scientia sexualis shapes truth through knowledge and power (Foucault, 1978, 57-58).
Foucault states that our civilization is based on this scientia sexualis production of discourse that incorporates confession into the rules of science (Foucault, 1978, 67). This truth of sex operates as it articulates the language of power and transforms sex into discourse, causing the rituals of confession to function within the norms of science, constituted within scientific terminology.
Foucault describes two different procedures in producing the truth of sex, one being ars erotica or erotic art, which draws truth from pleasure itself, and then scientia sexualis that shapes the truth through knowledge and power (Foucault 1978, 57-58).
See scientia sexualis.
when an individual crosses over from one dominant hegemonic culture to experience the strange subculture of another. Often times placed in racially and sexually segregated ghettos, in order to excite and unsettle the curiosities of the slummer (Bronski, 121). Slumming was prevalent during the New York’s Harlem Renaissance that drew crowds to the spectacular jazz clubs nightly events. Slumming gave the opportunity for people to experience different ways of being that they were not normally familiar by providing another perspective to cultural difference and the permission to facilitate relationships beyond their own cultural understanding.
another word for invert or homosexual (Bronski, 98)
nonjudgemental way to refer to those who experience same-sex attraction (Bronski,xvii)
The fact, or state, of being something.
In the context of sexuality, it is the identification within the spectrum of sexuality to a specific sexuality- with that coming not just the objective facets of said sexuality (romantic and/or sexual attraction, or lack thereof) but also the cultural components of it, and how it ties in with the larger sexual and social system(s) of the world.
The acknowledgment that concepts of gender, sexuality, and performativity are generally different to per specific regions and/or cultures. It is important to note, especially historically, given that the dominant sexual system as it is now throughout the the United State (and worldwide) was not always as it was.
riots at the Stonewall inn between the police and the queer patrons of the bar.
The Stonewall Inn was a bar in the late 1960’s that catered to a variety of marginalized queer people: transgender people, drag queens, gay men, butch lesbians, prostitutes. “In the early hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969, police conducted a routine raid on the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street in the heart of Greenwich Village,” (Bronski 209). Although, raids of queer spaces were routine in the 1960’s, the police lost control during the Stonewall raid and the crowds of people refusing to leave the area turned into violent resistance. Riots lasted two days and were a response to the anti-gay legal system, and police oppression.
The Mattachine Society did not agree with the riots and felt that they were disruptive to the political progress that they had so far achieved.
gay rights activist group founded in New York City after the Stonewall riots of 1969.
Believing that oppression was intersectional, the GLA showed solidarity with the Black Panther Party among other movements. Some GLA members felt they should focus solely on gay rights and activism, hence the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was formed later that year. The GAA become more popular than the GLF, which was dismantled in 1972.
“Within a year, GLF had organized Sunday night meetings, nineteen ‘cells’ or action groups, an all-men’s meeting, a women’s caucus, three communal living groups, and a series of successful community dancces, in addition to publishing the newspaper Come Out!” (Bronksi, 210)
Written in 1977 by the Combahee River Collective, a Black lesbian feminist organization from Boston, the statement directly highlighted issues that affected the Queer individuals and collectives within the Black community. It was an incredibly important piece in highlighting the intersectionality of racism, sexism, and homophobia, emphasizing issues not just outside of the Black community, but also within the Black community.
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