Corps/corpse: The U.S. military and homosexuality

Paradoxes of Sexuality, Gay Identity, and the Closet

“…Persons who identify as gay are often targets of harassment and even physical violence solely for claiming to be or being perceived as gay (Kimmel and Mahler 2003; Pascoe 2007). In the United States, same‐sex partnerships are not recognized as a legitimate kind of coupling in a variety of contexts (e.g., national and some state governments, hospitals, families), and institutions like the military (Brouwer 2004; Butler 1997) and the educational system (Gust and Warren 2008; Kirk 2008; MacIntosh 2007; Meyer 2005) require a gay person to vigilantly regulate or remain silent about same‐sex desire. Same‐sex relations are often absent from or disregarded in mundane conversation (Feigenbaum 2007; Foster 2008; Glave 2005), and various religions position gays and the “homosexual lifestyle” as immoral, disgusting, and in need of change (Bennett 2003; Brouwer and Hess 2007; Chávez 2004; Cobb 2006; Moon 2002; Stewart 2005).…”

Making Sense of ‘God Hates Fags’ and ‘Thank God for 9/11’: A Thematic Analysis of Milbloggers' Responses to Reverend Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church

“…Throughout, we vary our descriptors of the protesters (the WBC, Phelps, and more) to reduce repetition and aid ease of reading. [7] See Brouwer (2004) for an analysis of the figuration of the U.S. military as a heterosexual male body at risk of emasculating penetration and compromised efficacy by gay men. [8] Throughout the essay, we retain bloggers' informal or colloquial expressions, marking errors only in three cases involving one misspelling and two misuses of possessives.…”

Mono-multi bipartite Ramsey numbers, designs, and matrices

“…We found it amusing to combine the factorization of K 6 with Fano planes to give an extremal 6 × 70 matrix showing that the upper bound n 3 (3, 3; 6) 71 is in fact an equality (see Theorem 8). We were somewhat disappointed when it turned out that the 170 blocks of the unique 3-(17, 8,14) design (due to Brouwer [3]) cannot be partitioned into disjoint pairs. This fact and Füredi's aforementioned theorem imply the nonexistence of a 17 × 4760 extremal matrix, and thus the bound n 9 (3, 9; 17) 4761 is not tight.…”

“…Computer search shows that there is only one 3-(17, 8,14) design, the one due to Brouwer [3]: it is generated by the affine group GA17 acting on F 17 with generator blocks B 1 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} and B 2 = {1, 2, 4,8,9,13,15, 16} (the squares). This design is not pairable because the disjointness relation on the blocks has odd components (cycles of length 17).…”