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Out of the Closet, Into the Lagom (?)
Linköping University - Department of Culture and Society (IKOS) Master´s Thesis, 30 Credits – MA in Ethnic and Migration Studies (EMS) ISRN: LiU-IKOS/EMS--20/13--SE Out of the closet, into the lagom (?) Perceptions and Feelings of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Belonging among Queer Migrants in Sweden Froso Terzoglou Supervisor: Catrin Lundström ii CONTENTS ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................... IV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................... V GLOSSARY........................................................................................................................... VI 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 1 1.1. Aim and Research questions .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.2. Delimitations and Limitations ........................................................................................................................ 2 2. CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND AND CRITIQUES................................................. 4 2.1. Sweden and gender rights ............................................................................................................................... 4 2.2. The New (Labor) Migration Era ................................................................................................................... -
Comptons of Soho
Q-X clubs t bars t cabaret t life No 1093 18 February 2016 EST. 1986 18 Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over QX wishes the Grande Dame a Happy 30th! RYNBHB[JOFDPNtRYHBZMPOEPO QX_1093_Cover.indd 1 16/02/2016 18:43 Comptons of Soho 30 YEARS AT THE HEART OF GAY SOHO As we celebrate the Grand Dame of Soho’s 30th birthday as an offical gay venue, we have a chat with some of her nearest and dearest. They know her best and they, in addition to their hundreds of regulars, make her what she is. Happy Birthday old girl! Neil Hodgson, Landlord Comptons as a gay bar was evolving long before the 1980’s and there are reports of metropolitan police warnings about sodomy on the premises as early as the 1940’s. It was 1986 that bar was officially declared as gay. I’ve been fortunate enough to have been General Manager here for 17 of those 30 years. Together we have witnessed and survived a lot together, bombings, hate crimes, riots, the loss of some very special people and places over the years including an economic recession and the ongoing gentrification of Soho. Despite my keenness to dress up in uniforms I still only very much remain a caretaker of an institution that belongs to the people that support it also who have made it the solid institution it is today and still she continues to grow. Comptons to me is a real place and its people, it’s also my work and my home. -
List of Paraphilias
List of paraphilias Paraphilias are sexual interests in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical. The American Psychiatric Association, in its Paraphilia Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM), draws a Specialty Psychiatry distinction between paraphilias (which it describes as atypical sexual interests) and paraphilic disorders (which additionally require the experience of distress or impairment in functioning).[1][2] Some paraphilias have more than one term to describe them, and some terms overlap with others. Paraphilias without DSM codes listed come under DSM 302.9, "Paraphilia NOS (Not Otherwise Specified)". In his 2008 book on sexual pathologies, Anil Aggrawal compiled a list of 547 terms describing paraphilic sexual interests. He cautioned, however, that "not all these paraphilias have necessarily been seen in clinical setups. This may not be because they do not exist, but because they are so innocuous they are never brought to the notice of clinicians or dismissed by them. Like allergies, sexual arousal may occur from anything under the sun, including the sun."[3] Most of the following names for paraphilias, constructed in the nineteenth and especially twentieth centuries from Greek and Latin roots (see List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes), are used in medical contexts only. Contents A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z Paraphilias A Paraphilia Focus of erotic interest Abasiophilia People with impaired mobility[4] Acrotomophilia -
Thematic Review of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Related Murders
Online version THEMATIC REVIEW OF LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER RELATED MURDERS LGBT ADVISORY GROUP TO THE METROPOLITAN POLICE Authors This review is written by the murder review project team of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Advisory Group. The members of the team are, in alphabetical order, Jack Gilbert, Bob Hodgson, Derek Lee, Griffith Vaughan Williams and other members of the Advisory Group. The LGBT Advisory Group is a group of independent advisors to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). We are a voluntary group working for better policing for LGBT people in London. Our work is facilitated by the Diversity and Citizen Focus Directorate of the Metropolitan Police. For more information on our work, please visit our website at http://www.lgbtag.org.uk . © LGBT Advisory Group 2007 2 CONTENTS 1 Executive summary ............................................................................................................................... 6 2 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 7 2.1 What is the purpose of this Murder Review?.................................................................................. 7 2.2 Brief history.................................................................................................................................... 7 2.3 Methodology................................................................................................................................... 7 -
Kb Shame Raw
kb shame raw Craig: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome again. So today's kind of a continuation on from our listener mail episode. We got one last question which dealt with shame and we kind of got talking and decided this could be its own episode because it's such a big and very topic. So we'll start off with the original listener question, which was around our Findom Q and a, and we'll broaden it out into a larger discussion around shame as always we have the lovely Buster. Buster: [00:00:31] Well, hello. Craig: [00:00:33] So yeah, we just, we got talking and we decided this was a, quite a big topic because, you know, as gay people and as Kinksters, especially shame can be a big factor in our lives. And it's something Queesha that I think is worth exploring, especially talking about how people deal with it. How it happens, how it happens within our own communities, which is an important point. And just addressing some of these things. Buster: [00:01:04] Yeah. And I think that kind of shame is one of those topics that, that comes up so often. Like I feel like we're five years out of date to kind of talk about the velvet rage, but yeah, the, the, the kind of, there's always an element in one self discovery, whether we're looking from a kink perspective or whether we're looking from a, kind of just a wider LGBT perspective, especially in today's world, where we have to kind of look at the shame that we've internalized. -
BDSM” Are Used Interchangeably; the Latter Two Used As Abbreviations for Ease of Syntax
1 CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION People must sometimes be protected from themselves.1 On February 8, 1992, the British Guardian carried a story illustrated by a photograph of a man, sitting in his somewhat drab living room. He had a conservative haircut and moustache, reading glasses balanced on his nose, and a very worried look on his face. He had good reason for concern. His partner of twenty years had died of AIDS, he was nursing another friend with the same illness, and he was expecting to be sent to prison. His name was Anthony Brown. Brown was part of a group of homosexual men who met at a private residence to participate in sadomasochistic sex. The activities varied from mild to extreme in nature, but no ‘victim’ had ever required medical treatment, and all had participated consensually, for their own sexual pleasure. The group had, from time to time, taken video footage of their activities – for viewing within the group – and, in 1987, one of these videos fell into the hands of the police Obscene Publications squad. Police believed that they were viewing a snuff movie, that is, a movie in which a person is sexually tortured and then killed. In response, they launched a massive, expensive investigation, codenamed Operation Spanner. Gardens were dug up, looking for bodies. None, of course, were ever found. Criminologist Bill Thompson explains that “despite looking extremely foolish, the police went ahead with a charge of conspiracy to corrupt public morals to get a ‘result’. They 1 Rant J, sentencing a defendant in the Brown case, as reported in the Guardian newspaper, 21 November 1990, p. -
LESBIAN & GAY FREEDOM MOVEMFNP > LCFM, LONDON
LESBIAN &GAY FREEDOM MOVEMFNP > ~>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:::> Summer 92 )a END PROSECUTION FOR MUTUAL SEX! OPERATION SPANNER Mm STilL NEED OOR SUPPORT! "Operation Spanner" was the name the Obscene Publications Squad (O.P.S.) gave to their operation which led t.o the c:Onvictions of 15 gay men for mutual S.M. (sadomasochistic) sex - as we reported in our last newsletter. lls a result, some were given long prison sentences for 'assault'. 5 cf ttie men appealed against their convictions, and the Appeal Court heard their case in February this year. '111e mens consent was found to be no defence against the 'assault' and the appeal \fas lost. The case is now going to the Law Lords. '111e o.r.s. is actually called "'111e Obscene Publications and Public Morals Squad - nothing to do with protecting people from real assault, but everything to do with keeping people morally in line. The O.P.S. were actually hoping to start yet another persecution of people owning child pornography, but instead came across home-made videos of mutual (consensual) S.M. sex. They decided that this kind of sex "disgusted" them, and that these men must be punished for their sexuality. As these men had all been having consensual adult sex in private, the police couldn ' t use the usual sex offence la\fs. They had to twist another law around to get a conviction, and they decided on 'assault'. 1'he llppeal Court judges (Lane, Rose & Potts) ruled that ariy sex play that leaves a rrork lasting more than a few minutes - and that could be a love bite! - is •assault'. -
Transnational Sex-Positive Play Parties: the Sexual Politics of Care for Community-Making at a Kinky Salon
Florida International University FIU Digital Commons FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations University Graduate School 3-29-2019 Transnational Sex-Positive Play Parties: The Sexual Politics of Care for Community-Making at a Kinky Salon Christina Bazzaroni Florida International University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd Part of the Gender and Sexuality Commons, Human Geography Commons, Leisure Studies Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Other Geography Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Bazzaroni, Christina, "Transnational Sex-Positive Play Parties: The Sexual Politics of Care for Community- Making at a Kinky Salon" (2019). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4050. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/4050 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the University Graduate School at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Miami, Florida TRANSNATIONAL SEX-POSITIVE PLAY PARTIES: THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF CARE FOR COMMUNITY-MAKING AT A KINKY SALON A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in GLOBAL AND SOCIOCULTURAL STUDIES by Christina Nicol Bazzaroni 2019 To: Dean John F. Stack, Jr. Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs This dissertation, written by Christina Nicol Bazzaroni, and entitled Transnational Sex- Positive Play Parties: The Sexual Politics of Care for Community-Making at a Kinky Salon, having been approved in respect to style and intellectual content, is referred to you for judgment. -
Countdown on Spanner Archive
COUNTDOWN ON SPANNER ARCHIVE (COS) ©Bishopsgate Institute Catalogued by Barbara Vesey, August 2020. COS Countdown on Spanner Archive 1984-1998 Name of Creator: Countdown on Spanner Extent: 6 Folders Administrative/Biographical History: Operation Spanner was a police investigation into same-sex male Sadomasochism across the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. The investigation, led by the Obscene Publications Squad of the Metropolitan Police, began in 1987 and ran for three years, during which approximately 100 gay and bisexual men were questioned by police. The investigation culminated in a report naming 43 individuals, of whom the Director of Public Prosecutions chose to prosecute 16 men for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, unlawful wounding and other offences related to consensual, private sadomasochistic sex sessions held in various locations between 1978 and 1987. A resulting House of Lords judgement, R v Brown, ruled that consent was not a valid legal defence for actual bodily harm in Britain. The case sparked a national conversation about the limits of consent and the role of government in sexual encounters between consenting adults. It also spawned two activist organisations dedicated to promoting the rights of sadomasochists: Countdown on Spanner and The Sexual Freedom Coalition and an annual SM Pride March through Central London. Countdown on Spanner was formed in August 1992 in an effort to reverse the Court of Appeal ruling, and "demand the recognition that sadomasochism is a valid, sensual and legitimate part of human sexuality". The following month, it began publishing the newsletter Spanner People, and staged a public demonstration calling on Detective Superintendent Michael Hames, Head of the Obscene Publications Squad, to resign. -
Sado-Masochism and the Law
Sado-Masochism and the Law Matthew Weait Keele University Introduction In their essay on the jurisprudence of Robert Cover, Sarat and Kearns ask whether law can ever make peace with violence (Sarat and Kearns, 2001). The reason for, and essence of, the question is the fundamental paradox that while law purports to substitute itself for violence – in the form of a civilised, and civilising, alternative – it retains, and depends on, an immanent violence of its own. Cover, alone among his contemporaries, recognised the importance of revealing and reaffirming the fact that the violence embedded within the concept of “legitimate force” was, and remained, violence: that the concept of the lawful use of violence amounted to nothing but a cunning (and effective) sleight of hand performed by the positivist conjuror. For Cover, the adverse physical and psychic consequences to the person which can, and often do, flow from the interpretation of a legal text are such that superficially attractive and convincing assertions about the neutrality (pacifism?) of the interpretive process, or about the text itself, are in fact illusory: a real effect perhaps, but one produced by smoke and mirrors. 1 Cover believed that the co-ordinated form of violence which constitutes law was an achievement, in the sense that it represented the obverse of undisciplined private violence. For him, the dominant liberal tradition which seeks to obscure the violence of law is one that denies an important political truth about law and its social function: As long as death and pain are part of our political world, it is essential that they be at the center of law. -
The Deepest Intimacy. a Sociological Account of Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism (Bdsm) in Contemporary Italy
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO‐BICOCCA Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale Dottorato in Sociologia Applicata e Metodologia della Ricerca Sociale XXVII ciclo THE DEEPEST INTIMACY. A SOCIOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF BONDAGE, DOMINATION, SADISM AND MASOCHISM (BDSM) IN CONTEMPORARY ITALY Tutor: Prof.ssa Roberta SASSATELLI Tesi di Dottorato di: Laura ZAMBELLI Matr. nº 760216 Anno Accademico 2013 – 2014 2 Ai miei genitori To my parents 3 4 The Deepest Intimacy. A Sociological Account of Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism (BDSM) in Contemporary Italy 5 6 INTRODUCTION 12 The Role of the Sexual Revolution 16 What Next? BDSM after the Sexual Revolution 19 In Theory: from Social Constructionism to Queer Theory 21 PART ONE. PUTTING BDSM ON THE SOCIOLOGICAL AGENDA 30 1. PRESENTING BDSM 32 1.1 Toward a Sociological Definition 32 1.2 Key Issues for the Study of BDSM 36 2. FROM SADOMASOCHISM TO POLIAMORY: THEORIES OF MARGINAL SEXUALITY 48 2.1 Sadomasochism as a Perversion 48 2.1.1 Degeneration and Genetics 49 2.1.2 Psychological Approaches 54 2.1.3 Discourses on the Aetiology of BDSM 57 2.1.4 Contemporary Paraphilias: DSM and ICD 60 2.1.5 Therapist and Counsellors: Contemporary Research in the Medical Sphere 63 2.2. Sadomasochism as a Practice: Kinsey and Colleagues 67 2.3 Sociology of Deviance and Subculture 68 2.4 Contemporary Socio‐anthropological Approaches 73 2.5 BDSM‐related Subjects: an Analysis of Peripheral Concepts 87 2.5.1 BDSM as a Subculture 88 2.5.2 Sexing Bodies, Feeling Bodies 91 2.5.3 Power, Play and the Feeling Self 94 2.5.4 Gender and BDSM 96 2.5.5 The Role of Pain and Pleasure 98 2.5.6 Polyamory and BDSM 100 2.5.7 Selves, Subjects and Identity 102 2.5.8 Violence and Symbolic Violence 105 2.5.9 The Social Stigma 108 2.5.10 Sexual Citizenship 110 3. -
Section 28 and the Revival of Gay, Lesbian and Queer Politics in Britain
Section 28 and the revival of Gay, Lesbian and Queer Politics in Britain edited by Virginia Preston ICBH Witness Seminar Programme Section 28 and the Revival of Lesbian, Gay and Queer Politics in Britain ICBH Witness Seminar Programme Programme Director: Dr Michael D. Kandiah © Institute of Contemporary British History, 2001 All rights reserved. This material is made available for use for personal research and study. We give per- mission for the entire files to be downloaded to your computer for such personal use only. For reproduction or further distribution of all or part of the file (except as constitutes fair dealing), permission must be sought from ICBH. Published by Institute of Contemporary British History Institute of Historical Research School of Advanced Study University of London Malet St London WC1E 7HU ISBN: 0 9523210 6 8 Section 28 and the Revival of Gay, Lesbian and Queer Politics in Britain Chaired by Jeffrey Weeks Paper by Adam Lent and Merl Storr Seminar edited by Virginia Preston 24 November 1999 England Room, Institute of Historical Research Senate House, London Institute of Contemporary British History Contents List of Contributors 9 Section 28 and the Revival of Gay, Lesbian and Queer Politics in Britain Adam Lent and Merl Storr 11 Chronology of events Adam Lent 13 Witness seminar transcript edited by Virginia Preston 17 Useful links 57 Contributors Chair: JEFFREY WEEKS Dean of Humanities and Social Science, South Bank University. Recent publications include Sexualities and Society (edited with Janet Holland), Polity Press, 2000. Paper-givers: ADAM LENT ESRC research fellow, Politics Department, Sheffield Univer- sity, investigating new political movements in the UK.