Journal articles: 'Homosexuality and art'

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Easton, Richard. "Canonical Criminalizations: Homosexuality, Art History, Surrealism, and Abjection." differences 4, no. 3 (November 1, 1992): 133–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10407391-4-3-133.

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Zhang, Wanrong. "The Daoist Art of the Bedchamber of Male Homosexuality in Ming and Qing Literature." Religions 15, no. 7 (July 12, 2024): 841. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15070841.

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The Daoist art of the bedchamber (fangzhong shu 房中術) constitutes a form of cultivation practice with the objective of promoting health and longevity through sexual techniques, generally applied within heterosexual contexts. However, with the evolution of male homosexuality culture during the Ming and Qing dynasties, depictions of the art of the bedchamber related to male homosexuality emerged in the literature of that era. This art was imaginatively traced back to Laozi and his disciple Yin Xi 尹喜. The sources explained the beneficial outcomes of these techniques by referring to classical Chinese cosmology: underage males were considered to have yin energy in their bodies, a condition similar to that in females, aligning with the fundamental principles of the heterosexual art of the bedchamber. Serving as a religious interpretation of emerging cultural trends rather than representing a new cultivation technique, this fictive art legitimizes homosexual practices among males, particularly those adhering to Daoism.

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Van der Lee, Jolanda. "Bezield door gedeelde afkeer." Religie & Samenleving 11, no. 2 (September 1, 2016): 122–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.54195/rs.12208.

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On an international conference in Amsterdam in 1901, criminologist Arnold Aletrino explained the newest theory on homosexuality, which stated that it was not a disease or perversion, but an innate, ‘natural’ phenomenon. This theory shocked important politicians among whom Dutch prime minister Abraham Kuyper, who therefore started a political debate on legislation on homosexuality. Ultimately this debate led to art. 248 bis of the Dutch Penal Code in 1911 that prohibited – under certain circumstances – ‘indecency’ between people of the same sex. In this article I discuss how between 1901 and 1911 the aversion to homosexuality was so obvious in the Netherlands for almost everyone, that right-wing politicians could deploy the existence of the new theory on homosexuality as a stick to beat the left-wing dog. Confessional politicians used it as a means to prove that the Christian ‘Free University’ should be entitled to award academic degrees and to illustrate the dangers of public libraries and of the plans for change in the judicial system. Socialists and Liberals had no defence against this weapon, because they shared the moral judgment on homosexuality with the right-winged politicians. Therefore, in the political debate on the ‘anti-gay-article’, the dispute was not about what Troelstra called “the abhorrence of homosexuality that we all share”, but whether legislation on homosexuality was appropriate.

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Solomon, Howard M., and James M. Saslow. "Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society." American Historical Review 93, no. 1 (February 1988): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1865781.

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Schneider, Laurie, and James M. Saslow. "Ganymede in the Renaissance. Homosexuality in Art and Society." Art Bulletin 69, no. 4 (December 1987): 653. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3051007.

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Arya, Rina. "Constructions of Homosexuality in the Art of Francis Bacon." Journal for Cultural Research 16, no. 1 (January 2012): 43–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2011.633836.

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Jackowiak, Adrianna. "Poetyka (nie)wyrażalnego pożądania, czyli zarys historii powie- ści gejowskiej w Polsce na tle socjologiczno-kulturowym." Studia Europaea Gnesnensia, no. 10 (January 1, 2014): 169–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/seg.2014.10.9.

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The aim of the paper is to show the history of Polish gay novel and explain the very term. However, the essence of the research problem is not the history itself, but drawing attention to the need of adopting a multidimensional perspective in the deliberations concerning homosexuality in general (including gay novel). An interdisciplinary approach to the issue enables one to make observations concerning the impact of social and political realities on literature, while at the same time to analyse a work of art as a statement in public debate on homosexuality and homosexuals.

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Delille, Damien F. "Symbolist Androgyny: On the Origins of a Proto-Queer Vision." Arts 13, no. 3 (May 20, 2024): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts13030090.

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This article focuses on artistic and aesthetic practices within the idealist and symbolist movements of the late 19th century in France. It investigates how artists and art critics embraced androgynous imaginaries derived from Greco-Roman antiquity and the Platonic myth, transforming them into tools for social and sexual emancipation and giving rise to a proto-queer vision. An analysis of the art of Alexandre Séon, Odilon Redon, Jeanne Jacquemin, and Léonard Sarluis, in conjunction with the symbolist theories of Joséphin Péladan, Gabriel-Albert Aurier, and Émile Verhaeren, reveals an idealistic pursuit grounded in the union of the masculine and the feminine through the act of creation. Through the examination of artworks, contemporary critical discourse, and the personal correspondence of these art figures, this study posits that the androgyne serves as a heuristic model for a queer art history. The ideal androgyne, as theorized in Freud’s psychoanalytic writings, can function as a methodological paradigm in art studies as a tool for visualizing and conceptualizing homosexuality in art.

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Abdo, Carmita H. N. "STATE OF THE ART SUMMARIES: Homosexuality: From Conception to Treatment." Journal of Sexual Medicine 3 (March 2006): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2006.00177.x.

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Stoneley, Peter. "Young Men and the Symmetrical Life." New England Quarterly 87, no. 2 (June 2014): 191–227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00367.

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Denman Waldo Ross (1853–1935), professor at Harvard, was one of the most influential American art theorists and collectors of the early twentieth century. Drawing on archival texts and images, this essay places Ross's innovative work within its contexts of Platonic theory, racial anthropology, and homosexuality.

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Miller, D. A. "On the Universality of Brokeback." Film Quarterly 60, no. 3 (2007): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2007.60.3.50.

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ABSTRACT Critics of Ang Lee's gay-themed Western may or may not condone homosexuality, but they agree on one point:this movie of cowboys in love is well made.The essay unpacks what this perception implies about Lee's craft, as an art of reticence and a politics of neutrality.

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Eisler, Colin. "In Review: JAMES M. SASLOW, GANYMEDE IN THE RENAISSANCE: HOMOSEXUALITY IN ART AND SOCIETYGANYMEDE IN THE RENAISSANCE: HOMOSEXUALITY IN ART AND SOCIETY. JAMES M. SASLOW." Source: Notes in the History of Art 6, no. 3 (April 1987): 34–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/sou.6.3.23202320.

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No authorship indicated. "Review of Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society." Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews 31, no. 10 (October 1986): 820. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/024199.

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Stoneley, Peter. ""The Fellows from the Fogg": Modernism, Homosexuality, and Art-World Authority." New England Quarterly 84, no. 3 (September 2011): 473–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00112.

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The spread of modernist painting in the early-twentieth-century United States was met with cries of "degeneracy" and "homosexual conspiracy." This essay explores the claims and counter-claims. Above all, Stoneley argues that the battles reflected larger shifts in art-world authority, with the museums and the "museum professional" emerging as controlling forces.

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Kellerová, Nina, and Eva Reid. "Motifs of homosexuality in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando." Ars Aeterna 13, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 75–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2021-0012.

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Abstract To avoid the stigma of societal dissaproval, love for somebody of the same sex has often been hidden from the declinatory views of the public; however, it has also been secretively transcribed into a broad spectrum of art. Virginia Woolf embroidered her homosexuality into the grotesque lines of Orlando. At the time, Woolf was engaged in an intense lesbian relationship with author Vita Sackville-West, who served as a model for the work’s main character. Woolf proclaimed her masterpiece “A Biography”, mirroring the duality of her own and Vita’s character, the perpetual beauty of the book’s hero, enduring for centuries, and his subtle gender transition. In the paper, we discuss some of the homosexual motifs in Orlando, which were formed by different influences, including the queer movement, ancient Greek literature and feminism.

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McCaffrey, Enda. "An Existentialist Epistemology of the Closet: Sexuality and Art in Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le métro." Nottingham French Studies 51, no. 2 (July 2012): 175–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2012.0018.

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This article explores how Sartean existentialism can be used to explain the sexual orientation of the main character Gabriel in Raymond Queneau's Zazie dans le métro. Drawing firstly on the novel's rich and broader philosophical roots, the article proceeds to engage with the philosophy of existentialism as a way of highlighting Gabriel's attempts to conquer himself, champion a morality of action and commitment over secular morality, and give meaning to his sexuality through concepts of choice, situation, authenticity and artistic creation. Gabriel's monologues take him out of the conversational currency of the récit's structure and into a philosophical mode of thinking. In these instances, Queneau's sub-codes and intertextual references to Sartrean existentialism gesture towards an existentialist breakthrough where Gabriel's existence is seen to coalesce with a discrete ‘coming out’ narrative that predates the politics of power, gender and identity construction of the 1970s and beyond. The situatedness and literariness of Gabriel's homosexuality is textual; this textuality is played out existentially in the way his homosexuality as verbal utterance/reality is continually deferred and connected critically to signifiers of Sartrean humanism, intersubjectivity and transcendence.

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Filice, Eugenio. "Book Review: Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art." Sexualities 8, no. 1 (February 2005): 116–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/136346070500800113.

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Vanover, Ty. "Sex, Sign, Subversion: Symbolist Art and Male Homosexuality in 19th-Century Europe." Arts 13, no. 3 (June 5, 2024): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts13030103.

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There is something queer about Symbolism. Art historians have long acknowledged the links between Symbolist aesthetics and contemporaneous ideas about human sexuality, and even a cursory examination of artworks by male Symbolist artists working across the continent reveals an eyebrow-raising number of muscled nudes, lithe ephebes, and intimate male couplings. The sensual male body could register the artist’s erotic desire, even as he put it forth as an idealized emblem of transcendental truth. But perhaps Symbolism’s queerness extended beyond subject matter. Scholars have argued that Symbolism was in part defined by a subversive approach to visual semiotics: a severing—we might say a queering—of the ties binding a sign to its established cultural meaning. Similarly, male homosexual subcultures were sustained by endowing established signs and pictures with a uniquely queer significance. This paper seeks to tease out the relationship between Symbolist aesthetics and male homosexuality in terms of a shared sensibility towards pictorial interpretation. Taking as a case study the work of the Swedish Symbolist artist Eugène Jansson, I argue that Symbolism held appeal for homosexual artists precisely because queer subcultures were primed to read subversive meaning into normative pictures. Offering a new reading of Symbolism’s sexual valences, I contextualize the movement’s attendant artworks within the broader cultural landscape of homosexual signs and symbols and articulate the parallels between Symbolist approaches to the image and queer modes of seeing in the late nineteenth century.

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Bonsor, Jack A. "An Objective Disorder: Homosexual Orientation and God's Eternal Law." Horizons 24, no. 2 (1997): 193–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900017138.

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AbstractRecent declarations by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith have disallowed any effort to rethink the tradition's negative evaluation of homosexuality. Citing Thomas Aquinas, the CDF appeals to eternal law as an important warrant for its position. Homosexual orientation is an objective disorder. It is an inclination to intimacy which violates God's design for human sexuality. This claim excludes further consideration of the topic. This study examines Aquinas' claim to know God's eternal law. At the heart of Aquinas' argument is the simile that creation is like a human artifact and God like an artist. When we know the work we know the Artist's intent. Heidegger's hermeneutical account of the work of art suggests that Aquinas has overlooked the historical grounds for the relationship between artist and artifact. Aquinas has the simile wrong. If Heidegger's approach is a reasonable alternative to that of Aquinas, then a space is opened within Catholic discourse to rethink the question of homosexuality.

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Jindra, Miroslav. "Homosexual parenthood in children’s literature." Acta Univeristatis Lodziensis. Folia Librorum 1, no. 28 (June 25, 2019): 105–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0860-7435.28.05.

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Homosexuality in children’s literature is still a controversial topic in many countries of the world. Not only are people afraid to talk about this theme with children, they do not know how. The history of this topic in children’s literature dates back to the 80s of the 20th century, when the first books were published. In 20th century, human society went through many changes which were reflected in all the fields of art (theatre, fine arts, literature, etc.). Writers had a need to familiarise children readers with ‘taboo topics’ such as homosexuality, death, drugs, etc. They wanted to introduce homosexuals as ordinary men and women, who live their own lives with their joys and worries. Today, we can find three main themes in children’s literature: coming out, the life of homosexuals and homosexual parenthood. Each theme has its own specifics and typical reader age group of children or youth. This characterisation can help us to deeper identify the topic. The literature offers children and youth better and easier cognition of the world with its differences. The aim is to learn about the history of homosexuality in children’s literature and go deeper into its individual themes, especially homosexual parenthood. Children need to know everything about life and have no taboos. Why are we afraid to talk about it?

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de Jesus Douglas, Eduardo. "The Colonial Self: Homosexuality and Mestizaje in the Art of Nahum B. Zenil." Art Journal 57, no. 3 (1998): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/777965.

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de Jesús Douglas, Eduardo. "The Colonial Self: Homosexuality and Mestizaje in the Art of Nahum B. Zenil." Art Journal 57, no. 3 (September 1998): 14–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00043249.1998.10791888.

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Casey, Kathryn, and Emmanuel Cooper. "The Sexual Perspective: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West." Woman's Art Journal 19, no. 1 (1998): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1358658.

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Cooper, Emmanuel. "The Sexual Perspective: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54, no. 1 (1996): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/431690.

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Eaton, David C., and E. Cooper. "The Sexual Perspective: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West." Studies in Art Education 29, no. 3 (1988): 315. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1320816.

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Morrison, Jeff. "The Discreet Charm of the Belvedere: Submerged Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century Writing on Art." German Life and Letters 52, no. 2 (April 1999): 123–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0483.00125.

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Mašát, Milan. "Christian Motives in Selected Works with Homosexual Themes in Czech Literature." Journal of Language and Literature 23, no. 2 (October 9, 2023): 310–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/joll.v23i2.6354.

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The main aim of the paper is to highlight the relationship between Christianity and homosexuality based on selected fiction texts by Czech writers and poets (Zeyer, Fuks, Kuběna, Georgiev). The selected authors represent different historical periods and different currents of opinion. We are convinced that the theoretical part provides a suitable methodological basis for the part of the paper in which we discuss homosexual motives in selected works of the mentioned authors. To sum up, we can state that the explicit expression of homoerotic and other motives is only relevant today; in artistic narratives dating back to the 19th and 20th centuries, these symbols are expressed in a hidden way, and it is up to each recipient to decide whether and to what extent they see them in these narratives. Zeyer could not fully express himself; he was forced to use hidden symbols to be who he felt he was, at least in his works. Kuběna, in the context of the 1970s, treats the topic of homosexuality very openly, he is not afraid of being condemned by society. Fuks´ works are characterized by a considerable degree of autobiography. Despite Georgiev´s clear rejection of faith, a believing homosexual appears more than once in his work. In this paper we try to fill a certain gap in the field of comparative research in works of art and poems by authors who in some way tended to homosexuality because within the Czech context, we have encountered this area of scholarly articles sporadically.

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Blanchard, Mary W. "The Soldier and the Aesthete: Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Gilded Age America." Journal of American Studies 30, no. 1 (April 1996): 25–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800024300.

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The aftermath of civil strife, note some historians, can change perceptions of gender. Particularly for males, the effect of exhaustive internal wars and the ensuing collapse of the warrior ideal relegates the soldier/hero to a marginal iconological status. Linda L. Carroll has persuasively argued, for instance, that, following the Italian wars, one finds the “damaged” images of males in Renaissance art: bowed heads, display of stomach, presentation of buttocks. In fact, male weakness and “effeminacy” can, notes Linda Dowling, follow on the military collapse of any collective state. Arthur N. Gilbert argues, in contrast, that historically in wartime, male weakness in the form of “sodomites” was rigorously persecuted. From 1749 until 1792, for instance, there was only one execution for sodomy in France, while, during the Napoleonic Wars, the period of 1803–14, seven men were executed. Such analysis suggests that, in the aftermath of civil wars, cultural attitudes toward effeminate or homosexual men shifted from suppression or persecution during martial crisis to one of latitude and perhaps tolerance in periods following the breakdown of the military collective.The aftermath of America's Civil War, the decades of the 1870s and 1880s, provides a testing ground to examine attitudes toward the soldier/hero and toward the effeminate male in a time of social and cultural disarray. At this time, an art “craze,” the Aesthetic Movement, captured popular culture. Aestheticism, seen in the eighteenth century as a “sensibility,” had, by the nineteenth century, an institutional base and a social reform ideology.

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Nwosimiri, Ovett. "How the idea of change has meddled with African cultural practices and the African sense of community." Arụmarụka: Journal of Conversational Thinking 2, no. 1 (October 3, 2022): 24–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ajct.v2i1.2.

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The idea of change seems to be a vital part of human life and culture. With the concept of change, people, communities, and cultural practices have significantly evolved. Change has transformed some communities, traditions, cultural values and practices, communication methods, education, art, and literature. Thus, in this paper, I focus on the idea of change, African cultural practices, and the African sense of community. I aim to show how the concept of change has meddled with African cultural practices and the African sense of community. I intend to achieve this by using the Ifá divination system, the idea of storytelling, and homosexuality or the LGBTIQA+1 people as examples.

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Kiedroń, Stefan. "21 perspectieven om Nederland te bekijken." Neerlandica Wratislaviensia 34 (December 29, 2023): 173–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0860-0716.34.12.

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The latest book by Piotr Oczko, Pocztówka z Mokum. 21 opowieści o Holandii (Postcard from Mokum, 21 stories about Holland) is a very intriguing and very personal view of the Netherlands. This view, presented in 21 essays, shows a wealth of cultural layers in the past and in modern society: from art and poetry of the Golden Age, through architecture to homosexuality. In his book, Oczko also presents his personal view of the Polish society A.D. 2021, and expresses his ‘discomfort’ about it (to use the words of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld). Oczko’s Pocztówka... is not an ‘everyday’ book. Still, it is definitely worth reading.

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Roach, Lennox Carlos Encarnacao. "Can Queer Representations in Comedy Be Progressive in the Twenty-First Century?" Film Matters 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 109–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fm_00208_1.

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Oliva Wilde’s 2019 film garnered attention through the subversive conversation it placed on-screen effortlessly through the art of comedy. However, scholars Kathleen Battles and Wendy Hilton-Morrow write, “homosexuality can only be represented through heterosexist categories and language, while at the same time it is marked as a deviation from the norm,” this rocky navigation of queerness in heteronormative territories produces the heavy question of if comedy is progressive enough to contribute to the movement of the discourse on queerness. This article answers that question by performing a deep focus on the cinematography, character actions, behaviors, relationships as well as examining their environments that offer the pleasures of comedic and educational glimpses of queer theory on-screen.

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Price, Graham. "Quite an Other Thing: Recent Texts in ‘Irish Queer Studies’Books Reviewed: Caroline Magennis and Raymond Mullen (eds). Irish Masculinities: Reflections on Literature and Culture. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011. x+194 pages. £50.00 GBP.Aintzane Legaretta Mentxaka, Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings. North Carolina and London: McFarland and Company Inc, 2011. 290 pages. $45.00 USD.Fintan Walsh (ed), Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland. Cork: Cork UP, 2010. 276 pages. $55.00 USD.Éibhear Walshe, Oscar's Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland. Cork: Cork University Press, 2011. xi+149 pages. €39.00 EUR." Irish University Review 43, no. 1 (May 2013): 222–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2013.0065.

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This essay shall examine the relationship that exists between Irish studies and queer theory via a consideration of three recently published works, both academic and literary. The texts that shall be reviewed are: Eibhear Walshe's Oscar's Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland, Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka's Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings, and the new collection of plays, edited by Fintan Walshe, entitled Queer Notions. The association between Irishness and otherness (a connection explicitly stated by Oscar Wilde) means that the shadow of queerness haunts Ireland and Irish studies. The works being examined in this essay illuminate some of the forms (among many) ‘queer Irish studies’ can take.

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Stewart, Andrew. "A Journal for Manly Culture." Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada 57 (May 21, 2020): 85–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/pbsc.v57i0.32971.

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Published by Adolf Brand from 1896 until the rise of Nazism in 1933, Der Eigene was the world’s first homosexual periodical. This article will argue that although many of the ideals espoused in this publication are now considered at best distasteful and at worst inherently wrong and associated with Nazism, there areelements of the publication that are worthy of greater attention in the historiography. I will begin by exploring the publication itself, its ideals and goals, and how it sought to use art to accomplishthem. I will then suggest ways in which Der Eigene challenges our contemporary understanding of homosexuality by tracing clear links from ideas put forth by its contributors to elements of the modernLGBTQ community.

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van der Meer, Theo. "De invoering van art. 248bis Sr. in historisch perspectief." Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 22, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 249–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/tvgn2019.3.003.vand.

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Abstract In 1911, Dutch parliament changed and expanded the vice laws of the penal code. The most controversial change was the introduction of art. 248bis Sr., which created a specific age of consent (21) for homosexual contacts, while it remained 16 for heterosexual behaviour. According to Attorney General E.R.H. Regout, homosexuality was spreading rapidly, resulting from the seduction of minors between the age of 16 and 21. Referring to Greek pederasty, he claimed that adult homosexuals preyed almost exclusively on this age group. Once seduced, a minor would become a homosexual himself. Although a memorandum briefly mentioned that the new article would also apply to women, lesbian behaviour was not discussed at all during readings in parliament: originating from his previous role as public prosecutor, boys and young men were the minister’s sole concern.Most publications about 248bis Sr. are descriptive with a near self-evident focus on its repressive nature. This contribution also recounts the way in which Regout’s proposal was turned into law. Yet, based on a rereading of parliamentary papers, as well as on extensive archival research by the author, it raises questions viz-à-viz Regout’s concern over young males and its relationship to contemporary sexual folk knowledge and prevailing etiologies. Moreover, this article will argue that 248bis, aside from criminalising aspects of homosexual behaviour, also turned a disciplinary eye towards male adolescents at a time when puberty as a cultural construct began to emerge.

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Krishnan, Archana, Damian Weikum, Claire Cravero, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, and Frederick L. Altice. "Assessing mobile technology use and mHealth acceptance among HIV-positive men who have sex with men and transgender women in Malaysia." PLOS ONE 16, no. 3 (March 23, 2021): e0248705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248705.

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Background Mobile health (mHealth) can be beneficial in monitoring the complex healthcare regimen for people with HIV that includes adhering to medication and refraining from risky practices such as unsafe sex and injection drug use. Not only is mHealth often implemented without appropriate feasibility and acceptability research, but there is limited mHealth research among key HIV-positive populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW). Methods This study assessed access to and use of mobile technology and acceptability of mHealth among 150 HIV-positive MSM and TGW who were prescribed antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malaysia–an emerging economy with rapid telecommunications growth and societal stigma against these groups. Results Findings among the 114 MSM and 36 TGW reveal high levels of depression (42%), stigma (2.53/4.00) and risky sexual behavior (30%), and suboptimal ART adherence (22%). On the other hand, the sample had excellent access to smartphones (75.3%) and the internet (78%), and had high acceptance of mHealth especially for those with suboptimal ART adherence. Conclusion In settings like Malaysia where homosexuality and cross-dressing are socially and legally stigmatized, HIV prevention and treatment strategies delivered using an mHealth platform have the potential to overcome in-person barriers.

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Halperin, Paula. "Between Politics and Desire." Radical History Review 2020, no. 136 (January 1, 2020): 156–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-7857332.

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Abstract In 1994, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Fresa y Chocolate (1993) swept the awards at Brazil’s Gramado Film Festival. Founded in 1973, the festival was not only a platform for art-house films; Gramado had functioned as a space of creative freedom and resistance to censorship during the worst years of Brazil’s military regime (1964–85). Fresa y Chocolate was highly anticipated; it foregrounded a cluster of sensitive issues such as homosexuality, freedom of speech, and censorship, in a Cuba immersed in the so-called Special Period. This article examines the debates provoked by Fresa in Brazil, which had recently emerged from a long authoritarian regime and was confronting the implementation of neoliberal policies. Through Alea’s film, Brazilian critics and journalists discussed the themes advanced by “the Cuban case,” which struck a chord and ignited debate with the local public.

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Alckmin-Carvalho, Felipe, Henrique Pereira, António Oliveira, and Lucia Nichiata. "Associations between Stigma, Depression, and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Brazilian Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV." European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education 14, no. 6 (May 23, 2024): 1489–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe14060098.

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Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a complex and multi-determined process that is influenced by psychosocial variables. Although international studies have pointed to the adverse impact of HIV stigma, sexual stigma, and depression on ART adherence among men who have sex with men (MSM) with HIV, less is known about this association among Brazilians. We aimed to (a) evaluate indicators of depression, stigma related to HIV and homosexuality, and adherence to ART in a sample of Brazilian MSM living with HIV; (b) assess possible correlations between the variables analyzed, and (c) assess the impact of HIV and sexual stigma and depression on ART adherence. This cross-sectional study comprised 138 Brazilian MSM living with HIV as participants. Scales used included: a sociodemographic/clinical questionnaire, the questionnaire for assessment of adherence to antiretroviral therapy (CEAT-HIV), the Beck depression inventory (BDI-II), the internalized homophobia scale, and the HIV stigmatization scale. The mean adherence score was relatively high (78.83, within a range of 17–89 points). However, we observed inadequate ART adherence (CEAT-HIV < 75) in 28 (20.2%) respondents. Participants reported high scores for internalized sexual stigma, perceived sexual stigma in the community, and HIV stigma. Symptoms of depression were identified in 48.47% of participants. We found negative correlations between depression, HIV stigma, and treatment adherence, but not between sexual stigma and ART adherence. HIV-related stigma and sexual stigma were positively correlated with depression. Our regression analysis indicated that each year of age at diagnosis of HIV increased adherence by 0.22 points, on average. Each additional BDI-II score reduced adherence to ART by 0.20 points. The high prevalence of depression, HIV stigma, and sexual stigma, and their adverse effects on ART adherence and mental health, point to the need to implement evidence-based interventions to reduce sexual and serological stigma in the general population, as well as to mitigate the negative impacts of stigma on MSM living in HIV in Brazil. They also highlight the importance of periodically screening for these variables among MSM treated in Brazilian public health services, especially among those with inadequate adherence to ART.

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Han, Luyi. "Analysis of the artwork Murder by Jared French in the context of Christianity, Masculinity and Homosexuality." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 8 (February 7, 2023): 2271–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v8i.4688.

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This paper aims to explore the dilemma society imposed on the queer community by analyzing the artwork Murder by Jared French and exploring the connection between Christianity, homosexuality, and masculinity. Murder is one of the paintings displayed in The Young and Evil, a collection of artworks created by artists during 1930-the 1940s. The analysis is based on a review of relative materials and literature. The purpose of the review is to give an insight into the dilemma that queer community faced in the context of the era, thereby promoting people with queer identities to pursue equal rights and opportunities. This essay provided an in-depth overview of the art piece Murder. It concluded that this painting could be interpreted in two ways: The newborn, homoerotic Jesus murdered the Jesus that had been re-masculinized from the 1920s, and the subordinated masculinity murdered the hegemonic masculinity. This essay therefore suggests that while Murder exemplified the pursuit of renaissance techniques and homoeroticism other artists displayed in the exhibition, the artwork also encouraged the queer community to embrace their identity and not be confined by the restrictions from authorities.

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Van den Berg, Mariecke. "Zie de mens." Religie & Samenleving 11, no. 2 (September 1, 2016): 249–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.54195/rs.12214.

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This article analyzes the photo-exhibition Ecce Homo (1998) by Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin. In Ecce Homo, which depicts twelve moments from the life of Jesus Christ, traditional church art is mixed with the themes and symbols of contemporary LGBT-culture. In the article it is investigated, through a queer focus, whether Ecce Homo has the potential to destabilize the rather strict oppositional pairing of religion and homosexuality in contemporary debates in post-secular societies like Sweden. Based on a discussion of three works (The Annunciation, Palm Sunday and Calvary) it is argued that Ecce Homo connects traditional Christian motives such as the love for one’s neighbor, (self)sacrifice and charity to queer concepts such as the instability of gender and sexuality and the destabilizing potential of ‘darkness’ as an aesthetic theme. As queer and Christian concepts inform each other they are given meaning in relation to each other, thus indeed (for the most part) suggesting that queer and Christian themes are relevant to one another and sometimes overlap.

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Granez, Marcio Da Silva. "Da arqueologia à arquitetura: história e memória gay a partir da série “Hollywood”." Cambiassu: Estudos em Comunicação 16, no. 28 (December 28, 2021): 312. http://dx.doi.org/10.18764/2176-5111v16n28.2021.30.

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O artigo aborda a história e a memória das pessoas gays a partir da série “Hollywood” (2020). De cunho hermenêutico, a interpretação do objeto de análise parte da reflexão sobre comunicação, temporalidades, história, sonhos e sua relação com a obra de arte. Para tanto, interroga a cronologia dos fatos ligados à história da homossexualidade e sua relação com o imaginário gay, considerando o parâmetro temporal e o estético, para compreender a narrativa em sua dimensão factual e fictícia, amparando-se nas contribuições de Foucault (2007), Freud (2006) e Latour (2019). Como resultado, ressalta a temporalidade diferenciada da obra de arte e sua contribuição para a construção identitária dos gays.From archeology to architecture: history and gay memory from the “Hollywood” seriesAbstractThe article addresses the history and memory of gay people from the series “Hollywood” (2020). With a hermeneutic nature, the interpretation of the object of analysis starts from the reflection on communication, temporalities, history, dreams and their relationship with the work of art. Therefore, it interrogates the chronology of facts related to the history of homosexuality and its relationship with the gay imagination, considering the temporal and aesthetic parameters, in order to understand the narrative in its factual and fictional dimension, based on the contributions of Foucault (2007), Freud (2006) and Latour (2019). As a result, it highlights the differentiated temporality of the work of art and its contribution to the construction of gay identity.Keywords: Gay culture; memory; history; time; “Hollywood” series.

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Hanson, Josef. "Evolutionary Music Education: Robert W. Claiborne and The Way Man Learned Music (1927)." Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 41, no. 1 (July 27, 2018): 33–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1536600618790095.

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The purpose of this study was to explore and document The Way Man Learned Music (1927), a method written by lawyer, Marine captain, educator, and political leader Robert Watson Claiborne (1888–1966). Drawing influence from Ernst Haeckel and G. Stanley Hall’s theories of recapitulation, Claiborne designed a comprehensive and sequential method where students engage in primitive stages of music-making by building and playing their own instruments, including drums, pan pipes, and small marimbas. Storytelling, dance, folk music from around the world, and performance of authentic Western art music combine to form a dramatic rendering of global musical life. As such, the method bears a strong resemblance to the more widely celebrated contributions of Satis Coleman (1876–1961). Analysis of primary and secondary sources as well as interview data illuminated the complexity of Claiborne’s path to music education. Namely, Claiborne’s homosexuality, which formed the basis of an inconclusive court-martial trial impelling his departure from military service, complicated his ability to find work as a lawyer, spurring him to pursue music education. Although a product of its time, Claiborne’s method serves as a testament to active, experiential learning that is child-centered.

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Vuković, Dragomir. "Human and community between traditional and modern." Socioloski godisnjak, no. 5 (2010): 243–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/socgod1005243v.

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The focus of this paper is to analyze the relationship of two key phenomena that are equally important for both the man and the community: traditional, on which the identity of man and society is based and the modern (contemporary), which the individual and society is leaning towards. The overlap and the clash of these two complex processes of social and personal growth poses a key question in this paper: What is the relationship between traditional and modern in culture, art, business and politics? How does globalization affect the traditional society? Do the changes and social changes occurring due to development of science and technology, represent a negation of traditionalism? How do sociological disciplines and sciences observe and analyze these phenomena and how much help do they offer in understanding how the man and society cope with this very intensive process, which tends to be mainly generated from the USA? Globalization, mass culture, democracy and human rights (eg the promotion of homosexuality as a natural phenomenon and feminism as a new political movement) need to be analyzed while taking into the regard the relationship between two phenomena.

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Ruggiero, Guido. "James M. Saslow. Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society. New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 1986. xvi + 265 pp. $30." Renaissance Quarterly 40, no. 4 (1987): 787–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2862464.

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Scheid, Kirsten. "NECESSARY NUDES: ḤADĀTHA AND MUʿĀṢIRA IN THE LIVES OF MODERN LEBANESE." International Journal of Middle East Studies 42, no. 2 (April 13, 2010): 203–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743810000024.

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In his studio in Beirut in 1929, the young artist Moustapha Farroukh (1901–57) envisioned a composition to change his society. He hoped his oil painting would incite broad support among his fellow Lebanese for a revolution in conventional gender relations and women's participation in the urban social order. He titled the picture The Two Prisoners and based it on a European convention for representing the East: the Nude odalisque (Figure 1). The resulting painting exemplifies the complex role Arab intellectuals of the early 20th century played in the formation of modern art and universal modernity. Leading artists in Mandate-era Beirut felt compelled to paint Nudes and display them as part of a culturing process they called tathqīf (disciplining or enculturing). To a large extent, tathqīf consisted of recategorizing norms for interaction and self-scrutiny. Joseph Massad has revealed that one crucial component of tathqīf was the repudiation of behaviors and desires associated with the Arab Past, such as male homosexuality. An equally important component was the cultivation of “modern,” “masculine” heterosexual eroticism and a dutiful feminine compliance associated with ḥadātha (novelty) and muʿāṣira (contemporaneity). This was accomplished through the use of a genre that was deliberately new and alien in both its material media and its impact on makers and viewers.

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Vertinsky, Patricia. "“This Dancing Business is More Hazardous Than Any ‘He-Man’ Sport”: Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers." Sociology of Sport Journal 35, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 168–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2017-0009.

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Selecting Springfield College, founding home of the International YMCA as a training ground for male dancers was an inspired choice by American modern dancer Ted Shawn given the founding credo of the College to ‘build builders of men.’ I would like to see men dancing in gymnasiums and stadiums, he claimed, so that the dance could reach again the position it held among the Greeks as the most perfect athletic accomplishment and the finest means of physical training and development. They were earnest and interesting efforts to foster an aura of ‘authentic rugged American masculinity’ for the era, given that Shawn himself was a closeted homosexual and the troupe’s lead dancer was his long term muse and lover Barton Mumaw. Scholars have shown how Shawn’s ideas about gender and sexuality became increasingly complex once he acknowledged his own homosexuality and engaged with ideas about sexual difference. His appropriation of various facets of the physical culture movement, however, and his reliance on the work and ideas of female modern dance pioneers and the physical education profession have been less noted. In this sense, Shawn was lucky, for he fell in love with dance when the art was mature enough to need a man.

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Goodwin, Adrian. "Perverse Wanderings: Joyce, O'Connor, and the Queer Hand." Irish University Review 43, no. 1 (May 2013): 146–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2013.0061.

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My essay traces the movement of the male hand in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and, to a lesser degree, Frank O'Connor's treatise on the art of the short story (The Lonely Voice [1963]). I argue that prehensile activity – or what men do to themselves, or to each other, with their hands – can be read as confounding the structures of hetero-masculinity which both texts are in the service of shoring up. In formulating my argument, I ask the following question: How does the prohibition on hand movement counter-intuitively precipitate that same movement? In Freudian terms, I suggest that the hand in both Joyce and O'Connor reflect adult forms of what Freud called the ‘polymorphously perverse’. My paper accesses Freud through Frank O'Connor's reading of D.H. Lawrence in The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (1963). More specifically, O'Connor's characterisation of touching between men in Lawrence as child-like and ‘mystical’ (as opposed to ‘homosexual’) offers us a way of re-reading such touching in a more ductile and perverse way – outside, that is, the homo/heterosexual binary opposition. In relation to Freud, I trace how the foreclosure of the polymorphously perverse in post-infancy is also always a foreclosure of homosexuality. Citing post-Freudian theories by Bersani and Butler, I ask if residual, adult forms of the polymorphously perverse can be read as instances of ‘grieving’ externally for that previous homosexual loss. I then turn this question onto Joyce. By assessing Stephen's masturbating, punished, and artistic hand in Joyce's text as instances of the polymorphous perverse, I conclude by arguing that it is in the objectless self-reflexivity of art that Stephen's most productive form of prehensile perversity might be deemed possible.

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Lisiecki, Mirosław Jan. "HOMOSEKSUALIZM W ASPEKCIE WYBRANYCH TEORII KRYMINOLOGICZNO-SOCJOLOGICZNYCH." PRZEGLĄD POLICYJNY 1, no. 121 (March 1, 2016): 88–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.5678.

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Artykuł przedstawia problematykę homoseksualizmu na tle wybranych teorii kryminologiczno-socjologicznych. W pierwszej części ukazano funkcjonowanie mniejszości seksualnych na tle teorii zachowań dewiacyjnych. Realizacja popędu homoseksualnego może czasami naruszać zarówno przyjęte normy moralne, jak i prawne w danej społeczności. Są to tzw. zachowania dewiacyjne uznane za szkodliwe w aspekcie moralnym i obyczajowym. W ocenie opinii społecznej kultury dominującej takim zachowaniem może być właśnie homoseksualizm. Fenomenologię i etiologię tego rodzaju zachowań próbują zgłębić i wyjaśnić różne teorie socjologiczno-kryminologiczne, m.in. teoria naznaczenia społecznego. U homoseksualistów poddanych procesowi stygmatyzacji może wytworzyć się negatywny obraz samego siebie (ang. negative self-image), mający duży wpływ na ich przyszłe aspołeczne zachowanie. Źródłem dewiacji mogą być więc determinanty sytuacyjne lub kulturowe oraz dążenie do ukształtowania własnej tożsamości i stres psychiczny, ale również uleganie normom subkultury uważanej za dewiacyjną. W drugiej części scharakteryzowano homoseksualizm w aspekcie tzw. dewiacji pozytywnej, czyli aprobowanej przez grupę społeczną, której teoria naznaczenia społecznego nie określa. W kategoriach dewiacji pozytywnej można rozpatrywać obecną działalność organizacji gejowskich w Polsce stawiających sobie m.in. za cel szerzenie tolerancji wobec mniejszości seksualnych, kreowanie pozytywnego wizerunku geja i lesbijki w społeczeństwie oraz konsolidację środowiska homoseksualnego, a także prowadzenie w szerokim zakresie działalności prewencyjnej, informacyjnej i populizatorskiej. Cechą dewiacji Keywords: homosexuality, criminology, sociology, deviation, subculture, the dominant culture, the confl ict of cultures Summary: The article presents the problematic aspects of the homosexuality arising in connection with chosen criminological and sociological theories. In the fi rst part one showed the functioning of sexual minorities against the background of the theory of deviation behaviour. The realization of the homosexual urge can sometimes violate accepted moral norms as well as legal norms existing in the community. This is called deviation behaviour and is harmful in the moral aspect. The homosexuality can be perceived as such behaviour in the evaluation of the dominant social culture opinion. Some sociological and criminological theories, for example the theory of social marking, try to deepen the phenomenology and the etiology of this kind of behaviour. These homosexuals who are socially marked may form the negative self-image which has a large impact on their future social behaviour. Thus the source of the deviation can be situational or cultural determinants as well as the aspiration to form their own identity and the psychical stress but also the compliance to standards of the subculture considered that is deviation. In the second part one characterized the homosexuality in the aspect so-called the positive deviation that is approved by the social group whose theory of social marking does not determine. The present activity of gay organizations in Poland which purpose is the propagation of the tolerance towards sexual minorities, creating of the positive image of gays and lesbians in the society and the unifi cation of homosexuals and also conducting the preventive and informational activities, may be considered as positive deviation. However, the unselfi sh character of the mo- Nr 1(121) Homoseksualizm w aspekcie wybranych teorii… 105 pozytywnej powinien być jednak nieegoistyczny charakter motywacji działań nonkonformistycznych wykraczających poza granice tolerancji lub obojętności społecznej oraz dążenie do prospołecznie ukierunkowanego przezwyciężenia sytuacji anomii społecznej. W przeciwieństwie do konformizmu nonkonformizm nie cieszy się popularnością w sytuacji tego rodzaju zachowań. Obecnie homoseksualizm jest traktowany jako normalna orientacja płciowa w tzw. kulturze zachodniej i nie jest uznawany za dewiację społeczną. Wiele środowisk traktuje jednak homoseksualizm jako aberrację z biologicznego punktu widzenia. Trzecia część artykułu omawia problem funkcjonowania mniejszości seksualnej na tle teorii konfl iktu kultur. Społeczeństwo stanowi konglomerat różnych kultur, grup i stylów życia oraz uznawanych wartości nadrzędnych, przy czym jedna z tych podkultur może być dominująca lub nie. Implikuje to traktowanie określonych zachowań jako dewiacyjnych albo nakazanych, względnie tolerowanych w zależności od rodzaju kultury i grupy społecznej. Podkultura homoseksualna domagająca się pewnych praw, a przede wszystkim równego we wszystkim traktowania zgodnie z zasadą konstytucyjną określoną w art. 32 Konstytucji Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, wnosi do kultury dominującej sprzeczne z nią normy zachowania, wzory i wartości, które nie są pożądane, ale mogą być tolerowane, o ile nie naruszają dóbr chronionych przez prawo. Domaganie się przez homoseksualistów akceptacji i tolerancji jest obecnie odbierane jako słuszne wobec norm konstytucyjnych, jednak bardzo kontrowersyjne wydają się żądania uznania instytucji małżeństwa i adopcji dzieci, bowiem uderza to w istniejący dotychczas porządek moralny i społeczny, co nie jest jeszcze w Polsce i w większości państw na świecie akceptowane.

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Suwanpakdee, Pison. "Thai Social Context in Apichatpong Weerasethakul ‘s Films." Global Journal of Arts Education 6, no. 2 (October 18, 2016): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjae.v6i2.693.

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This article studies about the Thai social context in Apichatpong Weerasethakul ‘s films. Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai filmmaker who won the highest prize in Cannes Film Festival 2010. He has generated acclaim on the film festival circuit ever since his 2002 debut "Blissfully Yours," which he followed up with "Tropical Malady" and "Syndromes and a Century." Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent filmmaker who combine between film and art. Hhis works were shown at the museums and theaters all over the world. The story telling in his films sitting in his home town Khon Kaen, a province in the northeastern part of Thailand. His film criticizes melodramas in TV, radio and Thai social context with non professional actor, narrative style and symbolics about dreams, nature, sexuality (including his own homosexuality). There are many years Apichartpong ‘s films has been well received in many countries that they were released. But in Thailand, some of his works were banned and unreleased such as Syndromes and a Century (2006). Although this film was the first Thai film accepted in competition of the 63rd Venice Film Festival, it is interesting to study his film with the Thai social context of what he conveyed in his works and why the filmmaker who succeed on the world stage, but for his country, he has not been widely recognized .

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R, Sowmiya, and Raju R. L. N. "“I am different”: Navigating Queer Identity in 1980s Sri Lanka." World Journal of English Language 14, no. 2 (February 5, 2024): 427. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v14n2p427.

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This paper studies the portrayal of queerness in Shyam Selvadurai’s novels, Funny Boy and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, focusing on the theme of homosexuality and character development. Further, the study delves into the significance of mother figures and female relationships in their lives, as well as their love for literature and art, which serves as a platform for introspection and self-expression. Drawing upon the method of textual analysis, the research examines the external and internal confinement experienced by the protagonists and their emotional journeys as they grapple with their identities. It explores how societal norms, family expectations, and internal struggles contribute to their need to hide their true selves. The paper also investigates the characters’ evolution from childhood to maturity, as they learn to accept and embrace their sexual orientation. Additionally, the research addresses the novels’ broader context, considering the historical and cultural setting of Sri Lanka in the 1980s. It examines the societal and familial pressures faced by closeted individuals during that time, shedding light on the challenges and emotional turmoil experienced by LGBTQ+ individuals. The analysis further reflects on the impact of the novels on readers and the significance of LGBTQ+ representation in literature. It underscores the importance of empathy, understanding, and acceptance in nurturing an inclusive and diverse literary landscape. The research contributes to a deeper comprehension of the complexities of queerness and self-acceptance in a conservative society.

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Ingleheart, J. "Responding to Ovid's Pygmalion episode and receptions of same-sex love in Classical antiquity: art, homosexuality, and the Curatorship of Classical culture in E. M. Forster's 'The Classical Annex'." Classical Receptions Journal 7, no. 2 (January 3, 2014): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/crj/clt017.

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