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The two publications that best contextualize gender are the Lowell Offering and the Godey’s Lady Book periodicals as the articles found in both magazines depict traditional gender roles for males and females. For the Lowell Offering, this is best seen in the article entitled, “Woman’s Proper Sphere”, which focuses on the thoughts associated with oppression like, “Is it ambitious wish to shine as man’s equal, in the same scenes in which he mingles” or “Does she wish for a more extensive influence, than that which emanates from a woman’s home?” Yet these progressive questions are met with answers like “How necessary, then, that she should understand these pursuits (of men), that she may truly sympathize with and encourage those, with whom she may be associated. In this way…her influence must and

Stonewall: the Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, was written by David Carter in New York, and published in 2004. This book serves the purpose of identifying Stonewall as the starting point for the modern gay revolution as a whole. It argues that the riots set a spark that ignited America in favor of homosexual rights as well as political and social opportunity. This book is valuable because it not only acknowledges the riots at Stonewall as important, but shows how they transformed homosexual life and the movement entirely. Carter persuades readers to see New York as a venue for revolution, and acknowledges the challenges faced throughout the beginning of the movement,

In this article Roxane had lead me through a pathos appealing reading that aroused many feelings and emotions towards the aspects of her lingering thoughts and perspectives of privileges being different and that the way people used the word it is seen as it has become white noise. My goal in this paper is to analyze her discussion, as Gay begins with her credibility; with personal facts; reputable sources; citing convincing opinions, and successfully employing emotional appeals. However, her

Before continuing onto an analysis of how the Stonewall Riots happened and what came of them, one must first take a closer look at the events and opinions that came before and brought upon the anger and frustration that many LGBT individuals felt on that fateful night. According to many historians, the years before Stonewall were considered a “dark age” for LGBT individuals, where their very existence was

Profane and shocking word choice helps drive Wittman’s confrontational and liberationist stance on LGBT+ issues. As authors Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Kennedy support in “Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community,” American queer rights movements became more critical and liberationist in the 70s (426). Wittman’s piece provides clear evidence of this tone change. By describing topics such as “exclusive heterosexuality” and interactions between males and females as “fucked up,” Wittman unabashedly confronts heteronormative culture and endorses queer peoples’ liberation from

First, the chapter begins by explaining the series Queer as Folk. This series is one wear lesbian and gay men and women live their lives, work, have good and bad days. During this series they do not show HIV as a one-time special occurrence, but as filtrated into the lives of the characters. During the series loved ones were lost, and they discussed prevention. According to the text, there were many critics due to the strong sexuality.

These marginalized members, such as like the poor, single mothers, LGBT people, and those who have been to jail, lack activity in larger beliefs not only in dominant white normative constructions, but also in Queer theory. In the beginning of the essay, Cohen defines and provides the background of queer theory. The author claims that in current times, the word “queer” does not only have the meaning of sexual deviants, but it also refers to abnormal kinship and family structure such as single family, re-marriage, homo parents, orphan, and multi-parents, which also can be seen in the family structures found in drag ball houses within Baileys work. Cohen states, “For me this is the process of the queering of Black studies: making visible all those who in the past have been silenced and excluded as full members of Black communities—the poor, women, lesbians and gays—those people on the margins of society and excluded from the middle-class march toward respectability. But we must remember that reconstituting and expanding the membership of Black communities is not enough, we must also understand and detail the work of power that constructs and disseminates the idea of outsider or deviant within and outside of Black communities” (p.42). Marginalized people take on deviant and defiant actions simply to establish some level of agency in their lives. Cohen proposes that

Robert E. Shore-Goss’s article A Queer Reading of the Emmaus story in Luke 24 describes the queer perspective on the passage in Luke. Robert explains a summary of the passage, and explains why the story may involve a queer couple. After the queer couple is addressed, the topic of queer churches was mentioned as a way to improve the LGBT community’s connection with God.

In the book Stonewall: Breaking Out In the Fights For Gay Rights, author Ann Bausum starts the book off by going into a complete and brutal overview on how gay people were treated in a time before the Stonewall Riots. She then goes on to cover how exactly the first riot and the ones coming directly after happened, using sources from both sides of the conflicts, including police officers and people who had been run from the Stonewall inn. She continues by going into the aftereffects of the riots and into the AIDS crisis that hit the community nearly two decades after. The book is ended on a hopeful note, saying that the future can only look up from here for the queer community.

Within modern-day America, there are certain societal standards based on sexual relationships. Within the poem, the narrator, a young woman, questions why she has to “wear the brand of shame; /whilst he amid the gay and proud/still bears an honored name” (Harper 26-28). Within her poem, Harper exposes the hypocrisy of the

As being developed by poststructuralism, feminism, lesbian & gay studies and even American pragmatist theory (Parker,2001; Seidman,1997), queer theory has become one of the most important theories, which contributes to the research of sociology, arts and organizations. On the one hand, queer theory has been used to study the relations between the sexuality, gender and workplace. On the other hand, by utilizing denaturalized, deconstructive and performative methods to queer the presumptions of the taken-for-granted norms, queer theorists question and disprove the traditions which people cherish (Seidman,1995).

In the Bridge reading, Mirtha Quintanales questions the idea of sexuality. “ What both puzzles me and distresses me is the degree to which we seem to be “culture bound. As if ‘setting the cultural mold’ implied never quite being able to break free from it”. In the play Anthony refers to the issues of sexuality as the bull. The bull’s statement is significant because he describes how the LGBTQ community feels.

Queer theory could potentially offer the most qualitative of methodologies for collecting and analysing data. As it questions, even defies, the notions of objectivity and the essentiality of fact, queer theory opens more “texts” for study, and more bodies of knowledge to compile, compare, and evaluate.2

The poetics of intimacy means to approach and respect others as they are. Dialoguing for understanding is the key to unpack and deepen mutual love with God, others, and self. For the directees who are looking for a relationship, the director should advice, “Look where you are not looking” (162). The public passage concerns social roles of gay/lesbian directees, in other words, their mission is significant for human community. There are two steps before “coming out” to a public passage: the appreciation of the human body (both attractive and sacramental) and the call to “generativity” regardless physical beauty. Thus, gay/lesbian people need to prove themselves in fields of profession. They also “witness to believers the shape of homosexual holiness.” For both society and the church, “homosexuality is one of God’s most significant gifts to humanity,” affirms Empereur

In Foucault and Queer Theory Spargo defines queer theory as a nebulous group of cultural criticism and analysis of social power structures relating to sexuality . It is these power structures and aspects of culture that are responsible for the discourse that creates and informs ones understanding of gender, race, and sexuality. However these aspects of identity do not exist separately from one another, but are constructed in tandem throughout history. These layers of identity inform each other in a way that is difficult if not impossible to separate. They do not act independently with an additive effect but intersect constructing their own unique set of experiences and perspectives. In this paper I will be exploring queer theory