GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies recent issues

A CLASS ACT: Ryan Landry and the Politics of Booger Drag

Krahulik, K. C. — 2008-11-25

In "A Class Act," Karen C. Krahulik returns to the scene of her community history of Provincetown, Massachusetts, but uses a different methodology to assess the relationship between gentrification and transgression. Remaining within, but not confined by, the fields of history and oral history, Krahulik turns also to queer theory and performance studies to examine how artistic expression can be disruptive of Provincetown's seemingly facile slide toward homonormativity. In one section Krahulik assesses how the star of her essay, Ryan Landry, converted an underprivileged childhood into a successful form of "white trash" performance called, "booger drag." In another section she analyzes not only the subversive content, but also the timing of Landry's performances in a town that once was, but is no longer, necessarily queer. Analyzing Provincetown's history in the context of Landry's vexed iterations, allows Krahulik to provide a much more nuanced analysis of change over time in one of this country's most renowned gay resort meccas.

TRANSNATIONALISM AND HOMOPHILE POLITICAL CULTURE IN THE POSTWAR DECADES

Churchill, D. S. — 2008-11-25

This article grows out of a larger project on homophile internationalism that linked Europe and North America organizations, activists and writing during the post-war decades. More than just participating in a North Atlantic exchange, these homophile activists had a global vision, one that sought to uncover, explore and archive same-sex intimacies worldwide. Utilizing travel writing, ethnographic studies and personal memoirs homophiles produced a popular anthropological account of homosexuality, one they implicitly linked to Cold War human rights discourse, liberal law reform, and normative social claims.

ARRIVAL AT HOME: Radical Faerie Configurations of Sexuality and Place

Morgensen, S. L. — 2008-11-25

Radical faerie culture produces modern sexual minorities by mediating their racial and national relationship to histories of colonization. Radical faeries arose in the US by forming itinerant rural gatherings--and, over time, landed rural sanctuaries to host them--where they sought to liberate an authentic gay subjectivity grounded in indigenous cultural roots. I examine the formation of rural sanctuaries and gatherings as sources for gay liberation by investigating how they are structured as spaces of homecoming. Radical faeries who travel to gatherings and sanctuaries arrive at home--despite neither originating nor remaining at these sites--when they find in rural spaces and in tales of indigeneity a self-acceptance and shared nature that grants new belonging to settled land. I narrate key moments when practices of rural mobility and emplacement call gay men home to authentic subjectivity and radical community, by means of loving communion, multigenerational rural ties, indigenous spirituality, and a newly indigenized relationship to settled land. My argument arises from reflexive ethnographic interpretation of the quotidian practices of gatherings and sanctuaries. My ethnographic attention marks the integrity of radical faerie culture as a creative mediation of the racial, national, and colonial conditions of sexuality. My analysis calls queer studies to attend more deeply to the intersectionality and coloniality of sexual minority formations in settler societies, and to let ethnographic interpretation mark both how normative power relations condition sexualities and how sexual subjects creatively engage them.

SITUATING "FLUIDITY": (Trans) Gender Identification and the Regulation of Gender Diversity

Davis, E. C. — 2008-11-25

Drawing on Butler's theory of gender performativity, which conceptualizes the discursive production of the gendered subject and the corresponding "constitutive instabilities" of such reiterative practices, I provide an empirical sociological examination of how individuals negotiate potentially unintelligible identities in their daily lives and the extent to which these practices call into question the conceptual dichotomization of stability and fluidity. While transsexed bodies, histories, and identities may "exceed" the limits of intelligibility, trans individuals are engaged in the process of meaning making—creating coherence both for themselves and for others. The present theorizing of (trans)gender identification has not fully explored the interaction among social expectations, individuals' attempts to be credible, and the structural limitations on intelligible gender identifications. In addition, despite theoretical arguments resting on the compulsory, regulatory nature of gender regimes, gender fluidity is often situated as counter to such regulation. By exploring the negotiated identifications of transsexed respondents across different interactional spaces and the structural rules and norms which frame such presentation choices, this article theorizes the contextual regulation of (trans)gender diversity and the corresponding production of situated identification. Further, in examining this negotiation, the concept of fluidity is interrogated in order to complicate the analytic dualism of fluidity/stability and the corresponding dichotomous positioning of transsexed individuals as either blurring or reifying the boundaries of the gender binary.

THE GENDERCATOR, OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BLOGOSPHERE

Lawless, J. — 2008-11-25

This essay is a collection of statements, thoughts and opinions that exploded across the internet in response to a controversy that occurred during the 2007 LGBT film festival season. Catherine Crouch's short, The Gendercator, is the first film to be accepted and then removed from San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival, the longest running festival of its kind. The censorship of the film due to community pressure, and the transphobic storyline Crouch created raises central questions of community and identity/post identity politics – personal experience versus group representation, strategies for creating institutional spaces where queer identity formation can both develop and change, and problems that occur when grassroots organizations gain cultural cache that allows mobility for some but not for others.

I became involved when I was invited to sit on a panel with Crouch and others following the screening of The Gendercator at Outfest in Los Angeles. Rather than offer a personal account of the panel, a reading of the film, or analysis of the varying viewpoints and decisions made surrounding The Gendercator, I have relied on "blogosphere" and cyber world to tell this story. They rivaling voices from the LGBTQIA community beautifully convey all of the salient, ironic, painful, political and humorous positions as is. I have added my own positioning on key issues along the way. These are in the footnotes rather than the main text. This is not a strategy to perform the impossible act of journalistic "neutrality," but a conceptual move to contribute to the already loud and disharmonious cacophony surrounding The Gendercator. My contributions can be read as post blog postings, extending the web based conversation into another dimension, material based text.

QUEER (AND) ANIMAL THEORIES

McHugh, S. — 2008-11-25

Nonhuman nonheteronormativity presents a profound challenge not just to identity forms but more importantly to disciplinary habits of thinking of human subjectivity as the default form of social agency. To elaborate this point, this essay surveys how some recent books, including Roughgarden's Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, Donna Haraway's When Species Meet, Alice A. Kuzniar's Melancholy's Dog, and Jens Rydström's Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweeden, 1889-1950, take as their subjects intimacies that belie hetero/homosexual along with non/human binaries. Grounding queer theory in a cross-species continuum is not the overall purpose of any of these texts, but an effect produced through the alignment of these authors' very different examinations of sex relations as shared by social animals. Ranging from the bizarre (fish threesomes) to the raunchy (bestiality in the cowshed), and even more ordinary combinations of both (dogs' dry-humping), the forms of sociality accruing in these discussions lay foundations for new biopolitical (as opposed to disciplinary) knowledges, prompting further inquiry into what happens to all of us when animals do it unlike they do on the Discovery Channel.

QUEER CONVERSIONS

Pellegrini, A. — 2008-11-25

SIX FEET UNDER, ABOVE, BEYOND

Sullivan, M. J. — 2008-11-25

PERFORMING THE ETHICS OF CONVERSATION

Payne, R. — 2008-11-25

AFTER THE FIRE: INDIA IS BURNING

Shahani, N. — 2008-11-25

FROM FAGS TO DUDES: Rethinking the Construction of Adolescent Masculinities through Sexualizing Discourses

Gray, M. L. — 2008-11-25

HOW I CAME TO LOVE...

Gutierrez, L. G. — 2008-11-25

About the Contributors

2008-11-25

IS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE BAD FOR EAST ASIAN QUEERS?

Ho, J. — 2008-09-10

The rise of transnational systems and networks of governance and norms since the 1990s and the emergence of the so-called global civil society hold out promises of equity for LGBT advocates and marginal groups in East Asia as pride marches, lesbian and gay cultural events, and booming queer Internet communities corroborate the impression that queer Asia may be much more than a concept. Yet there is a growing retrenchment in the same region as various states take up measures quite inhospitable to queer existence. Christian NGOs in particular are aggressively raising social discontent and mobilizing opposition against the growing visibility of gay lifestyles and the equity demands launched by queer activism. The present essay analyzes this new "reign of civility" and its construction of "child protection" as a universal imperative; it also demonstrates how developments in juridification are suturing up global governance, East Asia's liberal states, and conservative NGOs into a new power bloc that fosters antiqueer and antisex climates in the region.

TRANSNATIONAL DISCOURSES AND CIRCUITS OF QUEER KNOWLEDGE IN INDONESIA

Blackwood, E. — 2008-09-10

This article examines the circulation of "global queer discourse" in Indonesia to interrogate the processes by which queer knowledge is received and appropriated. While Western-oriented queer discourse articulated by international LGBT organizations promote a "modern ideal" of lesbian and gay identities, individual female subjectivities are much more complex and layered. In Padang, West Sumatra tombois and their girlfriends, who identify themselves as masculine and feminine, access global circuits of queer knowledge and see themselves as part of a global community, but maintain subject positions that are distinct from the identities promoted and encouraged by activist lesbian organizations in Indonesia. In this article I examine the ways both lesbian activists in Jakarta and individuals in Padang selectively appropriate circuits of queer knowledge to make sense of their own subjectivities and negotiate their places in the "lesbian" world. I offer insights into the asymmetries of reception and the consequent multiplicity of desires and subjectivities as a way to incorporate the diversity of queer subjectivities within a "global gay" ecumene.

"THE VIPER'S TRAFFIC-KNOT": Celibacy and Queerness in the "Late" Marianne Moore

Kahan, B. — 2008-09-10

This essay charts a history and theory of celibacy. Redressing the scholarly and popular tendency to read celibacy as "closeted" homosexuality, I disarticulate the history of celibacy from the history of homosexuality. Despite Michel Foucault's much-recited lesson that "there is not one but many silences," queer theory continues to read celibacy as the sign of another practice: homosexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name" or the "impossibility" of lesbian sex. Mapping celibacy across sexuality studies' major conceptual grids (homo/hetero, acts/identities, fantasy/practice, friendship/homosexuality), this essay attempts to articulate an affirmative content for celibacy. Reading Marianne Moore's last single volume of original work, Tell Me, Tell Me (1966), and Elizabeth Bishop's memoir of Moore, "Efforts of Affection" (1979), I elaborate a definition of celibate temporality in relation to recent work on queer temporality. Under both these rubrics, time is an ideological force that regulates sex: for example, the "old maid" is "late" according to a trajectory of normal sexual maturation that must pass through marriage. Moore's Tell Me, Tell Me offers a depathologized temporal model of celibacy by unfolding a life narrative that does not punish the "old maid" for being developmentally "late." Celibacy is usually understood as pure potential: its future is unwritten, unacted on, leaving open the threatening possibility that celibacy can take on any sexual character. Rather than see the celibate as desiring something lacking or as embodying a disjunction between desire and practice, Moore's volume posits a coextensive desire and practice, suggesting a theory of celibate desire.

THE SELFISH-ENOUGH FATHER: Gay Adoption and the Late-Capitalist Family

Shonkwiler, A. — 2008-09-10

This essay analyzes the affect of entitlement in two memoirs by gay men about their experiences as adoptive parents. Although to lay claim to the role of the "selfish father" can be seen in these texts as a way to resist the presumptive privileges of motherhood, it is ultimately presented as a positive new construction of fatherhood, a way to reclaim paternity on new emotional and social terms. This development represents a shift in the dynamics of gay assimilation: by drawing on the discourses of competitive individualism, these narratives reveal the complex politics of gay familialism within the larger production of the American family in neoliberal terms. Arguing that the performance of "homonormativity" makes visible the dynamics of assimilation and material self-formation that are at work in all forms of advanced capitalist parenthood, the essay demonstrates how analyzing the more general contemporary organization of the family as a heteronormative economic unit enables us to understand the ongoing movement of gay politics into the private sphere.

QUEER RELAY

Henderson, L. — 2008-09-10

This essay seeks a new language, rooted in the concept of relay, for the politics of queer cultural production and representation. Relay refers to a cultural process of catching and passing on across the divides of sexual difference and capital. To make its operation concrete, the essay draws from ethnographic research on the production and festival release of Desert Motel, Liza Johnson's short film (USA; 2005) about butch embodiment. The analysis sidesteps the familiar anxiety that queer encounters with market culture spell sexual, political, and artistic downfall for queer worlds, and explores more openly the relations among tale, style, funding, personnel, production practice, and release in a film scene that seeks visual transparency for queer feeling, career possibility for queer filmmakers, and new recognition effects for queer and nonqueer audiences. It imagines queer producers (some, anyway) as relay artists working across cultural and market subsectors, doing something more sexually, aesthetically, and politically distinct than crossover dreaming.

QUEER LINEATIONS: Robert K. Martin and Gay Literary Studies

Grossman, J. — 2008-09-10

At the December 2006 MLA convention, the Division on Gay Studies in Language and Literature organized a session titled "Queer Lineations: Robert K. Martin and Gay Literary Studies" to recognize the scholarly inventiveness and political commitment of one of the pioneers in LGBTQ studies. The three papers reprinted here—by Judith Scherer Herz of Concordia University, Eric Savoy of the University of Montreal, and Christopher Nealon of the University of California at Berkeley—sound the depths of Martin's scholarship in the context of the continued unfolding of LGBTQ studies. Martin's work includes his pathbreaking study, The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry (1979), and influential writings on American, British, and Canadian authors, artists, and theorists, including E. M. Forster, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and many others.

MISS AVERY IN THE GARDEN WITH THE SWORD: Forster and Friendship

Herz, J. S. — 2008-09-10

ARVIN'S MELVILLE, MARTIN'S ARVIN

Savoy, E. — 2008-09-10

QUEER TRADITION

Nealon, C. — 2008-09-10

THE VIEW FROM THE SHORTBUS, OR ALL THOSE FUCKING MOVIES

Davis, N. — 2008-09-10

This article takes the recent success and notoriety of John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus (2006) as the occasion for an overview of "real" sex as a recurring motif and practice of commercial, nonpornographic cinema of recent years. Diverse in their generic modalities and, even more crucially, in their national and cultural origins, these films constitute a cinematic "counterpublic" along the lines Michael Warner prescribes for human and textual communities, recalibrating the relations among sexuality, visuality, and representation as they play out for public audiences and in the emphatically public, innately collaborative medium of cinema. "Counterpublic" also emerges as an apt descriptor of the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s, and indeed, Shortbus owes much of its uniqueness to its overt (indeed, explicit) interbraiding of New Queer tropes and intertexts with the formal and political dispositions of other "real sex" films. If, however, the film's felicitous coalition of these two lineages accounts for part of its utopian merriment and subversive zeal, Shortbus also reprises some of the cultural and political myopias (particularly in relation to gender and race) that the New Queer movement often had trouble transcending. The complex reflections and critiques of an American public that are embedded in the film's script, mise-en-scène, and processes of production are essential to the film's compatibility with other "real sex" films, where the invocation and interrogation of the "real" so often bears national and social as well as sexual weight. At the same time, in its very internationalism and stylistic heterogeneity, this cinematic counterpublic refuses any single model of the public, the political, the sexual, or the real, and sets ever-new horizons for the subversive potential of sexual images in cinema.

QUEER MEDIEVAL: Uncovering the Past

Drake, G. N. — 2008-09-10

Queer medievalists deal with four major methodological questions: historical contextualization and nomenclature; the actuality of embodied erotic experience; the elision or erasure of female same-sex eroticism; and the periodization of history and the purpose of its study. Two recent works of queer medievalism explore and apply these methodologies: Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger, Queering the Middle Ages, and Karma Lochrie, Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn't. The contributors to Burger and Kruger's volume examine both medieval visual and verbal texts and also apply medievalism as an excluded middle that uncovers aspects of queer eroticism in the postmodern moment and questions periodization. Lochrie detaches the heteronormative assumptions of medieval scholars from literary and historical texts representing diverse female sexualities. The reviewer argues that queer medievalism attends to unexplored complexities of nonnormative sexuality in history but also may obscure the recovery of same-sex eroticism in the Middle Ages.

QUEER ISLES

Wilson, A. — 2008-09-10

ETHNOGRAPHY'S QUEER TIMING

Morgensen, S. — 2008-09-10

FANTASY ISLANDS

Schneider, B. — 2008-09-10

FIGURING (OUT) THE I

Namie, D. — 2008-09-10

MOURNING IN AMERICA

Lamm, Z. — 2008-09-10

About the Contributors

2008-09-10

QUEER/MIGRATION: An Unruly Body of Scholarship

Luibheid, E. — 2008-09-10

BLACK ATLANTIC, QUEER ATLANTIC: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage

Tinsley, O. N. — 2008-09-10

What would it mean for both queer and African diaspora studies to theorize that the black Atlantic has always been a queer Atlantic? What new geography—or better, oceanography—of sexual, gendered, transnational, and racial identities might emerge through a queer reading of transoceanic dislocations between Africa and the Caribbean? This article examines canonical African diaspora and queer theoretical texts in dialogue with recently published creative texts that imagine queer relationships between African kidnapees in slave ships' holds. These creative texts, I argue, more expansively theorize conceptual space both to rethink submerged sexual, racial histories and to comment on the intersections between African diaspora and queer experiences in a contemporary era of Haitian refugees, transnational Dominican laborers, and international West Indian "gay" activists. Texts examined include Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic (1993), Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (1990), Ana-Maurine Lara's Erzulie's Skirt (2006), and Dionne Brand's Map to the Door of No Return (2001).

A POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF "UNNATURAL OFFENCES": State Security, Queer Embodiment, and the Environmental Impacts of Prison Migration

Weston, K. — 2008-09-10

What is the relationship between forced migration and queerness, especially migration that takes the form of transportation to an offshore detention facility under the auspices of a state security regime? How could an obsession with same-sex eroticism on the part of a prison administration affect the political ecology of an entire archipelago? What insights can be gained by opening a dialogue between the interdisciplinary fields of political ecology and LGBTQ studies? This essay examines such questions through a late-nineteenth-century crackdown on "unnatural offences" at the British penal colony in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The prosecution of same-sex eroticism among forced migrants at the colony turns out to be intimately entangled with prison labor, discourses of visibility, recontoured landscapes, criminalization of everyday activities, and a politics of surmise. The essay argues for a more capacious and historically contextualized understanding of embodiment on the part of queer theory, one that can go beyond the suffering, labors, and desires of queered yet still visibly bounded bodies to take into account the "somaeconomic" extension of those bodies into the environments they shape.

SAME-SEX MIGRATION IN AUSTRALIA: From Interdependency to Intimacy

Yue, A. — 2008-09-10

In 1985 Australia became one of the first countries in the world to accept same-sex relationships as the basis of migration. Under the compassionate and humanitarian visa category, same-sex applications were assessed through ministerial discretion. In 1991 the "interdependency" category was introduced to recognize nonfamilial migration. Same-sex migration has been hailed as reflecting Australia's progressive sexual law reform and modernizing Australia's immigration history. Since 1991, more than 7,500 permits have been issued. Between 1991 and 2005, gay Asian migrants made up the largest group of interdependency settlers. This article analyzes the development of same-sex migration policy to show how official immigration policy discourses have transformed their visa codifications from humanitarian in 1980, to interdependency in 1991, and family stream same-sex interdependency in 2000. These categories mobilize different politics of intimacy to assimilate the queer migrant into the logics of transnational capital and new nationalism. Thus interracial gay Asian Australian migration functions as a buffer and tension between the nation and its others, government and people, policy and politics.

BETWEEN GULAGS AND PRIDE PARADES: Sexuality, Nation, and Haunted Speech Acts

Kuntsman, A. — 2008-09-10

Informed by feminist and queer scholarship debates on sexuality, migration, and the nation, this article examines the role of violence—in particular, homophobic hate speech—in negotiating immigrant belonging through sexuality. The article is based on my ethnographic study of Russian-speaking queers who arrived in Israel from the former Soviet Union. My discussion starts from one ethnographic moment—a homophobic poem published in 2002 in a leading Russian Israeli newspaper. The poem condemned the 2002 Pride parade as blasphemous and blamed the marchers for endangering the Jewish nation, which was depicted as fighting for survival. The poem's offensive language was haunted by ghosts of a violent Soviet past, evoked through Soviet criminal jargon and intertextual references to gulag memoirs where same-sex relations were described as disgusting and monstrous. Following Judith Butler's notion of performativity, I approach homophobic hate speech as a form of performative violence that constitutes, rather than simply expresses or devastates, individual and collective subjectivities of "queers," "Russian immigrants," "Jews," and "Israelis." Yet I also complicate the performative take by engaging with Avery Gordon's notion of haunting. Understanding haunting and its effects, I argue, is essential when reading immigrants' acts of claiming the nation through rejecting or embracing queer sexualities. Exploring how the ghosts of the Soviet gulags do not simply migrate through time and space but also change and meddle with the realities of today's Israel, this article conceptualizes hate speech as a form of affective sociality.

SEXUALITY, MIGRATION, AND THE SHIFTING LINE BETWEEN LEGAL AND ILLEGAL STATUS

Luibheid, E. — 2008-09-10

Focusing on the U.S. campaign to secure recognition of same-sex couple relationships within immigration law, this article brings the scholarship about the social construction of undocumented immigration into critical conversation with queer studies. Challenging neoliberal representations of legal or illegal immigrant status as a sign of individual character, rather than as an outcome of multiple relations of power, the article highlights the central role of sexual regimes in constructing the distinction between legal and illegal. The article further explores, however, how sexual regimes always function in relation to crosscutting hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geopolitics. This suggests that the campaign for recognition of same-sex couples must address the multiple underpinnings of the il/legal distinction or else risk benefiting only the most privileged. The article then examines how recognized couple relationships provide the technology through which the state and its assemblages attempt to manage the risks associated with immigration and, over time, to transform legally admitted immigrants into "good" neoliberal citizens—while threatening those who do not measure up with potential illegalization. These dynamics raise important questions about citizenship, surveillance, discipline, and normalization that merit consideration by those struggling for recognition of same-sex couples within immigration law. They also enable us to further reconceptualize the legal/illegal distinction as an ongoing (rather than one-time) production, anchored in multiple relations of power that include, but are not limited to, sexuality. I conclude by questioning whether and to what extent sexuality may provide a locus for renegotiating the distinction between legal and illegal immigrants and its associated logics of violence.

THE HAUNTING OF GAY MANILA: Global Space-Time and the Specter of Kabaklaan

Benedicto, B. — 2008-09-10

This article aims to contribute to conceptual discussions about how postcolonial queer subjects negotiate the borders between putatively "local" queer subject formations and increasingly global sexual categories. It reexamines the tension-ridden nexus between "gay" and the Filipino bakla, arguing that the complex encounters between such formations are conditioned by emplaced class and gender hierarchies that stem from both colonial history and a neoliberal cultural context. I argue that in contrast to Filipino gay men in the diaspora who recuperate the practices of the bakla to negotiate displacement, middle- and upper-class gay men in the homeland (specifically Manila) offer an inverted picture of global-local relations, since the absence of a shared diasporic experience of displacement, (racialized) exclusion, and downward mobility also operates as the absence of any impetus to recover kabaklaan (bakla-ness) from its subordinated position within local exclusionary systems. Drawing from popular themes that thread through the virtual, physical, and print spaces that have emerged as part of Manila's post-2000 gay scene, the article foregrounds notions of complicity, particularly in terms of how the "newness" of the gay scene is made visible through the violent rewriting of kabaklaan as a temporal anomaly. Affective understandings of global space-time, underpinned by dreams of mobility and imaginative planetary geographies, are here depicted as unstable introjected trajectories haunted by the spectral presence of kabaklaan in the "now" of gay Manila and by the need to continuously exorcise such apparitions.

TACIT SUBJECTS

Decena, C. U. — 2008-09-10

Privileging the disclosure of a homosexual identity, or "coming out," blinds researchers to negotiations of the closet that do not resort to the confession. Drawing from Spanish grammar and from ethnographic research among Dominican immigrant homosexual men living in New York City, this article proposes the concept of tacit subjects to suggest that gay men and those close to them may be complicit in relegating information about a person's sexuality to the realm of what is tacit and/or understood. By stressing the structural and relational variables that people negotiate as they sustain their family and other kin networks, the concept of tacit subjects underlines the collaborative nature of identity negotiation and the forms of knowledge that make social collectivities viable.

QUEER CARIBBEAN HOMECOMINGS: The Collaborative Art Exhibits of Nelson Ricart-Guerrero and Christian Vauzelle

Horn, M. — 2008-09-10

This essay explores the joint multimedia exhibits presented in the Dominican Republic by the artistic collaborators Nelson Ricart-Guerrero, a Dominican now living in Paris, and his French partner, Christian Vauzelle, and the questions that Ricart-Guerrero's artistic return raises about what queer migrants might bring back home. I suggest that these repeated artistic homecomings trouble prevalent perceptions of migration as a movement from repression to freedom for queer migrants, perceptions that render such a return to the supposedly more "repressive" Dominican Republic undesirable. I furthermore discuss how this artistic homecoming problematizes the critical tendency to describe queer Caribbean subjects as "unhomely"—inherently at odds with and in a permanent literal or imaginary exile from the nation.

ALL THAT GLITTERS: Trans-ing California's Gold Rush Migrations

Sears, C. — 2008-09-10

This article explores the multilayered relationship between cross-gender phenomena and migration politics in gold rush California. It addresses two main questions. First, how did the predominantly male, multinational gold rush migrations impact gender relations in California, specifically the documented cross-gender practices among Euro-American migrants? Second, how did these cross-gender practices dovetail with anti-immigrant politics, specifically the racializing, feminizing discourses that targeted Chinese residents for exclusion from the nation? In exploring these questions, this article expands the analytic framework used to queer migration studies, by proposing an approach for trans-ing histories that incorporates insights from transgender studies.

TRANSPORTATION: Translating Filipino and Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities through Global Migration and Seafaring

Fajardo, K. B. — 2008-09-10

Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Filipino seamen in metro Manila (Philippines), the San Francisco Bay Area (California), and the Pacific Ocean, this essay examines how heterogeneous Filipino masculinities (heterosexual and transgender tomboy) are cocreated and coexperienced in local and global sites. Through a queer, immigrant, transgender, and transnational Filipino (American) cultural logics and critique this essay foregrounds encounters with and translations of differently situated Filipino masculinities in ports and at sea, suggesting how specific embodied practices of mobility and movement—sea-based transportation, migration, and travel—are constitutive of racialized and classed Filipino masculinities.

QUEERING EXILIC EXPERIENCE

Lamm, Z. — 2008-09-10

QUEERING CHINESENESS, UNTHINKING NEOLIBERALISM

Wong, A. K. H. — 2008-09-10

I DO IF YOU DO

Roden, F. S. — 2008-09-10

SEEING QUEERLY: THE EMERGENCE OF LESBIAN VISUAL CODES IN INTERWAR PARIS

Martin, L. — 2008-09-10

HEROINES OF A NEW MODERNITY

Murat, L. — 2008-09-10

REAL MEN

Coviello, P. — 2008-09-10

OUR NATIONAL MIRROR STAGE

Benson-Allott, C. — 2008-09-10

KEEPING SECRETS

Chinn, S. E. — 2008-09-10

BALLET AND THE QUEER SENSIBILITY

Franko, M. — 2008-09-10

QUEERING TRANSCULTURATION

Bergmann, E. L. — 2008-09-10

About the Contributors

2008-09-10

TRANSIENT FEELINGS: Sex Panics and the Politics of Emotions

Irvine, J. M. — 2007-11-26

THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF VICTORIAN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL WRITING ABOUT THE "RENAISSANCE"

Fisher, W. — 2007-11-26

LOIS SCHWICH, THE FEMALE ERRAND BOY: Narratives of Female Cross-Dressing in Late-Victorian London

Hindmarch-Watson, K. — 2007-11-26

THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET: Fault Lines of Nation and Sensation in Yau Ching's Ho Yuk: Let's Love Hong Kong

Khoo, O. — 2007-11-26

QUEER FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL FORUM, TAKE THREE: Artists Speak Out

Waugh, T., Straayer, C. — 2007-11-26

A SITE FOR QUEER REPRODUCTION

Basquin, B. — 2007-11-26

A THEATER FULL OF QUEER PEOPLE

Brocka, Q. A. — 2007-11-26

FILM BUFFS ARE FILM BUFFS NO MATTER WHOM THEY SLEEP WITH

Friedrich, S. — 2007-11-26

MY CHILD WAS BEING LOVED

Onir, — 2007-11-26

CHOOSING THE GHETTO

Bradley, M. — 2007-11-26

VERY GOOD FOR OUR MORALE

Ducastel, O., Martineau, J. — 2007-11-26

BEYOND THE COFFEEHOUSE

Hammer, B. — 2007-11-26

DISTANCE AND DESIRE IN THE NEW BRITISH QUEER HISTORY

Waters, C. — 2007-11-26

WE "OTHER VICTORIANS"

Freccero, C. — 2007-11-26

JUST NOW PERFORMING AMERICA: QUEER TAKES ON THE CONTEMPORARY

Brody, J. D. — 2007-11-26

About the Contributors

2007-11-26