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	Interpersonal Communication in Modern Gay Culture
		Gay people (gay men especially — the focus of this paper) are frequently regarded as being separate or different from the mainstream general public in ways that are strikingly similar to the anti-fl mentality of colonial America.
		Gay men tend to have a heightened sense of balance and a lack of the need to prove their manhood by leaving excessive amounts of space between their legs.
		Gay people learn the art of concealing, contriving, and communicating their innermost feelings at a young age, and spend many years developing and cultivating that ability.
	homepage.mac.com /cfriend/work/lin/gayculture.html (2482 words)

	five cities
		It is our proposal to do research on gay cultures in a series of urban centres around the world and to raise similar questions in the different contexts concern- ing a series of themes as space, identity, gender, age.
		Gay culture is circumscribed as the social and spatial organization of sexual practices between males and the representations of these practices.
		The focus is on urban cultures because gay cultures in general have their sites in the city and not in the countryside.
	www2.fmg.uva.nl /gl/intro.html (1168 words)

	GAY CULTURE
		The gay community made a heroine out of Judy Garland by disfiguring her image of the all-American girl-next-door and reworking her as a sign of the masquerade necessary to the social experience of gays before sexual liberation.
		Some gays, however, recognise that their opposition to the social order is so radical that its cultural resources and values are unusable and new cultural forms must be developed and used within gay society.
		Gay males (like straight males) are less likely to remain monogamous in their relationships than lesbians or heterosexual women, suggesting that this is more an aspect of their maleness than their sexual orientation.
	www.eng.umu.se /culturec/GAY.htm (543 words)

	Independent Gay Forum: How to Be Gay 101
		Young gay people often embark on a crash course to learn everything they can about gay culture, which unlike (say) ethnic culture, is something they seldom have absorbed growing up from parents and siblings.
		Young gays are often surprised to discover both how much gay history and culture there is and how the courtesies and modes of social conduct differ subtly from their previous experience.
		Perhaps if "gay culture" is at least partly a response to hostility and prejudice, then gay men may adopt not so much specific things, but general types of things.
	www.indegayforum.org /authors/varnell/varnell27.html (1087 words)

	Androphile Gay History Project: The World History of Male Love
		It was the cornerstone of a cultural tradition that 2500 years ago provoked the awakening of democracy, theater, philosophy, mathematics, history, and so on.
		We at the Androphile Project, gleaning the work of scholars in gay studies, aim to undo that censorship by publicizing gay love's role in man's spirit and culture: its successes, its failures, and the controversies it has given rise to over the millennia.
		As this is being written (winter 2004), it could also illuminate the growing debate about gay marriage, a tradition documented the world over for thousands of years, but nowhere as widely or as recently as in North America, where it was practiced and honored by many of the First Nations.
	www.androphile.org (995 words)

	Gay Turkey, Turkey Gay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The gay culture of Turkey is fairly different than the gay culture of the western countries, as is the case with the general Turkish culture.
		Today, the dominating gay-life style for the gay people living in Turkey is between two groups; the "active" ones who would NOT mostly accept to be called "gay" and who are mostly bisexuals, and the "passive" ones who pretend to be women in bed, and who act and sometimes dress themselves up more effeminately.
		Maybe, these different cultures might be considered as an advantage for gay people in Turkey in a way, since they have at least the two alternatives to choose as their life styles.
	turkeygayguide.tripod.com /turkeygay.html (1234 words)

	Stonewall 25 / Stonewall and Beyond -- Lesbian and Gay Culture (1994) -- Exhibition Index
		Stonewall 25 / Stonewall and Beyond -- Lesbian and Gay Culture (1994) -- Exhibition Index
		The online edition of a Columbia University Libraries exhibition held from May 25 to September 17, 1994 in conjunction with the international celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
		Gay & Lesbian Themes in Hispanic Literatures & Cultures
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/sw25 (66 words)

	Documenting Berlin's Gay History \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 21.06.2004
		Established in 1985, the museum is a private institution dedicated to preserving, exhibiting, and discovering gay and lesbian history, art, and culture.
		Although many organizations around the world collect historical material relevant to gay men and lesbians, the Berlin museum is the only institution of its kind which is open full time and has a dedicated building with changing exhibitions open to the public.
		One of the biggest gay and lesbian gatherings in the world drew to a close in Hamburg this weekend.
	www.dw-world.de /english/0,3367,1441_A_1242635_1_A,00.html (1010 words)

	glbtq >> gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer encyclopedia
		A fiercely comic playwright, as well as actor and screenwriter, Christopher Durang often incorporates gay themes and characters in his plays.
		In his novels anatomizing gay life at the peak of the AIDS epidemic, David Feinberg used humor as a defense mechanism, a means to avoid madness and despair in a world that had become nightmarishly absurd.
		The centrality of gay and lesbian bars to glbtq culture has been reduced in recent years, but they continue to fulfill important functions; and, in many areas, they remain the most visible manifestation of glbtq presence.
	www.glbtq.com (444 words)

	The Daily Collegian - A Decade in gay culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their motto is "Five gay men, out to make over the world - one straight guy at a time." The show was so successful, it inked a deal with NBC almost right off the bat.
		Since the introduction of "Queer Eye" to the public last year, gay culture seems to be melding in with straight culture almost effortlessly.
		Gay people everywhere are enjoying the newly found freedom of expressing themselves thanks to the tireless efforts of these and many more unmentioned artists who work to create a more accepting, diverse country for all of us.
	www.dailycollegian.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/19/419d9c4fbbbbc (719 words)

	IOL: Shanghai varsity to offer gay culture course
		Gays were strongly persecuted after China's 1949 communist revolution, condemned as products of decadent Western and feudal societies.
		Yet, given the disdain shown to homosexuality by traditional Confucian culture, gay men and women in China still tend to hide their sexual orientation.
		While reports of violence against gays are rare, discrimination by family members and co-workers remains strong and Communist Party officials have ruled out legislation outlawing such unfair treatment.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=qw1124170201292B254 (401 words)

	Salon \| Ask Camille: I'll take religion over gay culture
		For pity's sake, it was the flamboyant, thunderous activism of evangelical Protestant ministers in the 19th century that powered the abolitionist movement and led to the end of slavery in the United States.
		So gays should quit bitching about Southern Baptists exercising their constitutional right to free speech about homosexuality, which is indeed condemned by the Bible, despite the tortuous casuistry of so many self-interested parties, including clerics.
		Gay men must never get complacent, for they are forever on the edge of a precipice: In a political cataclysm, they have usually been among the first to be purged.
	archive.salon.com /col/pagl/1998/06/23pagl.html (952 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Defining gay sensibility "strictly as a political response to oppression, and not as an innate characterological predisposition for the arts and aestheticism," Harris measures the effects of assimilation on the white, middle-class, male homosexual community.
		Characterizing the propaganda of gay liberation as a unique juxtaposition of political statements and psychological self-acceptance bromides, he posits that "the economic exploitation of homosexuals has involved a painfully protracted courtship," during which they have become victims of cultural erosion.
		I appreciate his detailed analysis of certain aspects of gay male culture, such as the ads, bear culture, the leather movement--but I was disturbed by his characterization of AIDS as kitschified, and disagreed with many of his points.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/034542672X?v=glance (2135 words)

	Inthefray - Gay culture comes out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As gays and lesbians began fighting for their political rights during the Clinton years, the cultural barriers they faced also began to fall.
		By then it was the height of the AIDS crisis, and gay activists were on a crusade, fighting both a hostile public and a disease that was ravaging parts of the community.
		Closeted gay and lesbian celebrities remained silent amid the flurries of attacks by conservative commentators, refusing to speak out against the ignorance.
	inthefray.com /200104/identify/movement1/movement1-link2.html (529 words)

	Gay Culture - DR1 Forums
		I'll be visiting DR in a few weeks and was curious what the gay culture was like.
		Hey...There defenite is a gay culture, especially at the resorts, but its very understated and not out in the open.
		There is plenty of gay culture in DR but you would be hard pressed to figure out who is who.
	www.dr1.com /forums/showthread.php?t=11355 (305 words)

	Advocate, The: Enter the red dragon - the future of gay culture in China and Hong Kong
		He is one of Hong Kong's few openly gay Chinese men and a founder of local activist groups, including the 10% Club, a gay political group, and the Buddhist AIDS support group Isvara.
		Gays are drowned in an ocean of condemnation." But authorities in Beijing were most rankled by Li's statement to Amnesty Intentional, Asia Watch, and the Voice of America that "gays in China have no human rights."
		What keeps most Chinese gay men in the closet, says Philip Gambone, a Boston writer who has taught English in China, is the overwhelming obligation young people feel to please their parents.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n736/ai_20139049 (1618 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Rise and Fall of Gay Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The author analyzes contemporary gay culture--from male pinups to fl leather fetishism to the AIDS memorial quilt--in an effort to trace the effects of increasing acceptance of homosexuality on gay sensibility.
		Before the 1970's everything gays did was an example of their all-encompassing self-hatred; since the 1970's, everything gays do is crass, commercial, and rabidly assimilationist.
		He slashes magazines like "Out" for idealizing gay life and squelching the real stories of our gritty, dark, horrible lives; which, apart from being a questionable accusation, suggests that gay culture is far too advanced to harbor its own escapist equivalents of "Vanity Fair" or "People".
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/034542672X (1226 words)

	The Observer \| Food monthly \| Mind your language
		As I gave him a piece of my mind, he announced to the floor, 'God, she is soooo butch!' and whisked away, chortling.
		The OED 's entry for 'rozzer' (a policeman or detective) cites this quote from a book dated 1893: 'If the rozzers was to see him in bona clobber they'd take him for a gun.' Meaning: if the cops see him dressed like that, they'll know he's a thief.
		Polari was adopted big time by the British gay community from the 1900s onwards and its use was rife in Soho's gay clubs, bars and 'backslums' (sex rooms) in the 1950s, before homosexuality was decriminalised.
	www.observer.co.uk /life/story/0,6903,409178,00.html (884 words)

	White Crane - Call for the first Gay Spirit Culture Summit
		The Gay Spirit Culture Project is a network of groups shifting consciousness in the gay community and raising visibility of transformational experiences in order to change the conversation about what it means to be gay.
		Through spiritual & social action and by being with each other on deeper levels, this work is changing norms in the gay world toward a positive, caring, authentic, safe, respectful community that supports each individual in being himself or herself and valuing her or his uniqueness, strengths and inner wisdom.
		Our mission is to be a catalyst for positive, caring gay culture by supporting inner transformation, increasing definition & visibility of the emerging culture and changing what it means to be gay.
	www.whitecranejournal.com /summitcall.asp (547 words)

	Gay Culture featuring Dean,Monroe,Marppletthorpe,Warhol,Haring and more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dean's success in Hollywood, where he relocated in 1949 at age 18, did stem in large part from the contacts he made with influential gay men.
		One of his few documented homosexual relationships was with Rogers Brackett, the sophisticated, 35-year-old radio director of a prestigious advertising agency, whom Dean met in the summer of 1951 while working as a parking attendant at CBS.
		Another of Dean's documented gay relationships was with Jack Simmons, a young actor who, by all accounts, was devoted to him.
	www.b-gay.net /culture/james/james.htm (860 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Using "before" and "after" snapshots, Harris thoroughly documents shifts in gay culture and the movement towards assimilation in queer rituals like drag, diva worship, personal ads, pornography, and piercing.
		In chapters titled "The Death of Camp," "The Evolution of Personals and Gay Romance," "The Death of Kink," "The Aesthetic of Drag," and "The Kitschification of AIDS," Harris raises important questions about the death of cultural diversity in American society.
		In The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, Daniel Harris provides a persuasive and witty argument against the homogenization of American culture.
	www.mountainpridemedia.org /oct97/rise.htm (207 words)

	Perceptions: GAY CULTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Merry Christmas & Happy New Year [in which author discusses the often-difficult family issues surrounding Christmas for gays and lesbians; suggests would be good to develop gay/lesbian Christmas traditions; brief review of 1991 with respect to author and community].
		Musings [a summary of gay organizational activities during the previous year, 1983, in Saskatoon].
		First impressions [of Saskatoon and the city's gay life, by man who moved to Saskatoon from Milwaukee, Wisconsin].
	library.usask.ca /spcoll/srsd/journals/perceptions/648.html (393 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Gay Culture in America: Essays from the Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It's difficult to capture "gay culture" in a book - and the depth and breadth of the essays testify to that.
		Other chapters focus on the gay cultures present in specific geographic areas (Chicago, LA, New York), ethnic groups (Mexican-American, Black), and the effects of AIDS on the culture.
		This book is focused on the culture and experience of the gay man - there's little information or emphasis on the Lesbian experience.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0807079154 (304 words)

	The gay life - TvRadio - www.smh.com.au
		Not least the fact that gay culture is frequently viewed as more trend-savvy, fashion-forward and rampantly creative than the rather dreary heterosexual one - which, quite frankly, is screaming out for a good zhuzhing.
		In addition to this, there are regular depictions of a wide variety of gay people in the mainstream press and gay issues are now frequently being debated at the highest political levels.
		We're in the midst of a cultural revolution where gay is not merely the new fl but goes with anything, travels effortlessly from daytime to prime and is so trans-seasonal it will last for years to come.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/03/30/1080544469746.html (1611 words)

	ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY OC Weekly: Books: Is Gay Culture Dead? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It’s that time of year again, when Orange County’s gays and lesbians unfurl the rainbow flags and take to the streets to publicly celebrate their queer selves and to honor the many achievements of the Gay Liberation movement.
		Harris is a gay man and the author of The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, a book in which he argues against the popular notion that recent gay history—from 1969’s Stonewall Riots to the present—is an almost unbroken chain of progressive, onward-and-upward events.
		None dare call it cultural transformation; it is mere commercialization, at the end of which, he asserts, you’ll find the cultural boneyard, home of spats, opera and 1960s radicalism.
	www.ocweekly.com /ink/99/49/books-mccartney.php (1089 words)

	Gay Istanbul, gay guide, gay hotels, gay tours
		Istanbul is a province designed to be the capital and it has been the capital of three empires which used to dominate the world.
		Today Istanbul is the capital of unique and special gay culture of Turkey.
		Our first aim is to help people to get familiar with this special city in general, other than giving clues of information on the colorful gay culture of the city....
	www.istanbulgay.com (191 words)

	WorldNetDaily: 'Gay' culture in Catholic Church grows
		A "gay" culture is growing among clergy of the American Catholic Church that receives support from members of the hierarchy as well as from those directly involved in the training of priests, according to a Catholic priest-theologian.
		As the scandal of clerical abuse within the Catholic Church in the U.S. continues to grow – whose cost is estimated to approach $1 billion – the role of the hierarchy is coming under scrutiny.
		In reporting clerical abuse, "the grand taboo in U.S. culture is to focus on homosexuality," Fiore stated.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26940 (1957 words)

	Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders -- Equal Justice Under Law
		GLAD signed on to a friend of the court brief authored by the ACLU asking the United States Supreme Court to strike down the Solomon Amendment, a federal law denying funding to colleges or universities that exclude the military from recruiting on their campuses because of its anti-gay policy.
		Department of Public Health, arguing that the denial of marriage to Connecticut's lesbian and gay citizens violates the equality and liberty provisions of the Connecticut Constitution.
		Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) is New England's leading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression.
	www.glad.org (1266 words)

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