{"title":"Bridges of Light","authors":"Roberto Strongman","doi":"10.1215/10642684-8777002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8777002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47296,"journal":{"name":"Glq-A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies","volume":"41 3","pages":"165 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41273835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Queer Political Theologies","authors":"Ricky Varghese, Fan Wu, David K. Seitz","doi":"10.1215/10642684-8776820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8776820","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47296,"journal":{"name":"Glq-A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies","volume":"2007 25","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41262591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Other Sides of Stonewall","authors":"Marcie Frank","doi":"10.1215/10642684-8776918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8776918","url":null,"abstract":"New books by Roderick A. Ferguson, David K. Johnson, and Guy Davidson prompt readers to reassess Stonewall as both a significant event and a pivotal concept for queer scholarship. Ferguson aims to fit queer liberation into the vocabulary of intersectional politics by emphasizing Stonewall’s radical origins. Johnson reads Stonewall’s bourgeois preconditions in the contributions the physique entrepreneurs made to gay community networks by publishing magazines featuring nearly naked men and running adjacent ads for businesses, including photography studios, mailorder catalogues, book clubs, and penpal services aimed at gay consumers. Despite their different politics, for both Ferguson and Johnson, Stonewall remains a historical turning point, an event that organizes beforeandafter narratives and infuses them with rhetorical, affective, and political energies. To rediscover aspects of Stonewall or unearth new details about it, both Ferguson and Johnson assume its historicity. It remains a reference point for mea-","PeriodicalId":47296,"journal":{"name":"Glq-A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"141 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42951179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual Intimacies in Literatures of the Black Diaspora","authors":"T. Osinubi","doi":"10.1215/10642684-8776988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8776988","url":null,"abstract":"Huang, Vivian L. 2018. “Whither Asian American Lesbian Feminism?” Presented at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 9. Nguyen, Tan Hoang. 2014. View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 1985. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. New York: Columbia University Press. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 1990. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press.","PeriodicalId":47296,"journal":{"name":"Glq-A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"161 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48829401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual Knowledge and the Formation of Chinese Modernity","authors":"Séagh Kehoe","doi":"10.1215/10642684-8776960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8776960","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47296,"journal":{"name":"Glq-A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"155 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43775742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Sticks","authors":"Summer Kim Lee","doi":"10.1215/10642684-8776974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8776974","url":null,"abstract":"Sinophone culture. Here, Chiang neatly locates these stories of corporeal variance within the convergence of culture and geopolitics in early Cold War Taiwan. This book makes a rich and imaginative contribution to discussions about the psychobiological understandings of sex and sexuality that emerged in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By showing the significance of those decades between empire and communism as an important interlude in China’s modern history, Chiang’s work challenges the view that only after the economic reforms in the 1970s did China open up to the global circulation of ideas regarding sex, sexuality, and the body. Drawing attention to sexual knowledge as a significant element in the formulation of Chinese modernity, his book also provides an engaging, innovative analysis of the gradual displacement of colonial modernity by Sinophone articulations from the middle of the twentieth century onward. After Eunuchs will be of great interest and importance to scholars working on the history of science and medicine, sex and sexuality, and Chinese modernity.","PeriodicalId":47296,"journal":{"name":"Glq-A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"157 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42330001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Divine Monarchy, Spirited Sovereignties, and The Timely Malagasy Msm Medium-Activist Subject","authors":"S. Palmer","doi":"10.1215/10642684-8776862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8776862","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Amid ongoing political instability, sarimbavy—same-sex-desiring and/or gender-expansive male-bodied persons—are increasingly rendered opportune subjects ripe for intervention across Madagascar by HIV prevention industries, homonationalist LGBT rights projects backed by the United States Embassy, and many Christian institutions. This article diverges from these biomedical and moral panics by attending to the shifting temporal allegiances of sarimbavy spirit medium-activists. Interlocutors' roles as mediums to spirits of former reigning monarchs (tromba) necessitated an onerous dedication to Malagasy history (tantara) and tradition (fombandrazana); simultaneously, many sarimbavy mediums were also men who have sex with men (MSM) activists, and thus deeply committed to moving beyond what they saw as the stigma-ridden past and present. These activist engagements and the sarimbavy counterpublics that they produced were uncannily facilitated by mediumship social networks. Through these practices of monarchic veneration, sarimbavy medium-activists implicitly challenged Western expectations that queer social movements must emerge through the subversion of social norms and secular, liberal, democratic reform. In surrendering to the seemingly antidemocratic weight of divine queen-kingship, sarimbavy mediums became \"possessed\" by political organizations irreducible to the modern nation-state and its colonial genealogies and, furthermore, produced human-spirit relationalities that thwarted Western juridico-legal visions of a bounded, rights-bearing subject.","PeriodicalId":47296,"journal":{"name":"Glq-A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"61 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42157095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barebacking's Late Style","authors":"Douglas Dowland","doi":"10.1215/10642684-8776946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8776946","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47296,"journal":{"name":"Glq-A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"152 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42472516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"That is Not What I Meant at All\"","authors":"A. Counter","doi":"10.1215/10642684-8776932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8776932","url":null,"abstract":"Someone may be thought of as the third in a trilogy of books on sexuality in French literature by Michael Lucey, following The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality (2003) and Never Say I: Sexuality in the First Person in Colette, Gide and Proust (2006). One of the most distinguished scholars in sexuality studies and certainly the most interesting in French studies, Lucey has developed a set of conceptual preoccupations and a methodological approach that are at once idiosyncratic—to use one of his own key terms—and compelling. Methodologically, this has meant an approach to literature as sociological that is inseparable from a Bourdieusian sociological approach to literature, with a constant back-and-forth between the type of sociological thinking carried out in novels, on the one hand, and the external dynamics of the literary field, on the other. Conceptually, Lucey’s work has been attentive to the “misfit,” meaning at once the individual whose sense of self does not fit well with available categories, vocabularies, and representations, as well as the fact and typically uncomfortable experience of that lack of fit. In all three books, Lucey shows that “sexual identity” cannot be thought separately from social positioning, and vice versa, and the feeling of “misfit” often occurs at the intersection of the two. Someone’s productive innovation is to draw on the linguistic field of pragmatics, which studies the context-dependent, nonsemantic, nonexplicit functions of utterances. “Misfit sexualities,” Lucey contends, “sometimes exist in language and culture without ever being explicitly talked about or explicitly laid claim to,” but “leave other kinds of traces, more pragmatic than semantic ones” (9). Not so much loves that dare","PeriodicalId":47296,"journal":{"name":"Glq-A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"149 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41710448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Queer Archive in Fragments: Sunil Gupta's London Gay Switchboard","authors":"Glyn Davis","doi":"10.1215/10642684-8776904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8776904","url":null,"abstract":"The exhibition Slide/Tape was staged at Vivid Projects, Birmingham, England, from October 5 to November 16, 2013. Curated by Yasmeen BaigClifford and Mo White (2013: 2), the show attempted “a fresh appraisal of an abandoned medium,” tapeslide, as it was used by artists across the 1970s and 1980s. As White (2007: 60) writes in her unpublished doctoral thesis, tapeslide was “technically crude, cheap and eccentric”: its technical assemblage usually consisted of one or two carousels of 35 mm slides with an accompanying audio cassette soundtrack. The progression of the slide images could be activated by hand or set to advance at a pace controlled by the cassette. Tapeslide’s precarious form made it susceptible to disassembly, its material components easily scattered and lost. It was also materially delicate: individual images could be scratched or burned, and audio tapes might snap or unspool. The instability and ephemerality of the medium contributed, in significant part, to a notable paucity of critical attention from historians and theorists. As White writes (60 – 61), “Tapeslide has not offered itself up to be collected, archived or even adequately documented making the task of providing an accurate retrieval of its history difficult. [As the artist Judith Higginbottom notes,] the unpredictable nature of tapeslide led to much of the original material not surviving and that which did is difficult to access in archives.” The Vivid Projects exhibition included work by Black Audio Film Collective, Nina Danino, William Furlong, Sunil Gupta, Tina Keane, and Cordelia Swann. Gupta’s contribution consisted of “fragments” — the curators’ term — from his 1980 tapeslide project London Gay Switchboard. As the program for the exhibition noted of Gupta’s piece, “The audio track remains missing, a reminder of the fragile nature of early slidetape work” (BaigClifford and White 2013: 7).","PeriodicalId":47296,"journal":{"name":"Glq-A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"121 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41994264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}