Battles over the Gay past

Castiglia, Christopher; Reed, Christopher

doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816676101.003.0002

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“…Yet, this did not lay the groundwork for the development of a Dutch queer politics (Duyvendak, 1996), in contrast to the US context (Castiglia and Reed, 2011).…”

Section: Visibility and Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…This meaning was also projected onto the Homomonument . At that time, according to Binnie (1995: 175), this monument also came ‘to represent a site of memory and mourning for those we have lost to AIDS’ – see HIV/AIDS activism in Castiglia and Reed (2011) and Stockdill (2003) . Learning from what happened in NYC, where many locals initially did not welcome the Gay Liberation Monument , the Homomonument ’s founders contended that this should become a ‘living monument’ – not some ‘misery on a pedestal’ (Koenders, 1987: 29).…”

Section: Homomonument In Historical and Geographical Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Issues around visibility and recognition are particularly intensifying in debates about how to commemorate, and establish space for, sexual and gender minorities (Castiglia and Reed, 2011; Gieseking, 2016; Gorman-Murray and Nash, 2016). These debates render queer politics of inclusion as an activist commitment to creating (more) public visibility of such minorities as key pathway to heighten their recognition including formal rights – though such processes do not follow uniform patterns (Dunn, 2017; Mekler, 2018; Zebracki, 2020).…”

Section: Monuments and The Politics Of Lgbtq Inclusion In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, gay communities played a vital part in managing the devastating HIV/AIDS crisis in the Netherlands in the 1990s (Mepschen et al, 2010). Yet, this did not lay the groundwork for the development of a Dutch queer politics (Duyvendak, 1996), in contrast to the US context (Castiglia and Reed, 2011).…”

Section: Monuments and The Politics Of Lgbtq Inclusion In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’s Homomonument and the politics of inclusive social practice

2021

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Despite growing debate about the role of monuments in diverse societies, there has been insufficient attention to contestations that have emerged involving ‘gay’ or ‘queer’ monuments. This article examines the politics of inclusion and exclusion that can stem from the social practices that evolve around these monuments, particularly as the imperatives and priorities of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) activism evolve while monuments, created in a particular historical and geographical context, are in some sense ‘set in stone’. Drawing on an intensive, mixed-methods case study of the Homomonument in Amsterdam, the article develops a grounded critique of processes of inclusion and exclusion specifically in relation to Black, bisexual and transgender people. With a focus on dance parties organised at the Homomonument, the article calls for more research that analyses monuments as sites of practice.

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“…Yet, this did not lay the groundwork for the development of a Dutch queer politics (Duyvendak, 1996), in contrast to the US context (Castiglia and Reed, 2011).…”

Section: Visibility and Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Homomonument In Historical and Geographical Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Monuments and The Politics Of Lgbtq Inclusion In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Monuments and The Politics Of Lgbtq Inclusion In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’s Homomonument and the politics of inclusive social practice

2021

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“…Chris Castiglia and Chris Reed (2012) echo Hilderbrand in their desire to underscore “the joyous, collective, idealistic, and socially situated possibilities of sexual liberation” (p. 5) that more conventional understandings of the AIDS crisis tend to leave aside. Castiglia and Reed (2012) criticize the prevalence of historical narratives that frame AIDS in a way that either perpetuates moralistic ideas about sexual propriety or creates linear, reductive ideas about “progress” won by LGBTQ+ rights movements. At the same time, they worry about a vanguardism that orients queer thought toward future change so completely that scholars and activists cannot appreciate the imaginative, fruitful ways of being in the world that characterized LGBTQ+ life in the past.…”

Section: Remembering Aidsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Politics of Merely Following: Witnessing AIDS on Instagram

Griffin

2020

New Media & Society

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Using an illustrative sample of posts to an Instagram account devoted to commemorating lives lost to AIDS, this article articulates a less-than-intense form of engagement with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) politics on social media. Merely following particular accounts on social media networks enables an encounter with an Other that is shaped by the affordances of digital technologies and the specificities of particular platforms. A site of political engagement that is further contoured by hierarchies of sex, race, and gender, @theaidsmemorial offers evidence of user experiences that are less focused and intentional than those typically associated with progressive sexual politics. Nevertheless, the author argues that they are meaningful because of how they expose users to bodies, lives, and desires they may not encounter if not for social media.

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Toward a Positive hiv Theology: A Queer Hermeneutic Reading of the Book of Job

Torres,

Quero

2024

Feminist Theology

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This article aims to trace the history of hiv/aids in Central America, with particular attention to El Salvador. Its first section presents a periodization that details the evolution of the response and understanding of the region in the social context. The second section focuses on a detailed periodization of how faith communities reacted to the presence of hiv/aids, especially highlighting their responses to the affected people. The third section of the article provides a biblical, theological, and pastoral perspective from the early days to the current response of faith communities to hiv/aids.

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Battles over the Gay past

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Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’s Homomonument and the politics of inclusive social practice

Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’s Homomonument and the politics of inclusive social practice

The Politics of Merely Following: Witnessing AIDS on Instagram

Toward a Positive hiv Theology: A Queer Hermeneutic Reading of the Book of Job

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