homonationalism, I analyze specific examples from the 2002 and 2006 Gay Games, and 2006 Outgames to demonstrate how emancipatory sexual identity events have also reiterated white, Western, bourgeois privilege through aspects of their instantiations. The argument is not just that race has to be added to the analysis of the international lesbian and gay sport movement, it is that relying on a primary focus such as homophobia actually contributes to the reproduction of other forms of potent oppression. The paper ends with a reading of the 2010 Winter Olympics as a new context for homonationalism in the production of queer abjection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the plight of sex work in society including its stigmatization and criminalization. Topics include the impact of a progressive agenda on hate crimes and persecutions faced by sex workers and homosexuals, the decriminalization of same-sex relationships, the growth in male prostitution and the number of male prostitutes.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, almost three decades after consensual sodomy was declared a crime in the USSR, voices began to speak out in favor of its decriminalization. This article traces the history of the ensuing debate on this issue, conducted between Soviet criminologists and legal academics in the period from 1965–75. Through a close reading of the related texts, I explore the evolution of the different positions put forward. These fall into two camps: on the one hand, legal scholars who, together with their graduate students, made the case for decriminalization, and on the other, criminologists affiliated with the Interior Ministry, who opposed their views. The article provides the first detailed historical account of this extraordinary discussion and contributes to expanding our scant knowledge on the history of homosexuality in the Soviet Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spatial abilities are generally hypothesized to differ between men and women, and people with different sexual orientations. According to the cross-sex shift hypothesis, gay men are hypothesized to perform in the direction of heterosexual women and lesbian women in the direction of heterosexual men on cognitive tests. This study investigated sexual orientation differences in spatial navigation and strategy during a virtual Morris water maze task (VMWM). Forty-four heterosexual men, 43 heterosexual women, 39 gay men, and 34 lesbian/bisexual women (aged 18-54 years) navigated a desktop VMWM and completed measures of intelligence, handedness, and childhood gender nonconformity (CGN). We quantified spatial learning (hidden platform trials), probe trial performance, and cued navigation (visible platform trials). Spatial strategies during hidden and probe trials were classified into visual scanning, landmark use, thigmotaxis/circling, and enfilading. In general, heterosexual men scored better than women and gay men on some spatial learning and probe trial measures and used more visual scan strategies. However, some differences disappeared after controlling for age and estimated IQ (e.g., in visual scanning heterosexual men differed from women but not gay men). Heterosexual women did not differ from lesbian/bisexual women. For both sexes, visual scanning predicted probe trial performance. More feminine CGN scores were associated with lower performance among men and greater performance among women on specific spatial learning or probe trial measures. These results provide mixed evidence for the cross-sex shift hypothesis of sexual orientation-related differences in spatial cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pink Dot SG is a non-profit social movement launched by LGBTQ Singaporeans to rally support for Singapore's LGBTQ community. Every year, since its inception in 2009, it organises a free-to-all public event, which attracts increasingly larger crowds. In this article, I undertake a critical multimodal analysis of one of its official promotional videos, in order to show how a discourse of homonormative nationalism, or homonationalism, is constructed within it. Although from a radical queer perspective especially of the North, homonationalism is construed as problematic in that it leaves heteronormativity unchallenged and appears to be depoliticised, in the case of the Pink Dot movement, I argue, the discourse works tactically as a form of 'doing' a politics of pragmatic resistance within an illiberal sociopolitical context. Therefore, although it appears assimilationist and complicit with wider heteronormative and state structures, from the perspective of a southern praxis it can be re-conceptualised as a contextualised form of resistance that demonstrates the resilience, creativity and agency of a queer subaltern constituency in Singapore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following recent research evidencing that young men are redefining the essential components of what it is to be a man, this paper draws on qualitative interviews with 22 elite-level, English Premier League academy level football (soccer) players to investigate their performances and understandings of masculinity in relation to decreasing homohysteria. Even in this gender-segregated, near-total institution, these working-class, non-educationally aspiring adolescents evidence an attenuated performance of 'maleness' and improved attitudinal disposition toward homosexuality. Congruent with insights developed by inclusive masculinity scholars, respondents maintained emotional closeness and physical tactility with male teammates and friends. These more inclusive attitudes and homosocial behaviours were, however, slightly more conservative than in other recent research. We close by explaining this variation with reference to theoretical apparatus' provided by Goffman and Bourdieu to advance theoretical debates about social class and masculinities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sexual minorities are stigmatised in much of sub-Saharan Africa, restricting their access to sexual health services and undermining their mental health. Although public attitudes and social representations inform the experience of sexual stigma, little is known about how young Africans make sense of sexual diversity. We conducted a thematic analysis of 56 texts contributed by young people from 10 countries in response to a prompt in a scriptwriting competition inviting participants to ‘tell a story about someone who is attracted to people of the same sex’. We analysed accounts of the origins of same-sex attraction, a prominent theme in the narratives. Two-thirds of the texts provide an explicit or implicit explanation, presenting same-sex attraction as innate (15/38) and/or the consequence of environmental influences (32/38), including parental behaviour, gender separation, trauma, foreign influences and evil spirits. Expressions of the potential to avert or cure same-sex attraction are common. Young people’s sense-making around sexual diversity draws on available sociocultural and symbolic resources, some of which may be highly stigmatising, and reflects local, national and transnational influences. The need to explain same-sex attraction and the preponderance of harmful explanatory frameworks compounds sexual minority youth’s vulnerability to sexual stigma, harmful coping strategies and mental health challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The last decade has witnessed the emergence and consolidation of new and established gay cities in East and Southeast Asia, in particular, the sexualisation of the Singapore city-state, the commerce-led boom of queer Bangkok, the rise of middle-class gay consumer cultures in Manila and Hong Kong, and the proliferation of underground LGBT scenes in Shanghai and Beijing. In the West, scholarships on urban gay centres such as San Francisco, New York and London focus on the paradigms of ethnicity (Sinfield, 1996), gentrification (Bell and Binnie, 2004) and creativity (Florida, 2002). Mapping the rise of commercial gay neighbourhoods by combining the history of ghettos and its post-closet geography of community villages, these studies chart a teleological model of sexual minority rights, group recognition and homonormative mainstream assimilation. Instead of defaulting to these specifically North American and European paradigms and debates, this paper attempts to formulate a different theoretical framework to understand the rise of the queer Asian city. Providing case studies on Singapore and Hong Kong, and deploying an interdisciplinary approach including critical creative industrial studies and cultural studies this paper examines the intersections across the practices of gay clusters, urban renewal and social movement. It asks: if queer Asian sexual cultures are characterised by disjunctive modernities, how do such modernities shape their spatial geographies and produce the material specificities of each city? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers interested in sexual minority health are beginning to examine contextual and environmental determinants of health such as neighbourhoods, health services, and social policies. Efforts to catalogue and systematise policies relating to the health of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals are therefore central in uncovering more comprehensive determinants of LGB health. This commentary identifies the links between social policy and LGB health, some methodological concerns of spatial analyses in this research area, and some future research directions. In particular, there is a need to integrate both migration and life course into understandings of the relationships between LGB health and jurisdictional policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among those areas linked to the forbidden, homosexuality has traditionally met one of the strongest interdictions. Given the taboo nature of homosexuality, it is our purpose in this paper to gain an insight into the axiological values that anglicisms present in the Spanish homosexual vocabulary. The analysis of the different types of anglicisms in a sample of 253 English borrowings reveals that pure anglicisms (including clippings and initialisms) are the most frequently used, followed by pseudoanglicisms. Calques, hybrids and adapted anglicisms are used less often to refer to homosexuality. The research carried out reveals that anglicized units perform different X-phemistic functions in homosexual discourse: not only that of softening or avoiding the use of a taboo term in Spanish but also displaying in-group solidarity or referring to homosexuality disparagingly. Homosexual-related anglicisms promote innovative uses of the Spanish language and provide evidence of a special kind of language used by homosexuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented on the response of the church and society about homosexuality in Iceland. Topics include the insights of former professor of biblical interpretation Walter Wink regarding the issue of homosexuality and controversy caused by slavery, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (ELCI), and same sex marriages.

In this paper, I draw on observations from sexual health workshops in an elementary school classroom in Vancouver, Canada and friendship pair interviews with four boys who attended the workshops. I examine how the educators organising the workshops constructed sexual health, highlighting their reliance on both a ‘gay is okay’ and a scientific discourse. I argue that by locating their discussion of homosexuality within a values framework and striving to depict gay relationships as acceptable, they simultaneously constituted homosexuality asrequiringacceptance. Likewise, by subsuming references to heterosexuality within their lesson on (hetero)sexual reproduction, they framed heterosexuality as an always already accepted scientific fact. Having set the scene in this way, I then explore the ways the boys both took up and deviated from these discourses when constructing their own narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Through a meta-literature review, this paper examines the changing contours of Chinese sociology of homosexuality in contemporary China. It unfolds the different theoretical orientations and methodologies that construct the modern male homosexual subject under major socio-economic and political changes. Chinese sociology of homosexuality started in the reform era and has been dominated by Western knowledge production and the political ideology of the communist party-state. Fused with the bio-medical model and the state's modernization project in the 1980s-1990s, the sociological study adopted a functionalist and positivistic approach with survey-based methodology in the main which focused on the etiology of homosexuality. A new transnational knowledge production of sociology of homosexuality has formed since the 2000s which has shifted towards a constructivist/ post-structuralist approach and reflexive qualitative methodology. The new sociological study examines the rise of male (as well as female) homosexual identity in China, questions the hetero/homosexual binary and discusses how an individual makes sense of homosexual identity to form same-sex intimate relationships. By tracing the epistemology of homosexuality in contemporary China, this paper rethinks the dominance of the Western construction and the role of the state in shaping the knowledge of homosexuality and proposes alternative spaces for theorizing Chinese sexual identities, desires and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A personal narrative is presented in which the author discusses his childhood experiences as a gay youth and how reading books helped him.

The article discusses the history behind the homophile organisations of the U.S. like the Mattachine Society who while striving to remove homophobia from the U.S. were unable to bring in racial diversity in their organisation which was mostly white. Topics include the role of people of color in the homophile movement especially in Washington (D.C.), and the social and political conditions of homosexuals in the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s.

Objectives: To inform church-based stigma interventions by exploring dimensions of HIV stigma among African American and Latino religious congregants and determining how these are related to drug addiction and homosexuality stigmas and knowing someone HIV-positive.Method: In-person, self-administered surveys of congregants 18+ years old across 2 African American and 3 Latino churches (n = 1,235, response rate 73%) in a western U.S. city with high HIV prevalence. Measures included 12 items that captured dimensions of HIV stigma, a 5-item scale that assessed attitudes toward people who are addicted to drugs, a 7-item scale assessing attitudes toward homosexuality, and questions regarding sociodemographics and previous communication about HIV.Results: Of the survey participants, 63.8% were women, mean age was 40.2 years, and 34.4% were African American, 16.8% were U.S.-born Latinos, 16.0% were foreign-born, English-speaking Latinos, and 32.9% were foreign-born, Spanish-speaking Latinos. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses identified 4 dimensions of HIV stigma: discomfort interacting with people with HIV (4 items, α = .86), feelings of shame "if you had HIV" (3 items, α = .78), fears of rejection "if you had HIV" (3 items, α = .71), and feelings of blame toward people with HIV (2 items, α = .65). Across all dimensions, after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics and previous communication about HIV, knowing someone with HIV was associated with lower HIV stigma, and greater stigma concerning drug addiction and homosexuality were associated with higher HIV stigma.Conclusions: Congregation-based HIV stigma reduction interventions should consider incorporating contact with HIV-affected people. It may also be helpful to address attitudes toward drug addiction and sexual orientation. (PsycINFO Database Record [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the concept of camouflage masculinity will be presented and discussed. The concept was coined with the aim to analyse masculinity manifestations with the main focus on gay culture, and to create works of art on the corresponding theoretical basis. In the scope of the research, empirical data from the gay dating site PlanetRomeo was collected and analysed. Such data - representational visual images - are one of the core sources of inspiration for camouflage masculinity. Another important concept in this paper is camp. Its definition and relation with gay male culture are scrutinised in the context of the relevant aesthetic and social aspects. Finally, the author aims to look beyond camouflage masculinity and campish dazzle in quite an unexpected perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The attempt is made to initially arrange in the terms of methodology the area of the research on partner roles in homoerotic relations. These issues have been noticed very early in human history (e.g., different roles performed or bimodal polarization), but only recently has science become interested in this subject. It is suggested to cover all such roles by the term sex-partner roles (SPR) instead of various other terms used and to classify them according to the ethological evolutionary approach into the appetitive and consummatory SPR. Further details of the division are discussed, and the utility of such classification is marked. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the effect of state and social institutions, legal arguments about social danger of homosexuality and other antisocial behaviors on trials for sexual orientation and their judicial decisions in Málaga, Spain. It discusses a ruling on the sexual orientation trial of a man, named Robert, by the Special Court of Vagrants and Thugs in February 1961 and the history of sexual orientation under Franco's regime.

The article discusses the relationship between the Left in American culture and homosexuality. Topics include the opposition to gay life by the Communist Party in the U.S., the Red taboo' presence in gay and lesbian historiography, and the politicization of homosexuality and a call for leftist existence to racism and homophobia.

This article propose to analyze the senses and the meanings of homosexuality for college students at a public Institute of Superior Studies (ISS) from Manaus -AM. It was conducted an exploratory research with a qualitative approach. 52 people from 04 undergraduate courses participated in the research. Focus groups were used to collect the data, preceded by the use of the technique of brainstorming regarding three scenes from films about homosexuality. The data was analyzed in an interpretative manner, with the theoretical basis of the Socio- Historical Psychology School and conceptual aspects of sexuality and homosexuality as a social and cultural construct. The results evinced discursive formations permeated by intolerance to diversity, whether in a sexual, cultural and / or religious context. The training in ISS undergraduate courses investigated seems not to be aligned with current public policies on sexual diversity and appear not to be contributing to the promotion of democratic school contexts, where the expression of multiplicities is possible. It is inferred that it is necessary to seek the rupture of inequalities implanted on the process of historical and cultural significance of homosexuality. In order to do this is proposed the creation of reflective spaces in initial and continuing teachers education, that takes as theoretical basis the evolution of educational theories and the current educational goals coadunate with the gains of LGBT social movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Homosexual sociability space in Santiago is not socially homogenous. Beyond non-heterosexual identities segmentation (gay, lesbian, queer, BDSM, etc.), the present article proposes a reflection observing certain social distinctions or differences that come into play to create a hierarchy among gay and lesbian individuals within that space. Using a qualitative approximation, we analyze the discourse of homosexual men and women about ways to display homosexuality in different places in the city, as well as some sociability practices used in homosexual venues. The resulting social hierarchy is understood through two central subjective rules: discretion and good taste, dynamic mechanisms that perpetuate the distance among groups within the same sociability space, and to some extent reproduce the city’s class structure. Given that material means to privatize and sophisticate homosexual expression are unequally distributed in Santiago, the resulting differentiated social networks end up configuring the visibility strategies of homosexual identity played out in the city in the last years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The author focuses on the reasonable sense against nature associating with intelligible but reasonable aspects. The author highlights the action of sodomy used in traditional moral sense involving copulation with an undue sex in homosexuals such as males with males or females with females. The author also examines the sense of mother nature and its significant laws to prevent violations.

The author examines the effect of perverted faculty argument as defense against homosexual sex. The author highlights the natural law theory with heavy emphasis on the body as well as the capacity for reason grounds moral obligation. The author also emphasizes the objective standard of evaluation by natural law theorists and homosexual activity critics.

Our article is about the new relevance of the category of 'the homosexual' in immigration policies. This novelty is paradoxical: while homosexuality had previously been defined exclusively in negative terms, from the point of view of the State, it has now assumed a positive value in the West-since it can be invoked to justify asylum seeking. The argument has two prongs. On the one hand, taking homosexuality into account for immigration control implies a definition of gay identity. On the other, the objects of these policies are also subjects: their own identity is caught up in this transnational process of identification. Fieldwork for this article was conducted in France on bi-national same-sex couples. However, the new categorization of homosexuality extends far beyond-in Europe and throughout the world. We argue that the politics of identity are not just, and not primarily about identity politics; they have to do both with politics in general and policies in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the author's purpose of extending the application of pinkwashing and homonationalism to Singapore with Singapore's partners in the project particularly U.S. educational institutions as his point of entry. Topics discussed include Singapore's experiment with pinkwashing and homononationalism in the years 2001-4 and claims that Singapore is a gay paradise where local gay activists and economic planners found common ground in promoting Singapore as a queer playground.

Our aim was to gain an understanding of adolescents' experiences of disclosing their sexual orientation as lesbian or gay to their parents. In order to capture these experiences, we conducted interviews with 6 people who had told at least 1 parent of their sexual orientation as lesbian or gay. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis we identified 4 themes from the emotions described by the respondents when they disclosed their sexual orientation to their parents. These 4 themes were feelings of alienation, uneasiness and fear, self-acceptance and being comfortable with one's sexuality, and feeling whole. The conclusion we drew from the accounts of the people we interviewed is that disclosing one's sexual orientation to one's parents is liberating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Synopsis The article deals with the process of the “secularization” of the Roman Catholic Church and its attempts to secure exclusionary patriarchal and traditional values and interpretations in the context of issues pertaining to sexual citizenship. Taking two case studies as examples – the recent Family Code debate in Slovenia and the Health Education in Croatia – it shows how the Church and its satellite civil society organizations increasingly refrain from using “biblical discourse”, substituting it with what appears as a rational, scientific discourse molded into reassuring and populist common-sense statements. In such a way, the Church is secularizing its discourse in order to “clericalize” society. Furthermore, it is successfully reinventing the issues of family and marriage as an ideological battleground of contemporary cultural wars in post-socialist societies, constituting gays and lesbians as the outsiders of the nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the social debate and anxiety of the high-profile crimes of male homosexuality in Spain. It examines the political spectrum with references to sexual deviancy, vice, sin, mental or physical illness and evolutionary aberration of homosexuality. It also stresses the liberal plea for pity for homosexual men in a defense of sexual diversity.

An essay is presented concerning the homosexuality. Topics discussed include Cuban politics, values, and human rights, an interview with National Center for Sexual Education director Mariela Castro by French journalist Salim Lamrani concerning the social status of homosexuals, and the detention of homosexuals at the Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP) agricultural labor camps in Cuba in 1965.

The article examines two sex scandals that occurred among the social elite in Spain, the first of which occurred between 1881 and 1882 and the second of which happened in 1898. An analysis of these scandals explores the relationship between homosexuality and scandal, as well as their social and political implications.

The authors discuss the effect of child abuse on same-sex sexual orientation in response to a commentary about their article about the use of childhood adversity as a determinant of same-sex sexual attraction, partners and identity. They conducted simulations to test the hypothesis that a genetic factor predicts parental difficultues such as divorce, mental illness, poverty and drug use. They emphasize the impact of childhood adversities as non-normative controls.

This article examines the 2008 World Health Organization/Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS controversy through original reports and media coverage. Analysis reveals that discourse rhetorically exonerates heterosexuals from HIV/AIDS while reifying homophobic and morally righteous ideology about HIV/AIDS and homosexuality. Discourses of “fraudulent science,” “heterosexual absence,” and reverse victimization destabilize meaning of HIV/AIDS and heterosexuality. “AIDS,” “heterosexuality,” and even victimhood and minority status were destabilized and resignified in a rhetoric that benefited from its status as science even as it rendered past science suspect as ideological. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In terms of human sexuality, there are many studies on same-sex behavior and opposite-sex behavior, but both-sex behavior is vastly overlooked. Such bisexual invisibility may be due to the fact that bisexuality does not follow a universal behavioral pattern, which implies that a cross-cultural approach could be very helpful. This study combined qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate 255 behaviorally bisexual males of low socioeconomic status from three different cultures: Brazil, Turkey, and Thailand. Brazilian heterosexuals were less likely than their Thai or Turk counterparts to engage in homosexual activities. Answers to interview data tested popular ideas, but neither of these arguments could account for the difference between Brazil and the other two cultures. Only the argument that homosexual relationships reflect a need to exercise personal dominance (childhood bullying behavior) accounted for (1) the homosexual activities of heterosexual men and (2) the cultural differences between countries found in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The objectives of this study were to describe the Political Culture National Survey (ENCUP2008) homophobia data and to carry out comparisons by gender, states, religion and political ideology. The survey ENCUP2008 used a national probability sample of 4,383 participants (without expansion factor), to whom a questionnaire with 76 closed questions was applied. More than half of the interviewed persons reported an attitude of acceptance toward homosexuality. Women, people without religion, those that practice their religion less, those of left polity ideology or residents in Guerrero, Baja California Sur and Yucatan showed more acceptance. It was observed that a high percentage of people without religion and low frequency of religious practice is what inclines the balance toward acceptance; in counterpoint, there was evidence of a lot of politically indefinite participants and a dominance of right-wing political identities, which supports conservative cultural forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the relationship between religiosity, spirituality, gender, and attitudes toward homosexuality. The article augments the existing literature by examining the effects of religious affiliation, religiosity, and spirituality on attitudes toward homosexuality separately for men and women using the 2008 and 2010 General Social Surveys. Results indicate significant gender differences in attitudes toward homosexuality for two variables. Southern residence decreases tolerance among men, but not women. Also, men who self-identify as spiritual, but not religious, are more likely to report that homosexuality is not morally wrong than their more religious counterparts; however, a similar finding was not evident among the women who self-identified as spiritual. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this article, I argue that Richard Matheson's (1954) vampire novella, I Am Legend, encodes the protagonist's, Robert Neville, traumatic recognition of his queer sexuality in its monstrosity (the unspeakability of male penetrability). Neville's identification with and desire for his undead neighbor, Ben Cortman, are symbolically codified through three different registers: intertextual references to vampiric conventions and codes, the semiotics of queer subculture, and a structure of doubling that links Neville to the queer vampire. Although Neville avoids encountering his unspeakable queer desire, which could be represented only at the level of the Lacanian Real, he must still confront Cortman's obsessive exhortations for him to come out. Only when he symbolically codifies his abnormality in its own monstrosity, by viewing himself through mutant vampires' eyes, can Neville reconfigure the ethical relationship between self and other, humans and mutant humans-vampires. However progressive Matheson's novella is in its advocacy of minority sexual rights, it still renders capitalism's problematic relationship with queer subjectivity invisible. Although capitalism overdetermines every aspect of the social field and makes Neville's daily life possible in its surplus enjoyment, the fundamental antagonism (class struggle) in capitalism is obscured by the assertion of identity politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this contribution, we elaborate on disapproval of homosexuality in 20 European countries. We mainly focus on the explanation of differences in the disapproval of homosexuality at the individual and the national level. Data from four waves of the European Social Survey are used, using multilevel techniques to test our hypotheses. Individual differences in disapproval of homosexuality can be derived from theories of socializing agents (religious institutions, schools) and socializing circumstances as well as from psychological theories on conventionalism and tradition. We find that religious people, people who support conventionalism, and those who attach to traditions disapprove of homosexuality more, whereas highly educated people disapprove less. Differences between countries can be explained by socializing circumstances of the national context as the countries’ religiosity and laws on homosexuality turned out to be important determinants of the disapproval of homosexuality. We found that disapproval of homosexuality is the least in countries where law permits homosexuals to marry. In addition, people who live in more religious countries disapprove of homosexuality more than people who live in secular countries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Throughout the history of the modern state, homosexuality has been a legal category, and not simply a medical or a psychiatric one. Fear of that legal subject manifests itself in law and policy not only about ‘the family’ but also about nationhood and citizenship. This is an article about this fear of the ‘Wandering Gay’, about the ways in which this fear has influenced domestic and international law regarding recognition in same-sex relationships, and about ways in which it can be overcome. I begin by introducing the Wandering Gay as a hidden driving cultural concept behind a state's reluctance (and in some places, outright objection) to recognise same-sex relationships. I then compare American and Israeli immigration policies concerning immigrants' sexuality, and discuss the different focuses of each system: while American policy (prior to its reform) was mainly concerned with ‘sexual deviancy’, Israeli policy was concerned with otherness, particularly non-Jewishness, in general. However, as I argue, homosexuality is one way in which individuals are ‘othered’ by Israeli immigration policy, since they cannot acquire legal status based on their marital status. I then contend that marriage is being used as a weapon against LGBT individuals, and that this is done from within a discourse that elevates marriage to a right that only heterosexual citizens are entitled to. I argue that marriage is used as a means of discrimination against minorities, and I question whether the proper solution to this violation of human rights is indeed to add more and more minorities to the privileged class of those who can marry, thus equipping them with the weapon of marriage to use against others. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this state-of-the-field report we move through the recurring “deaths” of queer theory and witness the value of a radically provisional approach to being-with as we consider its futures. This article presents an account of the openness of short-lived impersonal intimacies and partial visits which illuminate the urgency of queer theory at the current time. Ultimately this article asks if queer theory is a theory of everything. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article looks at the construction of queer sexuality in the context of heteronormativity. The author considers how race and sexuality are socially constructed, noting the social invisibility of gays, lesbians, and others who stray from socially accepted norms. The relationship between homosexuality and commodity capitalism is discussed. The author compares the social implications of homosexuality to the disciplinary function of feminist identity politics. The social bonds created by individuals engaging in sexual activity together are also discussed.

An interview with French philosopher Michel Foucault is presented. When asked about the reason of misconception on the first volume of his book "The History of Sexuality," he mentions that its misunderstanding starts with the author who could likely use overdetermined notions on repression. Foucault points out the necessity to fight the notion of homosexuality. He also notes that the prohibition of masturbation initiates restriction related to sexuality.

This essay brings to bear insights from continental philosophers Michel Foucault and Judith Butler on the science of (homo)sexuality and, more importantly, the desire to use such science to resolve contemporary conflicts over homosexuality's acceptability. So-called 'queer science' remains deeply beholden to modern notions of sex, gender, and sexuality, the author argues, a schematic that its premodern (Christian) roots further denaturalize. The philosophical insights drawn from this analysis are then applied to the controversy over homosexuality within global Christianity that often pits the 'backward' former colonies against the 'modern' west. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]