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Gay voluntary associations in New York [electronic resource] : public sharing and private lives / Moshe Shokeid.

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Gay Voluntary Associations in New York examines social groups and personal experiences in the LGBT population of New York City, including religious congregations and assemblies of senior, interracial, bisexual, and compulsive individuals, to shed light on their social discourse of sex, love, friends...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Shokeid, Moshe
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2014.
©2015
Edition:1st ed.
Series:EBL-Schweitzer.
Subjects:
Gay people > New York (State) > New York > Societies, etc.
Gay community > New York (State) > New York.
Gay people > New York (State) > New York > Social life and customs.
Associations, institutions, etc. > New York (State) > New York.
Gay clubs > New York (State) > New York.
Associations, institutions, etc.
Gay community.
New York (State) > New York.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The anthropologist in the field of sexuality
  • Concealments and revelations in ethnographic research
  • The regretless seniors
  • Attending meetings of sexual compulsives anonymous
  • In the company of the bisexual circle
  • The Interracial Gay Men's Association
  • The gentle men's circle
  • Cuddling with gay bears
  • Listening to the sermons in gay congregations
  • Talking sex, imagining love
  • Negotiating gay subjectivity.

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