William L. Leap and Samuel ColÓn
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034317
- eISBN:
- 9780813039312
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034317.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
Language has been used to cast gay men as the stigmatized “other.” But by looking closely at how gay men use language, we can learn how to better develop effective programs that serve the gay ...
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Language has been used to cast gay men as the stigmatized “other.” But by looking closely at how gay men use language, we can learn how to better develop effective programs that serve the gay community. The non-neutral meanings associated with AIDS are deeply embedded within conversation and storytelling, asking questions, argumentation and debate, and verbal and nonverbal negotiation of sexual opportunity and sexual risk, and through other forms of social experience thoroughly embedded in linguistic practice. Rather than using gay men's remarks about AIDS simply as a source of supportive anecdote, this chapter argues in favor of a more tightly focused use of linguistic data in studies of AIDS and gay experience. It outlines assumptions about text analysis and discusses Hector Carrillo's The Night Is Young (2002), an analysis of sexual narratives that he collected during the 1990s while he was studying sexuality, socialization, and prevention of HIV infection in Guadalajara, Mexico. The book offers considerable attention to textual form.Less
Language has been used to cast gay men as the stigmatized “other.” But by looking closely at how gay men use language, we can learn how to better develop effective programs that serve the gay community. The non-neutral meanings associated with AIDS are deeply embedded within conversation and storytelling, asking questions, argumentation and debate, and verbal and nonverbal negotiation of sexual opportunity and sexual risk, and through other forms of social experience thoroughly embedded in linguistic practice. Rather than using gay men's remarks about AIDS simply as a source of supportive anecdote, this chapter argues in favor of a more tightly focused use of linguistic data in studies of AIDS and gay experience. It outlines assumptions about text analysis and discusses Hector Carrillo's The Night Is Young (2002), an analysis of sexual narratives that he collected during the 1990s while he was studying sexuality, socialization, and prevention of HIV infection in Guadalajara, Mexico. The book offers considerable attention to textual form.
Allan Bérubé
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834794
- eISBN:
- 9781469603117
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877982_berube.13
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
This essay presents Berube's keynote address at the first queer studies conference in Quebec. Using class, ethnicity, and race as lenses through which to understand not only his own life but, in some ...
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This essay presents Berube's keynote address at the first queer studies conference in Quebec. Using class, ethnicity, and race as lenses through which to understand not only his own life but, in some ways, the broader contours of gay experience, Berube argues that gay as a social category can never stand alone. “Class and racialized ethnic histories,” he asserts, “shape our languages, our sexual desires and relationships, our psychologies, our writings, and our intellectualities.” Berube writes honestly and feelingly about the “sentimental nostalgia” that pulls him to study the past as a way to restore an emotional wholeness to life.Less
This essay presents Berube's keynote address at the first queer studies conference in Quebec. Using class, ethnicity, and race as lenses through which to understand not only his own life but, in some ways, the broader contours of gay experience, Berube argues that gay as a social category can never stand alone. “Class and racialized ethnic histories,” he asserts, “shape our languages, our sexual desires and relationships, our psychologies, our writings, and our intellectualities.” Berube writes honestly and feelingly about the “sentimental nostalgia” that pulls him to study the past as a way to restore an emotional wholeness to life.
