Out Spoken: Perspectives on Queer Identities

by Wes D. Pearce, Jean Hillabold

Overview

How is identity formed? If you were born in Canada, that makes you Canadian; if you were raised Jewish, that makes you a Jew, right? But what about a teenage boy from small town Saskatchewan who has a secret crush on the guy who sits next to him in homeroom? What does that make him? And how would his identity change if he grew up to become an out-of-the-closet gay man?

In Out Spoken: Perspectives on Queer Identities questions like these are addressed by an eclectic range of authors in disciplines that range from sociology and education to cultural studies and literature—as well as playwrights, artists and writers—to reveal the fluid and sometimes confounding nature of identity when sexuality is part of the mix.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780889772809
Publisher:	University of Regina Press
Publication date:	05/06/2013
Series:	University of Regina Publications , #1
Pages:	255
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Jean Hillabold is an Instructor in the Department of English, University of Regina, a freelance writer and author of fiction.
Wes D. Pearce is Associate Dean (Undergraduate) for the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina.

Table of Contents

Foreword Madeleine Morris vii

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction Wes D. Pearce Jean Hillabold xiii

Part I Negotiating Public Persona(S)

Being Green: Sex and Tadpoles in the Drama of Juan Rana Jes Battis 3

The Christian Martyr and the Pagan Witness in The Well of Loneliness Jean Hillabold 15

Chinese University Students Commitment to Social Justice and Their Willingness to Confront Sexual Orientation Prejudice Donald Cochrane Jinjie Wang 29

"I Won't Discuss Who I'm Dating": Same-Sex Celebrity Gossip as Social Control Wes D. Pearce 57

Part II Negotiating Self (Selves)

Small Boy DREAMS (an excerpt) Kelly Handerek 75

Eros and the Erotic in the Construction of Queer Teacher Identity James McNinch 99

Camp fYrefly: Linking Research to Advocacy in Community Work with Sexual and Gender Minority Youth André P. Grace 127

Part III Negotiating Public Sphere(S)

Repressed Identities: A Traveling Exploration of Sexuality, Gender and Place Caitlyn Jean McMillan 145

Gay, Straight and In-Between: John Money on Homosexuality Terry Goldie 159

Thinking through Blood in Post-9/11 Visual Culture: The Passion of the Christ and Bobby Randal Rogers 181

Part IV Negotiating Private Realm(S)

"Hours Continuing Long" as Whitman's Re-writing of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 Nils Clausson 203

Red Rover Revisited: The Making of Lesbian Mystery Novel Liz Bugg 219

Appendix: The University of Regina Queer Initiative (URQI) In and Out Speakers Series: 2007-2012 227

Contributors 231