SOC359H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Homonationalism, Lgbt Conservatism, Hegemonic Masculinity
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Through this normativizing apparatus the war on terror has rehabilitated some clearly not all or most lesbians, gays, and queers1 to us national citizenship within a spatial- temporal domain i am invoking as homo-nationalism", short for homonormative nationalism". Homonormativity has been theorized by lisa duggan as a new neo-liberal sexual politics" that hinges upon the possibility of a demobilized gay constituency and a privatized, depoliticized gay culture anchored in domesticity and consumption". Homo-nationalism to mark arrangements of us sexual exceptionalism homonormativity that complicates the dichotomous implications of casting the nation as only supportive and productive of heteronormativity and always repressive and disallowing of homosexuality. Evilness of bin laden= sexual excess, failed masculinity, faggotry. Us national homosexuality" or homonationalism" is to map out the intersections, con uences, and divergences between homosexuality and the nation, national identity and nationalism the convivial, rather than antagonistic, relations between presumably non- normative sexualities and the nation.
