Women, Gender, And Sexuality Studies WGSS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Extortion, Neocolonialism, Symbolic Capital

• School: WUSTL
• Department: Women, Gender, And Sexuality Studies
• Course: Women, Gender, And Sexuality Studies WGSS 240
• Professor: Amber Musser

Document Summary

1:50 pm: extensive diffusion of cultures in the carribean. Restructuring notions of gender, sexuality, identity, and community for queer people. Sexual spaces are cross-cut by social and structural inequalities that constraint the types of social interactions that are permissible in such spaces. The bugarr n ban at tropicalia: proudly wear styles from european and american gay culture as badges of transnational gay experience. Acts as symbolic capital to gays who act as bridges between multicultural gay identities. Spaces where these people converge are only accessible to a few: majority of homosexual experience in santo domingo takes place in the context of a highly depressed economy. Access to signifiers of global gay culture is highly constrained by class and race. Social hierarchy within the gay community: emblematic of the dominican republic"s increasing economic dependence on tourism. Two types of gay tourists: regular travelers. Often develop social relationships with local gays and establishment owners. Facilitate the transmission of privileged gay knowledge.