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92 Cards in this Set
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Baby Boom
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-Post WWII
-1946-1964, 76 million babies -increase until 1965 |
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Healthy Sexuality
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-WWII
-Comic Sexuality -The 'War Bride' *women finds herself pregnant before husband leaves for war |
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Dangerous Sexuality
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-WWII
-Syphillis & Gonorrhea -"Nose Art"-Bombshells |
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WWII and Homosexuality
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-Sergeant Johnnie Philips*Lesbian in WWII
-Famous -Commander didn't report gays/lesbians |
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Miscegenation
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WWII
Fear of race-mixing and "Race Suicide" |
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America Sexuality in the !9th Century
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-Miscegenation
-Separate Spheres-Social rules of men and women in domestic and public spaces -Prostitution, Venereal Diseases, and Fears of "White Slavery" -Free Speech, Obscenity, and Censorship -The 'Invention' of Modern Homosexuality |
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Oscar Wilde
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-convicted of crimes of "gross indecency"
-becomes most visible example of homosexual for English speaking -trials widely reported -career ruined when imprisoned -embalm of homosexual(fashion, flamboyant, voice) -reinforced gay to feel the need to hide their sexual identities |
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"Invention' of the Homosexual and Heterosexual
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-Homosexual coined 1860s and medical community by 80s
-designates personality, identity, and social type -homo & hetero not just describing sexual orientation, sense of identity. -terms first appear in New York Times 1930 |
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Lynching
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5000 Africa Amer lynched 1890-1960 include castration and hanging.
-recorded by photography -mostly men -violated white women |
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Interracial couples
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-only acceptable are desexualized black adults and sexually innocent white children
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Jazz and Blues
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-African Amer popular culture
-jazz and blues attracts white audiences and encourages racialized fantasies |
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White Slavery Scare
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-white women slave for sex purpose
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Economics of Marriage
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-male = breadwinner
-female = unpaid labor-household -inequality/men make more $$ |
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Marriage as a male trap
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-don't want to be responsible, mature
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Breadwinner Ethic and Male Revolt
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-James Dean seen as attractive for irresponsibility, rebellious
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Breadwinner Ethic and Male Revolt
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-James Dean seen as attractive for irresponsibility, rebellious
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The Bachelor and the Taint of Homosexual
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-bachelor = deviant, homosexual
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The Bachelor and the Taint of Homosexual
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-bachelor = deviant, homosexual
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Suburbia
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-Moral obligation to raise children
-symbol of conformity *robotic quality |
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Suburbia
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-Moral obligation to raise children
-symbol of conformity *robotic quality |
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Corporate Office as a Male refuge from Home
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-rebellion in the workplace
*drink, flirt w/ secretary, limited rebellion |
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Kinsey Reports
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Male 1948
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female 1953 |
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Kinsey's Methods
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-Gather empirical data without moral bias-did not judge
-Gather data from large sample to establish norms, !8,000 American and Canadian -Confidential, direct face-to-face interviews -gains trust interviewers |
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Revelations of Kinsey Reports
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-Males-masturbation-universal
*90%pre-martial intercourse *50% extra-martial sex *1/3 homosexual experience Females *vaginal orgasm-biological impossible *more 50% masturbated *90% premarital petting *50% premarital sex *25% extra-marital sex |
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Kinsey Achievements
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-relive guilt and reassuring readers that everyone had similar sexual impulses
-change sexual climate |
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Criticisms Kinsey
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-moral + religious
-sample insufficient -interview method flawed |
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Cultural Impact
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-revealed the discrepancy between popular perceptions and the reality of American sexual practices
-sexual subcultures increase into mainstream |
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The Hearts of Men
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-post WWII-male revolt against breadwinner ethic
*breadwinner role is established as normal & mature, but conformist. rebellion is immature/deviant-homosexual -conformity-middle class life, corporate work, life in suburbia is discontent -playboy challenges values of conformity and maturity via male consumer. devoted to pleasurable consumption and heterosexual sex and opposed marriage. |
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Vargas & Esquire
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-drawings (no photos)
-could be imagined-not real -not as explicit compared to underground -mainstream |
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Cheesecake
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-1940s
-inbetween -mainstream -playful/innocent -less explicit |
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Men's Magazines
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-defined by cheesecake
-striptease(entertainment) |
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Playboy
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-opposes marriage
-believes in jobs -loved women..hated wives -to stay free, had to stay single -shifts the new def. of attractive |
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The bachelor pad
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-indoors for men
-bar -interior decorating -hugh hefner |
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Hugh Heftner
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-determined men to love breasts(change from legs)
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Borderline
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-Playboy?
-more explicit than cheesecake |
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Pornography
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-any sexual photographs
-full nudity -context and scene |
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Three Models of Male Rebellion
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-straight white masculinity
-playboy -beats |
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beats
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-not liked by Hefner
-oppose work, materialism, bachelor pad, -sex w/o paying (dates) -reject marriage and job -first to believe black is beautiful -lower class "cool" |
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beat chick
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-dressed in black
-bangs |
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Allen Ginsberg
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-publicly gay
-artist -author of "Howl" |
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Jake Kerouac
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-beat
-straight -heavy drinker -daring/experimental but safe |
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grey flannel rebel
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-resented job
-cheated -rebels against breadwinner role |
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The Juvenile Delinquent
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-invented 1950s
-social problem -more dangerous(female delinquent) |
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The Beatnik
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-just a fad
-kinky & sexy (knew wild things) |
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Howl
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-harder to ban obscene books
-poem by allen gensberg -drugs -explicit sexual reference -uses religious figures -"homosexual" -censorship battles |
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sexual subcultures
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-hypermacho
-extremely masculine -bikers, navy -gay |
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mad magazine
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-survived comics code
-goes against mainstream (helped create popular culture:SNL) |
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Sexual subculture: Physique Culture
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-bodybuilding
-protective layer of health & fitness (gives ok for men to look at half naked men) |
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Sexual Stereotypes: The Homosexual Sad young man
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-realize you're homosexual
-sad & alone -never happy, full emotional experience relationship -you're the only one -if you find someone, cant marry |
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Sexual Stereotypes: The Homosexual Sad young man
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-realize you're homosexual
-sad & alone -never happy, full emotional experience relationship -you're the only one -if you find someone, cant marry |
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Camp
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-has an underlying seriousness
-can't make fun out of it -ultimate camp statement "it's good because its awful" |
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Cold War Closet
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-hide away private life
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The lavender scare
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-5,000 to 8000 removed from the government
-unapologetic wording in articles |
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Christine Jorgensen
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-1926-1989
-first sex change -ex GI -transfer to blonde bombshell - |
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The Invisibility of the american lesbian
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-"boston marriages"-allowed women to live together without male support.
-may have been intimate w/o being sexual -may provided acceptable public cover for lesbian lovers |
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The Invisibility of the american lesbian
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-"boston marriages"-allowed women to live together without male support.
-may have been intimate w/o being sexual -may provided acceptable public cover for lesbian lovers |
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lesbian continuum
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-as allowed women a greater degree of physical and emotional intimacy than men.
-range from public signs of affection to casual sexual contact |
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intimate female friendships and lesbian couples
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-standards has allowed women a degree of intimacy unavailable to men
-close affection between girls as a passing phase (not believed by psychologist) |
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the homosocial spaces
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-locker rooms, rest roooms, dorms, frats, clubs, etc.
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homosocial rituals
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-touch bottoms during sports/not on streets
-hugging |
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rise of the mass market paperback
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-cheaper
-sold outside book stores |
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lesbian pulp culture
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-others like me
-suggest others are lesbians -written for many different audiences (men) |
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paperback
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-cheap/mass produced
-sold more places -bigger audiences -less value/status |
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Covers
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-curiosity/tease/suggestive
-everyday scenarios -focus on groups |
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Second wave feminism
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-or women's liberation movement
-protest image of Miss America |
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the feminine mystique
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-author betty friedan
-identifies the problem which has no name -women ashamed that husband and children are not enough-not fulfilled - |
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sex and the single girl
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-argues against marriage
-advocates single women to have affairs with married men -series of tips-resist social pressures of marriage & kids -helen gurley brown |
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cosmopolitan
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-founded as family magazine
-sex is majorly emphasized -nude centerfold actor burt reynolds -focused on young women and discussions of sexuality |
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how to be sexy
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-confidence in own body
-enjoys sex (orgasm) |
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the sexual revolution
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-1960s
-women's and gay liberation after civl rights -birth control and abortion rights |
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birth control and abortion rights
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-1960- oral approved for the us
-1965- married women legal -1968- roman catholic church objection -1972-legal for unmarried -1973-roe v wade |
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sex handbooks
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-middle class-improve sex life-not linked to reproduction
-mainstream bookstores |
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cold war masculinity
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-communism kept masculine toughness in style (james bond)
-shift in masculinity in 1960s |
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errant masculinity
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-stress = male disease
-should be more mellow -male aggressiveness was a lethal force |
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hippies
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-free love
-drugs -counterculture -marriage is gone -mind expansion |
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The commercial of hippies
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-playboy and archie comics incorporates hippies
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underground comix
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-ground zero = san fransico
-re-invent comic book -quite sexual= adults only -self censoring = Comics code -sold at headshops |
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black is beautiful
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-playboy features first black centerfold
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limp wrist
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-popular sign of homosexuality
-feminine gesture -wrist go limp = gay men are seen as unconsciously revealing their "soft" sexuality -gay liberation, limp wrist was adopted as a form of camp exaggeration -not properly a masculine gesture |
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stonewall riot
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-june 28, 1969
-police raided gay bar -after judy garland died (icon for gays) |
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The gay liberation movement
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-forms in new york '69 after stonewall riots
-pride movement -turned negative words into positive |
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myths of pre-stonewall era
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-myth of isolation (alone & lonely)
-myth of gay invisibility (no signs of gays were visible) -myth of internalization (no social or public life) |
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Coming out
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-transforms from self-acknowledgement or limited identification to other gay people to public avowal
-rejection of the negative social meaning of homosexuality by pride -being gay = mode of existence |
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gay manifesto
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-closet queenery must end
-free ourselves -maybe inspired by black people and their freedom movement |
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Early Gay Liberation Publications
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-fagrag
-appropriating negative term |
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From gay pulp to gay fiction
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-extreme stereotype
-curious audience -doesn't have to be under surface |
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The Gay Novel
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-baldwin writes gay novel
-major american novel |
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Homology
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-scientific fields- structural whole that links otherwise unrelated elements into a shared cultural style or expressive sensibility encouraging group identification
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Disco
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-saturday night fever appropriates disco
-eroticism-physical -romanticism-an escape -materialism-fashion |
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Backlash:Disco Sucks
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-disco sucks rally
-burn disco music -becomes a riot -very racist and homophobic (disco is for blacks and gays) |
