The voice of others: Identity, alterity and gender normativity among gay men in Israel

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erez Levon
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Male Sexuality ◽  
Gay Identity ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

AbstractThis article presents an analysis of a slang variety, called oxtšit, as it is described and used by a cohort of gay men in Israel. Unlike many previous analyses of gay slang, I argue that the men described do not use the variety to help construct and affirm an alternative gay identity, but rather that they use it as a form of in-group mockery through which normative and nonnormative articulations of Israeli gay male sexuality are delineated. It is suggested that this discussion has implications for sociolinguistic understandings of “groupness” more broadly, and particularly the relationship between macro-level social categories (like “gay”) and individual lived experience. (Gay slang, Israel, vari-directional voicing, identity/alterity)*

scholarly journals Identity Collision: Older Gay Men Using Technology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avi Marciano ◽  
Galit Nimrod
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Advanced Age ◽  
Gay Identity ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Older Gay Men ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This study examines identity work among older gay men in relation to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It draws on the notion of IT identity—the extent to which individuals experience technology as integral to their sense of selves—to explore how their homosexuality and advanced age shape their relationships with technology. Applying thematic analysis to 17 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with gay male users aged 66–81, we show that while homosexuality and technology enable and reinforce one another, the relationship between technology and advanced age can be better defined by alienation and estrangement. Consequently, we argue that technology constitutes a crossroads at which the gay and elder identities intersect and collide. In this sense, technology is similar to other cultural constructs, like sexuality, that challenge the merger of advanced age and homosexuality, rendering the older gay identity almost impossible.

scholarly journals Gay men in the performing arts: Performing sexualities within ‘gay-friendly’ work contexts

Organization ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Rumens ◽  
John Broomfield
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Male Sexuality ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Male Sexualities ◽  
Work Contexts

Building on emerging research on ‘gay-friendly’ organizations, this article examines if and how work contexts understood and experienced as ‘gay-friendly’ can be characterized as exhibiting a serious breakdown in heteronormativity. Taking the performing arts as a research setting, one that is often stereotyped as ‘gay-friendly’, and drawing on in-depth interview data with 20 gay male performers in the UK, this article examines how everyday activities and encounters involving drama school educators, casters and peers are shaped by heteronormative standards of gay male sexuality. Adopting a queer theory perspective and connecting with an emergent queer theory literature in organization studies, one concern articulated in this article is that heteronormative constructions of gay male sexualities constrain participants’ access to work; suggesting limits to the abilities and roles gay men possess and are able to play. Another concern is that when gay male sexualities become normalized in performing work contexts, they reinforce organizational heteronormativity and the heterosexual/homosexual binary upon which it relies. This study contributes towards theorizing the heteronormative dynamics of ‘gay-friendly’ places of work, arguing that gay male sexualities are performatively instituted according to localized heteronormativities which reinforce contextually contingent, restrictive heteronormative standards of gay male sexuality which performers are encouraged to embody and perform both professionally and personally.

Willed ambiguity: An exploratory study of sexual misconduct affecting sexual minority male university students in Canada

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072094730
Author(s):  
Viviane Namaste ◽  
Mark Gaspar ◽  
Sylvain Lavoie ◽  
Alexander McClelland ◽  
Emily Sims ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Sexual Misconduct ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
The University ◽  
University Settings ◽  
Male University Students

We offer exploratory reflections on the matter of sexual misconduct affecting sexuality minority male students by males in positions of authority in the university, based on interviews with eight sexual violence service providers and five men across Canada with lived experience, as well as information gathered through our recruitment work. Data were interpreted using thematic analysis. Our results indicate that there is a need to think through the specificity of sexual misconduct involving men in university settings. Several dynamics operate to perpetuate a willed ambiguity on this issue that allow abuses of power to go unchecked. These include difficulties in having a conversation on this topic, the sexualization of gay male culture, gender dynamics among gay men, ‘queer’ justifications, risks of social isolation, and financial precarity.

Music, Form, Penetration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Amico
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Western Music ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between Russian gay men and both Western and Russian popular musics by focusing on specific harmonic and melodic musical attributes that contribute to a Russian “sound.” In particular, it considers the link between sound and listener to experiences of (pleasurable) penetration. It shows that Russian homosexuality imparts a certain prestige (marked by modernity, style, and internationality) upon a cultural product. It also reveals that Russian gay men professed a preference for Western popular music and Western music in general, even as many of them also admitted a connection to Russian popular musics. Finally, it examines the connections between music, penetrations, and the homosexual body in the context of politics. The chapter suggests that lived experience—apprehended, in part, as a porosity of borders and operating as both a material and conceptual dynamic—inflects the interaction between Russian gay men and audible culture.

America's “White” Cultural and Sexual Dissensus: The Fictions of Edmund White

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-316
Author(s):  
TONY PURVIS
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Male Sexuality ◽  
Gay Identity ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Representation Of Sexuality

This essay examines the representation of sexuality and identity in the fictions of American novelist Edmund White. Gay sexuality and identity politics are discussed in relation to “coming out,” the discourse of American identity, and whiteness. White's output is shaped and informed by the cultural, historical and political circumstances which have conditioned how gay male sexuality has been discursively shaped over the last forty years. Yet his work has been inflected by theorizations of sexuality which have called into question the very specificity of a homosexual and/or gay identity. Who is White's audience today, and who wants to read a “white” boy's story anyway?

Heterosexism in the Workplace

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belle Rose Ragins ◽  
John M. Cornwell ◽  
Janice S. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Relational Demography ◽  
Gay Identity ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Multiple Group ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Employees Of Color ◽  
Group Memberships

This article examined the effects of multiple group memberships and relational demography on the workplace experiences of 534 gay employees, 162 of whom were gay employees of color. Two competing models of multiple group membership were tested by assessing the effects of race and gender on sexual orientation discrimination and the decision to disclose a gay identity at work. Race and gender were unrelated to heterosexism. Lesbians were as likely to disclose as gay men, but gay employees of color were less likely to disclose at work. Relational demography predictions were supported for race and sexual orientation but not for gender, suggesting that gender similarity predictions may not apply to gay employees. More heterosexism was reported with male supervisors or work teams, and these effects were stronger for lesbians than gay men. Irrespective of race, employees in racially balanced teams reported less heterosexism than those in primarily White or non-White teams.

scholarly journals The Importance of Orofacial Motricity in the Work of Confirmation of Transgender Voice: An Integrative Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
João Lopes ◽  
◽  
Gisele Lopes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Experimental Validation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Gender Recognition ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

The voice is a manifestation of the muscular process, but with psychological basis, thus being an important aspect in performance and gender recognition. The transgender person finds him/herself in biological bodies not recognized by him/her. Many of them undergo hormone treatments and surgeries to suit their gender identity and value interventions in their body and voice. Objective: To explain the importance of the relationship between orofacial motricity and voice in the phonotherapeutic work to confirm the transgender voice. Methods: A literature search was conducted covering the period from 2010 to 2020, including articles with experimental validation, which discussed therapy techniques or evaluation instruments. Results: The search resulted in 1512 publications. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 31 articles were selected. After detailed analysis of the selected abstracts and prioritization of the discussion of orofacial motricity elements, nine articles were chosen for critical analysis. All selected articles contributed to clarify the research question. Conclusion: Orofacial motricity plays a fundamental role in the confirmation of the transgender voice.

Queering Prehistory on the Frontier

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-80
Author(s):  
Mark P. Toussaint
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

The Mierzanowice Culture (MC) is the name given to an archaeological complex that existed from about 2400/2300–1600 BCE, in the Early Bronze Age of Central Europe. Mierzanowice Culture cemeteries provide a unique opportunity to investigate and theorize the relationship between sex and gender in prehistory, due to their tradition of mirror-opposite, seemingly sex-differentiated burials. This chapter questions interpretations of these burial characteristics in terms of rigid, sex-based binaries, and investigates whether they may correspond more closely with social constructions of identity, including gender and status. Furthermore, it explores the relationship between salient biological and social categories and health in Mierzanowice communities. Although the case study explored in this chapter was based on a small sample of individuals, a few patterns have begun to emerge. Certain aspects of burial orientations may correspond more to gender than to sex. Furthermore, it is not out of the realm of possibility that some atypical burial orientations may correspond to a non-binary gender category. This preliminary study also indicated that while all individuals were at fairly equal risk of perimortem trauma, females were more likely than males to incur antemortem trauma.

scholarly journals The Lived Experience of Gender and Gender Equity Policies at a Regional Australian University

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Jennifer Manyweathers ◽  
Jessie Lymn ◽  
Geraldine Rurenga ◽  
Katie Murrell-Orgill ◽  
Shara Cameron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Research Question ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Dependent Care ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Care Support

The research question driving this project was ‘what is the congruence between the lived experience of gender and a policy designed to improve gender equity in a university environment?’ The study used mixed methods to investigate the question. These methods included analysis of organisational travel data, and a collaborative autoethnography of participants engaging with claims for dependent care support expenses while travelling for work. The research found four key themes influencing the relationship between gender equity policies and the lived experience of staff. These include gatekeeping, organisation-wide funding of gender equity policies, policy development processes and gender equity as a concept. This article presents a series of transferable recommendations for organisations looking to improve gender equity.

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