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Queer Carnival

Amy L. Stone
Queer Carnival Book PDF

Author : Amy L. Stone
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479801985

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"As LGBTQ people gain more legal rights, it's important to think of more complex ways of being included in society. From the Mardi Gras celebrations in the Deep South to the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia to the Portland Rose Festival, communities across the United States gather together to celebrate, participate in parades, encourage tourism, cultivate local traditions, and craft a sense of place. I am interested in large public festivals like Fiesta San Antonio that are intended to include everyone in the city, because these festivals are supposed to be a time when the city comes together as one to appreciate the diverse contributions of people within the city. During festivals, whose culture gets included and valued, which events are allowed, and how different communities are represented, become socially significant and fraught questions. Festival participation can be a rich site for LGBTQ participants to be valued for their cultural differences and find a sense of belonging in the city"--

Queer Carnival

Amy L. Stone
Queer Carnival Book PDF

Author : Amy L. Stone
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479801961

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"As LGBTQ people gain more legal rights, it's important to think of more complex ways of being included in society. From the Mardi Gras celebrations in the Deep South to the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia to the Portland Rose Festival, communities across the United States gather together to celebrate, participate in parades, encourage tourism, cultivate local traditions, and craft a sense of place. I am interested in large public festivals like Fiesta San Antonio that are intended to include everyone in the city, because these festivals are supposed to be a time when the city comes together as one to appreciate the diverse contributions of people within the city. During festivals, whose culture gets included and valued, which events are allowed, and how different communities are represented, become socially significant and fraught questions. Festival participation can be a rich site for LGBTQ participants to be valued for their cultural differences and find a sense of belonging in the city"--

Queer Political Performance and Protest

Benjamin Shepard
Queer Political Performance and Protest Book PDF

Author : Benjamin Shepard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135900434

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From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive immigrant rights rallies in the spring of 2006, the streets of cities around the world have been filled with a new theatrical model of protest. Elements of fun, creativity, pleasure, and play are cornerstones of this new approach toward protest and community building. No movement has had a larger influence on the emergence of play in social movement activity than the gay liberation and queer activism of the past thirty years. This book examines the role of play in gay liberation and queer activism, and the ways in which queer notions of play have influenced a broad range of social movements.

The Queer Film Festival

Stuart James Richards
The Queer Film Festival Book PDF

Author : Stuart James Richards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137584380

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This book examines the queer film festival and opens the discussion on social enterprises and sustainable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organisations. With over 220 events worldwide and some of the bigger budgets exceeding $1 million, the queer film festival has grown to become a staple event in all cosmopolitan cities’ arts calendars. While activism was instrumental in establishing these festivals, the pink dollar has been a deciding factor in its financial sustainability. Pretty gay boys with chiselled abs are a staple feature, rather than underground experimental faire. Community arts events, such as these, are now a creative industry. While clearly having a social purpose, they must also concern themselves with the bottom line. For all the contradictory elements of its organisational growth, this conflict makes the queer film festival an integral site for analysis. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach in examining the queer film festival as a representative snapshot of the current state of queer cinema and community based film festivals. The book looks at queer film festivals in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Melbourne to argue for the importance of these institutions remaining as community events.

LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media

Christopher Pullen
LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media Book PDF

Author : Christopher Pullen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230373310

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Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is put forward, revealing new potentials for non western queer identity.

Carnival in Alabama

Isabel Machado
Carnival in Alabama Book PDF

Author : Isabel Machado
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496842626

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Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of rapid urban decline and subsequent attempts at revitalizing (or gentrifying) its downtown area. As in many other US cities, urban renewal, integration, and other socioeconomic developments led to white flight, marginalized the African American population, and set the stage for the development of LGBTQ+ community building and subculture. Yet these usually segregated segments of society in Mobile converged once a year to create a common identity, that of a Carnival City. Carnival in Alabama looks not only at the people who participated in Mardi Gras organizations divided by race, gender, and/or sexual orientation, but also investigates the experience of “marked bodies” outside of these organizations, or people involved in Carnival through their labor or as audiences (or publics) of the spectacle. It also expands the definition of Mobile’s Carnival “tradition” beyond the official pageantry by including street maskers and laborers and neighborhood cookouts. Using archival sources and oral history interviews to investigate and analyze the roles assigned, inaccessible to, or claimed and appropriated by straight-identified African American men and women and people who defied gender and sexuality normativity in the festivities (regardless of their racial identity), this book illuminates power dynamics through culture and ritual. By looking at Carnival as an “invented tradition” and as a semiotic system associated with discourses of power, it joins a transnational conversation about the phenomenon.

Ambiance, Tourism and the City

Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros,Daniel Paiva,Daniel Malet Calvo
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Author : Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros,Daniel Paiva,Daniel Malet Calvo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000872323

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Ambiance, Tourism and the City by Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros,Daniel Paiva,Daniel Malet Calvo Pdf

Ambiance, Tourism and the City considers how tourism and urban development affect the lived ambiances of contemporary cities around the world. As most of the existing literature on sensory atmospheres says little about the intersection between tourism and atmospheric production, this book affirms the centrality of the notion of ambiance as a mode of inquiry into the making and remaking of urban places for tourist consumption. The book takes the reader into the sensory worlds of a traditional Italian marketplace, a jungle park in Kuala Lumpur, a slum in the Colombian city of Medellín, or the "sun and sand" tourism destinations in Southern Spain, among other case studies. It offers new insights into the impact of tourism on the urban environment from multidisciplinary perspectives and a wide range of geographical regions across Europe, North America, Asia, and South America. Through these contemporary case studies, the book further deepens our understanding of the ways in which "ambiances" and "atmospheres" pervade the physical regeneration and sensory transformation of contemporary tourist destinations. Conversely, this book offers insights on the effects of tourism on everyday urban experience. By bringing together a diverse group of scholars and case studies to present a global perspective on the atmospheric production of the tourist city, this book is to serve as a valuable reference tool for researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students with an interest in urban ambiances, tourism, cultural geography, and urban planning.

Post-Queer Politics

Dr David V Ruffolo
Post Queer Politics Book PDF

Author : Dr David V Ruffolo
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409492009

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Post-Queer Politics by Dr David V Ruffolo Pdf

In Post-Queer Politics, Ruffolo looks at the work of Foucault, Butler, Bakhtin, Deleuze, Guattari and others in his creative refocus on the queer/heteronormative dyad that has largely consumed queer studies and contemporary politics. He offers a radical and intersectional new way of thinking about class, race, sex, gender, sexuality and ability that extends beyond queer studies to be truly transdisciplinary in its focus and political implications. It will appeal to readers across a range of subjects, including gender and sexuality studies, philosophy, cultural studies, political science, and education.

Playing it Queer

Jodie Taylor
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Author : Jodie Taylor
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783034305532

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Popular music has always been a dynamic mediator of gender and sexuality, and a productive site of rebellion, oddity and queerness. The transformative capacity of music-making, performance and consumption helps us to make sense of identity and allows us to glimpse otherworldliness, arousing the political imagination. With an activist voice that is impassioned yet adherent to scholarly rigour, Playing it Queer provides an original and compelling ethnographic account of the relationship between popular music, queer self-fashioning and (sub)cultural world-making. This book begins with a comprehensive survey and critical evaluation of relevant literatures on queer identity and political debates as well as popular music, identity and (sub)cultural style. Contextualised within a detailed history of queer sensibilities and creative practices, including camp, drag, genderfuck, queercore, feminist music and club cultures, the author's rich empirical studies of local performers and translocal scenes intimately capture the meaning and value of popular musics and (sub)cultural style in everyday queer lives.

Queering Public Health and Public Policy in the Deep South

Kamden K. Strunk,Raina Feiszli
Queering Public Health and Public Policy in the Deep South Book PDF

Author : Kamden K. Strunk,Raina Feiszli
Publisher : IAP
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781641139687

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Queering Public Health and Public Policy in the Deep South by Kamden K. Strunk,Raina Feiszli Pdf

In this volume, authors explore the interconnected issues of public health and public policy as they relate to queer issues in the Deep South. The book begins with a sustained examination of public health, health disparities, and mental health for LGBTQ people in the South. Next, the issues of public policy and public advocacy, including law enforcement, community advocacy and activism, and public life in the Deep South are taken up. Through the chapters in this text, the peculiarities of public health and public policy for LGBTQ people in the Deep South are explored. However, this volume also points to trends, themes, and dynamics at work in the Deep South that are also implicated in the queer experience in other parts of the U.S. The authors of this text push readers to think deeply about these issues. They clearly highlight the systemic nature of oppression of queer people in the South through institutions of medicine, mental health discourses, the criminal justice system, and public life including Pride and Mardi Gras. Taken together, the authors in this volume call for reform, liberation, and conscientization and queerly envision the future of health and policy in the Deep South.

AsiaPacifiQueer

Fran Martin,Peter Jackson,Mark McLelland,Audrey Yue
AsiaPacifiQueer Book PDF

Author : Fran Martin,Peter Jackson,Mark McLelland,Audrey Yue
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252091810

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AsiaPacifiQueer by Fran Martin,Peter Jackson,Mark McLelland,Audrey Yue Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection examines the shaping of local sexual cultures in the Asian Pacific region in order to move beyond definitions and understandings of sexuality that rely on Western assumptions. The diverse studies in AsiaPacifiQueer demonstrate convincingly that in the realm of sexualities, globalization results in creative and cultural admixture rather than a unilateral imposition of the western values and forms of sexual culture. These essays range across the Pacific Rim and encompass a variety of forms of social, cultural, and personal expression, examining sexuality through music, cinema, the media, shifts in popular rhetoric, comics and magazines, and historical studies. By investigating complex processes of localization, interregional borrowing, and hybridization, the contributors underscore the mutual transformation of gender and sexuality in both Asian Pacific and Western cultures. Contributors are Ronald Baytan, J. Neil C. Garcia, Kam Yip Lo Lucetta, Song Hwee Lim, J. Darren Mackintosh, Claire Maree, Jin-Hyung Park, Teri Silvio, Megan Sinnott, Yik Koon Teh, Carmen Ka Man Tong, James Welker, Heather Worth, and Audrey Yue.

Beyond the Sea

Felan Parker,Jessica Aldred
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Author : Felan Parker,Jessica Aldred
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780773554986

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A collection of innovative essays on the iconic, dystopian video game series and its lasting influence.

Political Animal

Frank Perez
Political Animal Book PDF

Author : Frank Perez
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496841308

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During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler (1930–2020) fell in love with Alfred Doolittle—a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that changed the course of LGBTQ+ history. With Doolittle’s money, Butler was able to retire and devote his life to political activism in the cause of queer liberation. A survivor of the horrific Up Stairs Lounge arson, Butler was a founding member of the first statewide lesbian and gay rights organization in Louisiana and an early champion for transgender rights, playing a key role in the eight-year struggle to persuade PFLAG to become the first national LGBTQ+ organization to include trans people in its mission statement. In Political Animal: The Life and Times of Stewart Butler, author Frank Perez traces Butler’s amazing life from his early childhood in Depression-era New Orleans, his adolescence at Carville where his father worked, his first unsuccessful attempt at college, his time in the army as a closeted gay man, his adventures in Alaska, his transformation into a hippie in the 1960s, his love affair with Doolittle, his decades as a gay rights advocate, and ultimately, his twilight years as an elder statesman. Based on Butler's own personal papers, including hundreds of letters, and dozens of interviews, Political Animal paints an intimate portrait of a legendary figure in gay politics and the times in which he lived.

Outskirts

D'Lane R. Compton,Amy L. Stone
Outskirts Book PDF

Author : D'Lane R. Compton,Amy L. Stone
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479821532

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Outskirts by D'Lane R. Compton,Amy L. Stone Pdf

Celebrates diverse queer experiences on society’s margins Outskirts addresses the diverse and intricate aspects of the queer experience on the periphery of the social world. From the Korean spa to the Carnival krewe to new sexual identities, this volume asks important questions about the atypical places, spaces, and identities that are an important part of LGBTQ life in the United States. By bringing together scholars specializing in the less visible facets of queer culture, the book offers valuable insights that contribute to a deeper understanding of queer perspectives and their impact on the discipline of sociology. The volume challenges researchers to focus on diversity and complexity of the queer experience in the fringe to inform larger sociological questions and contribute to the field of sociology. Most simply put: what is it that we learn from studying at the margins? The essays in Outskirts focus on the influence of place, both physical and virtual, within institutional settings and in situations of placelessness. This attention to non-normative spaces and identities enriches the collective knowledge of LGBTQ experiences and offers a compelling narrative that pushes the boundaries of sociological inquiry and highlights the importance of queer voices on the fringes of society.

Performances that Change the Americas

Stuart Alexander Day
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Author : Stuart Alexander Day
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000439427

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This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have changed the Americas—from Canada to the Southern Cone. Through the study of specific examples from numerous countries, the authors of this volume demonstrate a crucial, shared outlook: they affirm that ordinary people change the direction of history through performance. This project offers concrete, compelling cases that emulate the modus operandi of people like historian Howard Zinn. In the same spirit, the chapters treat marginal groups whose stories underscore the potentially unstoppable and transformative power of united, embodied voices. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, performance, art and politics.