GCST2607 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article: Heterosexuality
12 May 2018
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GCST2601 – Bodies, Sexualities, Identities
Reading Week 1
Readings
2. Queer and Now. In Tendencies
• Culture has a profligate way of denying and despoiling queer energies and lives
• Preponderance of school systems, public and parochial, intimating the right to existence of
queer people, desires, activities, children
• Systematic separation of children from queer adults
• Suicide
• 26% of young gay men leave home over conflict
- Quarter of all homeless youths in US
• Under the threat of congressional pressure, support for all research on sexuality suddenly
dries up
• How divisive issues of methodology and disciplinarily are
• "Queer" - open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and
excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality
aren't made
• Use of "queer" about an individual means differently from their use of it about someone else
• Angle of approach is directed, not at reconfirming the self-evidence and "naturalness" of
heterosexuality identity and desire, but rather at rendering those culturally central, apparently
monolithic constructions newly accessible to analysis and interrogation
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