• Contents Prologue Introduction: Penetrating Marine Machismo Corporal Keith: The Devil Dog Yell Lance Corporal Ted: The Absent-Father Tattoo Corporal Alex: Marine Biology First Lieutenant Frank: Parris Island Is Burning Captain Eric: Marines Like To Be Looked At Sergeant Wood and Corporal Marie: Gay and Straight Are Identical Major Luke: Isolated Pain Corporal Jack: Smell of Masculine Marine Corporal Alex (Coda): A Parable Reference Notes.
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Offers a look at homoeroticism and hypermasculinity in Marine Corps life. This book challenges the popular stereotype of the Marine as all-man and unquestionably heterosexual.
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• Contents Foreword Prologue: "Are You in the Navy?" Introduction: The Myth of Heterosexual Purity Anthony: The Boot Camp Dream Eddy: The Sea Bitch Lieutenant Tim: The Uniform Trent: The Boatswain's Locker David: "Hard, " Not "Tough" Ray: The Navy Corpsmen Nipple Piercing Ritual Gregg: The Unmaking of an Activist Russell: Strong Friendship Sonny: Navy Tradition Kevin: The Network Jack: "Don't Kiss Me, I'm Straight" Chaplain Phil: Gay, Straight, Whatever Joey: I'll Always Be a Sailor Anthony (Coda) Reference Notes.
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Includes the conversations that reveal how known gay and straight men can and do get along in the sexually tense confines of barracks and shipboard life once they discover that the imagined boundary between them is not, in fact, a hard line.
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Despite massive media attention to the issue, there remains a gross disparity between the public perception of gays in the military and the sexual realities of military life. This title features conversations that reveal how known gay and straight men can and do get along in the sexually tense confines of barracks and shipboard life.
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• 1. Cracks ; Bent ; Messiah ; Rose
• 2. Passing by ; Onassis ; The Miser : a new version of the play by Molière.

Based on long-term field work carried out over more than 15 years, Beneath the Equator examines the changing shape of male homosexuality and the emegence of diverse and vibrant gay communities in urban Brazil. The book draws on detailed ethnographic description of multiple sexual worlds organized around street cruising, male prostitution, transgender performances, gay commercial markets and establishments, gay rights activism and AIDS service provision. Richard G. PArker explores the changing sexual identities, cultures and communities that have taken shape in Brazil in recent years.
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In his autobiography, John Addington Symonds relates a glorious night of passion, in which he and his lover "lay covered from the cold in bed, tasting the honey of softly spoken words and the blossoms of lips pressed on lips". Christopher Isherwood's first autobiography, on the other hand, was far less direct; he wrote a second autobiography in part because the first was "not truly autobiographical" in that "the author conceals important facts about himself". These contradictions, evasions, and explicit sexual details of the life stories of 14 men form "Gay Lives", an account of homosexual autobiography. Paul Robinson reads the memoirs of French, British, and American gay authors - Andre Gide, Quentin Crisp, and Martin Duberman, among others - through the prism of sexual identity, asking questions about homosexuality and its relation to literary form. How did these authors discover their sexual identity? Did they embrace it or reject it? How did they express often conflicted desires in their words, which ranged from defiant and brutally frank to ambiguous and abstract? Robinson considers the choices each made - as a man and an author - to accommodate himself to society's homophobia or live in protest against his oppression. Despite the threads that connect these stories, "Gay Lives" refutes the notion that there is a typical homosexual "career" by showing that gay men have led wildly dissimilar lives - from the exuberant to the miserable - and that they have found no less dissimilar meanings in those lives.
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In his autobiography, John Addington Symonds relates a glorious night of passion, in which he and his lover "lay covered from the cold in bed, tasting the honey of softly spoken words and the blossoms of lips pressed on lips". Christopher Isherwood's first autobiography, on the other hand, was far less direct; he wrote a second autobiography in part because the first was "not truly autobiographical" in that "the author conceals important facts about himself". These contradictions, evasions, and explicit sexual details of the life stories of 14 men form "Gay Lives", an account of homosexual autobiography. Paul Robinson reads the memoirs of French, British, and American gay authors - Andre Gide, Quentin Crisp, and Martin Duberman, among others - through the prism of sexual identity, asking questions about homosexuality and its relation to literary form. How did these authors discover their sexual identity? Did they embrace it or reject it? How did they express often conflicted desires in their words, which ranged from defiant and brutally frank to ambiguous and abstract? Robinson considers the choices each made - as a man and an author - to accommodate himself to society's homophobia or live in protest against his oppression. Despite the threads that connect these stories, "Gay Lives" refutes the notion that there is a typical homosexual "career" by showing that gay men have led wildly dissimilar lives - from the exuberant to the miserable - and that they have found no less dissimilar meanings in those lives.
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