Out in Public

Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors offer a deep conversation about the meaning of sexuality, subjectivity and culture. Affirms the importance of recognizing gay and lesbian social issues within the arena of public anthropology Explores critical concerns of gay activism in a...

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Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors offer a deep conversation about the meaning of sexuality, subjectivity and culture. Affirms the importance of recognizing gay and lesbian social issues within the arena of public anthropology Explores critical concerns of gay activism in a variety of global settings, from the U.S., the European Union, Singapore, Nigeria, India, Nicaragua, and Guadalajara Offers a unique focus on the politics of being gay and lesbian - in cross-cultural perspective Deals with broad-ranging issues that affect human sexuality and human rights globally Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of "Best Anthology"

William Leap is professor of Anthropology at American University and author of Word’s Out: Gay Men’s English and other publications on language and sexuality. He coordinates the annual Lavender Languages Conference, the longest running lesbian/gay studies conference in North America.

Ellen Lewin is a professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at the Univer...

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William Leap is professor of Anthropology at American University and author of Word’s Out: Gay Men’s English and other publications on language and sexuality. He coordinates the annual Lavender Languages Conference, the longest running lesbian/gay studies conference in North America.

Ellen Lewin is a professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture and Recognizing Ourselves: Ceremonies of Lesbian and Gay Commitment.

Acknowledgments viii
Notes on Contributors x
Editors’ Introduction 1
William L. Leap and Ellen Lewin
Part I. Out in Public: Reflecting on Experience 25
1 My Date with Phil Donahue:
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Acknowledgments viii
Notes on Contributors x
Editors’ Introduction 1
William L. Leap and Ellen Lewin
Part I. Out in Public: Reflecting on Experience 25
1 My Date with Phil Donahue:
A Queer Intellectual in TV-Land 27
Esther Newton (University of Michigan)
2 Changes and Challenges:
Ethnography, Homosexuality, and HIV Prevention Work
in Guadalajara 33
Héctor Carrillo (San Francisco State University)
3 Going Home Ain’t Always Easy:
Ethnography and the Politics of Black Respectability 54
E. Patrick Johnson (Northwestern University)
Part II. Sexual Sameness is not a Self-Evident Terrain 71
4 The Personal Isn’t Always Political 73
Karen Brodkin (University of California, Los Angeles)
5 Who’s Gay? What’s Gay?
Dilemmas of Identity Among Gay Fathers 86
Ellen Lewin (University of Iowa)
6 A Queer Situation: Poverty, Prisons, and Performances of Infidelity and Instability
in the New Orleans Lesbian Anthem 104
Natasha Sandraya Wilson (University of New Orleans)
Part III. Unpacking the Engagements between Sexuality and Broader Ideological Positions 123
7 Tuskegee on the “Down Low”:
A Bioculturalist Brings the Past into the Present 125
Rachel Watkins (American University)
8 Back and Forth to the Land: Negotiating Rural and Urban Sexuality Among the Radical Faeries 143
Scott Morgensen (Macalester College)
9 The Power of Stealth: (In)Visible Sites of Female-to-Male Transsexual Resistance 164
Elijah Adiv Edelman (American University)
10 Rumsfeld!:
Consensual BDSM and “Sadomasochistic” Torture at Abu Ghraib 180
Margot Weiss (Wesleyan University)
11 Professional Baseball, Urban Restructuring and (Changing) Gay Geographies in Washington, DC 202
William L. Leap (American University)
Part IV. International and Local Formations of Same-Sex and
Transgender Identities 223
12 Public Sex: The Geography of Female Homoeroticism and the (In)Visibility
of Female Sexualities 225
Megan Sinnott (Georgia State University)
13 Neither in the Closet nor on the Balcony: Private Lives and Public Activism in Nicaragua 240
Florence E. Babb (University of Florida)
14 Life Lube: Discursive Spheres of Sexuality, Science, and AIDS 256
Harris Solomon (Brown University)
15 Man Marries Man in Nigeria? 273
Rudolf P. Gaudio (State University of New York College, Purchase)
Part V. Sexuality and Neoliberal Citizenship 293
16 LGBT Rights in the European Union: A Queer Affair? 295
Mark Graham (University of Stockholm)
17 Turning the Lion City Pink? Interrogating Singapore’s Gay Civil Servant Statement 317
Chris Tan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
18 The Marriage between Kinship and Sexuality in New Mexico’s Domestic Partnership Debate 338
Lavinia M. Nicolae (University of New Mexico)
Index 357
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