Orientador: Arnaldo Cortina / Banca: Antônio Pádua Dias / Banca: Jean Cristtus Portela / Banca: Bruna Longo Biasioli / Banca: Marina Célia Mendonça / Resumo: Esta tese é um estudo acerca da representação do sujeito homossexual na literatura brasileira, no fim do século XX. O córpus analisado é composto por um grupo de três autores: Caio Fernando Abreu, Silviano Santiago e João Gilberto Noll. Partindo de uma reflexão semiótica das imagens da homossexualidade masculina, nós pretendemos demonstrar que a personagem gay é representada, inicialmente, na literatura como um sujeito marginalizado. Com a pósmodernidade, no entanto, verificamos uma espécie de metamorfose por meio da qual este sujeito passa a ser descrito de modo diferente. Nós utilizamos a teoria semiótica a fim de provar que o sujeito gay na literatura brasileira é coerente com o sujeito proposto pelas teorias pós-modernas. Outra questão importante de nosso trabalho de pesquisa é a compilação de um córpus de textos literários reunidos em torno da questão homoerótica. Apesar de nossos esforços de pesquisa estarem concentrados em torno de três autores específicos, nós tentamos abarcar um maior montante de escritores que exploraram a temática homoerótica no Brasil, desde o século XIX até os dias de hoje. Nosso principal objetivo foi identificar as estratégias retóricas usadas por esses autores e demonstrar que possível observar o que nós chamamos de "retórica da poetização". Outro objetivo foi entender como tais autores desenvolveram seus próprios estilos homoeróticos. Após a análise dos textos escolhidos, nós pudemos concluir que os três autores possuem diferentes estratégias para expor a situação do sujeito homoerótico na literatura brasileira / Abstract: This thesis is a study on the representation of homosexual subjetc in brazilian literature in late twetieth century. The corpus analysed is composed for a group of three writers: Caio Fernando Abreu, Silviano Santiago and Jaó Gilberto Noll. Starting from a semiotic reflexion about images of male homosexuality, we intended to demonstrate that male gay character is represented in literarture as a marginalised subjetc. Afterwards, with postmodernity, we verified that there is a kind of metamorphosis whereby this subject is described in an opposite way, different from that mentioned before. We used semiotic theory in order to prove that the gay subject in brazilian literature is coherent with the subject propose for postmodern theories. Other important issue o four research work is the compilation of a corpus os literary texts united around the homoerotic question. Althought our research effort be concentrated around three specific writers, we tried to reach a great amount of other writers who worked with the homosexual question in Brazil, since nineteenth century until our days. Our main goal was identify the rethoric strategies used by these authors and prove that is possible to see what we named of the "rethoric of poetization". Other goal was understand how these writers elaborated their own homoerotic style in writing. After analysis of the chosen texts, we might conclude that the three authors have different strategies in order to expose the situation of this homoerotic subject in brazilian literature / Doutor

At the dawn of the new millennium, migration has been identified as a crucial element in the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic yet few studies have been carried out into the specific ways in which migration is able to fuel the epidemic. Since the beginning of the epidemic in the 1980s we have witnessed increasing mobility of people throughout the world, with migration being a major factor in the ongoing transmission of HIV in particular regions of the world. This study looks at the particular of migration that exists between New Zealand and Australia and examines the effects that this has had on a group of Maori gay men and transsexuals during the time of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In particular, the study examines the effects that trans-Tasman migration has on identity and sexual practice and the implications that this has for HIV prevention among the Maori gay and transsexual communities of both countries. In order to examine the relationship between trans-Tasman migration, identity and behaviour, in-depth interviews were conducted with two groups of Maori gay man and transsexuals. One group resided permanently in Sydney, Australia (n=13) and the other group had returned to live in New Zealand after having lived in Sydney for at least one year (n=11). During the interviews respondents were invited to talk about their cultural and sexual identity, their upbringing, their reasons for migrating to Sydney and their sexual practice in Sydney. Analysis of the interviews showed that there were distinct differences in the two groups of respondents. While the Sydney gay community offered a haven for Maori migrants from New Zealand, this was sometimes at the expense of a compromised sense of cultural identity as well as exposure to racism, violence and prejudice from living in a predominantly white middle class society. In contrast, those who had returned to live in New Zealand had a stronger sense of their cultural identity than those who resided long-term in Sydney as well as ongoing access to a cultural context which reaffirmed and supported their sense of Maori identity. At the same time, those who lived in Sydney were more likely to report risk behaviour associated with the transmission of HIV than did those who lived in New Zealand. This project concludes that Maori gay men and transsexuals who have a strong sense of their cultural identity may be at a lower risk of HIV infection than those who do not. These findings have significant implications for the design and implementation of HIV prevention programmes both in New Zealand and in Sydney. Such programmes need to acknowledge the cultural diversity of the gay community and must provide the means whereby community members, especially those from minority groups, may have ongoing access to cultural structures which support and reaffirm their sexual as well as their cultural identity.

This study is designed to more fully understand the adaptational processes that parents of lesbians and gay men experience when their children come out to them. Seventeen parents described their experiences in semi-structured interviews. The interview transcripts were analyzed using grounded theory methodology to develop a model of parental adjustment over time. Parents experienced three broad phases of adjustment, each with different emphases: emotional responses were most dominant initially, cognitive and behavioral adjustments were the primary focus of the middle phase, and moral/spiritual issues were the major concern of the final phase. Some parents who successfully negotiated these adjustments came to view being the parent of a gay male or lesbian as an important component of their identities. Implications for further research and clinical practice are discussed.

This article examines early twentieth-century British "Uranian" same-sex sexualities as a distinct entity from other labels for homosexuality. British sexologists, feminists, and other radical socialist/anarchist reformers invoked scientized versions of mysticism and Asian religions to conceptualize different, though intersecting, meanings for the Uranian. Historians of sexuality, however, tend to conflate the term "Uranian" with the other various and conflicting medico-scientific concepts circulating at the time, such as "homosexual," "sexual invert," and "intermediate sex." Overstating the slippage between terms, however, obscures the significance of Uranianism in the history of same-sex eroticism, and reinforces a dichotomy between spirituality and modernity. The Uranian discourses examined here epitomize a "progressive" historical moment that elaborated the scientific origins for the spirit, soul, and a divine will in the constitution of modern sexual/spiritual subjects. In many ways, Uranianism challenged the late nineteenth-century medical-sexological discourses that demarcated the homosexual as a pathological "type" by creating a more fluid understanding of sexuality through the interplay of Edwardian critiques of scientific materialism with New Age ideas about the mind, psyche, and spirituality. That is not to suggest that Uranianism offered an "alternative" (homo)sexuality that was disentangled from pathological discourses; on the contrary, the Uranian discourses implicitly consolidated the "homosexual type." Tracing the genealogy of Uranian sexuality through three case studies illuminates a modern moment when reformers attempted to create fluid sexualities. We find that Uranianism complicates our understandings about the supposedly dominant role of medical-scientific discourses in the construction of early twentieth-century British (homo)sexuality.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-172).

This article examines early twentieth-century British "Uranian" same-sex sexualities as a distinct entity from other labels for homosexuality. British sexologists, feminists, and other radical socialist/anarchist reformers invoked scientized versions of mysticism and Asian religions to conceptualize different, though intersecting, meanings for the Uranian. Historians of sexuality, however, tend to conflate the term "Uranian" with the other various and conflicting medico-scientific concepts circulating at the time, such as "homosexual," "sexual invert," and "intermediate sex." Overstating the slippage between terms, however, obscures the significance of Uranianism in the history of same-sex eroticism, and reinforces a dichotomy between spirituality and modernity. The Uranian discourses examined here epitomize a "progressive" historical moment that elaborated the scientific origins for the spirit, soul, and a divine will in the constitution of modern sexual/spiritual subjects. In many ways, Uranianism challenged the late nineteenth-century medical-sexological discourses that demarcated the homosexual as a pathological "type" by creating a more fluid understanding of sexuality through the interplay of Edwardian critiques of scientific materialism with New Age ideas about the mind, psyche, and spirituality. That is not to suggest that Uranianism offered an "alternative" (homo)sexuality that was disentangled from pathological discourses; on the contrary, the Uranian discourses implicitly consolidated the "homosexual type." Tracing the genealogy of Uranian sexuality through three case studies illuminates a modern moment when reformers attempted to create fluid sexualities. We find that Uranianism complicates our understandings about the supposedly dominant role of medical-scientific discourses in the construction of early twentieth-century British (homo)sexuality.

This dissertation explores how the male body is utilised and visualised by a selection of gay male artists working within the post-Apartheid South African context. The male body is the means by which they represent these concepts of sexuality and identity. The complexity of contemporary visual arts is, in this dissertation, viewed as a signifier of cultural change. The visibility of gay males in South African society (read as a sign), is also reflected in the foregrounding of male bodies in artworks after 1994. Queer theory and theories of representation are used as a conceptual framework, in which readings are presented of how the male body is interpreted and represented as a site of contestation and convergence of power. The politics of sexuality and identity are represented and discussed in this project through the mediums of painting, photography and installation. These different mediums are linked conceptually, in the same way that sex, gender and sexuality are interlinked; influencing, yet not predetermining each other. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal,Durban, 2006.

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This study compared heterosexual and homosexual males’ androgyny and attitudes toward women. Twenty-two homosexual and 34 heterosexual, white, single, university males completed the short version Attitudes Toward Women Scale (AWS) (Spence, Helmreich and Stapp, 1973) and Bem’s Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) (Bem, 1974).It was hypothesized that 1) Male homosexuals hold more liberal views toward women than male heterosexuals and, 2) Male homosexuals are more androgynous than male heterosexuals.A multivariate analysis of variance, on the AWS and BSRI, indicated a significant difference between the homosexual and heterosexual groups (p<.0002). In addition, univariate analysis showed the significant difference accounted for by responses to the AWS (p<.0001) and not by differences in BSRI scores (p, n.s.). Thus, Hypothesis 1 was supported and Hypothesis 2 rejected. Psychological and political implications of this investigation are discussed.

Typescript (photocopy) / iv, 334 leaves ; 30 cm / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dept. of History, University of Adelaide, 1983