The Everyday Lives of Gay Men: Autoethnographies of the Ordinary

ISBN-13: 9780367676834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 178 str.

Edgar Rodríguez-Dorans; Jason Holmes

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The Everyday Lives of Gay Men draws on the expertise of twelve contributors from different countries and fields, writing from an autoethnographic first person approach.

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Foreword  Introduction: What is conjured when we talk about the everyday lives of gay men?  1. 17 times a day I think about being gay  2. Shower thoughts – of loss and queer love  3. Christmases past and present: A Phet tee saam lamb’s search for their flock  4. Sunday: An intimate self-dialogue about loneliness  5. On (not) living past 30  6. Going back to the glory hole: An (extra)ordinary story of meeting shame, doubt and arousal in the therapy room  7. Becoming (in)visible: A performative autoethnography on mental health, help-seeking, and missing connections  8. Lack of ordinary privileges in a gay man’s life: Navigating through privileged systems  9. I dreamt of a stranger  10. Testing proximity and intimacy: An everyday reappropriation of private and public space  11. In my Latinx gay shoes: Work, discrimination, immigration, and polyamory  12. Planetary times and queer times: A critical planetary romanticism for the earth  13. Notes on the contributor’s experiences: Insights into autoethnographic research Conclusion