Queer Regions
            <i>Locating Lesbians in</i>
            Sancharram

Gopinath, Gayatri

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“…As Gopinath writes, a regional perspective "provides us with an alternative mapping of sexual geographies that link disparate transnational locations and that allow new models of sexual subjectivity to come into focus." 3 Queering the Middle continues these lines of inquiry that showcase the "frictive" dynamics of interscalar relationship through a vibrant, invigorated idea of a critical regionality.…”

Section: Queering the Middle Race Region And A Queer Midwest Descalmentioning

confidence: 98%

Queering the Middle

Manalansan¹,

Nadeau²,

Rodríguez³

et al. 2014

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

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When imagined in relation to other regions in the United States, the Midwest is often positioned as the "norm," the uncontested site of middle-class white American heteronormativity. This characterization of the Midwest has often prevailed in scholarship on sexual identity, practice, and culture, but a growing body of recent queer work on rural sexualities, transnational migration, regional identities, and working-class cultures suggests the need to understand the Midwest other wise. This special issue offers an opportunity to think with, through, and against the idea of region. Rather than reinforce the idea of the Midwest as a core that essentializes and naturalizes American cultural and ideological formations, these essays instead open up possibilities for dispelling and unraveling the idea of the heartland. This special issue represents an engagement with and a creative departure from the notion of the American Midwest both as a geographic entity and as a discursive formation. The middle creates less a magisterial panoramic perspective than a queer vantage-a troubled, unstable perch buttressed by the dominance of the coasts and the "South." We believe that such instabilities are productive of alternative ways to approach space and time and to reimagine routes and paths, contours and shapes, directions and teloses of queer lives, practices, and institutions.

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Section: Queering the Middle Race Region And A Queer Midwest Descalmentioning

confidence: 98%

Queering the Middle

Manalansan¹,

Nadeau²,

Rodríguez³

et al. 2014

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

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“…In the last decade, the 'metronormative' approach to gender and sexuality studies has been problematised (Baker, 2012;Binnie, 2016;Gopinath, 2007;Gray, 2009;Herring, 2010;Kazyak, 2011;Marple, 2005). Yet, with notable exceptions (Butterfield, 2018;Stella, 2016), most studies on rural queers still focus on Western contexts (Kuhar andŠvab, 2014: 1092).…”

Section: Metronormativity and Rural Queerness: Identities And Activismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Here the concept of 'critical regionality' (Binnie, 2016;Gopinath, 2007;Johnson et al, 2000) emerges. This concept relates to the necessity of restoring the importance of regional approaches to the study of sexuality and gender diversity, both at the level of the sub-territorial unit and the supra-territorial unit (Manalansan et al, 2014).…”

Section: Metronormativity and Rural Queerness: Identities And Activismmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘The more South you go, the more frankly you can speak’: Metronormativity, critical regionality and the LGBT movement in Salento, South-Eastern Italy

Ammaturo

2018

Current Sociology

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In recent times, the region of Salento in South-Eastern Italy has become one of the most popular gay-friendly tourist spots in the country and several LGBT organisations have operated in this territory over the last few years. This article seeks to map the creation, development and challenges of the LGBT movement in this Italian sub-region by looking at forms of negotiation between ‘local’ and ‘queer’ identities and beyond narratives of ‘metronormativity’ of LGBT identities and from the perspective of ‘critical regionality’ and ‘meridian thought’. Through semi-structured interviews conducted with five local LGBT activists in 2016 and ethnographic observations carried out at Pride events in 2016 and 2017, the article looks at conflicting social processes whereby local activism is rooted in situated allegiances and interactions with the territory and its population, whilst being permeated by the globalising dynamics of LGBT identity politics.

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“…In her analysis of another India-set film about homosexuality, Gayatri Gopinath (2007) refers to the location of the Malayalam language film Sancharram (2004), as evoking the regional through Kerala. For Gopinath (2007, p. 343), such '[r]egionality can be a useful concept through which to explore the particularities of gender and sexual logics in spaces that exist in a tangential relation to the nation, but that are simultaneously and irreducibly marked by complex national and global processes'.…”

Section: Journal Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gay Globalization Via Goa in My Brother… Nikhil

Ferrão¹

2011

Journal of Creative Communications

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‘Gay Globalization via Goa in My Brother… Nikhil’ examines the 2005 film, which was the first to have focused on homosexuality in India. Despite this claim, the film articulates gay subjectivity as emerging from a global, rights-based perspective, it is argued. Central to this analysis of the film is its setting in Goa which is employed as a site of liminality between ‘traditional’ India and global modernity. Goa is both cleaved to and from India as a whole by casting the former’s historical regionality through a misconstrual of its religious identities, as well as through references to colonial and alleged racial difference. The film’s basis for such differentiation is considered as being in large part due to Goa’s longer colonization by the Portuguese in comparison to the reign of the British in most of the rest of India. Modernity and diaspora are also explored as key features of the representation of Goa in the film, especially as they tie in to issues of gay rights. Further, the essay scrutinizes the parallels between the title character and the real-life inspiration behind the film, the Goan AIDS activist Dominic D’souza. In concluding, it is made apparent that the film centres gay male subjectivity while relegating Goan identity to an ambivalent marginality.

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Queer Regions Locating Lesbians in Sancharram

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‘The more South you go, the more frankly you can speak’: Metronormativity, critical regionality and the LGBT movement in Salento, South-Eastern Italy

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