The necessity of queer shame for gay pride: The Gay Games and Cultural Events

2007 ◽  
pp. 102-118
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Events ◽  
Gay Pride ◽  
Gay Games

The Sydney 2002 Gay Games and Querying Australian National Space

10.1068/d401 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Waitt
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
National Space ◽  
Textual Representations ◽  
Opening Ceremony ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gay Pride ◽  
Gay Games ◽  
Sports Venues ◽  
National Boundaries

In what ways did Sydney's Gay Games reinvent the Australian nation? In this paper I set out to examine this question by drawing upon the idea that sports and parades of athletes during opening ceremonies have been definitive moments for the Australian nation. I investigate the social terrains or bodyscapes invoked by sporting gay pride during the participants' parade at the opening ceremony and sports venues of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games. This enables insights into whether these spaces subverted the heteronormativity of sporting bodies that are metaphors for Australian national space. I centre my argument within a post-Foucauldian performance theory to consider both lived experience and textual representations of queer sports spaces. This approach advocates a recursive relationship between power, discourse, and critically reflexive, geographically embedded subjects. The ethnographic basis of my findings is participant observation and a time series of in-depth interviews with over forty self-identifying gay and queer males living in Sydney. I extract two overarching themes from the bodyscapes of the games: transcendence and imprisonment. For those actively involved in the making of camp bodyscapes, mimicking the monopoly of the dominant order through the authority of national signification provided by the parade of athletes at opening ceremonies and by sporting bodies offered a transgressive vehicle. However, the pillar of hetero-normative sporting bodies in defining Australian national boundaries survived unchallenged. Sporting gay pride also worked to close rather than to open up a space for discourses about sexuality and national identity to occur. Closure from a mainstream audience occurred by jettisoning the shame that links sport, sex, and bodies. Closure also occurred amongst certain respondents who shunned the games, regarding it as disciplining bodies into ‘normalcy’.

Meditations on Gay Pride

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Zucker
Keyword(s):  
Gay Pride

Spontaneous Reactions to Gay Pride Parades

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Ratcliff ◽  
Kimberly Gawron
Keyword(s):  
Gay Pride ◽  
Pride Parades

“If You Ask”

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 442-456
Author(s):  
Kristin M. Langellier
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Narrative Interview ◽  
A Site

In the context of global performativity, the refugee story is a command performance to bureaucrats that travels across boundaries to other cultural events, including participatory research. The embodied dynamics of co-constituting performance trouble the narrative interview as a site of storytelling. I examine three moments in which the phrase “if you ask” marks the politics of inviting and empathizing with personal narrative.

Somewhere between Human, Nonhuman, and Woman

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-51
Author(s):  
Debashree Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
The South ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Production Experience ◽  
Human Object ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of

In 1939, at the height of her stardom, the actress Shanta Apte went on a spectacular hunger strike in protest against her employers at Prabhat Studios in Poona, India. The following year, Apte wrote a harsh polemic against the extractive nature of the film industry. In Jaau Mi Cinemaat? (Should I Join the Movies?, 1940), she highlighted the durational depletion of the human body that is specific to acting work. This article interrogates these two unprecedented cultural events—a strike and a book—opening them up toward a history of embodiment as production experience. It embeds Apte's emphasis on exhaustion within contemporaneous debates on female stardom, industrial fatigue, and the status of cinema as work. Reading Apte's remarkable activism as theory from the South helps us rethink the meanings of embodiment, labor, materiality, inequality, resistance, and human-object relations in cinema.

Peran Teknologi Dalam Mengembangkan Potensi Ekspor Topeng Malangan (Analisis Situasional Dan Rencana Solusi)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Nurida Finahari
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Wood Species ◽  
Management System ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Production Equipment ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Puppet Show ◽  
Three Stages

The art of chisel mask is developed in Tumpang Malang area as part of dance costume fairs, puppet show andcultural ritual, although in its development, this mask sculpture is also sold and become a tourism commodity. The potentialsales of mask sculptures is increasing, especially because of the demanders are foreign tourists, cultural enthusiasts andcomponent of tourism activities. That is, Topeng Malangan has the potential to be developed as an export commodity. Thesales system is still limited to cultural events or when there is a visit of education and tourism to the arts-padepokan. Thisprompted some people around the padepokan to start a home industry to meet the availability of the mask. In general, theproblems encountered by the craftsmen are (1) availability of raw materials, especially for suitable wood species, (2)production equipment, especially for pre-carving process and preservation of product, (3) there is no standard marketingscheme, (4) does not have a business management system, and (5) highly skilled craftsmen are still very limited. The solutionsoffered are divided into three stages: (1) technological strengthening, including strengthening production process technologyand increasing the number of craftsmen; (2) establishing business management; and (3) establishing trademarks, copyrightsand product marketing expansions

Small-Scale Cultural Tourism Events: Residents' Perceptions on Their Quality and Impacts

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-293
Author(s):  
Maria Doumi ◽  
Anna Kyriakaki ◽  
Theodoros Stavrinoudis
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Cultural Events

In the present article researchers feature the examination of the opinions and attitudes of the residents of Chios island in Greece. It is based on the investigation of both the characteristics (quality, potential, organization) of the island's main annual cultural events (Rocket War, Agas, and Mostra) and their possible impact on the local society, economy, tourism, and natural environment. Cluster analysis was used to classify the residents under three groups: Embracers, Realists, Neutrals. Each group has particular characteristics and a clearly defined opinion about local cultural tourism events and their impact on a local level. According to the main findings of the primary research some particularly interesting aspects of the effects of local cultural tourism events both on the local level and on the island's tourism development emerge. The conclusions drawn from the elaboration of such findings afford an opportunity to understand better the general impact of cultural events and by the same token to assist government bodies, residents, and other stakeholders in maximizing benefits, whenever possible.

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