Journal articles: 'Gay 'scene''

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Calder, Bill. "Gay Lifestyle Publications: Drawing the Crowds to Grow the Bar Scene." Media International Australia 156, no. 1 (August 2015): 39–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1515600106.

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This article argues that the rapid expansion of Australia's gay bar scene from the late 1970s was aided by the parallel development of a new media genre: the gay lifestyle publication. The reason for this was a powerful synergy that existed between the publicity needs of the bar scene and the editorial, distribution and revenue needs of the lifestyle magazines. Conversely, the lack of such a synergy between the internet and the bars today can be seen as contributing to the recent decline of gay bars in Australian cities.

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Rowlett, Benedict. "Under bright lights: gay Manila and the global scene." Asian Studies Review 40, no. 4 (May 2016): 640–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2016.1178096.

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Grant, Joanna. "Sexology Makes the Scene: Writing the Modernist Gay Bar." English Language Notes 45, no. 2 (September 1, 2007): 113–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00138282-45.2.113.

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Jaspal, Rusi. "Coping with perceived ethnic prejudice on the gay scene." Journal of LGBT Youth 14, no. 2 (February 2, 2017): 172–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2016.1264907.

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Bassi, Camila. "Riding the Dialectical Waves of Gay Political Economy: A Story from Birmingham's Commercial Gay Scene." Antipode 38, no. 2 (March 2006): 213–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00577.x.

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Kirby, Tony, and Michelle Thornber-Dunwell. "High-risk drug practices tighten grip on London gay scene." Lancet 381, no. 9861 (January 2013): 101–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(13)60032-x.

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Andersson, Johan. "East End Localism and Urban Decay: Shoreditch's Re-Emerging Gay Scene." London Journal 34, no. 1 (March 2009): 55–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174963209x398144.

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Whisnant, Clayton J. "Styles of Masculinity in the West German Gay Scene, 1950-1965." Central European History 39, no. 3 (September 2006): 359–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938906000136.

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Since the end of the 1990s, the study of masculinity within German scholarship has made considerable progress, especially in moving beyond the close association made between German manhood and militarism.1 While the figure of the soldier remains crucial for an understanding of masculinity in Germany (as well as the rest of the Western world) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, scholars have increasingly recognized that any culture includes multiple definitions and representations of manhood—even one so thoroughly saturated by the figure of the soldier as Germany was during the Nazi era.2 Increasingly, the goal of research has been to uncover how masculinity is not only represented in official discourse, but also constructed through social interaction and “performed,” to use Judith Butler's term, in the context of everyday life. Moreover, this research has increasingly taken into account “the relations between the different kinds of masculinity,” in the words of the sociologist Robert Connell—especially the relationships of power.3 In short, recent work has increasingly recognized that the meanings of manhood are constructed within a complicated socio-cultural matrix of gender whose points of reference include not only women and cultural definitions of femininity, but also various versions of masculinity that themselves very often reflect class distinctions and other kinds of social fissures.

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Miskolci, Richard. ""Discreet and out of the gay scene" - notes on contemporary sexual visibility." Cadernos Pagu, no. 44 (June 2015): 61–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4449201500440061.

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Based on an ethnography with men that use digital media in search of same sex partners in São Paulo, Brazil, this paper discusses what motivates their use of technological platforms. It also employs sociological and historical elements to reflect upon the social aspects of desire that fuel this search and the new visibility regime in which these men live. Finally, it analyses the moral, symbolic and material restrictions that mold an economy of desire demanding their discretion and secrecy.

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Simpson, Paul. "Perils, Precariousness and Pleasures: Middle-Aged Gay Men Negotiating Urban ‘Heterospaces’." Sociological Research Online 17, no. 3 (August 2012): 124–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2665.

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Based on interviews with 27 gay men aged 39 - 61 living in Manchester, this article examines how middle-aged gay men are differentiated and negotiate relations in heterosexually defined spaces. I focus on what informants’ accounts of relations in these ‘heterospaces’ say about middle-aged gay men's responses to homophobia. I argue that ‘ageing capital’ is implicated in subjects’ accounts that capitulate to, negotiate with and challenge heteronormativity. First, the normativity of certain heterospaces could compel self-censoring/‘de-gaying’ of the self. Middle-aged gay men were differentiated by others who claim greater legitimacy within them. Second, informants differentiated themselves through involvement with heterosexual friends from ghettoised ‘scene queens.’ This ambivalent claim to difference could deny inequality and reinforce homophobia. Third, the normativity of heterospaces was thought to offer freedom from the ageist gay gaze, allowing expression of more ‘authentic’ aspects of the midlife-aged self.

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Agnes, Ladya Lieggiana, and Riris Loisa. "Representasi Gay Melalui Penggunaan Warna (Analisis Semiotika Video Klip Color Mnek)." Koneksi 2, no. 2 (May 9, 2019): 417. http://dx.doi.org/10.24912/kn.v2i2.3918.

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Video klip merupakan media yang dengan mudah memberi pengaruh atau menyalurkan pesan-pesan ideologis kepada khalayak. Video sering digunakan sebagai alat untuk mengkonstruksi isu-isu salah satunya isu mengenai Lesbian, Gay, Biseksual, dan Transgender (LGBT). Penelitian ini membahas mengenai representasi gay melalui penggunaan warna dalam video klip “Color” MNEK. Penelitian ini menggunakan beberapa teori, diantaranya teori representasi, video klip, warna, gender, budaya. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif deskriptif untuk mendapatkan pembahasan yang mendalam mengenai objek yang diteliti, dengan menggunakan analisis Semiotika Jacques Derrida yang merupakan metode pembongkaran suatu pemikiran rasional. Dalam melakukan penelitian ini, penulis melakukan screenshoot pada beberapa scene video klip Color MNEK yang menunjukkan representasi gay lewat penggunaan warna. Dapat ditarik kesimpulan bahwa warna merepresentasikan kaum gay melalui makna yang sengaja dibangun oleh kaum gay berdasarkan sifat warna tersebut yaitu merah muda terang mewakili seksualitas, merah mewakili kehidupan, orange penyembuhan, kuning keajaiban, hijau alam, turquoise keajaiban, indigo ketenangan dan ungu semangat. Warna-warna tersebut diadopsi oleh kaum gay untuk menunjukkan bahwa keberadaan kaum gay menjadi pelengkap yang menunjukkan adanya keberagaman dalam sosial masyarakat.

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Valentine, Gill, and Tracey Skelton. "Finding oneself, losing oneself: the lesbian and gay 'scene' as a paradoxical space." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27, no. 4 (December 2003): 849–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00487.x.

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Lea, Toby, John de Wit, and Robert Reynolds. "“Post-Gay” Yet? The Relevance of the Lesbian and Gay Scene to Same-Sex Attracted Young People in Contemporary Australia." Journal of Homosexuality 62, no. 9 (April 30, 2015): 1264–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2015.1037139.

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Trofimov, Victor. "Ambivalent Sexualities in a Transnational Context." Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities 1, no. 2 (September 1, 2020): 64–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jbsm.2020.010207.

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Abstract In this article, I explore negotiations of sexualities among Romanian and Bulgarian migrant male sex workers in Berlin. After explaining the concept of sexual script, I argue that inasmuch as those sex workers work on the gay male scene but spend the rest of their daily lives within the broader Romanian and Bulgarian communities, they need to negotiate between the gay male and the heteropatriarchal sexual scripts, which are prevalent in these social spaces, respectively. I examine six strategies by means of which the sex workers surf the binarisms of the scripts and in so doing reveal the ambivalence and sociospatial situatedness of human sexuality.

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McDowell, David. "Gay Men, Lesbians and Substances of Abuse and the “Club and Circuit Party Scene”." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy 3, no. 3-4 (December 29, 2000): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j236v03n03_04.

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Ridge, Damien, David Plummer, and David Peasley. "Remaking the masculine self and coping in the liminal world of the gay ‘scene’." Culture, Health & Sexuality 8, no. 6 (November 2006): 501–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691050600879524.

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Gadavanij, Savitri. "Gender Identification in Language Other than Mother-Tongue: A Case of Non-Thai Listeners Deciphering a Thai Male Speaker’s Gender." MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities 24, no. 1 (June 14, 2021): 126–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-02401005.

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Abstract This paper explores what factors contribute to distinguishing gay sounding and straight man sounding speech; linguistic cognate or social knowledge and whether the gender of listeners also determines ability in identification. To answer these questions, 286 participants were classified by nationality into 3 groups of participants: Thai listeners as a control group, Zhuang, and Other listeners. They were asked to listen to 12 voice stimuli in Thai from straight and gay men and identify the gender of the speakers. The outcome revealed that the accuracy rate in identifying a speaker’s gender varied among the 3 groups of listeners with Thai listeners scoring the highest in gender identification, followed by the Others and Zhuang respectively. This indicates that social knowledge gained from one’s presence Thailand is more important than linguistic cognate. Gender identification may have been made based on the expectation of the ‘typical’ social scene such as the high visibility of gay men in Thailand. The results also suggest that gender of the listeners does not have a significant bearing on the ability to differentiate gay and straight male voices.

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Imboden, Roberta. "The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares)." Film Quarterly 58, no. 3 (2005): 48–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2005.58.3.48.

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Abstract The Barbarian Invasions presents a gigantic virtual playground in the real world of a dying man: a ring of former lovers, gay friends, a heroin-addicted young woman, an alienated son, all brought together by an ex-wife——this is the scene of Denys Arcand's film. Then there occurs the miracle of transformation that moves beyond a truth no one can understand. The only alternative is to embrace the mystery.

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Cant, Bob. "Facilitating Social Networks among Gay Men." Sociological Research Online 9, no. 4 (November 2004): 89–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1018.

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Social networks are increasingly recognised as being beneficial to health and wellbeing. This paper, drawing from a qualitative study into health services targeted at gay men in London, explores the facilitation by service providers of social networks among gay men. Networks are dependent upon reciprocity among their participants and the study examines how shared narratives can generate a sense of the reciprocity that contributes to the development of networks. The networks discussed here promote instrumental support or communication or emotional well-being or a combination of those. The paper explores the diversity of narratives among the thirty eight gay male service users who were informants to this study. While narratives around experiencing same sex desire, encountering social isolation and making decisions about coming out were articulated by all these informants, there were other organising principles in their lives which also shaped their narratives and their decisions about whom they shared these narratives with. The paper focuses on the development of social networks among three groups of gay men: young South Asian men accessing HIV prevention services, men seeking to give up smoking in relation to their experiences in the commercial venues which constitute the gay scene and carers of gay men and lesbians suffering from a chronic disease. The paper seeks to generate opportunities for reflection about the means to promote health and well-being among members of this marginalised population group.

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Zebracki, Martin. "Urban preservation and the queerying spaces of (un)remembering: Memorial landscapes of the Miami Beach art deco historic district." Urban Studies 55, no. 10 (June 19, 2017): 2261–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098017709197.

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Based on a case study on Miami Beach’s acclaimed iconic art deco architectural district, this article critically dovetails intersecting hegemonic spaces of preservation, memorial practices and social and sexual identities. It argues how commemorative narratives are selectively encrypted in the local urban environment and its artefacts deemed of historical significance. It especially reveals the tensions arising between art deco (i.e. architectural) preservation and gay (i.e. social) urban preservation, as well as its under-studied largely entrepreneurial nature and attraction for a mainstream, cosmopolitan class under neoliberalism. Drawing from extensive archival, policy, observational, participatory and interview data over 2013–2015, the article revisits in historical perspective how the art deco area, incarnated in the 1920s, developed across class-, ethnicity-, religion- and age-inflected social fragmentations and how this legacy, from the late-1970s onward, segued into the local gay-led preservation movement and select commemorations of the art deco scene. To this background, the study employs the tenet of ‘queerying’ to address the under-researched coalescing frictions in preservation between perceived authentic and engineered trajectories of (gay) place (re)makings alongside reminiscences selected over others. The findings uncover and challenge (un)intentional ‘(un)rememberings’ of the local early history and the recent past, where socially fragmented fault lines and the more recent gay-led preservation track remain overly homogeneously imprinted in dominant preservation communications and performance.

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McMains, Juliet. "Rebellious Wallflowers and QueerTangueras: The Rise of Female Leaders in Buenos Aires’ Tango Scene." Dance Research 36, no. 2 (November 2018): 173–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2018.0237.

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This paper interrogates the history of same-sex dancing among women in Buenos Aires' tango scene, focusing on its increasing visibility since 2005. Two overlapping communities of women are invoked. Queer tangueras are queer-identified female tango dancers and their allies who dance tango in a way that attempts to de-link tango's two roles from gender. Rebellious wallflowers are women who practice, teach, perform, and dance with other women in predominantly straight environments. It is argued that the growing acceptance of same-sex dancing in Argentina is due to the confluence of four developments: 1) the rise of tango commerce, 2) innovations of tango nuevo, 3) changing laws and social norms around lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, and 4) synergy between queer tango dancers and heterosexual women who are frustrated by the limits of tango's gender matrix. The author advocates for increased alliances between rebellious wallflowers and queer tangueras, who are often segregated from each other in Buenos Aires' commercial tango industry.

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Hope, V. D., and C. MacArthur. "Acceptability of clinics for sexually transmitted diseases among users of the "gay scene" in the West Midlands." Sexually Transmitted Infections 73, no. 4 (August 1, 1997): 299–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sti.73.4.299.

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Ross, J. D., and M. Shahmanesh. "Acceptability of clinics for sexually transmitted diseases among users of the "gay scene" in the West Midlands." Sexually Transmitted Infections 73, no. 6 (December 1, 1997): 580. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sti.73.6.580-a.

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Meccia, Ernesto. "¿Quién Teme al Espejo? Una Polémica Sociológica en Torno a Cómo los Gays Ven el Envejecimiento Gay." Research on Ageing and Social Policy 4, no. 1 (January 30, 2016): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/rasp.2016.1723.

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<div><p>Our aim is to analyze different representational forms of gay ageing by old gays. We will draw on aspects related to various theoretical viewpoints and enhance them by presenting empirical evidence with a critical approach. Thus, we will delve into the theory of competence in crisis, some theories of adjustment and resilience, the theory of fast aging, and last, the theory of minority stress. Our reflection is focused on aging experienced by gays who have witnessed social changes as from the 70s, taking into account they represent a turning point in gay subjectivity formed by contrasting representational repertoires, some deriving from an old homosexuality pattern in which they socialized primarily and others from the gay model fostered, generically, after the Stonewall uprising. From the methodological point of view, the texts of the authors considered representative of the theories mentioned are crossed. Then, each was busy trying to point out their particular strengths and limitations providing primary data (interviews) and secondary (statistics on perceptions and interviews). In conclusion, it is noted that there have been contrasting situations in the aging process based on heterogeneous analysis variables, including: sexual identity, the scene of identity (areas of healthcare are clearly regressive to show the gay identity) and, among others, by the features that subjects allocated to institutional environments within which developed his biography.</p></div>

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Cameron-Gardos, Paris. "Hand-out: Rethinking coming out in Flemish audio-visual culture." Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 23, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 337–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/tvgn2020.4.002.came.

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Abstract Bavo Defurne’s film Noordzee, Texas (2011) provides a unique cultural object with which to re-examine the discourses concerning queer representation in Flemish audio-visual media, the normative acceptance of the Flemish LGBTQ+ community, and the importance of coming out narratives. Vanlee (2019) and Vanlee, Dhaenens, and Van Bauwel (2020) argue that the banal representations of queer identity in Flemish television has privileged normative discourses about both sexuality and Flemish identity. In the film, coming out both takes place and never occurs. The deathbed scene presents coming out as a moment of disorientation from the normative. Sara Ahmed’s (2006) concept of disorientation is employed as a tool to help develop a pluralistic definition of coming out that takes into account the endless repetition and adaptability of the act in practice. The scene illuminates the vulnerability of conventionally saturated notions of coming out, being out, and gay identity. The film’s narrative, and its Flemish roots, serve as analytical tools to help better understand how coming out can be enacted in a manner that forces the audience to re-evaluate how identities are formed and adopted.

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McDowell, David. "Gay men, lesbians and substances of abuse and the “club and circuit party scene”: What clinicians should know." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health 3, no. 3 (2000): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2000.9962221.

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McLellan, Josie. "From Private Photography to Mass Circulation: The Queering of East German Visual Culture, 1968–1989." Central European History 48, no. 3 (September 2015): 405–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938915000813.

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AbstractThis article describes how a particular kind of queer figure moved from private photography into the mainstream of East German visual culture. It begins with a set of private photographs from the late 1960s from the collection of Heino Hilger, a regular, with his friends, at the East Berlin bar Burgfrieden. The photographs show how dressing in drag and the act of photography were important ways of constituting a gay male subculture. After the decriminalization of sex between men in 1968, the gay scene became bolder and more political in East Germany. The subversion of gender norms was central to the activism of groups such as the Homosexual Interest Group Berlin (HIB) and Gays in the Church. The visibility of the queer figure culminated in the late 1980s, when parts of the film Coming Out were filmed in Burgfrieden and when the popular monthly Das Magazin published a three-part feature on male homosexuality. What all these cultural artifacts and events had in common was not just a critique of the heterosexual norm, but also a queering of the boundaries between masculinity and femininity.

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Alexander, Kathryn. "Politely Different: Queer Presence in Country Dancing and Music." Yearbook for Traditional Music 50 (2018): 187–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.5921/yeartradmusi.50.2018.0187.

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I walked into the Round-Up Saloon and stood transfixed by the scene out on the dance floor. Surrounded by a wooden corral, the sleek and shining floor was filled with couples taking wide, gracefully fluid steps. Clad in immaculate cowboy hats, crisp work shirts tucked into jeans, and of course boots, the men spinning together around the floor were to me an entirely new form of queer dance. The comfortable intimacy of their bodies was unlike the bump and grind of the dance I was used to encountering at urban American gay bars, and the DJ's musical selections kept well away from pop divas and electronic dance music. At urban gay bars like Dallas' Round-Up Saloon and at other non-bar venues, queer two-step and line dancing, and country music itself, offers space for a performative queerness that counterbalances not only mainstream perceptions of country music and dance as heterosexualized and antagonistic towards other sexualities, but expands understandings of queer dance practice as well. In this article, I draw on my fieldwork in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I spent six months in 2016 and 2017 learning to two-step and line dancing with an LGBT country dance organization.

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Moore, Clive, and Bryan Jamison. "Queensland's Criminal Justice System and Homosexuality, 1860–1954." Queensland Review 14, no. 2 (July 2007): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600006589.

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Contemporary Queensland has a flourishing GLBTIQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) scene which, although still suffering from discrimination in a society that is premised around a heterosexual norm, is a far cry from the years before 1990 when male homosexuality was a criminal offence. The queer generation has largely moved beyond binaries in gender and sexuality, and at dance parties there is a blending of cultures that knows few of the old boundaries. These new freedoms to express sexuality mean that relationships develop more easily with less fear of opprobrium. Classified advertisements in newspapers and on the internet, sex-on-premises venues and cybersex are all available to facilitate physical desires and as ways of meeting a possible future partner. Yet if one were to survey young gay men today, how many would know that between 1900 and 1990 a sodomy conviction could carry a prison sentence of up to 14 years with hard labour? Or that engaging in ‘gross indecency’ in public or private (usually oral sex or masturbation) could receive three years with hard labour? How many would know that the death penalty for sodomy was removed in 1865 or that between that year and 1899 the sentence for anal intercourse was 10 years to life imprisonment?

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Sornito, Christina Verano. "Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene by Bobby Benedicto. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 248 pp." American Anthropologist 118, no. 2 (June 2016): 418–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aman.12589.

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Borchard, Kurt. "Pulsing." Qualitative Inquiry 23, no. 7 (September 2017): 509–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800417718289.

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I first learned about the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, through the television. Popular news anchors provided “on the scene” reporting. I saw interviews with officials, with those present at the shooting, and with families and friends of victims. The media narrative unfolded against a visual backdrop of the club, almost always a great distance off, blocked by police cars and tape. I thought hard about that distance. I felt the repetition of the information, the personalization of the event through “selfie” photos of individual victims, and the witness accounts emphasizing the ringing of cell phones in the silence following the rampage. Reporters discussed the killer’s radical politics and his use of social media during his killing spree. Beyond these details of an emergent tragedy, though, was a well-rehearsed, overly familiar narrative frame. A recurring spectacle now grows less and less spectacular.

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PRATT, NICOLA. "The Queen Boat case in Egypt: sexuality, national security and state sovereignty." Review of International Studies 33, no. 1 (January 2007): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210507007346.

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The government’s targeting of homosexuality in May 2001, following years of ‘turning a blind eye’ to Cairo’s gay scene, is studied here in terms of the links between the sphere of interpersonal relations and notions of national security within international relations. The persecution of men for alleged same-sex relations not only filled newspaper columns and created a spectacle to divert people’s attention away from the government’s failings. More importantly, the event represented an opportunity for government officials, the media and other civil society activists – both within Egypt and abroad – to ‘perform’ a discourse of national security through which national sovereignty was (re)produced and political order was maintained. However, this national security threat was not only posed by the external threat of Western governments, international NGOs and other transnational actors concerned with respect for human rights within Egypt. More importantly, this threat was constructed as originating with those people failing to conform to the ‘norm’ of heterosexual relationships.

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Storkmann, Klaus. "“Moral Execution of a General”." International Journal of Military History and Historiography 37, no. 2 (October 14, 2017): 173–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24683302-03702003.

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Four-Star-General Günter Kießling (1925–2009) was the highest-ranking West German general in nato and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. His dismissal due to false accusations that he was homosexual came in late summer 1983, at the height of the conflict over the deployment of new intermediate-range missiles in Europe. Eventually, the Military Counterintelligence Service was ordered to conduct investigations in the Cologne gay scene. The Minister of Defence ordered to suspend the general from active duty without military honours in December 1983. Kießling decided not to retire quietly but to fight for his honour. Since nothing that “incriminated” Kießling was found, the minister altered course completely. The major issue raised by the Kießling scandal later centred around the question of who was to “blame” for it. And finally, an East German agent at the top of the West German Military Counterintelligence Service, who had been compromised in 1990, was another person to blame, as he had an almost ideal role of the evil.

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Tyminski, Robert. "Misreading Narcissus." International Journal of Jungian Studies 8, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 159–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19409052.2016.1201776.

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ABSTRACTThis article explores the myth of Narcissus as told by Ovid. The author examines why one scene in the story became the focus for the term ‘narcissism’, which has been extrapolated to become a theoretical concept as well a diagnosis. Closer reading of the myth suggests this may have been a distortion. Narcissus as a mythological figure may tell us more about late male adolescence than we have given him credit for. Freud’s paper ‘On Narcissism’ is contrasted with Jung’s views on libido. One legacy of the way in which Freud conceptualized narcissism was to pathologize the development of gay men and women. Two cases are presented to show an alternative understanding of sexual development for young men in mid and late adolescence. The author proposes that a dawning awareness of feminine aspects of sexuality can be experienced as a kind of potentially harmful ‘flowering’, about which young men can feel considerable shame and anxiety.

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Lawson, Jamie, and Darren Langdridge. "History, culture and practice of puppy play." Sexualities 23, no. 4 (March 22, 2019): 574–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719839914.

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In this article we explore the history, culture and practice of the phenomenon known as ‘puppy play’. Puppy play is a practice in which people take on the persona of a dog (or handler), with participants often wearing specialist gear to further enhance the experience of being a puppy. We argue that puppy play is best understood sociologically as a ‘postmodern-subculture’ (Greener and Hollands, 2006). Additionally, we use Irwin's (1973) model of scene evolution to explore the socio-history of the community. Whilst this practice appears to have its historical roots within the highly sexual gay leatherman subculture, there is a division within this community between sexual and social play, with some participants eschewing the sexual entirely. We explore possible reasons for this split through an analysis using recent political theory concerning technologies of the self, sexual citizenship and BDSM. Through this analysis we contribute valuable empirical evidence to debates and discussion about the development of sexual subcultures and tensions therein concerning claims for rights and the ‘politics of respectability’ (Cruz, 2016a, 2016b).

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DeAnn Seifert, Melissa. "Who’s got the “Reel” power? The problem of female antagonisms in blaxploitation cinema." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 4 (December 21, 2012): 4–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.4.01.

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Between 1973 and 1975, films starring Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson such as Cleopatra Jones (Jack Starrett, 1973), Coffy(Jack Hill, 1973) and Foxy Brown (Hill, 1974) introduced leading black women into the predominantly male blaxploitation scene as aggressive action heroines. Within the cinematic spaces of blaxploitation films which featured women as active agents, a racial and sexual divide exists. These films positioned women either inside or outside of gender tolerability by utilising binary constructions of identity based on race, sex and elementary constructions of good and evil, black and white, straight and gay, and feminine and butch. Popular representations of lesbianism and sisterhood within blaxploitation cinema reflect a dominant social view of American lesbianism as white while straight women are consistently represented as black. However, these spaces also constricted black and white female identities by limiting sexuality and morality to racial boundaries. This article seeks to question the unique solitude of these female heroines and interrogate a patriarchal cinematic world where sisterhood is often prohibited and lesbianism demonised.

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Guo, Jie. "The Male Dan at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century." Prism 18, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 70–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8922201.

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Abstract Reading the Taiwanese author Wu Jiwen's 1996 novel Fin-de-siècle Boylove Reader (Shijimo shaonian’ai duben), this essay considers the age-old figure of the male dan and the critical role it played in the emerging gay scene in the Sinophone world at the turn of the twenty-first century. Based on the Qing author Chen Sen's novel Precious Mirror for the Appreciation of Flowers (Pinhua baojian), Wu's version resorts to the figure of the male dan, often referred to as xianggong, to explore male same-sex intimacies, which were gaining increasing visibility in the 1990s Sinophone world. While scholars generally agree that the male dan in Wu's novel bears considerable resemblance to the figure of the contemporary gay man, some read the ending of Wu's novel, where the two protagonists, Mei Ziyu and Du Qinyan, part ways, as representing a compromise. I contend that this “unhappy ending” points to Wu's most radical departure from Chen's novel. The original novel's ending, where Ziyu lives happily ever after with both his wife and Qinyan, reaffirms the centrality of the “polygamous” patron-patronized relationship in the late imperial imagination of male-male relations. In contrast, the failed relationship between Ziyu and Qinyan in Wu's version points to the obsoleteness of the xiangong system, as well as the polygamous mode in the 1990s, which required new modes, categories, and symbols for the imagination of male same-sex relationships. Arguing that in this novel forces past and present, local and global converge, the author uses it to explore the larger question of how to approach the queer Sinophone.

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Lea, Toby, Robert Reynolds, and John de Wit. "Alcohol and Club Drug Use Among Same-Sex Attracted Young People: Associations With Frequenting the Lesbian and Gay Scene and Other Bars and Nightclubs." Substance Use & Misuse 48, no. 1-2 (November 5, 2012): 129–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2012.733904.

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HOPE, V. D., and C. MACARTHUR. "Safer sex and social class: Findings from a study of men using the 'gay scene' in the West Midlands Region of the United Kingdom." AIDS Care 10, no. 1 (February 1998): 81–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713612345.

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Jennings, Rebecca. "Lesbian Spaces: Sydney, 1945-1978." Sydney Journal 4, no. 1 (October 23, 2013): 168–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/sj.v4i1.2818.

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Asking ‘What is lesbian Sydney?’ and ‘Where is it?’, this article traces the shifting spaces and places of lesbian Sydney in the first decades after the Second World War. In the 1940s and 1950s, when camp bars were overwhelmingly male, lesbians enjoyed a very limited public presence in the city. Many women created lesbian spaces in isolation from a wider community, discreetly setting up house with a female partner and gradually building up a small network of lesbian friends. Groups of women met in each other’s homes or visited the parks and beaches around Sydney and the Central Coast for social excursions. By the 1960s, lesbians were beginning to carve out a more visible public space for themselves at wine bars and cabaret clubs in inner suburbs such as Kings Cross, Oxford Street and the city, and the commercial bar scene grew steadily through the 1970s. However, the influence of feminist and lesbian and gay politics in the 1970s also prompted a rethinking of lesbian spaces in Sydney, with well-known lesbian collective houses challenging older notions of private space and political venues such as Women’s House and CAMP NSW headquarters constituting new bases for lesbian community.

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CORBISIERO, FABIO, and SALVATORE MONACO. "THE RIGHT TO A RAINBOW CITY: THE ITALIAN HOMOSEXUAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS." Society Register 4, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/sr.2020.4.4.03.

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Nowadays, the legal status of homosexual people varies widely from one country to another (ILGA 2019). In many contexts, the homosexual social movement has played a central role in fighting heterosexism and homophobia (Weinberg 1983). Especially in the democratic world, the homosexual social movement has been capable of spreading solidarity and inclusion and also of leading changes in regulatory terms, with different results context by context (Adam, Duyvendak, Krouwel 1999). The paper aims to point out the Italian situation and the main characteristics of the gay social movement in Italy as key factors of the social change. More specifically, the paper is aimed at recounting the political process and the symbolic and cultural factors that led the Italian homosexual social movement to impose itself on the social scene as a reality with its own specific identity. The paper’s last section analyses the so-called “Italian rainbow cities”, urban contexts where the LGBT community is highly concentrated and in which it is so active as to stimulate, in cooperation with the local urban administrations, capacity-building processes oriented to the construction and consolidation of LGBT people’s rights and social inclusion.

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Potnis, Abhishek V., Surya S. Durbha, and Rajat C. Shinde. "Semantics-Driven Remote Sensing Scene Understanding Framework for Grounded Spatio-Contextual Scene Descriptions." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 10, no. 1 (January 13, 2021): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10010032.

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Earth Observation data possess tremendous potential in understanding the dynamics of our planet. We propose the Semantics-driven Remote Sensing Scene Understanding (Sem-RSSU) framework for rendering comprehensive grounded spatio-contextual scene descriptions for enhanced situational awareness. To minimize the semantic gap for remote-sensing-scene understanding, the framework puts forward the transformation of scenes by using semantic-web technologies to Remote Sensing Scene Knowledge Graphs (RSS-KGs). The knowledge-graph representation of scenes has been formalized through the development of a Remote Sensing Scene Ontology (RSSO)—a core ontology for an inclusive remote-sensing-scene data product. The RSS-KGs are enriched both spatially and contextually, using a deductive reasoner, by mining for implicit spatio-contextual relationships between land-cover classes in the scenes. The Sem-RSSU, at its core, constitutes novel Ontology-driven Spatio-Contextual Triple Aggregation and realization algorithms to transform KGs to render grounded natural language scene descriptions. Considering the significance of scene understanding for informed decision-making from remote sensing scenes during a flood, we selected it as a test scenario, to demonstrate the utility of this framework. In that regard, a contextual domain knowledge encompassing Flood Scene Ontology (FSO) has been developed. Extensive experimental evaluations show promising results, further validating the efficacy of this framework.

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Maimunah, Maimunah. "The Negotiation Between Queer Spectatorship and Queer Text on Riri Riza’s Soe Hok Gie." ATAVISME 13, no. 1 (June 30, 2010): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.24257/atavisme.v13i1.140.1-13.

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The emergence of young generation filmmakers who are more confident in depicting gender and sexual issues after the Soeharto era (1998), significantly changes the construction of sexual diversity in 2003-2006 Indonesian films. One of the considerable phenomena is the personal experience and social commitment to support sexual minorities such as gay and lesbian issues. At the same time Indonesian queer communities strive to read the discourse of homosexuality in different way. Physical contact and even intimacy between persons of the same-sex, in both public and private spaces, was common practice in Indonesian cultures, and did not carry any suggestion of homoerotic desire. In this Riri Riza’s film, Soe Hok Gie, however, cinematic technique, narrative and dialogue all contribute to an eroticising of same-sex relationships that is particularly perceptible in cultures that previously regarded physical and emotional interactions between persons of the same-sex as unremarkable. This article based on Benshoff and Griffin’s (2006) theory on queer film. Abstrak: Perkembangan film Indonesia setelah tumbangnya rezim Soeharto menunjukkan adanya fenomena di kalangan sutradara muda untuk mengeksplorasi tema tentang gender dan seksualitas. Isu tentang seksual minoritas seperti seksualitas gay dan lesbian adalah salah satu ciri yang cukup menonjol dalam film-film yang diproduksi setelah tahun 2003. Pada saat yang sama, penonton queer (seksualitas nonnormatif) terutama yang berasal dari komunitas queer membaca scene sebuah film terutama yang menampilkan kontak fisik dan keintiman antara orang-orang sesama jenis dengan cara yang baru. Dalam tradisi budaya Indonesia, kontak fisik dan keintiman itu tidak diterjemahkan dalam sebuah hubungan homoerotika . Pembacaan yang berbeda ditunjukkan pembaca dalam film Soe Hok Gie karya Riri Riza. Artikel ini menggunakan teori Queer Film yang dikemukakan oleh Benshoff dan Griffin (2006). Kata-Kata Kunci: queer spectatorship, homoerotisisme, Soe Hok Gie

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Braun, Kerstin, Thomas Cleff, and Nadine Walter. "Rich, lavish and trendy." Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management 19, no. 4 (September 14, 2015): 445–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfmm-10-2014-0073.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to research lesbian fashion consumption in order to draw conclusions on the attractiveness of the lesbian target segment for the fashion industry. So far, lesbians’ fashion consumption behaviour has hardly been researched. However, an evinced lesbian stereotype exists which describes doctrinal feminists with an antipathy against consumption in general and fashion shopping in particular. In contrast, gay men have been identified quite contrary as an attractive market segment and marketers have started to particularly target this so-called “dream market”. Design/methodology/approach – First, qualitative semi-structured interviews (n=18) were conducted to gain first insights into fashion consumption behaviour of lesbians. Second, a quantitative online survey (n=879) was carried out to generate more detailed findings. Due to the difficult reachability of the homosexual consumer target group, the segment’s high online media affinity was used and data collection was conducted through popular German homepages targeted to homosexuals (esp. “queer.de” and “lesarion.de”). The research investigated fashion-consciousness, willingness to pay, brand-affinity, and openness to homosexual marketing. In addition, influencing factors – such as the affinity towards the homosexual scene, career orientation, income, age, status of coming out, and number of inhabitants of the city of residence – have been researched. Findings – Results prove that lesbians are an equally attractive and financially interesting market segment for fashion marketers as gays. Lesbians have a similarly high fashion-consciousness and willingness to pay, and an even higher brand-affinity – but a lower openness to homosexual marketing than gays. Especially scene-affine femme lesbians with a high-paid professional career are a highly attractive market segment. The study proves the attractiveness of the lesbian target segment for fashion marketing and debunks the myth of the consumption-averse lesbian stereotype. Practical implications – This paper provides evidence on the attractiveness of the lesbian market segment for the fashion industry. Due to its size and financial attractiveness, the question whether to target lesbians with a specifically adopted marketing mix should be raised. Originality/value – Research on lesbians’ fashion consumption behaviour in general is very scarce and on fashion consumption behaviour in particular is almost non-existent. This study is a first attempt to analyse the major areas of fashion consumption for the German market.

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Liu, Yongmei, Tanakrit Wongwitit, and Linsen Yu. "Automatic Image Annotation Based on Scene Analysis." International Journal of Image and Graphics 14, no. 03 (July 2014): 1450012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219467814500120.

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Automatic image annotation is an important and challenging job for image analysis and understanding such as content-based image retrieval (CBIR). The relationship between the keywords and visual features is too complicated due to the semantic gap. We present an approach of automatic image annotation based on scene analysis. With the constrain of scene semantics, the correlation between keywords and visual features becomes simpler and clearer. Our model has two stages of process. The first stage is training process which groups training image data set into semantic scenes using the extracted semantic feature and visual scenes constructed from the calculation distances of visual features for every pairs of training images by using Earth mover's distance (EMD). Then, combine a pair of semantic and visual scene together and apply Gaussian mixture model (GMM) for all scenes. The second stage is to test and annotate keywords for test image data set. Using the visual features provided by Duygulu, experimental results show that our model outperforms probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) & GMM (PLSA&GMM) model on Corel5K database.

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Wanjiku Mung’ala, Lucy, and Anne de Jong. "Health and Freedom: The Tense Interdependency of HIV/AIDS Interventions and LGBTIQ Activism in Kenya." Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research 6, Summer (June 1, 2020): 133–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.36583/2020060114.

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In recent decades in Kenya, public health interventions to address the HIV vulnerability of sex workers and men who have sex with men have been accompanied by a rise in gender and sexual minority (hereby also interchangeably referred to as LGBTIQ) activist initiatives that frame access to healthcare, legal recognition, and social acceptance as a human right. Complementing long-term engagement and ethnographic research among sexual minorities in Kenya, in addition to fieldwork stints between 2016-2018, the authors analyzed online statements regarding priorities and strategies of LGBTIQ organizations (local and global) and legal case files. We examine one case in which transgender and intersex plaintiffs objected to the name and mission of an NGO working towards equality and full inclusion of sexual and gender minorities because it incorporated the words gay and lesbian while applying for its official registration and it would include trans and intersex in the organization’s mission. As such, the politics of naming, identity, and representation are neither new nor exclusive to Kenyan LGBTIQ activism. This case and related files reflect the everyday interactions of groups with seemingly conflicting goals, showing them to be part of a rich, connected “niche activist” scene. Rather than take this as a rigid split between activist organizations, we argue that these tensions are historically rooted in – and form a microcosm of – the politics of the global NGOization of both healthcare access and human rights advocacy in Kenya.

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Zhang, Suiyun, Zhizhong Han, Yu-Kun Lai, Matthias Zwicker, and Hui Zhang. "Stylistic scene enhancement GAN: mixed stylistic enhancement generation for 3D indoor scenes." Visual Computer 35, no. 6-8 (May 6, 2019): 1157–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00371-019-01691-w.

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Peng, Jian, Xiaoming Mei, Wenbo Li, Liang Hong, Bingyu Sun, and Haifeng Li. "Scene Complexity: A New Perspective on Understanding the Scene Semantics of Remote Sensing and Designing Image-Adaptive Convolutional Neural Networks." Remote Sensing 13, no. 4 (February 17, 2021): 742. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13040742.

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Scene understanding of remote sensing images is of great significance in various applications. Its fundamental problem is how to construct representative features. Various convolutional neural network architectures have been proposed for automatically learning features from images. However, is the current way of configuring the same architecture to learn all the data while ignoring the differences between images the right one? It seems to be contrary to our intuition: it is clear that some images are easier to recognize, and some are harder to recognize. This problem is the gap between the characteristics of the images and the learning features corresponding to specific network structures. Unfortunately, the literature so far lacks an analysis of the two. In this paper, we explore this problem from three aspects: we first build a visual-based evaluation pipeline of scene complexity to characterize the intrinsic differences between images; then, we analyze the relationship between semantic concepts and feature representations, i.e., the scalability and hierarchy of features which the essential elements in CNNs of different architectures, for remote sensing scenes of different complexity; thirdly, we introduce CAM, a visualization method that explains feature learning within neural networks, to analyze the relationship between scenes with different complexity and semantic feature representations. The experimental results show that a complex scene would need deeper and multi-scale features, whereas a simpler scene would need lower and single-scale features. Besides, the complex scene concept is more dependent on the joint semantic representation of multiple objects. Furthermore, we propose the framework of scene complexity prediction for an image and utilize it to design a depth and scale-adaptive model. It achieves higher performance but with fewer parameters than the original model, demonstrating the potential significance of scene complexity.

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Peng, Feifei, Wei Lu, Wenxia Tan, Kunlun Qi, Xiaokang Zhang, and Quansheng Zhu. "Multi-Output Network Combining GNN and CNN for Remote Sensing Scene Classification." Remote Sensing 14, no. 6 (March 18, 2022): 1478. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14061478.

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Scene classification is an active research area in the remote sensing (RS) domain. Some categories of RS scenes, such as medium residential and dense residential scenes, would contain the same type of geographical objects but have various spatial distributions among these objects. The adjacency and disjointness relationships among geographical objects are normally neglected by existing RS scene classification methods using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this study, a multi-output network (MopNet) combining a graph neural network (GNN) and a CNN is proposed for RS scene classification with a joint loss. In a candidate RS image for scene classification, superpixel regions are constructed through image segmentation and are represented as graph nodes, while graph edges between nodes are created according to the spatial adjacency among corresponding superpixel regions. A training strategy of a jointly learning CNN and GNN is adopted in the MopNet. Through the message propagation mechanism of MopNet, spatial and topological relationships imbedded in the edges of graphs are employed. The parameters of the CNN and GNN in MopNet are updated simultaneously with the guidance of a joint loss via the backpropagation mechanism. Experimental results on the OPTIMAL-31 and aerial image dataset (AID) datasets show that the proposed MopNet combining a graph convolutional network (GCN) or graph attention network (GAT) and ResNet50 achieves state-of-the-art accuracy. The overall accuracy obtained on OPTIMAL-31 is 96.06% and those on AID are 95.53% and 97.11% under training ratios of 20% and 50%, respectively. Spatial and topological relationships imbedded in RS images are helpful for improving the performance of scene classification.

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Bau, David, Jun-Yan Zhu, Hendrik Strobelt, Agata Lapedriza, Bolei Zhou, and Antonio Torralba. "Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 48 (September 1, 2020): 30071–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907375117.

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Deep neural networks excel at finding hierarchical representations that solve complex tasks over large datasets. How can we humans understand these learned representations? In this work, we present network dissection, an analytic framework to systematically identify the semantics of individual hidden units within image classification and image generation networks. First, we analyze a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on scene classification and discover units that match a diverse set of object concepts. We find evidence that the network has learned many object classes that play crucial roles in classifying scene classes. Second, we use a similar analytic method to analyze a generative adversarial network (GAN) model trained to generate scenes. By analyzing changes made when small sets of units are activated or deactivated, we find that objects can be added and removed from the output scenes while adapting to the context. Finally, we apply our analytic framework to understanding adversarial attacks and to semantic image editing.

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