The gay side of life
When Oscar Wilde Tours designs gay history tours, we always try to display people the gay side of famous places. We do for instance “gay secrets” tours of Westminster Abbey, the Louvre, and the Vatican. But we also try to take people to some places that are important in lgbtq+ history and that they might otherwise never believe to visit. Bletchley Park is an example, where Alan Turing (as in The Imitation Game) developed the machine that broke secret German codes in World War II and at the very least hastened the victory over Hitler. Another of these places is the Naples Archaeological Museum. Most people these days seem to skip Naples on their way from Rome to Pompeii (another place with great queer history), but Naples merits a stop for a number of reasons. On our gay Italy tour, we spend 3 days exploring Naples and its surroundings (Pompeii, Paestum, Capri).
Original metropolis of pizza
First of all, as far as we know, the pizza was invented in Naples, and the greatest pizzerie are still there, in the old downtown, close to the Archaeological Museum. It is said that Brandi
The Closet: Psychological Issues of Being In and Coming Out
In the jargon of contemporary homosexual culture, those who hide their sexual identities are referred to as either closeted or said to be in the closet. Revealing one's homosexuality is referred to as coming out. Clinical experience with gay patients reveals hiding and exposing behaviors to be psychologically complex.
Homosexual Identities
In the developmental histories of gay men and women, periods of difficulty in acknowledging their homosexuality, either to themselves or to others, are often reported. Children who grow up to be gay rarely receive family support in dealing with antihomosexual prejudices. On the contrary, beginning in childhood--and distinguishing them from racial and ethnic minorities--gay people are often subjected to the antihomosexual attitudes of their own families and communities (Drescher et al., ). Antihomosexual attitudes contain homophobia (Weinberg, ), heterosexism (Herek, ), moral condemnations of homosexuality (Drescher, ) and antigay violence (Herek and Berrill, ). Hiding a
Mapping the Gay Guides
Visualizing Queer Space and American Life
Welcome to Mapping the Same-sex attracted Guides!
While operating one of his many gay bars in the s, Bob Damron started a side project publishing gay travel guides that featured bars like his. Called the Bob Damron Address Books, these guides proved trendy and became a valuable resource for gay travelers looking for friends, companions, and safety.
First published in an era when most states banned same-sex connection both in general and private spaces, these travel guides helped gays (and to a lesser extent lesbians) uncover bars, cocktail lounges, bookstores, restaurants, bathhouses, cinemas, and cruising grounds that catered to people enjoy themselves. Much favor the Green Books of the s and s, which African Americans used to find warm businesses that would cater to dark citizens in the era of Jim Crow apartheid, Damron’s guidebooks aided a generation of gender non-conforming people in detecting sites of collective, pleasure, and politics.
Damron’s guidebooks were part of a growing interest in homosexual travel guide publications that began i
A few years ago when I was looking into nose piercings (it wasn&#;t until last year that I finally worked up the nerve and got it done) I discovered multiple websites debating which was the optimal side to get it done on.
I learned that in India the left side is preferred because it supposedly makes giving birth easier. I also learned that some people consider a particular side to represent sexuality.
Granted, there were no legitimate websites that provided me with this data. My past English teachers would frown if they saw me consuming information from such untrustworthy sources. Still, I found many of these websites where one would ask &#;which side should I get my nose piercing on?&#; and people would battle it out in the comments claiming &#;Get it on the right side! If you get it on the left side, it means you&#;re gay!&#; or &#;No, it&#;s the right side that means you&#;re gay!&#;
I wasn&#;t too conflicted. Does the average person actuallyknow these so-called &#;facts&#; about the connection between nose piercing and sexuality? I assumed then, and still assume now, th