Modern Homosexualities
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This book of nineteen original essays by activists and academics documents and analyses the dramatic changes in lesbian and gay experience over the last twenty years. It charts the growth of lesbian and gay studies, and examines key issues around communitites, identities, relationships, sexualities and politics. These essays, edited by a leading author in the field, herald a new confidence and maturity for the growing field of lesbian and gay studies.
Notes on contributorsPrefacePt. IIntroduction: gay and lesbian world making1Speaking Its Name: Inventing a Lesbian and Gay Studies3Pt. IIEstablishing the male homosexual: the Turkish and Mesoamerican experience2The 'Underdevelopment' of Modern/Gay Homosexuality in Mesoamerica293Masculinity, Femininity, and Turkish Male Homosexuality39Pt. IIIConstructing communities and identities4The Company of Friends and Lovers: Lesbian Communities in the Netherlands535Coming Out: Lesbian Identities and the Categorization Problem656The Role of Disclosure in Coming Out Among Gay Men75Pt. IVCreating new relationships: pretending to be families?7Loves, Sexualities, and Marriages: Strategies and Adjustments878Daring to Pretend? Motherhood and Lesbianism989That's What Friends Are For: Friends as Family in the Gay and Lesbian Community10810A Cocktail of Alarm: Same-Sex Couples and Migration to Australia 1985-9012111Report from a Rotten State: 'Marriage' and 'Homosexuality' in 'Denmark'134Pt. VTranscending AIDS: models of love, support, and activism12The AIDS Dialectics: Awareness, Identity, Death, and Sexual Politics15113Lesbian Politics and AIDS Work16014Sex and Caring Among Men: Impacts of AIDS on Gay People175Pt. VIShifting sexualities: the lesbian case15Constructing Lesbian Sexualities18716Resisting the Erasure of Lesbian Sexuality: A Challenge for Queer Activism200Pt. VIIMaking the future: radicalism, rights, and citizenship in the UK17Abseil Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Lesbian and Gay Campaigning Tactics and Section 2821718Dangerous Activism?22719Equal Rights for All: Strategies for Lesbian and Gay Equality in Britain237A brief guide to further reading249Bibliography255Name index272Subject index276
