Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10308535
Richard T. Rodríguez
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10308479
Joseph Plaster
In the late 1950s and 1960s, hustlers and street queens staged countless food riots, sit-ins, and pickets in downtown “vice” districts across the United States. One cannot appreciate the indignation and rage that sparked these rebellions without understanding the moral values and economic norms shared by those who took collective action: the self-defined “kids on the street” who often traveled from central city “tenderloin” to “tenderloin,” connecting far-flung districts through migratory circuits. Sustaining themselves through sex work and other criminalized economies, kids created in these districts a distinct counterpublic with its own moral norms, performance practices, rituals for renaming new members, conventions for collective housing, and networks for pooling resources. Urban renewal and increased policing in US cities violated these norms, providing the anger and indignation that fueled central city uprisings during the long 1960s. Understanding the anger that prompted street kids to rebel allows one to grasp what the author calls their performative economy: the reciprocities, obligations, and moral norms shared by the kids on the street and the ways they were materialized and transmitted intergenerationally via performance.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10308591
A. Cabezas
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10308521
Ervin Malakaj
Abstract:The locus amoenus boasts a long history in cultural representation as a motif affiliated with impossible unions. This article seeks to articulate it as an analytic category for contemporary queer cinema. It does so on the basis of a detailed analysis of Stephan Lacant's Freier Fall (Free Fall, 2013). Lacant's film presents two intertwined temporal structures that converge in the film's evocation of the locus amoenus. On the one hand, Free Fall depicts a heteronormative habitus into which its main character, Marc (Hanno Koffler), is socialized. Here, in the domain of chrononormativity (Freeman), the protagonist's past and present align and are intended to shape the future. On the other hand, the locus amoenus generates an alternate, queer temporal order for Marc: on meeting Kay (Max Riemelt), Marc derails. The regular liaison with Kay poses a threat to the hegemonic order and indexes a queer presentism competing with the regimented hetero temporality of his familial life. The analysis of these competing and intertwined temporal orders will show how the regular narrative recurrence of the locus amoenus in the film—next to being a driving force for the film's melodramatic sentimentality are caught in—also stimulates "viewerly" pleasure. This pleasure is immediately tethered to the rhythm of the motif's recurrence and the disabling of hegemonic pressures faced by the protagonist. However, the momentary recourse to queer pleasure afforded by the locus amoenus does not anticipate affirmative queer futures. As this article demonstrates, the locus amoenus advances a queer presentism that compromises liberatory potentials.
摘要:作为一种与“不可能的结合”相关的母题,“幸福之座”在文化表征方面有着悠久的历史。本文试图将其作为当代酷儿电影的分析范畴加以阐述。它是在对Stephan Lacant的Freier Fall (Free Fall, 2013)的详细分析的基础上这样做的。拉康特的电影呈现了两种交织在一起的时间结构,它们在电影中汇合在一起,唤起了“心之所在地”。一方面,《自由落体》描绘了一种异性恋的习惯,其中主角马克(汉诺·科夫勒饰)是社会化的。这里,在时间规范的领域(弗里曼),主角的过去和现在对齐,旨在塑造未来。另一方面,“爱之所在”为马克产生了另一种奇怪的时间顺序:在遇到凯(马克斯·里梅尔特饰)时,马克讲述了细节。与凯的定期联系对霸权秩序构成了威胁,并指出了一种酷儿的现世主义,与他家庭生活中受管制的异性恋短暂性相竞争。对这些相互竞争和交织在一起的时间顺序的分析,将显示出电影中“幸福之处”的常规叙事重现——它不仅是电影情节感伤的驱动力——也激发了“观看”的乐趣。这种愉悦感与母题反复出现的节奏以及主人公所面临的霸权压力的丧失联系在一起。然而,暂时求助于酷儿的快乐所提供的所在地并不期待肯定的酷儿未来。正如这篇文章所展示的,“爱之所在”推进了一种酷儿当下主义,妥协了解放的潜力。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10308647
Sameena Mulla
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10308549
Richard T. Rodríguez
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10308605
Ariana Ruiz
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10144449
S. Clare, P. Grzanka, Joanna Wuest
This roundtable analyzes the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) that sought to identify the genetic variations that correlate with same-sex sexual behavior. Drawing on over 450,000 individuals’ genetic material from the UK Biobank and 23andMe, the 2019 study concluded that “many loci with individually small effects,” which are spread across the entire genome, contribute in statistically significant but highly unreliable ways to an individual's sexual behavior. The study was thus greeted by geneticists, science journalists, and even some LGBTQ+ advocates as heralding the demise of the mythical “gay gene.” However, the study itself did not drive a stake through the heart of the “born this way” idea. In fact, the researchers framed their efforts as having revealed the “genetic architecture”—which is to say the blueprint or design—of same-sex sexual behavior. Stephanie Clare, Patrick R. Grzanka, and Joanna Wuest argue that the 2019 GWAS marks a moment of both flux and continuity: a recognition of sexuality's complexity and contingency alongside a continued affective, ideological, and economic investment in biology's role in telling fundamental truths about behavior and identity. The study's recognition of the complexity of sexuality should not be mistaken as some wish fulfillment of queer theory; rather, the dream of bioessentialism, entangled with its continued production of inequality, is still alive in the postgenomic era.
本次圆桌会议分析了第一个全基因组关联研究(GWAS),该研究旨在确定与同性性行为相关的遗传变异。这项2019年的研究利用了来自英国生物银行和23andMe的45万多人的遗传物质,得出的结论是,“许多个体影响很小的位点”分布在整个基因组中,以统计上显着但极不可靠的方式对个体的性行为做出了贡献。因此,这项研究受到了遗传学家、科学记者,甚至一些LGBTQ+倡导者的欢迎,他们认为这预示着神话般的“同性恋基因”的消亡。然而,这项研究本身并没有刺穿“天生如此”思想的核心。事实上,研究人员将他们的努力描述为揭示了同性性行为的“基因结构”——也就是蓝图或设计。斯蒂芬妮·克莱尔(Stephanie Clare)、帕特里克·r·格赞卡(Patrick R. Grzanka)和乔安娜·韦斯特(Joanna Wuest)认为,2019年的GWAS标志着一个既具有流动性又具有连续性的时刻:人们认识到性的复杂性和偶发性,同时继续在情感、意识形态和经济上投资于生物学在讲述行为和身份的基本真相方面的作用。这项研究对性的复杂性的认识不应被误认为是酷儿理论的某种愿望的实现;相反,生物本质主义的梦想,与其不断产生的不平等纠缠在一起,在后基因组时代仍然存在。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10144491
Christina A. León
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1215/10642684-10144421
Zohar Weiman‐Kelman
While much has been written about the pathologizing of Jewish bodies by European sexologists, and while the role of Jewish scholars in the study of deviance has been recognized, next to nothing has been written about how European Jews theorized their own sex, in their own deviant tongue. This article proposes to rectify this lack by turning to a completely neglected body of work: sexology written in Yiddish. Yiddish sexology, produced globally across the first half of the twentieth century, reveals an array of new imaginaries of corporeality and sociality, coming from diverse transnational Jewish communities and reflecting varying engagements with the emergent science of sex. This article focuses on the work of one doctor, Leonard Landis, working at the turn of the twentieth century in New York, who was by far the most prolific (and controversial) author of Yiddish sexology and yet remains entirely unstudied. Recovering his unique voice and exposing some of its intricate intertextual and cross-cultural dialogues, this article argues for the vitality of including Yiddish sexology within global histories of sexuality.
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