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Gay Identity in Literature.
In: Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature, 2023-04-30, S. 3
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Considerable scholarship has been dedicated to homosexuality in history and culture. One of the main controversies in gay studies has centered on two schools of thought, essentialist and social constructionist. The essentialist position maintains that the characteristics of gay identity have remained constant, so that, for example, same-sex behavior in ancient Greece and in the United States in the twenty-first century would have some fundamental similarities. The social constructionist view, on the other hand, argues that particular practices are historically specific; therefore, their meanings change according to the time and place in which they occur. Most of the scholarship exploring gay identity in American literature has emerged out of the constructionist school, and the standard position has been that homosexuality was repressed until at least the end of World War II, when it began to be more in the public consciousness, culminating in the Stonewall riots, an uprising of gay people against a police raid on a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, in New York in June, 1969.
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Gay Identity in Literature.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Freeman, Chris |
Zeitschrift: | Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature, 2023-04-30, S. 3 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
Medientyp: | Nachschlagewerk |
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