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Homosexuality has been decriminalized in most of the world's democracies, and since the 1990s same-sex marriages and partnerships have begun to be recognized in an ever-growing number of countries. This greater tolerance has led to changes in the ways that same-sex relationships and same-sex desire are recognized, given 'symbols'.
- Hugh Stevens
- 2010
This Companion introduces readers to the range of debates that inform studies of works by lesbian and gay writers and of literary representations of same-sex desire and queer identities. Each chapter introduces key concepts in the field in an accessible way and uses several important literary texts to illustrate how these concepts can ...
Gay literature. Oscar Wilde, a gay writer of the 19th century who included allusions to homosexuality in works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde was jailed for homosexual relations in 1895.
Oct 28, 2016 · What are the implications of queer and trans theorizing for investigating the pedagogical potential of LGBT-themed texts for envisaging gender and sexuality justice in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms, and how might this work inform teacher education?
- Mollie Blackburn, Caroline Clark, Wayne Martino
- 2016
Oct 10, 2014 · Coinciding with this development, an exhibition of Anthony Friedkin’s photographs in a series titled “The Gay Essay,” and an accompanying catalogue, examine the nascent gay liberation movement on the West Coast in the late 1960s and early ’70s.
Queer theory is by no means universally accepted—its critics include such well-known scholars as Rictor Norton (b. 1945) and the best-selling author Camille Paglia (b. 1947)—but the vast majority of academic literary studies of gay writers follow its dictates.
BBC News. Claire Pickering in Wakefield library imagines the diary writer speaking in a Yorkshire accent. A diary written by a Yorkshire farmer more than 200 years ago is being hailed as providing...
