Discipline, Punishment And The Homosexual In Law

Gleeson, Kate

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“…Gleeson once commented that "everyone is capable of making homosexual object choice," which indicates that one should freely choose whomever he loves after he learns to accept who he really is. [24] This also corresponds with the idea mentioned earlier: the word, homosexuality, is a hybrid, which offers miscellaneous characteristics that should not have a fixed meaning. When Housman says "I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder," he is aware that he needs to give up his love for Jackson and to begin to love himself more.…”

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“…[18] Now, he learns to be proud of his true identity and to stop hiding from the exposure of being a gay man because "knowledge of his body and his desire signified power." [24] Being a gay man is absolutely not a crime, nor a disgrace that should haunt a man for life. Homosexuality is misunderstood in terms of its legal identity and legitimacy.…”

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Transgression: Human Desire and the Revelation of Homosexuality in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love

Su¹

2017

IJCH

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Abstract-Staying in or coming out of the closet have been two oppositional dissidences sanctioned by each of their supporters to stigmatize the legitimacy of the opposing stance. With these two discourses confronting each other, the public awareness of acknowledging the existence of homosexuality leads to the exposure of sexual repression. Thus, homosexuality not only overthrows the univocal disposition of heterosexuality, but also invokes a rising voice to challenge the doctrine in a conservative society. A.E. Housman, Tom Stoppard's protagonist in The Invention of Love, constrained by social convention, experiences a concupiscent desire for his classmate, Moses Jackson. Triggered by his indulgence in Greek poetry, from youth to death, Housman goes on the path in search of his real self. In this regard, this paper will focus on three stages, awareness, denial and acceptance, which influence Housman's whole life and delineate his inner struggle as he faces condemnation from society. With Stoppard's delicate arrangement of having the dead Housman meet the young Housman, homosexuality is turned into a polemical topic that deserves complete scrutiny.

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Section: Chamberlian Nothing Which You'd Call Indecentsupporting

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Section: Chamberlian Nothing Which You'd Call Indecentmentioning

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Transgression: Human Desire and the Revelation of Homosexuality in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love

Su¹

2017

IJCH

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“…It is important to note here that I do not position the Law as the sole contributor in creating and cementing homosexual or gay identity in Indonesia. Instead, following Foucauldian analysis of the production of sexual identity through knowledge apparatus (see Foucault 1978), along with legal scholars' examination of homosexuality and law (Gleeson 2007;Zanghellini 2013), I position the Pornography Law as one of the governance vectors that make homosexuality and/or homosexual acts intelligible to the state and society by codification in statute. As such, although the prosecution of gay people was arguably based on the determination of their activities as public (not private), the deployment of the Pornography Law against gay people, together with the anti-LGBT media environment, has carried consequences for LGBT individuals by making them more visible, intelligible, and thus subject to the state's surveillance and control.…”

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Privacy, Porn, and Gay Sex Parties: The Carceral Governance of Homosexuality in Indonesia

Wijaya¹

2021

Laws

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This article examines how the recent Indonesian Pornography Law renders homosexuality and/or homosexual acts intelligible to the Indonesia state and society by institutionalising them as criminal offences. By drawing on insights from queer studies and exploring the cases of gay arrests in the country, I demonstrate that certain same-sex sexual acts are more susceptible to criminalisation, especially when those acts blur the distinction between public and private. The deployment of the Pornography Law against gay people, together with the anti-LGBT media environment in the country, has carried consequences for LGBT individuals, particularly gay people, by making them visible, legible, and thus subject to state surveillance and control.

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“…Weeks, ‘Wolfenden and Beyond: The Remaking of Homosexual History,’ History and Policy, February ; K. Gleeson, ‘Discipline, Punishment and the Homosexual in Law’, Liverpool Law Review , 28/3 (): 327–347.…”

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“…K. Gleeson, ‘Discipline, Punishment and the Homosexual in Law’, Liverpool Law Review , 28/3 (): 327–347.…”

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Postsecular Sex? Secularisation and Religious Change in the History of Sexuality in Britain

Jones

2013

History Compass

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Histories of 20th century British religion and sexuality, and that work which connects the two, have, until recently, been structured by the secularisation thesis, the assumption that politically and culturally Christianity's influence has steadily declined in the modern era. In the history of sexuality, it is commonly assumed that from the end of the Victorian era religious categories of sexual activity were replaced by scientific categories of sexual identity. This paper examines recent developments in the history and sociology of religion around the idea of the postsecular. Analysing religious developments in secularised societies in terms of religious change rather than a teleology of decline is starting to raise new questions in the history of sexuality. Postsecular analyses in the history of sexuality help us to understand the ways in which religion has continued to influence and shape understandings of sexual desire and identity in the 20th century.

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Discipline, Punishment And The Homosexual In Law

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Transgression: Human Desire and the Revelation of Homosexuality in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love

Transgression: Human Desire and the Revelation of Homosexuality in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love

Privacy, Porn, and Gay Sex Parties: The Carceral Governance of Homosexuality in Indonesia

Postsecular Sex? Secularisation and Religious Change in the History of Sexuality in Britain

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