Gay mens friendships invincible communities
Jeffery P. Dennis
This book explores lovey-dovey relationships between teenage boys as they were portrayed before, during, and immediately after World War II. The author takes the reader through a wealthy landscape of media -- sci fi pulps, comics, adventure stories, tales of teen sleuths, boys' serial novels, wartime bestsellers, and movies populated by many types of male adolescents: Boys Next Door, Adventure Boys, Jungle Boys, and Lost Boys. In Hollywood movies, Boys Next Door like Jackie Cooper, Ronald Sinclair, and Jimmy Lydon were constantly falling in love, but not with girls. In serial novels, Jungle Boys like Bomba, Sorak, and Og Son of Fire s
Gay Men's Friendships : Invincible Communities - Softcover
Synopsis
Based on surveys and interviews of two hundred male lover men, Peter Nardi's new study presents the first book-length examination of contemporary urban gay men's friendships. Expertly weaving historical and sociological research on friendship with firsthand knowledge, Nardi argues that friendship is the central organizing element of gay men's lives. Through friendship, gay identities and communities are created, transformed, maintained, and reproduced.
Nardi explores the meaning of friends to some gay men, how friends often develop a surrogate family, how sexual action and attraction affects these friendships, and how, for many, friends mean more and last longer than romantic relationships. While looking at the psychological joys and sorrows of friendship, he also considers the cultural constraints limiting queer men in contemporary urban America&#x;especially those that deal with dominant images of masculinity and heterosexuality&#x;and how they relate to friendship.
By listening to queer men talk about their i
Friendship in Old Age
Gay and Queer woman Review
The term &#;friendship,&#; for Americans, is a very broad and nebulous concept. Where I currently live, many people (whom I consider casual acquaintances) call me a friend just because we exchange “Hellos.” I lived in West Germany for most of the s, where I learned that Germans’ definition of a friend was much narrower, closer to what Americans might ring a close friend. I have absorbed this alternative sense of friendship and hold kept a distinction between “friend” and ”acquaintance,” even while adhering to American social norms and calling many people friends who are in fact acquaintances.
In Germany, I had a close, friendly, mutually supportive, and trusting circle of friends, a mix of gay and straight people who are still my friends almost fifty years later. When I moved from Tuebingen to the Castro District of San Francisco, I found myself having all gay (and lesbian and trans) friends. Suddenly, friendships came rapidly and easily, I had many more of them. One usual path to friendship for me was to befriend many of t
Gay Men’s Friendships
Based on surveys and interviews of two hundred gay men, Peter Nardi’s new study presents the first book-length examination of contemporary urban male lover men’s friendships. Expertly weaving historical and sociological analyze on friendship with firsthand information, Nardi argues that friendship is the pivotal organizing element of male lover men’s lives. Through friendship, gay identities and communities are created, transformed, maintained, and reproduced.
Nardi explores the meaning of friends to some gay men, how friends often change into a surrogate family, how sexual behavior and attraction affects these friendships, and how, for many, friends mean more and last longer than romantic relationships. While looking at the psychological joys and sorrows of friendship, he also considers the cultural constraints limiting gay men in contemporary urban America&#;especially those that deal with dominant images of masculinity and heterosexuality&#;and how they relate to friendship.
By listening to gay men discuss about their interactions, Nardi offers a rare glimpse into the mec