Posts Tagged ‘Homosexuality’
Health Issue? Really Now…
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Hooray for disrupted internet connections! Each week, I enjoy Peiss’ book a little more. This week, I’ve realized how difficult it must be for a homosexual to live under such a high magnification. I find he Health Inspection Report in Document 5 humorous, but it frightens me at the same time. The funny part is […]
Health Issue? Really Now…
Tags: Homosexuality, Peiss, public health, Repression, Respect
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Approaching ‘Angels’ Curious, but Wary
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
The first time I heard about Angels in America was when my ninth grade English class read The Laramie Project. At the time, the play was an unapproachable feat of the struggle to be gay in America, and the AIDS epidemic. I didn’t want to touch it with a ten-foot pole because I was afraid […]
Approaching ‘Angels’ Curious, but Wary
Tags: AIDS, Angels in America, death, Foucault, Homosexuality, Identity, power-knowledge, Power-Relations
Posted in April 24, Tal Shtulsaft | No Comments »
Assortment
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
The subtitle, “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” of “Angels in America” is a pretty good statement for the plays’ topics. Breaking it down, it can be read as a fantasy or something fanciful and unreal with a gay/ homosexual overture about American issues relevant in that time period (1985-1986). The fantastic elements of angels, […]
Assortment
Tags: Angels in America, Complexity, Homosexuality, Identity, Kushner, Religion
Posted in April 24, Vita Xie | No Comments »
Coitus.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Though I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, I wasn’t very shocked by the direction Nabokov steered his novel plot-wise. The foreshadowing of Clare Quilty’s increased significance was present dating back to Dolores’ poster of him when she was still a nymphet. In the foreword, we already know that Humbert is in some sort of legal […]
Coitus.
Tags: coitus, Homosexuality, Humbert, kinsey, Lolita, Obsession
Posted in April 3, Peter Panousopoulos | No Comments »
Loooleeta On My Mind
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Lolita, Lo-lee-ta, Lo. Lee. Ta. I love it—I love this book! Vladamir Nabokov gets into your head and leaves behind Lolita, Lolita, Lolita. What a magnificent novel to read, especially in light of Foucault, and refreshing after the more restrained The Scarlet Letter. And yet, after visiting The Museum of Sex, there is no way […]
Loooleeta On My Mind
Tags: Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Lolita, Museum of Sex, The Deployment of Sexuality
Posted in March 27, Tal Shtulsaft | No Comments »
Sexuality and Modernity
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Since I go to Brooklyn College and intend (ha!) to graduate from Brooklyn College, I have to complete what is known as the “Core Curriculum,” a set of courses intended to give every undergrad a liberal arts and sciences education in a nutshell. One of these courses I am currently taking is “ The Shaping […]
Sexuality and Modernity
Tags: Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Identity, Sexuality, The History of Sexuality
Posted in March 27, Vita Xie | 1 Comment »
South Park is Gay
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Hey everyone, I mentioned this episode of South Park in class yesterday. It’s pretty funny to think about the way clothing/media create spheres of identity especially when you think about it in terms of a group of cartoon fourth graders. Check it out if you have some free time: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s07e08-south-park-is-gay
South Park is Gay
Tags: Fashion, Homosexuality, Identity, Media
Posted in Whitney Porter | 1 Comment »
Victorian Same-Sex Dialogue, And Still Suspicious of Whitman
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
A few points we mentioned today may be reiterated. Back to my reference about Abraham Lincoln. During the Victorian Era, the actions and syntax of male companionship had much higher thresholds in order to cross into homosexual territory. This ideology even draws comparisons with the homoerotic relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter. […]
Victorian Same-Sex Dialogue, And Still Suspicious of Whitman
Tags: Female Friendship, Haywood, Homoeroticism, Homosexuality, Peiss, Same-sex Relationships, Smith-Rosenberg, Vernacular, Victorian Era, Walt Whitman
Posted in March 13, Peter Panousopoulos | 1 Comment »
Perversions and Murky Conclusions
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This weeks reading was really fascinating and the topics discussed in Peiss’ book sparked a lot of thought for me. In particular two things really struck me, both from chapter 6. First I was interested in Document 5 because it reminded me of our discussion last week about the notion of science and Scienta Sexualis […]
Perversions and Murky Conclusions
Tags: Female Friendship, Homosexuality, Identity, Peiss, Rosenberg, Sexuality
Posted in March 13, Whitney Porter | 1 Comment »
Who Am I? Let Me Use My Sexuality to Explain…
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Reading parts One, Two, and Three of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, I have bitten off more than I could ever chew (let alone digest). I am grateful to have a class of peers to discourse the book with because I am at the point where thinking too much about one subject has led […]
Who Am I? Let Me Use My Sexuality to Explain…
Tags: Foucault, Homosexuality, Identity, Sexuality
Posted in February 7, Tal Shtulsaft | No Comments »