THE DEPICTION OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICAN MOVIES by Rudy Rudy

“…It shows that gay films can attract audiences by describing gays as the objects for laughs; gays revealing their sexual identities; sexual scenes of gays; masculine gay men; and violence in gay life. They appear in genres like drama, comedy, romance, detective, western, and horror/mystery with two images of gay people shown in American gay movies; they are the portrait of gays as a minority and the pessimism. …”
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I want to come forward: Voices from Chinese tongqi by Fung Kei Cheng

“…This study discusses the challenges of tongqi (wives of gay men) in mainland China, and rethinks homosexual–heterosexual marriage. …”
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A Centaur in Salaryman's Clothing: Parody and Play in est em's Centaur Manga by Anne Lee

“…By placing centaurs in realistic, everyday settings, these works present a critique of Japan’s contemporary salaryman culture, while also highlighting issues of alienation and otherness that both female readers and gay men face in their daily lives.…”
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Coming Out in Poland by Tomasz Basiuk

“…Moreover, a contemporary call for Polish lesbian women and gay men to come out in order to promote marriage equality seems more directly aligned with the present-day U.S. political context than with any broadly accepted local activist position on the question of same-sex marriage. …”
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Working out masculinity : negation of effeminacy by homosexuals through a muscular body. by Lim, Andrew Sze Khew.

“…Earlier studies based on “…psychoanalysis normalizes heterosexuality, whereby to be one sex is to necessarily desire the other” (Stevi Johnson, 2010). Gay men with their sexual orientation towards the same sex thus deviates from the heteronormative matrix, leading to the belief that they are lesser of a man, and more effeminate compared to heterosexual men. …”
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Culture and contact in the promotion and reduction of anti-gay prejudice: evidence from Jamaica and Britain. by West, K, Hewstone, M

“…Jamaican participants reported more negative attitudes toward gay men than did British participants, but contact was more strongly associated with reduced sexual prejudice for Jamaican participants than for British participants. …”

HIV leadership programming attendance is associated with PrEP and PEP awareness among young, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Vancouver, Canada by Kalysha Closson, Sarah Chown, Heather L. Armstrong, Lu Wang, Nicanor Bacani, Darren Ho, Jody Jollimore, Gbolahan Olarewaju, David M. Moore, Eric A. Roth, Robert S. Hogg, Nathan J. Lachowsky

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Community norms of the Muscle Dysmorphic Disorder Inventory (MDDI) among cisgender sexual minority men and women by Jason M. Nagata, Emilio J. Compte, Chloe J. Cattle, Jason M. Lavender, Tiffany A. Brown, Stuart B. Murray, Annesa Flentje, Matthew R. Capriotti, Micah E. Lubensky, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Mitchell R. Lunn

“…Participants included cisgender gay men (N = 1090), cisgender bisexual plus (bisexual, pansexual, and/or polysexual) men (N = 100), cisgender lesbian women (N = 563), and cisgender bisexual plus women (N = 507). …”
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AIDS in New York by Stephanie Holmquist

“…You might guess it’s a group of gay men, something about the mustaches, the clothes, the shirtless man in the foreground. …”
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No country(side) for young queers by Alice Parrinello

“…However, the move has recently acquired homonormative connotations: it is embedded into narratives of economic success and the individuals moving are usually white, cisgender, non-disabled, gay men. In the texts, the main characters correspond to the type. …”
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Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Among Dating Apps Users: A Case Report by João Rema

“…The report illustrates the difficult management of a clinical case of a patient with compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) that presented an excessive use of geosocial networking apps (GNAs) and sex workers for sexual encounters and discusses how this interplay might manifest differently in gay men. The author presents the clinical case of a 24-year-old male with daily severe and repetitive sexual impulses that lead to a recurring pattern of sexual behavior, accompanied by high dysfunctionality. …”
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Faggot Speaks: A Poetic Inquiry into the Experience of Antigay Mistreatment and Sexual Prejudice by Silvio Machado

“…Research suggests that, compared to heterosexual counterparts, gay men and other sexual minorities are at higher risk of developing emotional distress and mental disorders. …”
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“Grænsekrydser, backstabber og opportunist”: Praksisbaseret etik som intimt grænsearbejde by Kristian Møller Jørgensen

“…Based on fieldwork among gay men using locative ‘hook-up apps’, two moments of practical judgment are explored, focusing on the ethical tensions between data and person, public and private, anonymization and access, and built vs. media environmental presence.…”
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Path(o)s of Mourning. Memory, Death and the Invisible Body in Derek Jarman’s Blue by Nicoletta Vallorani

“…The first one is the virulence of the hostility toward  gay men that the AIDS pandemic has released: this is the backdrop against which Jarman's extended elaboration and mourning for his own death  is performed, after his diagnosis as body-positive in 1986. …”
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The Interactional Production of Narratives on Trans Categories: The Role of Body Modifications by Willian Maciel Krüger, Marcela Alberti, Alexandre do Nascimento Almeida

“…Our results point out that participants oriented to the role of body modifications in stressing identity category differences among travestis, transsexual women and gay men. We noticed that narrative analysis inspired by CA emerges as a powerful apparatus to understand the process of membership categorization. …”
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The Assessment of Social Distance in Relation to Symptoms of Discrimination in Students’ Declarations by Aleksander Sztejnberg, Tadeusz Leszek Jasiński

“…The difference between mean ratings of social distance declared by male and female students in relation to gay men turned out to be statistically significant on level p  < 0,05. …”
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Interactions That Matter: Researching Critical Associations by Katherine Davies, Brian Heaphy

“…These included an ‘Era Memory Workshop’ that was focussed on personal associations amongst lesbians and gay men, ‘Situated Interviews' that were concerned with non-familial relationships amongst people living in a rural ‘overspill’ housing estate and a Mass Observation Project directive that was framed in terms of the ‘ups and downs' of friendship. …”
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The Greek context in relation to homosexuality, homophobia and gay identity and community by Zervoulis, Karyofyllis

“…This paper describes and explores in some detail the status of sexual minorities in Greece and in broader Greek communities, with a focus on gay men and lesbians. It starts with a brief historical review before concentrating on the contemporary Greek society. …”
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Positive prevention: contemporary issues facing HIV positive people negotiating sex in the UK. by Ridge, D, Ziebland, S, Anderson, J, Williams, I, Elford, J

“…We analysed 44 individual and three group interviews with the people most affected by HIV in the UK: black African heterosexual men and women and gay men (mostly white). We found that participants had similar as well as contextually different needs when it came to negotiating safe sex, assimilating prevention knowledge. …”

Informing theoretical development of salutogenic, asset-based health improvement to reduce syndemics among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men: Empirical evidence fro... by Lisa M. McDaid, Paul Flowers, Olivier Ferlatte, Kareena McAloney-Kocaman, Mark Gilbert, Jamie Frankis

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