SOCIOL 135 Lecture 3: Sept. 26, 2014 - Troubling Identities-Tearoom Trade
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Friday september 26, 2014: tearoom trade, dude sex. Tearoom trade: ethnographic researcher, volunteered to be the watch queen. Why is silence important: to maintain privacy, to maintain anonymity, to maintain impersonality not making a personal/emotional connection with the other person. They are apt to change within an encounter, from one encounter to another, with age, and with the amount of exposure to influences from a sexually deviant subculture. Heterosexuality: down low discourse, sees sexual activity as indicating a homosexual identity, homophobia is an expression of culture. Ward"s perspective: gay and straight = cultural spheres, homophobia = asserting identity/asserting subjectivity (identity) practice. Cultures, rather than a constellation of sexual acts that people engage in. Rather than seeing homophobia as a culture, and gay/straight as identity, ward flips them around. Binary construction of sexuality men who want to have sex with other men, but who do not want to be involved in gay culture re more comfortable identitying with the.
