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Between the Holy Cross and Free Market. Addressing the Issue of Homosexuality in the Narratives of Former Students in Polish Schools
2021
In the article the authors present the results of the research based on in-depth interviews with 22 young gays and lesbians, graduates of different types schools in Poland. The main goal of the research was to indicate how, in the opinions of the respondents, the issue of homosexuality was addressed in schools they attended and how these particular ways of treating homosexuality might be related to the wider socio-cultural context. The qualitative analysis of the narratives with the application of thematic analysis of the data let the authors identify four main categories comprising the ways of dealing with the issue of homosexuality (silence, pathologising attitude, the language of sin, po…
A premodern legacy: the "easy" criminalization of homosexual acts between women in the Finnish Penal Code of 1889.
1998
Homosexual acts between women were criminalized in Finland in the 1889 Penal Code which also criminalized men's homosexual acts for the first time explicitly in Finnish legislation. The inclusion of women in the Penal Code took place without much ado. In the article it is argued that the uncomplicated juxtaposing of men and women was due to the legacy of a cultural pattern where man and woman, as categories, were not in an all-pervasive polarity to each other, for example, in sexual subjectivity. A cultural pattern of low gender polarization was typical of preindustrial rural culture, and it can help us apprehend also certain other features in contemporary Finnish social and political life,…
PGal4 excision reveals the pleiotropic effects of Voila, a Drosophila locus that affects development and courtship behaviour
2001
0016-6723 (Print) Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; In Drosophila melanogaster, the PGal4 transposon inserted at the chromosomal site 86E1-2 is associated with the Voila1 allele that causes multiple phenotypes. Homozygous Voila1/1 flies rarely reach adulthood and heterozygous Voila1/+ adult males display strong homosexual courtship behaviour. Both normal behavioural and developmental phenotypes were rescued by remobilizing the PGal4 element. Yet, the rescue of heterosexual courtship and of adult viability did not occur in the same strains, indicating that these defects have different genetic origins. Furthermore, many strains showed a partial rescue of both characters. Molec…
Masculinité transnationale et corps-mâle dans les romans d’Abdellah Taïa
2016
I romanzi dello scrittore marocchino d'espressione francese Abdellah Taïa esaminano con attenzione la maschilità nel contesto migratorio. Omosessuale ed esiliato, Taïa cerca di costruire la sua identità sessuale secondo il modello occidentale; così facendo, contribuisce alla creazione di una maschilità islamica transnazionale che si decentra, pur restando ancorata all'eredità culturale delle sue terre d'origine. L'articolo si propone di interrogare le modalità di tale costruzione identitaria a partire dagli studi di Connell sulla maschilità egemonica e dalla psicoanalisi lacaniana applicata alla dimensione immaginaria del corpo. The novels of the French Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa examine…
Is Gayness a Test from Allah? Typologies in Muslim Stances on Homosexuality
2014
The article presents a spectrum of views within Muslim discourse on questions such as: “Is non-hetero predilection congenital and as such created by God?,” “Are non-hetero feelings/actions sinful as such?,” “Should the authorities in Muslim states punish homosexual acts?,” “Should lesbian and gay Muslims marry partners of the opposite gender?” The stances presented are based on texts by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Heba Gamal Kotb, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Amreen Jamal and Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle. Stances presented by various Muslim internet sites are also considered. The review is grouped into a four-way typology: strongly traditional; moderately traditional; moderately progressive; and strongly progr…
El procés contra el mulat Amador de Molina per sodomia, del 1588
2018
Resum: La sodomia ha estat perseguida al llarg de la història europea pels tribunals civils i eclesiàstics. A més, a partir de l’any 1524 la Inquisició obtingué jurisdicció plena per jutjar la sodomia als territoris d’Aragó, Catalunya i València. Amador de Molina ja havia sigut jutjat i condemnat a Múrcia, des d’on va arribar, desterrat, a la localitat d’Ontinyent. Denunciat per l’estupre d’un menor, el Tribunal de la Inquisició de València es va mostrar implacable. Junt amb la transcripció del procés, aportem en aquest article una relació general d’alguns dels treballs més significatius en l’estudi de la Inquisició i la repressió sexual, i un esbós dels marcs doctrinals i legals del pecat-…
ENTREACTO / ENTR?ACTE Un film / A Film Chopin y los Sand, amor a cuatro bandas. Aproximación a la esfera privada de Fryderyk Chopin a partir de la pe…
2021
Two centuries later, the legend Chopin-Sand continues to supply the collective imaginary with vague readings, where historical truthfulness, let alone musical truth, is often contingent on the literary. The much discussed and bellicose romance between the Polish composer and the French novelist, George Sand, tends to some reductionism and evades an obvious reality: Fryderyk Chopin meets George Sand when she was already the mother of two children. This circumstance suggests reformulating certain romantic stereotypes. Jerzy Antczak?s biographical film Pragnienie Mi?o?ci (Chopin: Desire for Love, 2002) does not overlook this detail and makes it one of its narrative axes. The relationship betwe…
The strange identity: the sexual alterity in L’aprenentatge de la soledat, by David Vilaseca (2008)
2018
L’aprenentatge de la soledat, de David Vilaseca (2008), és una obra que planteja qüestions sobre l’escriptura, la identitat i la sexualitat. Basant-se en la teoria cultural, la psicoanàlisi i la teoria queer, el narrador-protagonista, David —alter ego de l’autor— construeix una identitat homosexual a través del seu diari. Més que confessar la condició sexual, els escriptors d’autobiografia construeixen una nova identitat de manera retrospectiva. Les similituds entre el protagonista i Vilaseca, la combinació entre teoria i experiència subjectiva, converteixen la novel·la en una barreja d’autoficció i assaig. La construcció del personatge es fa a partir de la psicoanàlisi, que el retrata com …
”It’s how gay people communicate, basically” : verbal expressions of femininity in Tyler Oakley’s videos
2017
Median muutoksen mukana homoseksuaalisuus on saanut lisää näkyvyyttä. Enää ei ole harvinaista esimerkiksi nähdä televisiosarjoissa homoseksuaaleja hahmoja tai seksuaalivähemmistöihin liittyvien aiheiden käsittelyä. Vähemmistöjen rooli toimii kahteen suuntaan; koska seksuaalisuutta ei enää nähdä tabuna, oman seksuaali-identiteetin ilmaiseminen on helpompaa ja koska kyseisen identiteetin ilmaiseminen on helpompaa, se ei ole enää tabu. Tyler Oakley on yhdysvaltalainen avoimesti homoseksuaali mediapersoona, joka nousi suosioon YouTube-videoidensa kautta, joita on nyt katsottu yhteensä yli 600 miljoonaa kertaa. YouTuben lisäksi Oakley on saanut tunnustusta omaelämänkertansa ja dokumenttinsa kaut…
Burden of HIV and hepatitis C co-infection: the changing epidemiology of hepatitis C in HIV-infected patients in France.
2015
Équipe UB/CHU (EA) Pôle MERS CT3 Hors Enjeu; International audience; Background & AimsTo better evaluate the HIV-HCV co-infection burden in the context of new effective HCV treatment. MethodsWe reviewed all the epidemiological data available on HCV-related disease in HIV-infected patients in France. Sources of data have been selected using the following criteria: (i) prospective cohorts or cross-sectional surveys; (ii) conducted at a national level; (iii) in the HIV-infected population; (iv) able to identify HCV co-infection and chronic active hepatitis C (HCV RNA positive); and (v) conducted during the period 2003-2012. ResultsThe overall prevalence of HIV-HCV co-infection has decreased fr…