The life of Ronnie‚ a gay man in Davao who battles the conflict between his past identity as a beauty queen and his current life‚ is explored in John Bengan’s gripping short tale Armor. Bengan presents a complex picture of queer identity through this character‚ paying special attention to the ways that class and society perception interact with gender and sexual orientation. The narrative challenges readers to think about how LGBT people deal with social pressures‚ financial limitations‚ and the
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Women Gender and Sexuality Studies Course title: Queer Gender paper subject/title: ‘Queering’ Heterosexuality Heterosexuality is universally described as having a desire or sexual contact with someone of the opposite sex from one’s own. This particular definition of heterosexuality for the most part‚ has remained relatively unquestioned. In turn‚ this has allowed heteronormative cultures and beliefs to assume heterosexuality as the norm. Marginalizing people who do not fit within heterosexual
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sexualities are clearly what would be considered as “queer”‚ but in the form of being out of the norm our main characters Alison and Cal both had undeniably bizarre life stories. One of the biggest concerns that these novels brought up was the questioning of normality in the world of being queer. When we can’t even define what “normal” is how can we expect other people to be apart of these expectations? Middlesex and Fun Home spoke to the issues of being queer Americans one as a homosexuals and one as a hermaphrodite
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December 3‚ 2012 A Picture of Dorian Gray: A Queer and Aesthetic Text Oscar Wilde lived in 1800s Victorian England‚ during the Aesthetic Movement. He had been known for his involvement in the movement‚ however more infamously for his crime against homosexuality. In 1895‚ Oscar Wilde had been imprisoned for homosexual offenses‚ and used against him in court was his own novel‚ A Picture Of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde’s novel has been argued to function as a queer text‚ a term coined during the 1990s that
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work and life‚ achievements and demonization’s‚ have made him a powerful model for many gay‚ lesbian and other intellectuals‚ and his analysis of the interrelationships of knowledge‚ power and sexuality was the most important intellectual catalyst of queer theory. • Foucault studied discourse as a system of representation. • He was interested in the rules and practices that produced meaningful statements which provided language for talking about a particular topic. • Discourse is about the production
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main characters are not straight. All the challenges that a character might face in during the story‚ as well as the entirety of a character’s development‚ are related to the sexual orientation of the character. This does not reflect the reality of queer experience. There is more (or should be more) substance to a character’s story arc and development than their sexual orientation to the same extent of that of any heterosexal character. When one happens to stumble across a heterosexual love story‚
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group is for. This musical portrays the reality of life through love in which couples continue to get together and breakup‚ drug abuse in which Mimi almost dies‚ and tragedy in which the severity of the AIDS/HIV is shown through Angel’s death. Big queer themes that are exemplified in this musical are cross gender roles‚ homosexual relationships‚ Bi relationships‚ identity crisis‚ and the biggest of all AIDS/HIV. RENT is a very interesting musical because in a society when AIDS/HIV were strongly scrutinized
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Each coworker goes out of their way to ensure that the transperson is properly displaying gender‚ emphasizing that no one is taken seriously unless they are good examples of their gender. Due to the fact that non-queer people are also affected by this concept‚ this is proof that queer inequality was not just formed out of queerness alone and is actually a complex‚ multi-dimensional
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novels can play into the queer aspects of the novels because of the fact that all the main characters are well off money wise‚ but they all seem to be hiding their sexuality or not comfortable with it. Queer theory explores the questions‚
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Gay‚ Transgender‚ and Queer youth. The research was gathered by reviewing a national survey of Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Transgender‚ Bisexual‚ and Queer secondary school students. Kosciw et al. (2009) concluded that while it
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