Male Homosexualities and World Religions

The curiosity of this ebook lies on the very heart of a contemporary deployment of gay liberation on a bigger scale. The reader can be capable of know the way all the traditions studied articulates its personal regulatory mechanisms of male sexuality commonly, and homosexuality.

Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special Period Cuba (SOAS Musicology Series)

The ‘Special interval’ in Cuba used to be a longer period of monetary melancholy beginning within the early Nineties, characterised by way of the cave in of progressive values and social norms, and a lifestyle carried out via improvised suggestions for survival, together with hustling and sex-work. in this time there constructed a thriving, notwithstanding consistently careworn and destabilized, clandestine homosexual scene (known because the ‘ambiente’).

Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability

Even supposing its early movies featured racial caricatures and solely Caucasian heroines, Disney has, lately, develop into extra multicultural in its filmic fare and its picture. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the 1st African American princess within the Princess and the Frog to “Spanish–mode” Buzz Lightyear in Toy tale three, Disney movies have come to either reflect and impression our more and more different society.

The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love

Within the lacking delusion, Gilles Herrada tackles the various questions on the position and which means of homosexuality within the evolution of our species and the advance of civilization: what evolutionary side same-sex relationships have supplied to the human species; what organic mechanisms generate the sexual variety that we realize; why gay habit ended up being prohibited all over the world; why homophobia has persevered all through heritage; why the gay neighborhood resurfaced after international battle II; and others.