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Smith, Vivienne, and Fiona Tasker. "Gay men's chemsex survival stories." Sexual Health 15, no. 2 (2018): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh17122.

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Background Chemsex (the combined use of drugs and sexual experiences) by men who have sex with men is associated with the transmission of sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses, but psychosocial factors associated with chemsex engagement and remission remain unidentified. In the present study we considered how do gay men self-identify a chemsex problem and remain chemsex free? Methods: Using a life course perspective, the present qualitative interview study examined participants’ reflections to discern pathways in and out of chemsex engagement. Six participants (aged ≥18 years) were drawn from a cohort of men who had completed the tailored therapeutic Structured Weekend Antidote Program. Transcripts were analysed using a Labovian narrative analysis framework. Results: Each man identified a multiplicity of incidents and feelings that contributed to their engagement in chemsex, and engagement in chemsex was connected to participants’ identity development and desire to belong to a gay community. Underlying individual accounts, a common narrative suggested a process through which chemsex journeys were perceived as spiralling from exciting and self-exploratory incidents into an out-of-control, high-risk activity that was isolating and prompted engagement with therapy. Despite seeking therapeutic engagement, participants expressed uncertainty about maintaining a gay future without chemsex. Conclusions: Chemsex was associated with a positive gay identity gain, which explained the ambivalence participants expressed in maintaining a gay future without chemsex despite their awareness of negative consequences. This is significant for understanding both why chemsex pathways may prove attractive and why they may be so difficult to leave.

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Schwartz, Joseph, and Julie L. Andsager. "Sexual Health and Stigma in Urban Newspaper Coverage of Methamphetamine." American Journal of Men's Health 2, no. 1 (December 5, 2007): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988307310096.

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The epidemic use of methamphetamine in the United States is a growing public health problem. Recently its use has increased among gay men who live in urban areas, with accompanying increases in sexually transmitted diseases. This study examined how methamphetamine and sexual health are framed. It investigated the stigma associated with heterosexuals and gay men. Stories from 13 urban newspapers in cities with large populations of gay men published from 2000 to 2006 were analyzed. Results indicated that methamphetamine and sexual health were framed primarily as an individual, present problem. Stories framed methamphetamine as a health problem slightly more often than as a crime problem, but health was the dominant frame in stories mentioning gay men. Crime was the dominant frame in stories with heterosexuals. Articles tied gay men to sexual health issues. Findings indicate gay men and heterosexuals are stigmatized in news coverage of sexual issues and methamphetamine but in different ways.

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Martin, Jarred H. "Exploring gender subversion and recuperation in anal fisting among gay men." South African Journal of Psychology 50, no. 3 (December 9, 2019): 336–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0081246319888975.

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Anal fisting among gay men, that is, the sexual(ised) and erotic (single or partnered) practice of inserting the hand(s) and/or forearm(s) into the anus and rectum, has historically been framed in medical and medico-forensic case studies as a violent and dangerous sexual practice associated with the contraction of disease, heightened risk of sexual injury, and the possibility of death. In contrast to this, pro-Queer scholars of gender and sexuality have conceptually reframed the act of anal fisting among gay men as a subversive sexual practice which in its discursive and material performances radically transgresses the heteronormative tropes which typically underwrite human sex/uality, especially in ways that render the preferred representations of (gay) sex as ‘vanilla’. By drawing from unstructured individual interviews with a sample of eight (self-identifying) South African gay men who regularly incorporate anal fisting into their sexual relations, this study explores the gendered contradictions which rhetorically circumscribe how these men discursively construct and experience the corpo-erotic practice of anal fisting. In doing so, the findings highlight that while anal fisting among gay men may in fact engender shades of a sexually subversive practice by the way it radically (re)makes the material and erotic possibilities and connections of gay men’s bodies in exceptionally non-normative and perhaps Queer ways; it is, at the same time, also invested with, and reiterative of, discursive repertoires which actively recuperate heteronormative as well as heteromasculinist tropes and gendered power relations that, in some instances, appear femiphobic.

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Rodríguez-Dorans, Edgar. "The Confluence of Us." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9, no. 2 (2020): 103–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.2.103.

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This essay explores gay men's identities as processes of creative-relational construction of the self. I problematize the common sex-centered conception of being gay as “I am gay because I have sex with men.” Bringing together Paul Ricœur's work on identity as autobiography, Audre Lorde's concept of the erotic as a constructive force, and Derek Greenfield's understanding of relational orientation, in the light of an interview with Manoel, a young gay man from Malta, creative-relational inquiry affords a richer notion of gayness as “I am gay when I am with you” and “I am gay because I love you.”

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Hajek, Christopher. "Distinguished … or dissonant." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 35, no. 3 (January 23, 2017): 329–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407516689309.

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This article is based on semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis of stories of 40 early midlife gay men concerning their conversations with younger gay men. Utilizing the communication theory of identity (CTI) as a sensitizing framework, open and axial coding revealed three overarching themes: shifted perspective on gay identity, evolved performance of gay identity, and discord with gay cultural expectations. The findings contribute to broadened understandings of how gay men experience midlife, and these are discussed in light of key CTI concepts.

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Sardy, Robert. "Queering Las Vegas: Personal Experience Stories of Gay Men." M@n@gement 4, no. 3 (2001): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/mana.043.0175.

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Mutchler, Matt G., George Ayala, and Katie L. Neith. "Safer Sex Stories Told by Young Gay Men: Building on Resiliency Through Gay-Boy Talk." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education 2, no. 3 (April 19, 2005): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j367v02n03_04.

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Isayev, Dmitriy Dmitriyevich. "Psychological characteristics preceding the development of homosexuality." Pediatrician (St. Petersburg) 5, no. 3 (September 15, 2014): 134–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/ped53134-137.

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490 gay men and 235 heterosexual men were surveyed to reveal frequency of distribution of childhood and adolescence gender non-conformity in gay men compare to similar features in straight men. Significant differences identified between two samples. The vast majority of gay men had history of various combinations of identity problems, crossgender behavior, communication problems, difficulties in adoption normative gender roles, the inability to find a common language with peers. In heterosexual sample basis were communicative problems related to particular personality features of some part of the control group. Gender-variance by itself cannot be regarded as an obvious sign indicating the development of homosexuality. In some cases it is a sign of congenital determinants that lead to the same sex sexual attraction, and in others this is only contributing personality characteristics facilitating under certain circumstances occurrence of erotic attachments to persons of the same gender.

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Møller, Kristian. "Digital chemsex publics: Algorithmic and user configurations of fear and desire on Pornhub." European Journal of Cultural Studies 24, no. 4 (June 3, 2021): 869–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13675494211006679.

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In recent years, chemsex has emerged as both a subcultural vernacular and an orientation device for gay health promotion. Chemsex loosely describes gay men using certain drugs to extend and modulate group sex practice. In line with hegemonic responses to gay sexuality in general, most research has been grounded in problematisation, with discourse mostly returning to the question of containment. Drawing on porn, platform and critical drug studies, this article offers a corrective approach by defining a networked, cultural study of chemsex that is attuned to how chemsex erotics operate in many different (digital) intimate publics. Assembling algorithmic search suggestions, 41 videos and 450 comments, the article finds that the videos and comments found through the search function are vastly different than those found through user-generated playlists. Two competing publics form around the fear/desire-response to drug use: a cautious erotic of disinhibition and a counterpublic erotic of transgression.

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Taylor, Cheryl. "‘To my brother’: Gay love and sex in Thea Astley’s novels and stories." Queensland Review 26, no. 2 (December 2019): 269–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.32.

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AbstractBeginning as early as A Descant for Gossips (1960), gay men and gay love come and go in Thea Astley’s prose oeuvre. The responses that these characters and this topic invite shift with point of view and under the impact of varied themes. Astley’s treatment refuses to be contained, either by traditional Catholic doctrines about sex or by Australia’s delay in decriminalising homosexual acts. Driven by love for her gay older brother Philip, whose death from cancer corresponded with her final allusions to gay love in The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow (1996), Astley’s only constant message on this, as on other topics, is humans’ responsibility to treat each other with kindness. This essay draws on Karen Lamb’s biography and on writings and reminiscences by Philip Astley’s family and fellow Jesuits to reveal his significance as his sister sought to resolve through her fiction the conflict between an inculcated Catholic idolisation of purity and her own hard-won understanding and acceptance of gay men.

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Salway, Travis, and Dionne Gesink. "Constructing and Expanding Suicide Narratives From Gay Men." Qualitative Health Research 28, no. 11 (June 24, 2018): 1788–801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732318782432.

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In this study, we document life stories of gay men who attempted suicide as adults. Our goal is to expand the collection of narratives used to understand this persistent health inequity. We interviewed seven adult gay men, each of whom had attempted suicide two to four times, and identified five narratives. Pride narratives resist any connection between sexuality and suicide. Trauma-and-stress narratives enable coping through acknowledgment of sexual stigma as a fundamental trauma and cause of subsequent stress and suicidal thoughts. Memorial narratives prevent suicide by maintaining a strong sense of “permanent” identity. Outing narratives demand that the listener confronts the legacy of unjust practices of homosexual surveillance and “outing,” which historically resulted in gay suicides. Finally, postgay narratives warn of the risk of suicide among older generations of gay men who feel erased from the goals of modern gay movements. Sexual identity concealment or invisibility featured prominently in all five narratives.

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Kiss, Mark, Todd G. Morrison, and Kandice Parker. "Understanding the believability and erotic value of ‘heterosexual’ men in gay pornography." Porn Studies 6, no. 2 (March 25, 2019): 169–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2018.1559091.

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Wang, Shuaishuai. "Chinese gay men pursuing online fame: erotic reputation and internet celebrity economies." Feminist Media Studies 20, no. 4 (May 18, 2020): 548–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1754633.

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Dooley, Joe. "Negotiating Stigma: Lessons From the Life Stories of Gay Men." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services 21, no. 1 (January 27, 2009): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10538720802494784.

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Olson, L. C. "Health Care for Modern Families: Practical suggestions concerning care for families of gay men and lesbians." Health, Culture and Society 8, no. 1 (July 22, 2015): 81–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/hcs.2015.198.

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This article offers a first person perspective concerning how health care providers can better recognize modern families and improve health care for them, especially families founded by gay men and lesbians in U.S. culture. It interweaves information concerning the historical, legal, and economic situation impinging on gay men and lesbians while offering personal stories in dealing with health care professionals. The article references germane scholarly literature for further reading throughout.

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Hammell, Karen Whalley. "Book Mark: Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories (2004)." Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy 72, no. 1 (February 2005): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000841740507200116.

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Coelho, Tony. "Hearts, groins and the intricacies of gay male open relationships: Sexual desire and liberation revisited." Sexualities 14, no. 6 (December 2011): 653–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460711422306.

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An extensive look at the narratives of 14 gay men in open relationships living in Amsterdam presents a world of gay male sexual desire that continues to leave the heterosexual counterpart dumbfounded. This article focuses on the five main points deducted from the informants' erotic retellings: the variety and unpredictability of arrangements between each couple; the preference for a more intimate connection with outside encounters instead of an impersonal or anonymous encounter; the decline of sex as a non-factor for choosing to open up sexual barriers as informants confess to non-monogamy in the beginnings of their relationships; the common perception that there exists a natural male drive to sexually explore with multiple partners; and finally, the complexities that come with open arrangements, forcing a re-examination of the open gay couple as the embodiment of ‘liberation’.

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Ryan, Paul. "Coming Out, Fitting in: The Personal Narratives of Some Irish Gay Men." Irish Journal of Sociology 12, no. 2 (November 2003): 68–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/079160350301200205.

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Through the personal narratives of four gay men coming of age during the 1970s, this paper questions the relevance of the modernist ‘coming-out’ story in Ireland. This story, so prevalent in British and North American studies documenting the history of the gay and lesbian movement there has remained largely untold in Ireland. This paper reveals a uniquely Irish ‘coming-out’ experience shaped by the schools, families and communities in which the men lived and whose stories cannot be adequately explained within a modernisation perspective so frequently used to explain social change in Ireland.

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Danaan, LLyn De, and Stephen O. Murray. "Book Reviews:Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experience;Growing Up Before Stonewall: life Stories of Some Gay Men." Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Newsletter 17, no. 1 (February 1995): 15–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sol.1995.17.1.15.

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Milhet, Maitena, Jalpa Shah, Tim Madesclaire, and Laurent Gaissad. "Chemsex experiences: narratives of pleasure." Drugs and Alcohol Today 19, no. 1 (March 4, 2019): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dat-09-2018-0043.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand the dynamics of pleasure related to chemsex from the perspective of French gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM). Recognising that participants in chemsex are social actors, the authors diverge from the prominent “pathology paradigm” used in public health.Design/methodology/approachIn-depth interviews were conducted with gay men and other MSM engaging in chemsex via snowball sampling (n=33). The authors explored the definitions of pleasure and the role of stimulants, sexual activity, smartphones and partners in chemsex pleasures.FindingsChemsex pleasures encompass multiple dimensions that go far beyond bodily pleasures, such as love or romantic relationships, socializing with significant others and sexual discovery through disinhibition. Narratives of pleasure were also, simultaneously, stories of suffering and distress. This dissonance can pose challenges to the participants in chemsex, their entourages and care providers.Practical implicationsGiven that the focus of care for gay men and other MSM is on risk behaviors, the findings of this paper help nurture discussions where pleasure is integrated into a new, value-neutral framework of care that incorporates chemsex pleasures.Originality/valueThis study examined the perspectives of those actually participating in chemsex, allowing gay men and other MSM to relate the entirety of their experiences, in which pleasure is often at the forefront, without restriction.

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Gill, L. K. "Chatting Back an Epidemic: Caribbean Gay Men, HIV/AIDS, and the Uses of Erotic Subjectivity." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 18, no. 2-3 (January 1, 2012): 277–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1472899.

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Smith, Sara R. "Queers are Workers, Workers are Queer, Workers' Rights are Hot! The Emerging Field of Queer Labor History." International Labor and Working-Class History 89 (2016): 184–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014754791500040x.

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Gay male stewards performing drag shows on large passenger ships in the 1930s. Male hustlers selling sex to men for money and then going home to their girlfriends in the 1950s. Lesbian bus drivers organizing in the 1970s to include “sexual orientation” in their union contract's antidiscrimination clause. Gay male flight attendants fired from their jobs for being HIV-positive in the 1980s. These are some of the stories told in the four books under review, each about the queer labor history of the United States.

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Santos, Daniel Kerry dos, and Mara Coelho de Souza Lago. "Heterotopias of (un)desirable bodies: homoeroticism, old age and other dissidences." Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology 13, no. 1 (June 2016): 115–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-43412016v13n1p115.

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Abstract This paper problematizes some possible stylizations of bodies that are socially perceived as "old" and that are engaged in (homo)erotic activities. We present some "scenes" that were mapped during participant observations conducted in a territory of sociability attended mainly by older gay men. Ways in which the materiality of the bodies in these encounters may acquire other "contours" and new "porosities" are discussed. This rematerialization enables some individuals to resist some models that normalize subjectivities and and bodies. At least at the moment of the parties in this territory (in that queer time and space), the old gay man is no longer a "bicha velha démodé", but rather a subject of desire and a desiring subject. Our cartography tends to denounce the fragility and the fictional aspects of homo/hetero/age-normativities.

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Tsampiras, Carla. "Two Tales about Illness, Ideologies, and Intimate Identities: Sexuality Politics and AIDS in South Africa, 1980–95." Medical History 58, no. 2 (April 2014): 230–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2014.7.

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AbstractThis article focuses on the micro-narratives of two individuals whose responses to AIDS were mediated by their sexual identity, AIDS activism and the political context of South Africa during a time of transition. Their experiences were also mediated by well-established metanarratives about AIDS and ‘homosexuality’ created in the USA and the UK which were transplanted and reinforced (with local variations) into South Africa by medico-scientific and political leaders.The nascent process of writing South African AIDS histories provides the opportunity to record responses to AIDS at institutional level, reveal the connections between narratives about AIDS and those responses, and draw on the personal stories of those who were at the nexus of impersonal official responses and the personal politics of AIDS. This article records the experiences of Dennis Sifris, a physician who helped establish one of the first AIDS clinics in South Africa and emptied the dance floors, and Pierre Brouard, a clinical psychologist who was involved in early counselling, support and education initiatives for HIV-positive people, and counselled people about dying, and then about living. Their stories show how, even within government-aligned health care spaces hostile to gay men, they were able to provide support and treatment to people; benefited from international connections with other gay communities; and engaged in socially subversive activities. These oral histories thus provide otherwise hidden insights into the experiences of some gay men at the start of an epidemic that was initially almost exclusively constructed on, and about, gay men’s bodies.

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Robinson, Peter, and Paula Geldens. "Stories from two generations of gay men living in the midst of HIV-AIDS." Journal of Australian Studies 38, no. 2 (April 3, 2014): 233–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2014.895957.

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Reynolds, Sean. "‘Changing Marriage? Messing with Mr. In-Between?: Reflections upon Media Debates on Same-Sex Marriage in Ireland’." Sociological Research Online 12, no. 1 (January 2007): 152–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1516.

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This article explores some aspects of the emergence of local debates around same-sex marriage in the Republic of Ireland. Taking up this issue through an analysis of Irish (local) mediatized reactions to the introduction of German gay marriage in 2001, I point to how we can see some evidence of a shift away from Irish traditional relationships between the social, politics and religion, which served to police and silence much public discussion about sexuality. While prudery about sexual issues still remains, my paper points to the emergence of prudent-yet-tolerant sharing of stories about the social exclusion of same-sex couples. In spite of recent setbacks for a legal case seeking the recognition of a foreign same-sex marriage in Ireland, we may point to a growing political and legal consciousness for the extension of rights for lesbian and gay couples but it is still unclear as to what model will be adopted in the Irish context. While in the Irish case, there is only intermittent media interest in ‘gay marriage’, we can locate this struggle within the framework of the sociology of intimate citizenship. Not only do claims for same-sex marriage illustrate pointed inequalities experienced by lesbians and gay men, the stories also problematize the naturalness of heterosexuality. The Irish case may, of course, be explored within the context of a global challenge to gender identity where the imagined same-sex couple enjoy some element of certainty in an uncertain world.

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Robinson, Peter. "Ageing fears and concerns of gay men aged 60 and over." Quality in Ageing and Older Adults 17, no. 1 (March 14, 2016): 6–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qaoa-04-2015-0015.

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Purpose – In light of the fact that the “baby boomer” generation is moving into early old age, the purpose of this paper is to examine what aspects of ageing and old age concerned an age cohort of 25 gay men aged 60 plus. Design/methodology/approach – The primary data for this paper came from interviews with 25 men aged 60 and older who were recruited in Auckland, London, Manchester, Melbourne, and New York. Interviewees were contacted by a variety of means, such as by e-mail introductions, advertisements placed on social media, and recommendations of mutual friends or acquaintances. Once contacted, the men were sent a plain-language statement outlining the purpose of the study and the intention to publish the results and were asked to sign and return a consent form. Narrative identity was central to understandings of the men’s lives got from analysing their interview transcripts. Findings – Analysis of extracts from their life stories showed the men interviewed for this paper drew on two principal narratives when discussing their apprehensions about growing old. The first related to general fears or concerns about old age that would be fairly common among members of the general population. The second narrative related to gay-specific fears or concerns. Significant claims: that class affects gay men’s experience of old age just as it does for everyone else; and that fears of being ostracised because of their sexuality were strongest when the men spoke about aged-accommodation settings. Research limitations/implications – More research is needed on gay men’s experience of in-home supported care and residential care to see if the reality of the heterosexism and/or homophobia matches the fears of some in this sample. Originality/value – This is a relatively new field and there is a growing number of researchers examining the ageing concerns and experiences of the GLBT population. The originality of this paper lies in the international sample on which it is based, its use of narrative analysis, and its relevance to policy makers as well as to members of the GLBT population, carers, and owners/managers of aged-care accommodation facilities.

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Golom, Frank D., and Jonathan J. Mohr. "Turn It Off! The Effects of Exposure to Male–Male Erotic Imagery on Heterosexuals' Attitudes toward Gay Men." Journal of Sex Research 48, no. 6 (November 2011): 580–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2010.543959.

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Han, Chong‐suk. "No fats, femmes, or Asians: the utility of critical race theory in examining the role of gay stock stories in the marginalization of gay Asian men." Contemporary Justice Review 11, no. 1 (March 2008): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10282580701850355.

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Littauer, Amanda H. "Queer Girls and Intergenerational Lesbian Sexuality in the 1970s." Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 46, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 95–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2020.460107.

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Drawing on letters and writings by teenage girls and oral history interviews, this article aims to open a scholarly conversation about the existence and significance of intergenerational sexual relationships between minor girls and adult women in the years leading up to and encompassing the lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s. Lesbian history and culture say very little about sexual connections between youth and adults, sweeping them under the rug in gender-inflected ways that differ from the suppression of speech in gay male history and culture about intergenerational sex between boys and men. Nonetheless, my research suggests that, despite lesbian feminists’ caution and even negativity toward teen girls, erotic and sexual relationships with adult women provided girls access to support, pleasure, mentorship, and community.

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Ashford, Chris. "Barebacking and the ‘Cult of Violence’: Queering the Criminal Law." Journal of Criminal Law 74, no. 4 (August 2010): 339–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1350/jcla.2010.74.4.647.

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This article seeks to revisit the law in relation to the sexual phenomenon of barebacking. Drawing upon queer theory, the article seeks to evaluate critically the development of the criminal law in relation to the practice of ‘unsafe’ sex by men with other men, known as barebacking, along with the broader casting of the judiciary as sexual custos mores. It will argue that the present heteronormative legal and cultural framework largely reflects a focus upon the ‘good gay’, de-sexed and constructed within a rights discourse, in contrast to Stychin's ‘bad queer’, sexual and defiant of a narrow heteronormative rights agenda, and embracing ‘unsafe’ and ‘deviant’ sexual practices. This article seeks to move the analysis of the criminal law on from the doctrinal debates that have dominated thus far, and onto a more theoretical exposition of the criminal law regarding barebacking as erotic play.

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Roberts, Simon. "“Out” in the field. Reflecting on the dilemmas of insider status on data collection and conducting interviews with gay men." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 33, no. 5 (June 10, 2014): 451–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/edi-07-2013-0056.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore using a reflexive approach the impact of author's personal positioning on issues of power balance between the interviewer and the interviewee, dealing with sensitive stories and concerns of difference and sameness between participants and the researcher in both the data collection process and also during the interviews. Design/methodology/approach – Initial data were gathered from 45 semi-structured interviews with self-identified gay men in a wide range of occupations and ages working in the seaside resort of Bournemouth on the south coast of England. Findings – The paper highlights some of the dilemmas of insider status and doing research on gay men. These include: ethical issues of closeness and involvement with participants, dealing with author's own personal frustrations, tackling the power imbalance between the interviewer and the interviewee and the impact of author's personal positioning on the data collection. Originality/value – Little research has been done on the impact of men doing research on issues of diversity. In particular, this paper re-examines the power balance between the interviewer and interviewee as being one sided as previous studies have suggested in the researcher's favour. It also uncovers ethical dilemmas such as sexual attraction and involvement that has had scant coverage in the literature.

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Branfman, Jonathan, Susan Stiritz, and Eric Anderson. "Relaxing the straight male anus: Decreasing homohysteria around anal eroticism." Sexualities 21, no. 1-2 (February 8, 2017): 109–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716678560.

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This study examines the practice and perception of receptive anal eroticism among 170 heterosexual undergraduate men in a US university. We analyze the social stigmas on men’s anal pleasure through the concept of homohysteria, which describes a cultural myth that the wrongdoing of gender casts homosexual suspicion onto heterosexual men. For men’s anal eroticism, this means that only gay, emasculated or gender deviant men are thought to enjoy anal pleasure. We suggest, however, that decreasing homohysteria has begun to erode this cultural ‘ban’ on anal stimulation for straight men. Our data finds self-identified straight university-aged men questioning cultural narratives that conflate anal receptivity with homosexuality and emasculation. We also show that 24 percent of our respondents have, at least once, received anal pleasure. These results suggest that cultural taboos around men’s anal pleasure may be shifting for younger men and the boundaries of straight identity expanding. We call for further research to clarify how anal erotic norms are shifting among men of different racial, geographic, socioeconomic, and age demographics, and to determine how these shifts may foster more pluralistic and inclusive views of gender and sexuality.

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Atuk, Tankut. "Cruising in the Research Field: Queer, Feminist, and Cyber Autoethnography." International Review of Qualitative Research 13, no. 3 (July 30, 2020): 351–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1940844720939851.

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This essay is based on a cyber autoethnographic research I have conducted on Hornet, a geosocial networking application (GNA) created for gay and bisexual men, without establishing a clear-cut distinction between my identity as a user and that as a researcher. Here I discuss how feminist and queer autoethnography in and of cybercultures can refrain from objectifying or exploiting others by enabling research relations that (a) are not hierarchical, (b) disturb the researcher/researched binary, (c) embrace the impersonal ethics of cruising, and (d) do not shy away from recognizing the role of the researcher’s body unlike the conventional (masculine) researcher who allegedly has no emotional, erotic, or bodily presence within the field or in the research. I also address cruising as a queer autoethnographic method, while uncovering the methodological and ethical implications of doing autoethnography in a cyberfield that is libidinally invested.

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Adams-Santos, Dominique. "“Something a bit more personal”: Digital storytelling and intimacy among queer Black women." Sexualities 23, no. 8 (March 4, 2020): 1434–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460720902720.

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Coming-out stories are important cultural texts wherein individuals articulate and interpret experiences of identifying as sexual minorities. Yet, much of the extant literature on coming-out stories examines narratives by white, middle-class gay men and lesbians. Critical inquiry into coming-out stories told by privileged queer subjects points to the formulaic and normative characteristics of their narratives, where sexual difference is downplayed or challenged. The goal of this article, then, is to ask whether and how coming-out narratives told by queer Black women conform to or depart from the “coming-out formula story.” Using an intersectional approach to narrative analysis, this article investigates the performative and discursive strategies that 50 women use in telling their coming-out stories on YouTube. Findings show that queer Black women’s use of intimate candor—the performative and discursive strategy of publicly revealing interior, often sexually explicit, aspects of the self—is a means through which women center desire and queerness; articulate a vision of queer Black womanhood; and complicate the coming-out formula.

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Chambers, Eric. "“Thaz how u kno ur dum”." Journal of Language and Sexuality 9, no. 2 (September 7, 2020): 179–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.19020.cha.

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Abstract This study analyzes language use among a group of gay men who participate on an online messageboard (OnYourKnees), focused on the attainment of a ‘dumb jock’ identity. Posters align with a series of qualities that largely conform to ideologies of American jock masculinity, but at the same time satirize those ideologies: in particular, many posters view as an integral quality of dumb-jock identity ‘dumbness:’ an unwillingness/inability to engage in scholarly/academic pursuits. The repeated citationality of dumbness as a positive quality creates a distinct identity-type that posters link with erotic desire. Orthographic variation contributes to the attainment and recognition of a jock identity: posters who identify as jocks are more likely to display non-standard American English spelling than those who do not. This study thus highlights the importance of orthographic variation in maintaining distinct identities among local communities, especially in a space where traditional ideologies of masculinity are recontextualized.

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Jadwin-Cakmak, Laura A., Emily S. Pingel, Gary W. Harper, and José A. Bauermeister. "Coming Out to Dad." American Journal of Men's Health 9, no. 4 (July 1, 2014): 274–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988314539993.

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Few studies have examined the relationship between young gay and bisexual men (YGBM) and their fathers. Based on a phenomenological framework, this study investigated the role of fathers in YGBM’s coming-out experience, focusing on how fathers responded to disclosure of same-sex attraction, how fathers’ responses compared with sons’ expectations, and what sons perceived as having influenced their fathers’ responses. Semistructured in-depth interviews with 30 gay and bisexual men aged 18 to 24 years were conducted as part of a larger study; topics explored in the interview included experiences coming out to family and others. Nineteen participants’ narratives included discussion about their fathers and were included in the current analyses. The YGBM who were interviewed perceived a complex range of responses upon coming out to their fathers, ranging from enthusiastic acceptance to physical violence. Participants spoke of fathers who were accepting in different manners and who often held contradictory attitudes about same-sex attraction. Fathers’ responses commonly differed from sons’ expectations, which were informed by homophobic talk and gendered expectations. Sons spoke about what informed their expectations as well as what they perceived as influencing their fathers’ responses, including gender norms, beliefs regarding the cause of same-sex attraction, religious and sociopolitical views, and concerns about HIV/AIDS. Particularly striking was the pervasive influence of hegemonic masculinity throughout the YGBM’s stories. The implications of these findings for future research and intervention development are discussed, as well as study strengths and limitations.

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Tindall, Natalie T. J., and Richard D. Waters. "Coming Out to Tell Our Stories: Using Queer Theory to Understand the Career Experiences of Gay Men in Public Relations." Journal of Public Relations Research 24, no. 5 (November 2012): 451–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1062726x.2012.723279.

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Louderback, Laura A., and Bernard E. Whitley. "Perceived erotic value of homosexuality and sex‐role attitudes as mediators of sex differences in heterosexual college students' attitudes toward lesbians and gay men." Journal of Sex Research 34, no. 2 (January 1997): 175–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499709551882.

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Adam, P. C. G., D. A. Murphy, and J. B. F. de Wit. "When do online sexual fantasies become reality? The contribution of erotic chatting via the Internet to sexual risk-taking in gay and other men who have sex with men." Health Education Research 26, no. 3 (January 17, 2011): 506–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/her/cyq085.

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May, E. T. "Media and Public History: Broadman, Love Stories: Women, Men, and Romance, and Scagliotti, Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community." Oral History Review 17, no. 1 (March 1, 1989): 146–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ohr/17.1.146.

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Raimondo, Meredith. "‘Corralling the Virus’: Migratory Sexualities and the ‘Spread of AIDS’ in the US Media." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21, no. 4 (August 2003): 389–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d359.

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In this paper I examine the emergence of a popular geography of AIDS in the US mass media in the 1980s, exploring the role of global mobility in the construction of AIDS as a national threat. Efforts to map the geography of the epidemic served to reinforce the illusion that the borders of the nation might effectively be defended against the incursions of HIV via the bodies of those marked as outside the proper citizenry. The representation of Africa as the ‘cradle of AIDS’, the images of crack houses in narratives about urban AIDS in the United States, and stories of White gay men ‘going home to die’ in the ‘heartland’ constructed a geography of danger linking race, sexuality, and ‘home’ that promised security for those within particular borders. Emphasizing the power of racialized maternal compassion as a model for the national response to AIDS, these stories described normative heterosexual domesticity as a means of fixing sexuality in place. This geography proposed that individual family units might reinforce national borders which seemed increasingly fluid in the context of global flows of populations, a construction that illustrates the intersection of space and sexuality in the representation of an emerging global health crisis and produces spatializations of danger that continue to shape the construction of ‘global AIDS’.

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Teti, Michelle, Abigail Rolbiecki, Ni Zhang, Dustin Hampton, and Diane Binson. "Photo-stories of stigma among gay-identified men with HIV in small-town America: A qualitative exploration of voiced and visual accounts and intervention implications." Arts & Health 8, no. 1 (October 31, 2014): 50–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2014.971830.

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Oloruntoba-Oju, Diekara. "‘Like a drag or something’: central texts at the pioneering forefront of contemporary Nigerian queerscapes." Africa 91, no. 3 (April 26, 2021): 418–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972021000280.

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AbstractThis article examinesShe Called Me Woman, a 2018 anthology of and by twenty-five queer Nigerian women. The text focuses on a variety of narratives by women as a way to challenge the confinement of queer Nigeria to the narratives of gay men. The article demonstrates how the multifarious queer(ying) experiences of women in different geographical and social contexts within Nigeria help to further contextualize the trope of what we understand to be queer in Africa. The stories in this anthology reflect the complex ways in which queer women in Nigeria negotiate their everyday lives against the backdrop of the frontier imposed by both anti-homosexuality law in Nigeria and global LGBT+ discourse. In examining the complexities of these women, this article argues that queer frontiers in Africa must necessarily be discussed elliptically, as a compendium of the known, the unknown, and perhaps the unknowable. The idea of queerness is taken up as a frontier of thought, imagination and modes of being: that is, an embodiment of identities at the crossroads of a complex convergence of the old, the new and the yet to be known.

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Provencher, Denis M. "Stepping back from queer theory: Language, fieldwork and the everyday in sexuality studies in France." French Cultural Studies 25, no. 3-4 (August 2014): 408–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155814532201.

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In a 2012 special issue of French Cultural Studies, Didier Eribon urges French studies scholars to step back from critical theory, and in particular queer theory as it has emerged in cultural and literary studies. He is also particularly critical of a version of queer theory conjugated with psychoanalysis. For Eribon, cultural studies scholars and those working in sexuality studies should move away from the ‘master narrative’ of the family and (re)turn to the cultural, the social, the field and empirical evidence. Over the last 15 years, I have conducted fieldwork and ethnographic interviews with self-identified same-sex desiring men in France. Their life stories can be read at times through the Anglo-American lens of a gay-identified, Western coming-out narrative with a telos of ‘progress’ that involves moving from the closet to being ‘out’. At the same time, however, a queer linguistic approach can help us to read against the grain of several norms and hence provide us with a broader understanding of their lived experiences. In this essay, I present empirical language data from my interview with ‘Tahar’ one of my self-identified same-sex desiring Maghrebi and Maghrebi-French interlocutors to illustrate how his speech acts are situated at the crossroads of multiple discourses, temporalities, identities and traditions. As we shall see, Tahar’s story involves being ‘beur’, ‘being homosexual’ and ‘being fat’. This subject speaks back against the empire, against heteronormativity, and against corporeal norms. While a postcolonial critique based on a ‘postcolonial identity’ (looking at ethnicity or religion, for example) or a linguistic analysis based on ‘gay identity’ could be helpful here, my point is that a queer linguistic analysis – one that takes a position counter to the normative broadly defined by considering simultaneously multiple subaltern subject positions – could provide a better approach for those of us working in an interdisciplinary French cultural studies context.

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McKie, Raymond M., Shayna Skakoon-Sparling, Drake Levere, Sage Sezlik, and Terry P. Humphreys. "Is There Space for Our Stories? An Examination of North American and Western European Gay, Bi, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men’s Non-consensual Sexual Experiences." Journal of Sex Research 57, no. 8 (June 21, 2020): 1014–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2020.1767023.

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Dowsett, Gary. "Book reviews : GROWING UP BEFORE STONEWALL: LIFE STORIES OF SOME GAY MEN Peter M. Nardi, David Sanders and Judd Marmor London and New York, Routledge, 7994, 177 pp., $34.95 (paperback)." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 32, no. 1 (March 1996): 109–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/144078339603200115.

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Doan, Laura. "Forgetting Sedgwick." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 125, no. 2 (March 2010): 370–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2010.125.2.370.

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was not a historian of sexuality, but she was keenly aware of the historicity of sexuality and erotic desire in ways unlike other major figures in queer theory. This fact has gone largely unnoticed in queer studies, a field dominated by literary and cultural critics that has an uneasy relation with academic history. An example of the historicity of Sedgwick's theories of sexuality can be seen in her famous critique of Foucault's Great Paradigm Shift—that imaginary moment in the late nineteenth century when the category of the modern homosexual was thought to displace the category of the sodomite (Epistemology 44). The formulation of axiom 5 in Epistemology of the Closet—“the historical search for a Great Paradigm Shift may obscure the present conditions of sexual identity” (44)—reveals a deep consciousness of the “irreducible historicity of all things … discerning the time-and-place specificity of a thing, identifying the ways in which it relates to its context or milieu, and determining the extent to which it is both enabled and hamstrung by this relationship,” to cite the historian Hayden White's description of history as critique (224). If Foucauldian genealogy (or a “history of the present”) “begins with an analysis of blind spots in our current understanding, or with a problematization of what passes for ‘given’ in contemporary thought” (Halperin 13), it is vital, as Sedgwick puts it, to “denaturalize the present, rather than the past” (Epistemology 48). Sedgwick's vantage point on a queer past pivots around “homosexuality as we conceive of it today” (45), a phrase as resonant now in sexuality studies as was Foucault's reference to the homosexual as a species (Foucault 43). So entrenched are the modern categories of identity that Sedgwick repeats the phrase over and over in her cogent analysis of our current conceptions of sexuality. Such insistent differentiation between an alien past and an equally—if not more—alien present, the distinction between “them” and “us,” reverberates across the history of homosexuality. Consider, for instance, Matt Houlbrook's discussion of men who refrain from using “‘gay’ in the way we would use the term today” (xiii) or Jonathan Ned Katz's understanding of the presentness of our present standpoint—“what we today recognize as erotic feelings and acts” (6).

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Bligh, Andrew. "Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories." Disability Studies Quarterly 24, no. 3 (June 15, 2004). http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v24i3.518.

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Bower, Kyle L., Denise C. Lewis, J. Maria Bermudez, and Anneliese A. Singh. "Adding grey to the rainbow: a narrative analysis of generational identity through stories and counter-stories of older gay men." Ageing and Society, October 30, 2019, 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x19001429.

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Abstract We explored identity formation among nine gay men who were born between 1946 and 1964. This group of nine was the largest homogeneous sub-group within a larger sample (N = 18). Although participants share similar demographic characteristics, their individual social, personal and narrative identities diverge to represent distinctive embodied selves. Guided by queer and feminist theories, the qualitative analysis identified dominant and counter-narratives that demonstrate the complexity of sexual identity as it evolves over time. All nine men recall being aware of their gay identity as children; however, like many socially constructed labels, their outward identity was more complex and difficult to understand. The findings demonstrate how participants negotiated their sexual identities through decades of social change. As illustrated within each subset of identity (i.e. social, personal and narrative), some participants found themselves breaking ground for a broader gay rights social movement, while others described their experience of being relegated to silence and invisibility for most of their lives. This research contributes to an ongoing discussion concerning the individuality found among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals in later life. As the LGBT population becomes more visible, there will be a growing need to understand the individualism that exists within this coalition and affirm their diversifying sexual and gender identities.

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