Queer Community: Identities, Intimacies, and Ideology

ISBN-13: 9780367660505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Neal Carnes

Opis

Using empirical work carried out by the author, Queer Community describes queer-identified people, their intimate relationships, and how they are evolving as a unique community along politically-charged, ideological lines.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments or credits list

Preface: A ‘first-waver’s’ lens in a ‘second-wave’ world

Introduction

1 Queer in practice and in theory

A brief her/istory of "queer"

The evolution of the queer moniker

The first wave’s reclamation of queer

Queer theory

Queer: people, relationships, and communities

Theoretical approach: Queer theory and grounded theory

2 Profiles of participanting queers

Participant profiles and queer awakenings

3 Is there queer community?

"I am queer": a shared identity

Queer as an identity

" Don’t yuck my yum": Policing queer

Queer aesthetics and body image

The personal is political and the political is personal

Code for conduct

Performing queer

Fighting the good queer fight

"Southern Fried, Queer Pride": queer in Atlanta

4 "We’re here, we’re queer, and we ain’t going nowhere": The evolution of queer community

Implications for queer theory and theoreticians

Conclusion

References

Glossary

Appendix: Methods

Index

O autorze

Neal Carnes works for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a Behavioral Scientist in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention.