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De jongen die Werther Nieland werd /

Nol Gregoor.Amsterdam: Reflex, 1983 - 54 p., [30] p.: ill.

edition:	Amsterdam: Reflex, 1983 - 54 p., [30] p.: ill.
ISBN:	9063220758
subjects:	gay men writers characters netherlands 1950 1960
resume:	Essay over degene die model stond voor Reve's personage Werther Nieland (Walter S.).

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The good, the bad or the queer : Articulations of queer resistance in The Wire / Frederik Dhaenens, Sofie Van Bauwel.

Sexualities, 15 (2012) 5/6 (sep), p. 702-717

source:	Sexualities year: 15 (2012) 5/6 (sep), p. 702-717
resume:	Although the representation of queer characters has grown significantly in contemporary western television, most of the popular fiction series are still dominated by hegemonic heteronormative discourses. However, this article demonstrates how the critically acclaimed series The Wire, through its subversive articulations of queer characters, resists heteronormativity. This implies that the series can be read as a defiance of an essentialist, hierarchical and oppositional way of thinking. Our textual thematic analysis reveals how the series uses both deconstructive practices that expose the way heteronormative practices function, and reconstructive practices offering counter-discourses that transgress societal assumptions about gender, sexuality and identity.
subjects:	lgbt identity television series fiction heteronormativity characters deconstruction usa

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When the heterosexual script goes flexible : Public reactions to female heteroflexibility in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic books / Hélène Frohard-Dourlent.

Sexualities, 15 (2012) 5/6 (sep), p. 718-738

source:	Sexualities year: 15 (2012) 5/6 (sep), p. 718-738
resume:	The phenomenon of heteroflexibility, wherein a heterosexual character engages in same-sex intimacy, provides a good example of how modern narratives of sexuality can contain promises of subversion yet also shore up heteronormative schemas. To fully understand how the notion of heteroflexibility functions to broaden and/or restrict our understandings of (female) sexuality, we need to examine how these narratives are taken up by the audience. This article explores this tension by analysing how readers reacted to a heteroflexible storyline featured in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic books. By examining how this story was interpreted, rejected and/or embraced by readers, I show that readers who disliked the heteroflexible storyline as well as those who enjoyed it draw on liberal discourses that obscure how heteronormativity operates. This in turn limits heteroflexibility?s potential for disrupting dominant heteronormative discourses.
subjects:	heteronormativity heterosexual women characters comic strips women who have sex with women

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Will the Real Robert Neville Please, Come Out? : Vampirism, the Ethics of Queer Monstrosity, and Capitalism in Richard Matheson's I Am Legend? / Jamil Khader.

Journal of Homosexuality, 60 (2013) 4 (apr), p. 532-557

source:	Journal of Homosexuality year: 60 (2013) 4 (apr), p. 532-557
resume:	In this article, I argue that Richard Matheson's (1954) vampire novella, I Am Legend, encodes the protagonist's, Robert Neville, traumatic recognition of his queer sexuality in its monstrosity (the unspeakability of male penetrability). Neville's identification with and desire for his undead neighbor, Ben Cortman, are symbolically codified through three different registers: intertextual references to vampiric conventions and codes, the semiotics of queer subculture, and a structure of doubling that links Neville to the queer vampire. Although Neville avoids encountering his unspeakable queer desire, which could be represented only at the level of the Lacanian Real, he must still confront Cortman's obsessive exhortations for him to come out. Only when he symbolically codifies his abnormality in its own monstrosity, by viewing himself through mutant vampires' eyes, can Neville reconfigure the ethical relationship between self and other, humans and mutant humans-vampires. However progressive Matheson's novella is in its advocacy of minority sexual rights, it still renders capitalism's problematic relationship with queer subjectivity invisible. Although capitalism overdetermines every aspect of the social field and makes Neville's daily life possible in its surplus enjoyment, the fundamental antagonism (class struggle) in capitalism is obscured by the assertion of identity politics. [ Copies are available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2013.735934#abstract ]
subjects:	queer theory vampirism characters gay men

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"Let Me Bite You Again" : Vampiric Agency in Octavia Butler's Fledgling / Elizabeth Lundberg.

GLQ : A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 21 (2015) 4 [oct], p. 561-584

source:	GLQ : A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies year: 21 (2015) 4 [oct], p. 561-584
resume:	This essay examines restrictions on and opportunities for agency in Fledgling, Octavia Butler's 2005 science fiction vampire novel. Reading agency through three relational modes - belonging, trauma, and consensual nonconsent - it argues that Fledgling helps us critically consider agency in a queer, posthumanist context. Butler's vampires become figures through which the text highlights conflicting desires (for independence and dependence, autonomy and belonging) that flow through the seemingly unified modern subject. This novel reinforces feminist and queer critiques of humanist notions of agency while allowing that some version of agency does survive for the postmodern subject within embodied and relational experiences of subjectivity. (Copies are available at http://glq.dukejournals.org/content/21/4/521.abstract]
subjects:	vampirism science fiction representation characters usa

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'The Capitol Accent Is So Affected Almost Anything Sounds Funny in It' : The Hunger Games Trilogy, Queerness, and Paranoid Reading / Michelle Ann Abate.

Journal of LGBT Youth, 12 (2015) 4 [oct-dec], p. 397-418

source:	Journal of LGBT Youth year: 12 (2015) 4 [oct-dec], p. 397-418
resume:	Throughout the Hunger Games trilogy, the residents of the Capitol are associated with an array of physical, behavioral, and sartorial traits that have stereotypically been associated with homosexuality in general and gay men in particular. Although none of these characters is explicitly identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ), they are routinely linked with queer forms of feyness, fussiness, and flamboyance. How are young adult readers to interpret these details? What social message or political stance is Suzanne Collins conveying by making some of the vainest, powerful, and heartless characters in her book also in dialogue with common conceptions about queerness? Does The Hunger Games include these elements to dismantle negative stereotypes about LGBTQ people, or does the book perpetuate and even affirm homophobic attitudes? In what ways do these details impact the presentation of Katniss, in many ways, as a genderqueer figure herself? In exploring these and other questions, I draw on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's notion of 'paranoid reading'. While Sedgwick's concept of paranoid reading is intended to address LGBTQ content exclusively, I make a case that it is also a productive lens for examining the Hunger Games trilogy as a whole. Using the portrayal of the Capitol residents as an entry point for the trilogy's engagement with nonheteronormative gender and sexuality, I examine how the series serves both to reinforce and to resist homophobia. In so doing, I demonstrate the risks as well as the rewards of finding what we fear seeing in any work of dystopian young adult (YA) fiction. [ Copies are available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19361653.2015.1077768 ]
subjects:	lgbt characters science fiction youth literature gender role homonormativity usa

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Out of the Closet : Representation of Homosexuals and Lesbians in Modern Arabic Literature / Hanadi Al-Samman.

Journal of Arabic Literature, 39 (2008), p. 270-310

source:	Journal of Arabic Literature year: 39 (2008), p. 270-310
resume:	Although a great deal of research and criticism has been done on homoerotic desire in Arabo-medieval adab literature, very little has been written on its representation in modern Arabic literature. In order to address this scholarly gap, my study poses the following questions: why is there an increase of homosexual and lesbian characters, at this contemporary juncture, in Arabic fiction? And what are the effects of such an exposure on the status of Arab gay rights? I argue that depictions of male homosexuality in contemporary texts draw on power dialectics of master/slave, active/passive and local/colonial, and as such reflect a sense of overall powerlessness, inferiority and alienation from the political process, while underscoring the Arab male?s loss of manhood and of self. In contrast, female homosexuality remains locked into traditional, heterocentric discourse which claims that lesbianism exists only as a prelude to, or as a temporary replacement of "normative" heterosexuality, thus undermining the validity of lesbian body politics. Contrary to the medieval tradition which allowed more fluidity in the depiction of same-sex definitions and practices, and acknowledged the variants of homoerotic desire and action, contemporary Arab cultural and literary engagements of the topic overlook the biological aspect of this desire. Furthermore, they project gay encounters as a symptom of the social deterioration caused by political and economic oppression of the Arab citizen. I conclude that more attention must be given to the biological essence of sexual differentiation, to the body politics rather than gender politics, if the emergence of a recognized, outspoken Arab homosexual or lesbian identity is ever to be realized.
subjects:	research literature desire eroticism gay men lesbians characters lgbti rights masculinity heteronormativity ethology middle east north africa

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Homosexualité, cinéma et société de 1960 à 1971 / Amélie Roucloux.

Het Ondraaglijk Besef (2013) 19, p. 8-12

source:	Het Ondraaglijk Besef (2013) 19 , p. 8-12
resume:	Aujourd'hui, l'homosexualité est présentée comme trouvant sa place dans la société. En effet, elle apparaît dans les médias, des films mettent en scène des histoires d'amour homosexuelles, elle dispose même d'un jour spécifique pour fêter la fierté d'être homosexue(le)s, la Gay Pride. Toutefois, comme on a pu le voir récemment en France, le débat est loin d'être clos car les gays et les lesbiennes subissent encore des discriminations. Pourtant, la situation des homosexue(le)s a changé par rapport à la deuxième moitié de XXe siècle, et cela se voit au travers du cinéma où l'homosexualté n'est plus un sujet tabou. Le regard porté sur la thématique homosexuelle au cinéma, lui aussi, a changé. Ce constat m'amène au sujet de cet article. Le cinéma homosexuelle dans les années 1960-1971 et sa reception dans la société en France et en Belgique.
subjects:	gay men lesbians film visibility characters 1960 1970 belgium france

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Queer TV : Gender and sexuality in Cucumber, Banana and Tofu / Katharina Lindner.

Psychology of Sexualities Review, 6 (2015) 1 (winter), p. 29-32

source:	Psychology of Sexualities Review year: 6 (2015) 1 (winter), p. 29-32
resume:	This article is a critical review of the BBC series and a documentary Cucumber, Banana and Tofu, all series which came after the series Queer as Folk in the 90s. All series contain LGBT characters from different ages and are different from Queer as Folk, the L-word and other earlier series with mostly young characters.
subjects:	television series lgbt characters gender role uk

signature:	dgb artikelen, map psychology of sexualities review

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Westernization and The Transmogrification of Sailor Moon / Rhea Ashley Hoskin.

Interalia : A Journal of Queer Studies (2016), p. 1-10

source:	Interalia : A Journal of Queer Studies (2016), p. 1-10
resume:	Sailor Moon, a Japanese series grounded in manga and anime, began airing translations in the West throughout the 1990s. The series provided what could be interpreted as resistance to dichotomous conceptualizations of sexuality, sex and gender. The focus of this article is the set of challenges presented by the genderqueer characters in Sailor Moon and how Westernization and English translations have worked to erase and re-write queer identities. Arguably, Sailor Moon acts as a site to play out the contextualities and complexities of sexuality, sex and gender identities. To name Sailor Moon characters in Western specific terms would be at the expense of reducing the complexity of their identities to a categorical system whose boundaries detract and limit meaning. Queer characters in Sailor Moon are not translatable into dichotomous Western thought - categories fail us and, through their enforcement, the depth of meaning and the complexities of queer identities/desires are lost in translation. Working within Western binary systems, categories and language, many of these identities appear contradictory and incoherent. Sailor Moon characters offer a re-envisioning of identities that is not limited by Western binaric thought and cannot be easily pegged within the heterosexual matrix.
subjects:	mangas characters sexual identity gender identity translations western cultures japan usa

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