Interrogating Homonormativity

This book explores the concept of homonormativity and examines how the politics of homonormativity has shaped the lives and practices of gay men living primarily in the UK. The book adopts a case study approach in order to examine how homonormativity is shaping relationships within gay male culture, and between this culture and mainstream society. The book features chapters on same-sex marriage, HIV treatment, dating and hook-up culture, sexualized drug use and the world of work. Throughout these chapters, the book develops a conversation regarding the role that neoliberalism has played in defining gay male identities and practices in the UK and USA. If homonormativity is understood as the sexual politics of neoliberalism, this book considers to what extent those sexual politics pervade gay men's sense of self, their relationships with each other, their experience of the spaces they occupy in everyday life, and the identities they inhabit in the workplace.blematizing the concept of homonormativity.

Draws attention to the ongoing inequalities and prejudices that characterise and shape gay male life today Makes a timely intervention in the ongoing 'gay vs. queer' debate in order to provoke new discussion Illuminates the risks engendered by queer critical work that ignores the always contingent nature of homonormativity

Autorentext

Sharif Mowlabocus is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA. He holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Sussex, UK, and is the author of several books and research articles. His research focuses primarily on Western gay male culture and its engagement with new forms of communication, mediation and representation.

Inhalt

1: Queerer than thou: difficult deployments of homonormativity.- 2: Love and marriage: reflections from the Wedding Fair.- 3: "What a skewed set of values": health inequalities in the "post-equalities" era. - 4: Returning to the network: hook-up apps and the myth of the gay public.- 5: Something for the weekend, sir?.- 6: Grey and gay: homonormativity enters retirement.- 7: Building bridges.