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{"title":"Queer Networked Comments on Reddit: Collaborative and Antagonistic Production of Sexual Meaning on r/SuddenlyGay.","authors":"Ian Kennedy, Hannah Curtis","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2026.2663834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2026.2663834","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>After more than a half century of political struggle, queer people in 2025 have unprecedented visibility, strong communities, and are part of powerful political movements. At the same time, we face growing vulnerability and threat. This contrast reflects the distance between understandings of sexuality within and beyond queer communities, a distance that is equally present online as in the physical world. We turn to the social media platform Reddit, because its platform affordances, especially its 'subreddit' communities, up/down voting, and peer-moderation lead to not only queer supportive communities but also spaces filled with virulent hate speech. We identify the subreddit <i>SuddenlyGay</i> with the most interaction between queer and mainstream users by using social network analysis on billions of Reddit posts. We examine how users on <i>SuddenlyGay</i> make meaning around sexual conduct using qualitative content analysis. We find that meaning making is often collaborative, especially when focused on bodies and shared pleasure. In contrast, when posts reference ideological political divides, users fall back on inherited meanings of sexuality and sexual conduct. The findings contribute to understandings of how meanings around sexuality develop and what contexts lead toward collaborative meaning-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147844554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Breaking the Silence: Navigating the Complexities of Coming Out in the Lives of Black Men.","authors":"Whitney Howard, Zantel Nichols","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2026.2663831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2026.2663831","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coming-out is a continuous process within LGBTQ communities, involving self-recognition and identity disclosure in the presence of family and friends, shaped by journeys of self-acceptance and by societal attitudes that significantly influence the dynamics of identity affirmation. This study employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine the fictional, scripted online series \"About Him,\" produced by Signal 23, which depicts four queer Black men, Damien, Vincent, Kendall, and Justin, navigating identity development, community expectations, and public perception through the journey of coming-out. Drawing on the intersection of queer and color critique, this analysis examines how visual framing, dialogue, and narrative sequences construct Black queer disclosure as a negotiation within racialized, heteronormative systems. The exploration of the intersection between self-acceptance and identity affirmation within the coming-out process, using data analysis, was examined across 13 episodes of season 1. The findings reveal that the series frames coming-out not simply as personal authenticity, but as a strategic process shaped by masculinity performance, cultural dynamics, identity concealment, and resistance, functioning not as narrative failures but as adaptive responses to intersecting pressures. By centering mediated representation in the study, it extends scholarship to demonstrate how fictional media texts actively participate in constructing LGBTQ lifestyles around Black male queerness. The exploration of the intersection between self-acceptance and identity affirmation within the coming-out process through data analysis was used from the series to answer two research questions: (1) How does the coming-out process contribute to self-discovery and identity development among individuals exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity? (2) How do societal attitudes and cultural factors influence the coming-out experiences of individuals identifying as gay? Furthermore, the analysis examined discourse and discursive practices through narrative and character depictions categorized into four key themes: (1) self-discovery, (2) identity development, (3) societal attitudes, and (4) identity concealment, as portrayed in the media landscape, which contribute to ongoing conversations about sexuality, representation of race, and masculinity in LGBTQ media scholarship.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147844584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Exploration of Inclusivity of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Midwifery Education. A Scoping Review.","authors":"Alicia Carey, Tameeka Mulquiney, Jayne Lawrence, Brian Sengstock, Alison Teate, Samantha Jakimowicz","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2026.2666209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2026.2666209","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sexual and gender diverse people accessing maternity services may face stigma and exclusion due to a lack of inclusive midwifery education. Traditional midwifery philosophy centers on women, often marginalizing those whose gender identities fall outside binary norms. Despite growing awareness of gender-affirming care, midwifery education remains poorly equipped to prepare students and professionals for inclusive practice. This scoping review examines how tertiary and clinical midwifery education prepares midwives and students to care for sexually and gender diverse people within maternity services. It identifies existing strengths, gaps, and opportunities for improvement, with the aim of informing educational, clinical, and policy reform in the Australian context. Using the Joanna Briggs Institute PCC framework and PRISMA-ScR guidelines, peer-reviewed literature from 2004 to 2026 was sourced from five databases. Twelve studies met inclusion criteria and were thematically analyzed. Three key themes emerged: Gaps in curricula on sexual and gender diversity; The role of identity, communication, and emotional safety; and The need for inclusive, respectful clinical environments. Educational content was fragmented, inconsistently delivered, and underpinned by cis-heteronormative assumptions. These findings highlight a critical gap in educator preparedness and curriculum design. In the absence of inclusive education, midwives may be inadequately equipped to provide affirming care, thereby perpetuating existing disparities. Urgent reform across curricula, professional development, and policy is required to promote equitable maternity care for sexual and gender diverse people.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-30"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147844507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Looking for Alternative Sexual Desire Across History: Connectivity as the Ontological Basis of Sexual Orientation.","authors":"Marco Sassaro","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2026.2654812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2026.2654812","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on Miranda Fricker's \"hermeneutical marginalization\" and Martin Meeker's \"sexual communication network,\" this article retraces how the adoption and therefore the existence of queer identities are predicated on the availability of alternative models of understanding sexuality. \"Loci of increased human connection,\" such as cities, media, and the Internet, are recognized as disseminators of hermeneutical resources and catalysts for \"sexual communication networks.\" By following this throughline, this article provides a framework for the social ontology of sexual orientation that is intended to be usable across history. The author renegotiates the debate about the applicability of sexual orientation lingo to queer pre-modern history by iterating on William Wilkerson's emerging fusion theory of sexual identity. Sexual orientation is a self-interpretation of desires, which emerge, or remain hermeneutically marginalized, under the available social models that are specific to each society (and time). Historiography, in this way, can realistically enquire about sexual preference in its search for \"gay history\"; particular focus must be put, however, on \"loci of increased human connection,\" because they are the most likely sites where hermeneutically underserved desires might emerge explicitly as alternative social categories. These alternative categories might have lived only in limited contexts before the invention of modern communication technologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147822312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Great, you're Still a Cop\": Rainbow Perspectives of New Zealand Police.","authors":"Tristan van der Velden, Ti Lamusse","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2026.2663835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2026.2663835","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article outlines the findings of research about rainbow people's perspectives on New Zealand's Police. It analyses 11 semi-structured interviews with rainbow people in New Zealand. First, participants reflected on what they saw as the role police play in New Zealand society. Some felt that police played an important role in maintaining the status quo relations of power, while others saw them playing a public safety role. Participants also expressed frustration with what they saw as police misunderstandings of rainbow people's needs, in relation to justice. While some participants were positive about police's adoption of rainbow \"image work,\" sometimes criticized as \"pinkwashing,\" most felt that efforts, alongside the introduction of diversity liaison officers remained tokenistic. Finally, the participants, who all had experiences interacting with police as a victim, bystander or alleged offender, expressed reservations about reporting any future victimization to police. While they saw a limited set of circumstances in which they would do so, many spoke to the lack of trust and understanding that underpinned their previous experiences. The article paints a complex and contradictory picture about rainbow people's perceptions of New Zealand police and challenge the assumption that New Zealand remains a bastion of progress on rainbow rights.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147786078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Queer Nightlife in Costa Rica (1984-2024): Documenting the Rise and Decline of LGBTIQ+ Bars in the Global South.","authors":"Óscar Mario Jiménez Alvarado","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2026.2654809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2026.2654809","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article documents and analyzes the evolution of queer nightlife in <i>Costa rica</i> between 1984 and 2024. Drawing on an original archival dataset constructed from 158 issues of seven LGBTIQ+ magazines and complemented with journalistic and cartographic sources, the study identifies 103 establishments oriented toward sexual and gender dissidents. The longitudinal inventory reveals changing patterns of growth, stabilization, and decline in the number of venues over four decades. While a contraction of establishments has also occurred in <i>Costa Rica</i>, the data indicate a temporal trajectory distinct from that documented in the Global North. Rather than an early boom followed by a long decline, <i>Costa Rica</i> experienced a later expansion during the mid-1990's and a subsequent contraction beginning in the 2010's. The findings also reveal a distinctive spatial configuration. Alongside the historical concentration of venues in San José, queer nightlife developed in tourism-driven enclaves such as Quepos and Tamarindo, small coastal towns where international tourism fostered unexpected hubs of queer sociability. These results suggest that processes often described as the \"death of the gay bar\" may unfold differently in Global South contexts and may reflect broader shifts in the spatial and organizational forms of queer nightlife.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147786143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Doing Justice to Guy Hocquenghem: Desire, Politics and the Struggle Beyond Identity.","authors":"Srđan Đurđević","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2026.2659676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2026.2659676","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article reexamines the political and theoretical project of Guy Hocquenghem, a key yet often misread figure of post-1968 radical thought. Moving beyond the standard reception that limits him to early gay liberation, I argue that Hocquenghem elaborates a sustained critique of identity, community, and normalization that remains urgently relevant today. Through a close engagement with Anti-Oedipus, I show how his analysis of homosexual desire operates as a critique of Oedipal subjectivation and as a precondition for revolutionary politics. The article then revisits the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (FHAR) as a \"war machine\" whose collective experimentations-rather than any doctrine-embodied a politics of desire irreducible to identity affirmation. In the mid-1970s, Hocquenghem turned this critique against emerging gay normalizations, consumerist cultures, and legalist politics, defending instead the minoritarian force of delinquent homosexuality. Finally, I explore his late writings on foreignness, where desire becomes a transversal movement that unsettles national, sexual, and subjective boundaries. Hocquenghem's work, I contend, offers conceptual tools that challenge contemporary queer politics oriented around recognition and fixed or additive conceptions of identity (including certain reductive uses of intersectionality), insisting on a politics of alterity, drift, and desubjectivation. Re-reading Hocquenghem today is not an antiquarian exercise but a way to rethink the politics of sexuality beyond identity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147786060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring How Cannabis Use Featured in the Mental Health Experiences and Daily Lives of Queer, Non-Binary, and Trans Youth in the Early Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study in Canada.","authors":"Kira London-Nadeau, Sophie McKenzie, Anna Carson, Olivier Ferlatte, Rod Knight, Pierre-Julien Coulaud","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2026.2654058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2026.2654058","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated mental health and substance use inequities among youth, less is known about how queer, non-binary and transgender (QNT) youth in Canada experienced changes in cannabis use and mental health during the pandemic. This mixed-methods study explored the relationship between cannabis use, mental health, and experiences with the COVID-19-related public health measures among QNT youth. Between July 2020 and June 2021, we surveyed 178 QNT youth (18-30) across Canada and interviewed 30 QNT youth from British Columbia to examine their experiences with cannabis use and mental health. Descriptive analyses showed that 63.6% of the survey participants increased cannabis use during the pandemic. This subgroup was more likely to experience negative physical and mental health challenges (feeling tired, anxious) and used cannabis for mixed purposes. Thematic analysis of interviews revealed that while participants used cannabis to cope with stress and boredom, they also carefully balanced its harms and benefits, as COVID-19 disrupted their daily lives. Our findings illustrate how QNT youth adapted their cannabis use in response to pandemic-related changes. Future research should explore how youth intentionally adapt their cannabis use to address mental health and other broader emotional needs (e.g. disconnecting from work).</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147723943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cinematic Witnessing as Queer-Affirmative Expressive Arts Practice: A Phenomenological Study of Vicarious Healing Among LGBTQIA+ Elders in India.","authors":"Sonia David, Anupama Sadasivan","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2026.2654810","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00918369.2026.2654810","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the therapeutic and expressive potential of queer-themed Indian cinema as an arts-based intervention for LGBTQIA+ elders with trauma histories, positioning film-viewing as a structured modality of reflective witnessing and vicarious healing. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological design, the research engaged 12 LGBTQIA+-identified elders (six trans women and six cisgender gay men), aged 60-73 years in India to explore how \"mirror scenes\" in cinema activate emotional resonance, memory retrieval, and identity integration. Narrative data from two rounds of in-depth interviews revealed four cross-cutting thematic clusters, Quiet Survival, Reclaiming Worth, Healing Mirrors, and Chosen Kinship, demonstrating how film functions as a psychologically containing, aesthetically mediated space for meaning-making. Grounded in intersectionality, affect theory, queer-affirmative trauma frameworks, and expressive arts therapy, the findings illustrate how cinematic encounters support affect regulation, narrative re-authoring, and embodied self-recognition. The study also highlights how caste, class, gender identity, and historical criminalization under Section 377 shape viewers' readiness for and access to media-based healing, with trans Dalit elders articulating cinema as both an emotional refuge and a site of political affirmation. Overall, the research contributes an empirically anchored model for integrating film into creative arts therapies, offering a culturally responsive conceptual pathway for trauma-informed elder mental health practice within similar socio-cultural contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"In-Between\" Heterotopia and \"Other\" Spaces: Queer(y)ing Select South Asian Diasporic Poetics on YouTube.","authors":"Saher Bano, Sarbani Banerjee","doi":"10.1080/00918369.2026.2650692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2026.2650692","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines the digital media platform YouTube as the \"other,\" heterotopic and liminal space that enables the articulation of queer South Asian diasporic subjectivities otherwise marginalized within normative socio-cultural frameworks. Through analyzing select YouTube poems by Alok Vaid-Menon and Fatimah Asghar, the paper situates YouTube digital poetics as alternate spaces of resistance, metaphor of \"in-between\" and/or \"elsewhere\" that deconstruct the (hetero)normative narratives of South Asian diasporas, and global queer discourses. Diasporic queer poetry on YouTube exemplifies transnational, transcultural, and transgressive geopolitics as alternative \"safe spaces\", cultivating networks of queer belonging while simultaneously problematizing essentialist and homogenizing understandings of identity. Drawing on recent scholarships on queer platformization of digital media spaces (YouTube), the paper highlights how YouTube queer poetry resists assimilation/sublation into totalizing meta-narratives, instead reclaiming space for a queer self that thrives on fragmentation and multiplicity. Further, the queer subjectivities embodied in these poems embrace their deterritorialized, and fluid positionalities, reveling in \"disorientation\", alterity, and (un)belonging. Through deliberately rupturing socio-constructionist notions of authority, these poetic performances engender \"alternative hermeneutics\" of South Asian diasporic queer subjectivities, transnational connectivities, and resistance, thereby remapping diasporic geopolitics through digital queer poetics.</p>","PeriodicalId":48221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Homosexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-34"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}